Douglas E. Goldman

Goldman was born to a Jewish family,[3] the son of Richard and Rhoda (née Haas) Goldman.[1][4] He has a sister and two brothers: Susie Goldman Gelman, John D. Goldman, and Richard Goldman (deceased).[5][6] His grandparents were Elise and Walter Haas Sr.[1] Goldman earned B.A. in psychology from University of California[1] and then graduated from medical school at Tel Aviv University.[7] After school he worked as an emergency room physician at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco.[1] He developed the software to establish a genetic repository for Jews at the Museum of the Diaspora in Israel; it later became the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center.[1] He later founded the software firm Certain Inc., which develops event-management software which assists companies in planning, promoting, and managing events.[1]

In 1992,[8] Goldman and his wife established the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund[2] which supports organizations that promote democracy and civil liberties, education and literacy, and the environment.[1] He previously served on the board of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund (which has donated $700 million to more than 2,500 grantees since 1961) founded by his parents. The fund was dissolved in December 2015 and its $280 million in assets was transferred to separate foundations belonging to the couple’s three children.[2][9] He also serves on the board of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund (founded by his grandparents)[1] and the Stern Grove Festival Association (named after his great-grandmother Rosalie Meyer Stern).[7] He is president of the Goldman Environmental Foundation which annually awards the $150,000 Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots environmental activism,[1][3] is a member of the Haas School of Business Board, and is a trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation.[1] The Lisa and Douglas Goldman Plaza is named in his honor after he made a $10 million gift to Cal Athletics intercollegiate program.[10][11]

Goldman strongly supports Jewish causes including financial support for the Moishe House.[2] In 2015, he was awarded the Jewish-Civic Leadership Award.[3] He worked with his father to successfully defeat a resolution made by the University of California Student Senate to divest from Israel.[3]

Goldman has a daughter, Jennifer, and twin sons: Jason and Matthew, who both sit on the boards of the Haas School's Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund.[1][12]

• JCRC Jewish-Civic Leadership Award: Douglas E. Goldman, M.D. April 22, 2015