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Rapoport attended P.S. 107 in New York City, the Horace Mann School and Cornell University.
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Paul Rapoport
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The private foundation that bears his name is one of the oldest and largest LGBT-focused foundations in the country. He graduated cum laude from Columbia University Law School in 1965, and later received an Master of Laws in tax law from New York University School of Law. Rapoport died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome at New York University Medical Center in July 1987 at the age of 47.
His estate of roughly $8 million was used to establish The Paul Rapoport Foundation, Incorporated., which at Rapoport"s direction gives to LGBT and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome causes in the New York metropolitan area.
In a press release dated July 6, 2009, the Foundation announced its intention to "bring its grantmaking operations to a close as of June 30, 2014 and cease operations entirely by June 30, 2015" in order to maximize its impact on grantees.
