The Family Fund provides supplementary support to encourage and facilitate families -- especially those in which the physicist is also the mother of young children -- to participate in the weeks-and months-long collaborative research opportunities that are the hallmark of KITP programming. Ann Rice chose to donate the $1.4 million proceeds from the sale of her home, she and her husband Mike shared, to create the "Drs. Ann and Myron Rice Family Fund for the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics." Because the endowment was established in the form of a charitable remainder trust, Ann also generously added a cash gift of $30,000 that enabled the Family Fund to become operational in the spring of 2008. "I thought it would be a wonderfully appropriate memorial for Mike, who was so encouraging and supportive of my own career development," said Ann. "Both of us have had a life-long commitment to the value of higher education. With this gift we are enabling higher educators themselves to develop insight through collaboration. It pleases me that we have found a way to help that is deeply in keeping with our core values as a couple."
