The Max A. Shacknai Foundation

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The Noah's Family Foundation, a not for profit corporation, has become the Max A. Shacknai Foundation.

http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/corp-detail.p?name-id=08080251

Officer Information JONAH SHACKNAI
PRESIDENT
7720 N DOBSON RD
SCOTTSDALE,AZ 85256
Date of Taking Office: 05/19/1997
Last Updated: 07/15/2011


Director Information JONAH SHACKNAI
DIRECTOR
7720 N DOBSON RD
SCOTTSDALE,AZ 85256
Date of Taking Office: 05/19/1997
Last Updated: 07/15/2011

Name change amendment, adopted July 22, 2011:

http://images.azcc.gov/scripts/cgi/dwispart2.pl

Rebecca Zahau funeral July 23, 2011
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73397507

Doesn't a corporation have to have more than a director?
 
http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/000128/giving.shtml

Giving occupies firm's founder
January 28, 2000/21 Shevat 5760, Vol. 52, No.21

Shacknai, 43, is a director of the Southwest Autism Research Center (SARC) and of the Whispering Hope Ranch, a foundation that helps provide animal-assisted therapy for children and adults with special needs.

He is also the founder and chairman of the Noah's Family Foundation, a private philanthropic organization; and a member of the board of directors of the Delta Society, a national public-service organization that promotes animal-assisted therapy and provides training programs for service dogs.

Shacknai says that of the charitable efforts with which he's involved, he gets the most satisfaction from those that help children. He became involved with SARC through his friendship with Denise Resnick, SARC'S founder and the mother of an autistic child.
 
I don't exactly get it. Usually you name a foundation after a person or child who has a similar affliction or situation/cause. This doesn't apply here to Jonah renaming the foundation. Maybe it's just me.
 
The Noah's Family Foundation, a not for profit corporation, has become the Max A. Shacknai Foundation.

http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/corp-detail.p?name-id=08080251



Name change amendment, adopted July 22, 2011:

http://images.azcc.gov/scripts/cgi/dwispart2.pl

Rebecca Zahau funeral July 23, 2011
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73397507

Doesn't a corporation have to have more than a director?


I think a nonprofit does?

I find it odd he did this so soon ... I hate to think it had anything to do with publicity bringing in more dollars. Somebody smack me before I say he did it to look good.
 
Another PR move. He's certainly getting a lot for the money he's paying them. IMO
 
Another PR move. He's certainly getting a lot for the money he's paying them. IMO

Yeah, and interesting that Resnick is connected both through this nonprofit and through representing him as a PR firm... or is just a friend as was presented in an early news article :waitasec:
 
Another observation... probably when the name was changed they were assuming Rebecca's death would be determined a tragic suicide. I doubt anyone assumed it would be gaining this much publicity and contested so publicly by the family. Now anytime someone searches Max's name, suspicions about Rebecca's death will come up.
 
Yeah, and interesting that Resnick is connected both through this nonprofit and through representing him as a PR firm... or is just a friend as was presented in an early news article :waitasec:

I agree time. Bringing this post by CalElliot forward for reference:

  • Denise Resnik (no "c") operates a PR company.
  • Denise Resnik was quoted in an LA Times blog as a "friend" of Jonah Shacknai's, vouching for his character, with no disclosure of their professional relationships.
  • Denise Resnik has an adult son, Matthew, who is autistic.
  • Denise Resnik is on the board of Whispering Hope Ranch autism foundation in AZ.
  • Resnik is a cofounder of SARRC (Southwest Autism Research & Resource center) in AZ.
  • Raun Melmed is a cofounder of SARRC in AZ.
  • Raun Melmed is medical director of Melmed Center in AZ.
  • Dina Shacknai is a "clinical psychologist fellow" (not a doctor) at Melmed Center in AZ.
  • Jonah Shacknai is on the board of Whispering Hope Ranch autism foundation in AZ.
  • Howard Luber is a dermatologist in AZ.
  • Howard Luber's wife, Lisa Luber, is a pharmacist in AZ.
  • Howard Luber and Jonah Shacknai own or owned neighboring property in Paradise Valley AZ.


