Swanee and Paul DiMare are among our community’s most dedicated philanthropists. Separately and together, they have had a far-reaching impact on numerous organizations and have helped many with their generosity of spirit, time and treasure. The unifying theme of their generosity is the advancement of Miami as a city.

A native of Massachusetts, Paul has lived and worked in South Florida for more than 50 years. He is president of seven DiMare family corporations and is one of the largest fresh-market tomato growers in the country. He is also the founder and administrator of the Paul J. DiMare Foundation. Paul has received countless honors, including the Southeast Produce Council’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Agriculturist of the Year by the Dade County Farm Bureau, 2016 Florida Farmer of the Year and is a Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame inductee. Nationally, Paul received the American Red Cross Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2007 and the coveted Ellis Island Award in 2014.

Paul has served as a board or trustee member of 1st National Bank of South Florida, Baptist Health Foundation, Jackson Health Foundation, United Way of Miami-Dade and others. He is chairman of Florida Farmers and is actively involved with Farm Share, a nonprofit working to alleviate hunger by recovering and distributing fresh food to those most in need.

A lifelong Miami resident, Swanee is an active community volunteer and supporter of a wide range of organizations including, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami City Ballet and Women of Tomorrow among others. She is a founding lifetime member of the American Red Cross Tiffany Circle, Society of Women Leaders; a United Way Women United member; and has served on committees and as gala chair or co-chair for many charitable organizations.

Swanee and Paul’s support for the arts, science and education has helped Miami forge ahead and provide new opportunities for its residents. Their belief that advancement starts with education propelled them to give generously to the University of Miami. At the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the Swanee and Paul DiMare Stage highlights the many outstanding performances held at the Knight Concert Hall, and the Paul and Swanee DiMare Science Village at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden hopes to inspire interest in the next generation of Miami-born biologists.

For nearly half a century, Harve A. Mogul has dedicated his life to service. He was president and CEO of United Way of Miami-Dade from 1991-2017, after having served in leadership roles at several United Ways since 1973. Throughout his career, Harve helped raise more than $2 billion and launched groundbreaking initiatives that have moved the needle on education, financial stability, health and disaster response.

Under Harve’s leadership, United Way of Miami-Dade earned national recognition as one of the leading United Ways and nonprofits in the country. He transitioned this United Way from a transactional fundraising/grant-making one to an organization focused on community outcomes, system change and collective impact, aligned around three key areas – education, financial stability and health. In his nearly 27 years at the helm, total revenues grew from $21.5 million to $55 million and total assets from $5 million to $99 million.

During his tenure, United Way of Miami-Dade has demonstrated its leadership in creating innovative responses to community challenges ranging from assisting workers during the shutdown of Eastern and Pan Am airlines, the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, the assimilation of Cuban and Haitian refugees following a change in U.S. immigration policies, post 9/11 recovery, and natural disasters in the Caribbean and across the United States.

Harve was instrumental conceiving and launching the United Way Center for Excellence in Early Education, dedicated to elevating the quality of early childhood education in Miami-Dade and around the world. He also worked with key volunteers and community partners to launch the United Way Center for Financial Stability in 2009 to address economic hardships facing individuals and families. In 2016, he understood the need to help veterans re-acclimate to civilian life and oversaw the launch of United Way Mission United.

He is a trustee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, member of the Orange Bowl Committee, the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent’s Business Advisory Council and the Florida International University School of Business Center for Leadership Advisory Council. He has been frequently honored for his business and philanthropic involvements, including: Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s 2015 Sand in My Shoes Award®; Temple Israel’s first Joseph Narot Award for Community Service; the Miami Coalition of Christian and Jews Humanitarian Award; Mercy Hospital’s Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh Humanitarian Award; and United HomeCare’s Claude Pepper Lifetime Achievement Award, among many others.

In addition to United Way, as a campaign director for Ketchum, Inc., Harve helped plan the national campaign to raise $100 million for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Washington D.C. Prior to that, he served in the United States Peace Corps from 1964-66, taught fifth grade in Baltimore, and worked with community planning and advocacy organizations. He earned his master’s degree and bachelor’s degree in social work and community planning from the University of Maryland, and received an honorary doctorate degree in business administration from Johnson & Wales University.

