Nov. 2024: On behalf of our Board of Trustees, co-founder and Trustee Emeritus Edwin Meese III, and our staff, we join in both mourning and celebrating the life of Bernie Marcus. Levying his success as co-founder of The Home Depot, Mr. Marcus demonstrated the very best of the human experience, translating success into making lives better, safer, and more free. His wife Billi and his family will undoubtedly continue that legacy through the work of the Marcus Foundation.
Mr. Marcus lived the American Dream, achieving not only tremendous business triumph over adversity but also a vigorous and focused philanthropic model that serves as an example of excellent stewardship. The Marcus Foundation is a living legacy of responsible, mission-focused delivery of vital resources directed at practical solutions for real people. Mr. Marcus’ vision for advanced health research and delivery, security for the people of Israel, care for veterans, and freedom of opportunity and speech for the American people under the U.S. Constitution will continue to resonate for decades to come.
We honor Mr. Marcus’s commitment to mission, his example as a great man, and his friendship with those he trusted to execute his vision. With all people of faith, we join in saying, Baruch Dayan HaEmet (“Blessed be the Judge of Truth”).