Ross, 69, a pediatrician by training, is retiring next week after nearly a quarter-century heading one of the most important philanthropic forces in California. Its financials are huge enough - it sits on $4.3 billion in assets and gave $381 million last year to more than 700 groups in the name of combating the state's health inequities.
Miguel Santana, head of another L.A.-based philanthropic giant, the California Community Foundation, called Ross a "revolutionary" figure who challenged his peers "to believe that the billions we steward belong to the people" and "trust in those most proximate to the issues and injustice."
The county and city proclamations and certificates of appreciation - I mean, I don't want to sound ungrateful, but where am I going to put them? These things are huge. They take a lot of space, you know, and I don't want a study that's like a monument to s- I did, right?
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