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Trone Foundation Gives $2.5 Million Gift to Suburban Hospital
May 1, 2017 Bethesda, Maryland-based Suburban Hospital is the beneficiary of a generous $2.5 million gift from the David and June Trone (pictured right) Family Foundation, representing one of the largest philanthropic gifts the hospital has ever ... Read more
The Man Behind ‘America’s Wine Superstore’
By Lettie Teague Wall Street Journal TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago David Trone and his brother Robert opened a small wine shop in Claymont, Del. Today, the Trones preside over a $2.5 billion privately held retail empire based in Bethesda, Md., with 149 ... Read more
The Presidential Candidates’ Plans for Small Business
By David Trone Huffington Post Florida has more than 2 million small businesses with over 3 million employees. I’m proud to be the President and owner of one of them, Total Wine & More. Small business is critical to the national economy, ... Read more
An Unfortunate and Unintended Consequence of Donald Trump
By David Trone Huffington Post Donald Trump is bad for business. This isn’t just a fearful prediction of how the economy would fare if a compliant Congress enacted his nativist and isolationist rhetoric. Rather it is what Trump’s emergence might ... Read more
David Trone’s Foundation Donates $2.5 Million to Suburban Hospital
By Joe Zimmerman Bethesda Magazine The foundation of Potomac resident David Trone, founder of Total Wine & More and sometime political candidate, and his wife, June, donated $2.5 million to Suburban Hospital, the hospital announced Monday. ... Read more
Donald Trump and the Lessons of Wharton
By David Trone Huffington Post Friends and associates ask me about Donald Trump as if I possess special insight. Their questions apparently come from the traits we share. We both have degrees from Wharton, are successful in business and active ... Read more
Total Wine Co-Founder Funding $15 Million Push to aid Ex-Convicts
By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post A Maryland couple is donating $15 million to the American Civil Liberties Union to expand a campaign to cut prison populations and promote private initiatives to rehabilitate and employ ex-convicts, the ACLU ... Read more
ACLU Announces New Trone Center for Criminal Justice Reform and Advisory Board of Private Sector and Education Leaders to Promote Reintegration
December 17, 2015 NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union announced the creation of the Trone Center for Criminal Justice Reform. The Center, located at the ACLU national headquarters, will focus on reducing the US prison ... Read more