Deborah Rappaport

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  www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58855 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/26/2007    Last Visited: 11/26/2007  

  Lair of the limousine liberal: California's Silicon Valley has spawned many supporters of "progressive" politics. (And remember the Blind Partisan's Dictionary definition of "progressive: adj., n - socialist.") Latest salients on the roster are Andy and Deborah Rappaport, who have started the New Progressive Coalition to raise funds for Democrats.

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  San Jose, Calif. - Deborah Rappaport, president of the San Jose Museum of Art board of trustees today announced that four new members have been elected to the Museum's board.In making her announcement, Rappaport stated, "It is a pleasure to welcome these distinguished community and business leaders to the Board.

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  Deborah Rappaport

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  Deborah Rappaport, Executive Director, Rappaport Family Foundation*

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  Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Museum's Collection Committee, in honor of Deborah Rappaport, President of the Board of Trustees, 2001-2007

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  AlterNet: Author: Deborah Rappaport - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/19/2006    Last Visited: 6/26/2006  

  Deborah RappaportAlterNet: Author: Deborah Rappaport
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  Deborah Rappaport is a partner in Skyline Public Works, president of the Rappaport Family Foundation, and co-founder of the New Progressive Coalition.

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  AlterNet: WireTap: Elections 2006: A Gift to Democrats - [Cached Version]
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  By Deborah Rappaport, WireTap.Posted June 19, 2006.
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  Deborah Rappaport is a partner in Skyline Public Works, president of the Rappaport Family Foundation, and co-founder of the New Progressive Coalition.

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  Deborah Rappaport
  
  Deborah Rappaport is a partner in Skyline Public Works, LLC, and president of the Rappaport ... more

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  COMMUNITY / Growing change / Redwood City incubator... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/19/2005    Last Visited: 11/19/2005  

  Skyline Public Works began as the brainchild of Andy and Deborah Rappaport, two influential Democratic fundraisers who got tired of seeing their money and efforts end in disappointment.
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  Once MFA was up and running, Deborah Rappaport went back to the drawing board and wrote a business plan to implement this idea on the national scale.The result: the New Progressive Coalition, a Web-based nonprofit that has moved this forum for networking online.
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  Looking forward, Deborah Rappaport, who serves as SPW's managing director, says the organization will continue to research young voter trends and will become more active in supporting upstart Congressional candidates in hotly contested districts.She adds that the organization will spend a good bit of its time in 2006 looking at grassroots organizations in particularly progressive regions around the country, and will investigate ways to model SPW's national success on the local level.
  
  "At the end of the day, we're trying to get away from the election-to-election mentality, because we've been there, done that and it doesn't work," she says.

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  Couple's liberal largesse / Rappaports give millions... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/11/2004    Last Visited: 6/12/2004  

  Silicon Valley venture capitalist Andy Rappaport and his wife, Deborah, have never been shy about their support for liberal politics.
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  Although both Andy, a partner with August Capital on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, and Deborah, a Portola Valley school board member, say they'd love to see President Bush turned out of office in January, they are even more focused on trying to cultivate support for progressive politicians in the future, producing the long-term dividends that VCs generally value.
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  Deborah noted that the couple have a similar approach to funding promising charities, something known as venture philanthropy.
  
  For instance, they gave the founder of JazzMasters Workshop in Carmel Valley, which encourages young musicians, his first three years' of funding.
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  Deborah stumbled across it while skimming blogs on Dean's Web site.
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  "He and Deborah have been absolutely fantastic in teaching a group of young twentysomethings how to accomplish something we want to accomplish," Lewis said.
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  When Deborah was 14, she volunteered for John Kerry's unsuccessful 1972 congressional bid in Massachusetts.
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  Deborah, who collects contemporary art, is president of the San Jose Museum of Art's board of directors, and the couple are among the museum's largest donors.Now they are spending millions of dollars on politics as well.
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  Many of the Rappaports' acquaintances, including two people who serve on the school board with Deborah, said they didn't realize the couple are giving millions of dollars to political causes, but their political interest has drawn some respect from colleagues and friends.
  
  Political inspiration
  
  A fellow school board member, Donna Carano, said Deborah helped inspire her to register to vote and take a more active interest in politics several years ago.
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  "Deborah was a large part of how I got here, and she's done that for a lot of people."
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  Andy and Deborah Rappaport of Woodside have committed nearly $3.5 million to political groups this campaign season.
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  Source: Andy and Deborah Rappaport
  
  E-mail Todd Wallack at twallack@sfchronicle.com.

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