|
 As
executive vice president of National Distributing Company,
Cynthia Davis Carr helped grow the family-owned business into
one of the largest wine and spirit distributors in the country.
When she retired, Carr sold her interest in the company and used
the funds for a new full-time job: philanthropy.
Her reputation of giving to
the community precedes her. She underwrote the Fine Arts
Foundation from 1989 to 1994, and has been honored by such
organizations as the American Cancer Society and the Miami
Opera. In 2000, Carr became a founder of Children’s Resource and
a patron of the Miami Museum of Science. For the last four
years, she has co-chaired the Miami Heart Extravaganza.
Carr, a big-time University
of Miami supporter and a member of both the Donor Society
Foundation and the IBIS Society, twice served as honorary chair
of the college’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. Then, in February
2003, Carr herself was diagnosed with cancer. But that hasn’t
slowed her down. She fought through a poor prognosis and, with
her cancer now in remission, is still fighting to make a
difference in Miami-Dade County.
She is active
with the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation and sits on the
executive boards of the Vizcayans, Project Newborn, Alzheimer
Care and Cancer Link. This year, Carr, a Jackson Memorial
Foundation board member, donated enough money to be named a
Platinum Angel. |
