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University Dornsife School of Public Health. Dornsife and her husband made the US $ 10 million lead gift to establish the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, a community-based resource center
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University’s LeBow College of Business in 2014. In 2013 Whitworth University gave Dana and her husband honorary doctorates in humane letters ‘for their philanthropic and professional achievements’. Dana was the recipient of the Ellen
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In 1991, Dornsife co-founded Axiom Design, Inc., a lighting design and architectural electronics consulting firm. In 2002 she founded Adorn, a lighting and interior design company. In 2006 she founded
Lazarex Cancer Foundation after her brother-in-law was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The
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