Ellen Coolidge Burbank
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August 4, 1945
Ellen Coolidge Burbank | |
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| Born | Ellen Randolph Coolidge August 4, 1945 Waltham, Massachusetts |
| Died | May 15, 2023 (age 77) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Philanthropist, museum executive |
| Spouse | Stephen B. Burbank |
Ellen Randolph Coolidge Burbank (1945 – 2023) was an American philanthropist, publicist, and executive in the non-profit sector. She was executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance from 1976 to 1980, and later of the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum in Massachusetts from 2001 to 2011. She was a program officer for the Pew Charitable Trusts from 1987 to 2001.
Coolidge was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, the daughter of Francis Lowell Coolidge and Helen Read Curtis Coolidge. She had a twin brother, Frank.[1] Her father worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Postal Service,[2] and as a child she lived in Washington, D.C., Switzerland, and Tunisia. She attended Rosemary Hall, and graduated from Finch College in 1967.[3]