Miami Philanthropist Harley Lippman Gives Back with His Heart
- adriana
- Jul 15
- 5 min read
Harley Lippman, CEO & Founder of Genesis 10, is one of Miami’s well-known philanthropists on the scene. The entrepreneur is known for his successful business as much as his big heart.
In Florida and around the globe he has found ways to open his life to the art of giving and the world is a better place for it. He supports dozens of charitable initiatives. Lippman for over two decades has been and continues to be the sole financial supporter of an orphanage in Cambodia. He built here a 'Children First' educational center located near Phnom Penh, where underprivileged children receive education and are mentored until they graduate from university. To date, he personally has put over 30 children through college.
Lippman proudly also serves as a leader for the Little Lighthouse Foundation, an organization in Miami- Dade County that aims to help and support Miami's poorest children. He has raised the money to give school supplies to 2,500 children who otherwise would not have received school supplies. There are days that he extends his goodwill further by personally tutoring these children.
One of the most memorable occasions with the foundation was when he led the way raising money to purchase over 30,000 Christmas gifts for the youngsters. In 2024, Little Lighthouse Foundation honored him at their annual gala. He served as honorary chairman in 2025 after.
Even adults around the country benefit from his philanthropic efforts, especially military veterans: Lippman funds scholarships and financial aid programs for American military veterans, particularly soldiers who were wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. The businessman once sponsored a trip to Israel for veterans affected by PTSD. It gave these special men and women an opportunity to explore alternative treatments and to meet their Israeli counterparts. In support of Vietnam veterans, he provides financial assistance directly to them and is working on erecting a monument in Long Island to pay respect to those who fought.
Lippman is a man who through hard work has created a business empire that has afforded him to be able to give back to the world year after year.
USA Today ranked Lippman to be the 44th Best CEO in America to work for and his company Genesis10 was named a top U.S. Staffing Firm by Staffing Industry Analysts. He has earned recognition as one of the top 25 U.S. companies for work/life balance as well as Best Leadership Team.
The company, which is one of the largest privately owned staffing/consulting firms in the United States, employs thousands of people. He furthermore has been identified as one of the best places to work in New York as reported by Business Insider.
Lippman’s education was an enriching experience that earned him a master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, where he received their highest scholarship award and graduated third in his class. He was the first American exchange student to study Political Science in Poland since World War II and also received a scholarship to study at the Ukrainian Institute at Harvard University.
His academic career was just the beginning of a lifelong passion for learning. Using his knowledge to further both his standing in society as an entrepreneur, his past education endeavors also formulated a launching pad for service to the community.
His educational affiliations have associations that include being an Advisory Board Member at the Yale University's Business School of Management; an Advisory Board Member for Columbia University's Graduate School of International and Public Affairs; an Advisory Board Member of Oxford University's Eastern Mediterranean Program at St. Antony's College; Trustee of the Washington Institute; Council Member at the Brookings Institution and Executive Committee Member - Middle East Forum.
Outside of associations with academia, Lippman is a visionary who extracts crucial insight into global platforms.
Forbes magazine has praised Lippman as a strong example of “soft power" in Washington. Over time he has built effective relationships with key political leaders, including President Trump and President Biden along with other presidents and leaders of nations all around the world.
Appointed to serve on several committees, his roles have included appointment to the MEPPA Board in 2022 by the Biden Administration when he worked on the USAID Middle East Partnership for Peace Act advisory board. This had him representing the largest U.S. congressional investment in helping create trust between Israelis and Palestinians.
An example of this type of work: he has been involved in MEPA programs, such as one where Palestinian women and Israeli women worked side by side to make wheelchairs for children under five years old. It serves as a prime example of how he can help shift notions that people of different faiths/view points are incapable of getting along.
While Lippman is very pro-Israel, he also has compassion for Palestinians. Another example of this is how for years he has paid for a Palestinian and an Israel student to go to Yale Business School.
Lippman holds the distinguished honor of being a man who appreciates the past as well. He honors his heritage, and it helps further define his purpose.
He was appointed to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. He was first appointed by President George W. Bush in 2009 and has been reappointed by every administration since. Lippman is one of the two longest-serving members out of 21 appointees. In this role, he focuses on an often-overlooked aspect of the Holocaust, where individual Jewish men and women were killed in occupied Poland and left for dead.
He founds and supports the staff in Poland who, upon discovery of these graves, typically organize a ceremony with a Protestant minister, a Catholic priest, and a Jewish rabbi to collectively honor and dignify the deaths of these Jewish victims. Memorials are then erected to commemorate their massacre. To date, Lippman has organized and fully funded the creation of more than 25 memorials in Polish, English, and Hebrew. He preserves this ancestry, ensuring their names live on into infinity. This is why Poland’s Minister of Culture and National Heritage awarded him the Medal Ochrony Miejsc Pamięci Narodowej in 2023 — “Guardian of National Memorial Sites.”
He also is a foreign policy analyst, Lippman’s commentary is regularly sought out on topics regarding issues related to the Middle East, U.S. politics, economics, and workforce development. And he does it in a uniquely bipartisan way.
Lippman is well-known as a regular commentator on major American networks FOX, NEWSMAX, NEWS NATION, MSNBC, among others, as well as having a strong presence on Sky News Arabia, Al Jazeera and European networks which frequently ask him for guest expert appearances.
All together his decades of service speak to his selflessness and his single-minded pursuit to create a fair and better world. He speaks about politics all while helping foster foreign relations and put them in good standing at the same time. From the Abraham Accords countries of Morocco, the United Arab Emirates as well as other nations, his tenacious spirit has led to strengthening partnerships that promote both regional peace and America's broader national priorities.
This man of Miami is a philanthropist that the city appreciates and is a true American hero with a heart that all can admire.