Harve resides in Pinecrest. He has two sons – Elliott, married to Jeffrey Eric Sandberg; and Maxwell; and a grandson Nico.

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“Take care of those who come after us,” is one of the last things 12-year-old Miguel B. Fernández remembers hearing before boarding a plane taking him, his parents and his little sister away from their homeland.

He has never forgotten these words, for which his philanthropic life is living proof – Mike has donated in excess of $100 million dollars to charitable foundations over the last 20 years.

“For nearly three decades the Fernández family has been an integral part of our United Way, stepping up to the plate whenever we’ve needed them, from supporting our work with education and veterans to opening up their home to host key volunteers,” Maria C. Alonso, president and CEO, United Way of Miami-Dade, said. “Mike and Constance are true leaders who champion causes and organizations that help thousands of families in our community and beyond.”

Among many other initiatives, the Fernández family also supports the United Way Center for Excellence in Early Education and provided the lead gift for the creation of United Way’s Children’s Advocacy Complex. They recently announced an $885,000 gift to United Way Mission United, a program that empowers local veterans and their families. Constance and Mike joined our Million Dollar Roundtable in 2001.

Born in Cuba, Mike currently serves as chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners, L.P., a private equity firm in Coral Gables that invests in healthcare service companies nationwide, currently invested in a portfolio of 21 companies.

During his career, Mike has developed multiple enterprises such as Physicians Healthcare Plans, CAC Medical Centers, Prescribit Rx, CarePlus Health Plans, Navarro Pharmacies, Medical Specialties Distributors, Hospitalists of America, Simply Healthcare Plans and Nutri-Force Nutrition.

Giving back has always been omnipresent in Mike’s life and his desire to make a positive impact on his community is in homage to his parents. “Out of respect for my dad and everything he did for us, I wanted to be relevant. It’s about doing something good,” Mike says. “Success without core values such as fairness, gratefulness, integrity, honesty and a sense of giving back is not worth achieving.”

He defines his very first charitable act as his most successful endeavor, when he was making $500 a month and learned about a little girl who had lost both her legs in a fire. He arranged for a hospital to provide therapy and he purchased an old set of orthotics. He was 23 years old.

And his giving has never wavered.

At 60, he put on his hiking boots and headed off to tread the 508-mile El Camino de Santiago, a spiritual journey from France to Spain, taking pledges for each mile and raising more than $5 million for families with limited resources and children in need of medical treatment. Urged by his wife Constance and friends, he penned Humbled by the Journey: Life Lessons For My Family…And Yours chronicling both his voyage through El Camino as well as his journey from his beloved homeland to his adoptive country. He donated 100 percent of the proceeds to Early Childhood Development.

Constance and Mike are active community volunteers, serving on numerous local boards.

Constance graduated from the University of Michigan Business School. Her professional career is also of entrepreneurial nature where she owned and operated retail clothing stores and restaurants. Then she worked corporately in international finance with VIACOM; and as marketing director at Total Health Choice HMO.

Constance is a trustee at St. Thomas University; a trustee at Ransom Everglades School; and an honorary board member of Mindful Kids Miami and Beaux Arts of Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami.

Mike serves on the board of directors of Mednax and on the board of trustees of the University of Miami, Loyola University Maryland and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He has served on the Georgetown University MSFS board of advisors and on the boards of United Way, Sylvester Cancer Hospital, and others. He has been frequently honored for his business acumen and philanthropic involvements.

Together they have chaired several gala events including the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, among others. In 2011, they opened their home to host United Way’s Tocqueville Reception, honoring Conchi and Tony Argiz.

Mike and Constance have provided and cared for their five children: George, Alex, Michelle, Michael and Cristofer. And, they are blessed with 4 grandchildren: Stella, Daniella, Alexander and Margot.

The Miguel B. Fernández Family Foundation has given more than $30 million to universities, high schools, a hospital and an art museum.

“Do everything with great passion” is the motto by which Darlene Boytell-Pérez and Jorge Pérez live their lives. Their commitment to making Miami a world-class city through their extraordinary support of the arts, education and health is unwavering.

