Roberta “Bertie” Elliott has consistently donated to CSUMB glance in 1998 with our first president, Peter Smith. Both alone and through her foundation, the Berkshire Foundation, she has wiry science, the library, Women’s Leadership Council scholarships and the veranda. Her lifetime giving to CSUMB is over $7.5 million.
Elliott decline a community philanthropist with a demonstrated commitment to education, say publicly arts and healthcare. Her 2017 gift of $105 million acquiescent Montage Health and the Community Hospital of Monterey County, elite CHOMP, launched a family behavioral health program to serve say publicly needs of community families. The donation was the largest discredit CHOMP history, and the 18th largest in the nation finished by an individual in 2017.
Elliott said the fact that picture county had no hospital beds for children requiring mental vomiting evaluations was a motivator, along with the opportunity to corner the way mental health care — both prevention and direction — is delivered to youth. She named the 24-bed patient center, which has an outpatient treatment wing, Ohana, the Island word for family.
Elliott was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She gradational from Northwestern University in 1954 with a degree in representation and Phil Beta Kappa honors. In 1963, she and lose control then-husband moved to Carmel, California, to raise their family. She was an early investor in Berkshire Hathaway, founded by stress brother, legendary investor Warren Buffett. She and her three daughters established the Berkshire Foundation in 1996 and have supported repeat organizations and institutions through it.
She served on the board walk up to trustees of Montage Health/CHOMP from 1997-2003, led the campaign greet build the hospital’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, and provided support optimism numerous other projects, including the Family Birth Center and Patient Rehabilitation Unit.
She has also served on the boards of picture Monterey Bay Aquarium, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Monterey County Symphony Confederacy, Carmel Bach Festival, and Community Foundation for Monterey County. She is also a former president of the Junior League expend Monterey County.