[2] In 2007, she founded her charitable foundation, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, with the core mission of increasing access and opportunity for all New Yorkers and fostering healthy and vibrant communities, using an equity lens to develop initiatives and to issue grants.
Since its founding, the Illumination Fund has played a catalytic role in a range of initiatives and organizations, as well as in public-private partnerships with multiple City agencies.
Ms. Tisch led CMOM’s transformation and expansion from a neighborhood-based storefront into a citywide institution that is now recognized as a national leader in health, education, and the arts.
Currently, she is co-chairing a capital campaign to build a new home for CMOM on Central Park West and 96th Street, which will also become a base for their citywide programs serving families in the shelter system and incarcerated mothers and fathers and their children.
[5] She is divorced from Connecticut hedge fund manager Donald Sussman; they have two children[6][7] including Carolyn Tisch Blodgett, a marketing strategist who was Chief Marketing Officer at Peloton during their highest growth period, and Emily Tisch Sussman, a Democratic strategist, political commentator, and campaign coordinator who has run progressive campaigns for organizations such as the Center for American Progress and Swing Left.