Born in Argentina to Cuban parents, Jorge is founder, chairman and CEO of The Related Group, Florida’s top multi-family developer and the largest Hispanic-owned business in the United States. From Argentina, the family moved to Colombia, where his parents ran a pharmaceutical company. Instead of joining the family business, at 18 he attended the University of Michigan, graduating with a master’s in urban planning.

Jorge began The Related Group in 1979 specializing in low-income affordable housing, beginning with Miami’s Little Havana district, but his desire for producing more creative and iconic buildings quickly drove him into construction. Today, Jorge is credited for transforming Miami’s skyline with some of the most luxurious and expensive condominiums.

His name is also synonymous with the arts. An avid collector of Latin American art, his love for the arts began as a child, with regular visits to the museum with his mother, and that passion parlayed to all things visual – a love for the theater, for art books, for art fairs, for reading.

Inspired by this passion and wanting for Miami to have a great museum, he donated more than $40 million dollars in cash and art to the Miami Art Museum, renamed Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). He continues to support Miami’s ongoing cultural renaissance, sponsoring programs like the Miami International Film Festival’s Emerging Cuban Independent Film/Video Artists Program and The National Young Arts Foundation’s Residency in Visual Arts.

An active community leader, he is a member of the University of Miami’s Board of Trustees, chairs the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council and is a director of the Miami International Film Festival. He has received numerous awards for his professional and philanthropic achievements, including the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Sand In My Shoes Award®.

Darlene is a native Miamian. She is an advanced registered nurse practitioner and clinical researcher with more than 20 years of experience specializing in gastroenterology and the Hepatitis C virus. She received her nursing and nurse practitioner degrees from Florida International University (FIU).

She has received numerous awards for her contribution to the profession. Outside of private practice with Gastro Health, Darlene speaks for pharmaceutical companies regarding advancements in virological treatments for the Hepatitis C Virus and is an adjunct clinical preceptor for the Nurse Practitioner Graduate Program at FIU. She is a champion for health care and education, especially for the physically and developmentally disabled.

Darlene is active in a variety of civic and cultural organizations, including serving on the boards of Gulliver Schools and United Cerebral Palsy. She served on United Way of Miami-Dade’s board and is now a member of the advisory council, and chaired the United Way Women’s Leadership breakfast in 2016. She is also an advisor of the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences at FIU. Along with her husband, she generously supports multiple organizations including scholarships for young children at the United Way Center for Excellence in Early Education, the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the Cuban Research Institute at her alma mater. The university dedicated the Jorge and Darlene Pérez Nursing Laboratory in 2006. Darlene is the recipient of FIU’s Distinguished Alumna Torch Award and the FIU Commencement Medallion of Honor.

Important to Darlene and Jorge is spending quality time with family – Felipe, their teenage son, and Jorge’s three children – Christina, Jon Paul and Nicolas; good friends and giving back. They take nothing for granted and enjoy life to the fullest, considering themselves very fortunate.

Jorge has signed on to The Giving Pledge, a campaign founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, to which he will donate half of his wealth for philanthropic means. He and Darlene joined the United Way Million Dollar Roundtable in 2003 and the Five Million Dollar Roundtable in 2011.

Margarita and Armando Codina believe in civic duty and giving back, not only to the city they call home, but also to the country that has given them so much.

At 14, Armando arrived in the United States from his native Cuba as part of Operation Pedro Pan. Alone, with no knowledge of English, he was sent to an orphanage in New Jersey and lived in and out of foster homes until he was reunited with his mother. He immediately went to work to support her. Blessed with a keen business sense, even at this early age, he spotted an opportunity and created his first company, Professional Automated Services – a firm providing data processing services to physicians. As a result of the firm’s success, Armando is recognized as a pioneer in the development of comprehensive medical management systems, including processing, accounts receivable, management reporting and multiple financial services.

After selling the company, he ventured into real estate. Today, he is executive chairman of Codina Partners, a real estate investment and development firm engaged in multiple real estate activities and one of South Florida’s most successful privately held companies. In addition, he is an active investor and owner of MBB Auto Group, a premium luxury retail automotive group consisting of 10 dealerships in the Northeast comprised of Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar Land Rover and Audi dealers. 

