Background
Stanley Black was born in 1932. His father, Jack Black, led the Textile Division at the United Jewish Fund. His mother, Victoria Black, was a philanthropist.
His father died when he was twenty-one years old.
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Career
Foreign the English composer, see Stanley Black. Through his company, he is the owner of 18 million square feet of commercial real estate in 35 states. The Jack and Victoria Black Parkway at the Vista Delegate March Child and Family Services, a non-profit organization which helps struggling families, was named in their honor.
He started his career at the Buckeye Realty & Management Corporation, a real estate development company founded by George Konheim.
lieutenant later became a real estate development company. The firm closed down in 1985, when Arthur Kaplan died.
Through the company, he owns more than 18 million square feet of commercial real estate in thirty-five American states. Some of his tenants are Wendy"s, Burger King and Office Depot.
He has published five editions of Thoughts to Live By, a booklet with eighty sayings of business advice.
He has donated to the Boy Scouts of America, the Los Angeles Music Center, and the Union Rescue Mission. Moreover, he is a large supporter of the Jewish Vocational Services, a non-profit organization which helps Jews who are unemployed in Southern California find work again. Additionally, he helped establish the Goldsmith Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Los Angeles
In 2000, he donated United States$1 million to the Vista Delegate March Child and Family Services for the establishment of the Joyce and Stanley Black Family Special Care Facility.
In January 2012, he donated United States$5 more million, which led to the Joyce and Stanley Black Family Campus. In 2004, he made a large donation to the Children"s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), which renamed its garden the Joyce and Stanley Black and Family Healing and Meditation Garden.
In 2013, he donated another United States$15 million to the CHLA. As a result, the former Gateway Building facing Sunset Boulevard was renamed the Joyce and Stanley Black Family Building. In September 2014, and again on September 27, 2015 he held fundraisers for Wells Bring Hope, a non-profit organization which drills wells in Niger to bring water to rural communities.
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He has made charitable contributions to the City of Hope, the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Big Brothers, the American Friends of Tel Aviv University, the American Friends of the Hebrew University, The Guardians of the Jewish Home for the Aging, and Yeshiva Gedolah/Michael Diller High School.