http://www.dracommunications.com/#!leadership
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/07/coronado-mansion.html
http://www.melmedcenter.com/
http://www.whisperinghoperanch.org/board_of_directors
http://www.autismcenter.org/board.aspx
http://www.autismcenter.org/leadership_team.aspx
http://www.phoenixmag.com/top-docs/articles/200804/dr--howard-j--luber
http://phoenix.blockshopper.com/new...y_doctor_lists_Paradise_Valley_6BD_for_4_495M,
http://www.camelrx.com/
 
I agree time. Bringing this post by CalElliot forward for reference:

Thanks ...I remember that post. I wonder how much Rebecca was able to integrate into this social circle and how close these others are to Dina. I remember an odd comment posted (perhaps by the book author) that Dina helped start one of those autism foundations, but the timeline is not right for that to be true? Makes one wonder where that info is coming from. I have to at least ponder whether some negative talk was taking place over the last 2 or 3 years concerning Rebecca. I don't think during a bad time, Max's accident, I'd want to be surrounded by Dr. Luber, Nina, Dina, Dina's boyfriend, Adam, Resnik, and Jonah if I were her. Too bad her family wasn't in the area for support and to look after her.
 
I think a nonprofit does?

I find it odd he did this so soon ... I hate to think it had anything to do with publicity bringing in more dollars. Somebody smack me before I say he did it to look good.
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The Noah's Family Foundation, a not for profit corporation, has become the Max A. Shacknai Foundation.

http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/corp-detail.p?name-id=08080251



Name change amendment, adopted July 22, 2011:

http://images.azcc.gov/scripts/cgi/dwispart2.pl

Rebecca Zahau funeral July 23, 2011
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73397507

Doesn't a corporation have to have more than a director?

It's a common practice in Judaism to name a charity after a lost loved one. Little Leiby Kletzky had a foundation named after him, too. The charity need not be related to the person (for example, a cancer foundation can be named after a child who did not die of cancer). It merely exists to do good in that child's name, to bring a blessing to their remembrance instead of sorrow.

Jewish writer Herman Wouk (he wrote Marjorie Morningstar and The Caine Mutiny) named a foundation after his son, Abe, who died tragically.
 
This was initiated the day before they took Max off life support. The following day he had DL get Ocean out of the kennel. That is one cool customer. That would not have been what I was thinking about if I had just lost my beloved partner AND my youngest child. I would be a puddle on the floor. JMO.
 
This was initiated the day before they took Max off life support. The following day he had DL get Ocean out of the kennel. That is one cool customer. That would not have been what I was thinking about if I had just lost my beloved partner AND my youngest child. I would be a puddle on the floor. JMO.

It's part of Judaism. It was actually a courageous thing to do. It shows he was able to think of others during his time of grief, just like he and Dina did when they donated Max's organs to other children.
 
Another PR move. He's certainly getting a lot for the money he's paying them. IMO

While I would hate to think that a charitable foundation named for your deceased son is PR....I would say that I think the timing is interesting....and to think that he had to think of his son's funeral arrangements, Rebecca his loving partner's funeral arrangements...and yet he had time to tie up the legalities of this foundation and getting a high powered PR firm. Hmmm..priorities.
 
While I would hate to think that a charitable foundation named for your deceased son is PR....I would say that I think the timing is interesting....and to think that he had to think of his son's funeral arrangements, Rebecca his loving partner's funeral arrangements...and yet he had time to tie up the legalities of this foundation and getting a high powered PR firm. Hmmm..priorities.

Why would you think an act of Judaism is a PR move? Do you not realize you are insulting Judaism by insulting what is a common practice in the faith when you lose a child?
 
Why would you think an act of Judaism is a PR move? Do you not realize you are insulting Judaism by insulting what is a common practice in the faith when you lose a child?

In no way should anything I have posted be twisted into an insult to Judaism. I just returned from celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles with my Spiritual family. You might be surprised to know that Mr. Shacknai's behavior was commented on several times by those coming to attend. It is the totality of JS's behavior and the timing of such that rings as ice within the soul. MOO.
 
I don't really see any problems with naming a charitable foundation after his son, Max. I think that it would help with the grieving process.

The question is where is Rebecca in all of this?
 
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