New Leaders

Leadership & Staff

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Laura Kadetsky General Counsel, New Leaders

• General Counsel ('10→?)

Ben Fenton Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, New Leaders

• Chief Strategy Officer and Co Founder

Maggie Blinn DiNovi Executive Director, Chicago Program at New Leaders for New Schools

• Executive Director, Chicago Program (Sep '08→?)

Jean Desravines Chief Executive Officer, New Leaders

• CEO

Peter E Bennett chairman of Liberty Partners

• advisory board member, New York chapter

Kareem Weaver Education Committee Oakland NAACP

• Former Executive Director Western Region ('12→'17)*

Allyson Downey CEO Stellar Reviews, Consumer Science Analytics

• Former Executive Director ('11→'13)*

Jared Washington

• Fellow

Eric Guckian Senior Education Advisor to NC Gov. McCrory

• Charlotte Office ED (past)

Kate Gerson Regents Research Fund fellow, former high school English teacher

• Executive Director (Jul 1 '07→Dec 1 '10)

Board Members

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Mike Johnston Denver mayor, former Colorado State Senator, District 33

• Board Member

Jonathan Schnur Co-Founder, New Leaders

• Board Member

S Joshua Lewis Founder and Managing Partner, Salmon River Capital

• Board Member

Barbara Hyde President, J.R. Hyde III Family Foundation

• Board Member

Jean Desravines Chief Executive Officer, New Leaders

• Board Member

Christopher M Chadwick President, Boeing Military Aircraft Integrated Defense System

• Board Member

Jay Altman Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, FirstLine Schools

• Board Member

Ted Mitchell US Under Secretary of Education; former Chief Executive Officer, NewSchools Venture Fund

• Board Member

Naomi O Seligman Senior Partner, Ostriker von Simson, Inc.

• Board Member

Monique Burns Thompson President, Teach Plus

• Co-Founder, Co-Leader (past)

Donors

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Walton Family Foundation Inc Philanthropic foundation affiliated with family that owns Walmart

• Grant · 8,894,170 USD ('05→'18)

New Schools Venture Fund Venture Capitalist Ed Reform

• Grant · 3,557,500 USD ('01→'13)

Polk Bros Foundation

• Donation/Grant [+1]

• Donation

Walter And Elise Haas Fund Foundation

• Donation/Grant (past)

W. CLEMENT AND JESSIE V. STONE FOUNDATION

• Donation

Wallace Foundation Philanthropic foundation for education and arts for "disadvantaged" kids

• Donation

Teach for America Leadership training & short term K12 teaching program oriented around districts with poverty

• Donation

JPMorgan Chase Foundation "The JPMorgan Chase Foundation is proud to support non-governmental organizations working internationally in three areas: economic development, financial empowerment, and workforce readiness."

• Donation

T Rowe Price Associates Foundation

• Donation

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc

• Donation

Donations

The Broad Foundation

• Grant · 14,400,000 USD ('01→Jan 14 '20)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Family foundation of Microsoft founder Bill Gates

• Grant · 11,298,395 USD ('07→'09)*

ER Strategies strategic resource allocation

• Donation

Members

Ian Roberts

• certified school administrator

Memberships

Education Resource Strategies (Funding Formulas) Data-Driven Accountability and Restructuring Consultancy

• Partner*

Chicago Leadership Collaborative partnership lead by CPS to recruit and train principals

• member

Services & Transactions

Chicago Public Schools Chicago public school system

• Service/Transaction · 4,300,000 USD (Mar 1 '15→Jun 30 '18) [+1]

• client · 4,215,001 USD (May 22 '13→Jun 30 '15)

National Equity Project Overcoming Opportunity Gaps, Oakland, CA

• Service/Transaction

Chicago Leadership Collaborative partnership lead by CPS to recruit and train principals

• Service/Transaction

Miscellaneous Relationships

FOCUS

• Affiliation

Startup Education Not-for-profit grantmaking organization established in 2010 by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to improve access to high-quality education for all students

• Affiliation

ER Strategies strategic resource allocation

• Affiliation