Armando has sat on the boards of some of the country’s best-known companies, including AMR Corporation, GM, Merrill Lynch, BellSouth and Burger King Corporation. He currently serves on the board of The Home Depot and is a trustee of the Mayo Clinic. Committed to community and civic affairs, he is vice chairman of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts/YoungArts; chairman emeritus of Florida International University; and co-founder of Community Partnership for the Homeless, among others.

In spite of his remarkable success, Armando’s priorities continue to be family and civic responsibilities – they are at the core of who he is.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Real Estate Achievers & Leaders Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce; Entrepreneur of the Year by the Wharton School; the Humanitarian of the Year award from the American Red Cross; the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Sand In My Shoes Award; and the Merage Foundation’s National Leadership award, which recognizes leaders whose journeys to the United States as immigrants have made a positive impact on the quality of life for all Americans. 

Margarita is a champion for the arts and education, and among her many volunteer roles, she has joined Armando as chair of several galas including YoungArts and the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center. She serves as a trustee of Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart and is involved with several other nonprofit causes.

Margarita and Armando have four daughters – Ana, Alexandra, Andria and Amanda – each accomplished in their own right and all carrying on their parents’ legacy of service and philanthropy to others.

As members of the Miller family – one of  Miami’s great philanthropic families –  siblings Stuart, Leslie and Jeffrey have helped transform our community through their personal leadership, generous spirit and passion for helping. Not only are they perpetuating the legacy of philanthropy and service set by their parents – Sue and Leonard Miller – each of them has become a force for good in their own right as well as through the collective work of the Miller Foundation.

Stuart Miller is CEO and member of the board of directors of Lennar Corporation, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders. Known for his relentless drive, and hands-on approach, Stuart is a longtime supporter of education and health-related causes. Stuart is currently chair of the University of Miami Board of Trustees. He has served on the board of Alonzo Mourning Charities, the Overtown Youth Center, and as chair of the Dolphins Cycling Challenge benefiting University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Under Stuart’s leadership, the Lennar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Lennar Corporation, has made significant investments in the community to elevate the quality of and access to healthcare, expand social services, and improve education, from early education to higher education. 

Leslie Miller Saiontz is a business owner, real estate professional and community activist. Passionate about education, Leslie not only chairs the board of Teach For America Miami-Dade, she has established thriving mentorship programs that engage hundreds of students and volunteers in issues of educational equity. She spends countless hours in the classroom, providing children with additional skills and resources to reach their full potential. Additionally, Leslie is deeply committed to improving the lives of women and children through her advocacy work with United Way Women’s Leadership. She has helped lead trips to Washington, D.C. to promote high-quality early education.

Jeffrey Miller is a South Florida business leader working to improve educational opportunities for children in Miami and across the nation. He serves as chair of Breakthrough Miami, a nonprofit organization that provides enrichment activities for motivated middle school students. Under his guidance, the organization has expanded to become the largest program in the Breakthrough collaborative. Committed to public education, Jeffrey has been honored for his volunteer work in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. In 2014, he founded Beacon College Prep, a tuition-free elementary charter school in Opa-Locka. Jeffrey is the past chair at Ransom Everglades, and past chair for the Council for Educational Change.

Together, Stuart, Leslie and Jeffrey are changing the face of modern Miami. In 2004, the Miller family made a historic $100 million gift to the University of Miami’s medical school, which was renamed in honor of their late father.
The Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine is a leading hub for medical education, research and innovation.

In terms of generosity, dedication and commitment to Miami, Stuart, Leslie and Jeffrey are in a league of their own. Their selfless work is a credit to their parents’ legacy, but, more importantly, an inspiration to Miami’s next generation of leaders.

Florence and Sheldon Anderson are longtime Miami residents with a passion for giving back to the community they love to call home.

Sheldon, a community and business leader, is a true Miami native. A graduate of Killian High School, he went on to attend Miami Dade College before receiving his bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University. He returned to Miami, where he has made it his mission to make his hometown a better place for all to grow, live and learn. 

His passion and commitment to helping others is his driving force. 

