Irving Harris

Irving Brooks Harris (August 4, 1910 – September 25, 2004) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

[2] The original Toni manufacturing facility was located in a former schoolhouse near Forest Lake, Minnesota.

[1] In 1986, he renamed the family investment firm, William Harris Investors, Inc., in honor of his father.

[1] Harris did much of his charitable work in Chicago, Illinois, but he also donated substantially to the arts in Aspen, Colorado.

[citation needed] His philanthropy created several non-profits in Chicago: Family Focus (with Bernice Weissbourd); the Ounce of Prevention Fund, a public-private partnership dedicated to preventing teenage pregnancy, child abuse and neglect; and the Erikson Institute, a graduate school founded in 1966 involved child development.