“I must thank Alan and his family on behalf of the entire Brown community,” Brown University President Christina Paxson said in 2015, “for the opportunity to develop a collaborative model that will make a real impact in the lives of families.” And the University remains grateful today, more than 3 years since the Hassenfeld’s $12.5 million gift launched the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute.
Date
May 3, 2019
Making a positive impact on the lives of children and their families in Rhode Island and beyond
A Generous Gift
Alan Hassenfeld’s $12.5 million gift launched the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute in 2015.
“ We always have been a family that has tried to give back to our community, and to women and children around the globe. ”
The Hassenfeld family has a long history of supporting children’s health. In addition to the Hasbro company’s leadership in the opening of Hasbro Children’s Hospital in 1994, the family established the Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at New York University’s Langone Medical Center in 2011, has funded the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU, and at Brown, established the Alan G. Hassenfeld Professorship of Pediatrics and the Sylvia Kay Hassenfeld Professorship of Pediatrics.
“All of our incredible success is because of children the world over,” Alan Hassenfeld said in 2015, referring to the prominence of his family’s toy and game company, Hasbro. “We always have been a family that has tried to give back to our community, and to women and children around the globe.”
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