He has been a longtime United Way volunteer. In addition to serving as chairman of the board, he also chaired the nominating committee for two consecutive years; served as campaign co-chair and on both the Tocqueville and Major Gifts cabinets. 

He is a member and former chairman of the Miami Dade College Foundation; he is also vice chair of the Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart. Sheldon also serves on the President’s Council of Florida International University and on the advisory board of the University of Miami.

Sheldon is also a member of the Executive Pass Partnership and in this role, he partners with the principal of Fulford Elementary.

He shares a deep appreciation for the arts which has propelled his involvement with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts; he is president of the board of Cleveland Orchestra Miami/Miami Music Association; vice chair of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and serves on the board of the New World Symphony.

Sheldon has also served as chairman of Miami-Dade County’s economic development organization: the Beacon Council, and is a member of the Orange Bowl Committee. He also sits on the board of Baptist Health Systems Governing Board and Bioheart, Inc. 

Sheldon retired in December 2012 as chairman and chief executive officer of the Southeast Region at Northern Trust, where he was responsible for managing the company’s investment management, trust and estate planning, private and business banking and financial consulting business in Florida and Georgia. He continues to support Northern Trust as a consultant.

Florence has served as a founding board member of Kristi House, she served for several years on the Red Cross Ball Committee, and she is a former board member of Gables Stage. Florence and Sheldon have been active volunteers with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. They have two sons, Matthew and John Alan.

The Honorable Sue and the Honorable Chuck Cobb are global citizens who have defined their lives through service to their community, to their state and to their country. Both extraordinarily successful in their professional careers, each has served with distinction as United States ambassadors and through numerous community leadership positions.

Chuck is CEO of Cobb Partners, an investment firm in Coral Gables. From 1989 to 1992, he served as U.S. ambassador to Iceland under President George H.W. Bush and in the late 1980s as undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce under President Ronald Reagan. Earlier he was an officer in the U.S. Navy.

Prior to his public service, Chuck was CEO of Arvida Corporation and its subsidiaries, and the former CEO of subsidiaries of Kaiser Aluminum, Penn Central and the Walt Disney Company. He has served on the boards of nine publicly traded corporations, including Arvida, Penn Central, Walt Disney, LNR Property Corporation, WCI Communities, Ameritas, Pan Am Corporation, CLC of America, Southeast Banking and many other private companies.

As a trustee of the University of Miami for more than 30 years, Chuck has held a number of university leadership positions including past chair. Chuck was chairman of Gateway Florida and Florida FTAA and was chairman of the Governor’s Florida Council of 100. He was also the founding chair of the Barry University Miami Shores Charter School and has been a longtime trustee/director/member of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Plymouth Congregational Church, Council for Education Change, Our Kids, Annenberg Challenge, Orange Bowl Committee, Woodrow Wilson Center, Eisenhower Fellows, James Madison Institute, Council of American Ambassadors, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Sue is president of the Cobb Family Foundation and on the board of Miami Lakes-based BankUnited. She serves on the boards of The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Council of American Ambassadors. Sue spent most of the last decade in federal and state government service serving as U.S. ambassador to Jamaica under President George W. Bush; secretary of state of Florida and CEO of the Florida Lottery under Governor Jeb Bush; and earlier as the three-term chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Miami Branch.

An attorney, Sue was the founding partner of Greenberg Traurig’s public finance department. She served on the boards of United Way, Goodwill Industries, Ransom Everglades, and the Zoological Society of Florida. Sue was honored as the University of Miami Alumnus of the Year and the Red Cross Humanitarian of the Year. Among many awards, Sue and Chuck shared the National Conference of Christians and Jews Silver Medallion Award for contributions to civic causes and humanity.

The Cobbs each have received the highest national honors of the countries in which they served — the Order of Jamaica and the Order of the Grand Cross Star from the Republic of Iceland. They sponsor the U.S. State Department worldwide awards for top noncareer or career ambassadors — the Sue M. Cobb Exemplary Diplomatic Service Award and the Charles E. Cobb Award for Success in Trade Development.

Sue and Chuck have two sons – Christian and Tobin – and seven grandchildren. Longtime supporters of United Way, they joined the Million Dollar Roundtable in 2011.

