Fund-Raising Group Honors a Donor’s Diverse Gifts

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The award: 2011 Award for Outstanding Philanthropist

Who gives the award: Association of Fundraising Professionals

The winner: Adrienne Arsht, a lawyer and former chairwoman of the board of her family’s TotalBank, in Miami, which she sold to a Spanish bank in 2007 for $300-million.

Why she won: Paulette V. Maehara, head of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, says that Ms. Arsht was