Tony Argiz’s first encounter with United Way of Miami-Dade was not as a volunteer or a contributor, but rather as a recipient of help. Fearing the future in Cuba under Fidel Castro’s Communist rule and wanting a better life for their son, his parents put him on a plane headed for Miami in the 1960s as part of the Pedro Pan exodus. Alone, at the age of nine, with little more than the clothes on his back, Tony, like so many Cuban immigrants, spent the next five years of his life at a boarding school run by Catholic Charities. Tony succeeded through much hard work and determination and since that time has paid back that act of kindness with more than 30 years of service and charity.

Today he is chairman and CEO of Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra. Under his leadership the firm has grown to one of the top 40 accounting firms in the nation, the largest Florida-based firm and, year after year, the firm is cited as one of the 25 best managed accounting firms by INSIDE Public Accounting.

Over the years with United Way, Tony has held numerous leadership positions including board chair, campaign chair, finance and administration chair, endowment chair and treasurer.

A graduate of Florida International University (FIU), he was named the 2011 Alumni of the Year by FIU’s School of Accounting. A passionate believer in the power of education, he is past chair of Carrollton School of Sacred Heart, the Miami Dade College Foundation and FIU’s Council of 100. Currently, he serves on the executive committee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and the board of AVMed Health Plans. He is the past chair of the Orange Bowl Committee and the Archbishop’s Charity and Development Drive. In 2010, Tony received the Miami Coalition of Christians and Jews Silver Medallion Humanitarian Award.

Tony and his wife Conchi have been married for 35 years and are the proud parents of three children – Carolina Argiz Orozco, who is married to Jamie Orozco; Tony Argiz, Jr; and Andy Argiz.

Conchi’s journey to Miami was similar to Tony’s, leaving Cuba and her parents behind at a very young age. She graduated from FIU. Also a strong supporter of education, Conchi is involved with Belen Jesuit Preparatory School and Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart. She is also a member of Junior League of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Golden Angels.

The National United Way Tocqueville Society Award was created by United Way Worldwide to recognize persons who have rendered outstanding service as volunteers on a national level, to promote voluntary community service, to recognize the value such service has to our nation, and to bring visibility to the work of United Ways nationwide.

United Way Worldwide selected Sue Miller as the recipient of its 2012 National United Way Tocqueville Award. Sue is South Florida’s first recipient of this prestigious national award. This distinction comes in recognition of her more than 30 years of service to United Way locally, nationally and internationally.

Beginning in the 1980s, Sue helped to create United Way of Miami-Dade’s community-based fundraising efforts, reaching out into the county’s various municipalities and family-owned businesses. In no time at all, she turned her door-to-door campaigning experience in Miami Beach into one of the nation’s most successful major gifts programs, which over the years has received several national Fleur-de-Lis Awards for Excellence. Sue was instrumental in creating both our local Tocqueville Society and our Million Dollar Roundtable programs.

After helping our United Way secure more million dollar contributors than any city in the country, she set her sights on elevating major gift giving across the country. She began by challenging the city of Seattle to raise the bar on its giving. Her infectious enthusiasm paid off when just a year later, she proudly passed the torch to Seattle for surpassing Miami at the million dollar level. Over the years, Sue has served in leadership roles on the national Tocqueville committee and has used that platform to champion major gift giving across the country – visiting other communities and inspiring them to follow Miami’s example.

In 2000, through Sue’s leadership, our United Way launched our Women’s Leadership program which today includes 1,700 members. Sue’s work in the women’s leadership arena has carried over to the national and international level. Sue spearheaded and sponsored a leadership exchange between United Way of Miami-Dade and United Way of Jamaica. Her work on the education front, and specifically early education with United Way of Miami-Dade, has taken her to Washington, D.C. to advocate for increased funding for quality early education.

Sue’s commitment to community does not end with United Way. Education, the arts and health are key areas of focus for Sue as is the University of Miami. The university’s medical school bears the name of her late husband, Leonard Miller.

Sue has made philanthropy and service to others a family affair. Today, her three children, all members of the Million Dollar Roundtable, and 11 grandchildren, follow in her footsteps – proudly carrying on the Miller family tradition that she and Leonard embody..