New Schools Venture Fund

Leadership & Staff

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Lance Fors Social Entrepreneur

• leadership council member

Sidney Hawkins Gargiulo Partner, Covey Capital Management

• leadership council member

James Peyser Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund

• partner

Julie Mikuta Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund

• partner

Lenny Mendonca Director, McKinsey & Company

• leadership council member

Shauntel Poulson Principal, New Schools Venture Fund

• Principal

Shauntel Polson Principal, New Schools Venture Fund

• Principal

Andrea Rice

• leadership council member

Anupam Mishra

• leadership council member

Ann Mathieson

• leadership council member

Board Members

Dave Goldberg CEO - SurveyMonkey

• Board Member

Robert Stavis Partner - Bessemer Venture Partners

• Board Member ('13→?)

Brook Byers Senior Partner - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

• Board Member

Laurene Powell Jobs Founder , Emerson Collective; widow of Steve Jobs

• Board Member

Christopher F Gabrieli Bessemer Venture Partners; CEO, Empower Schools

• Board Member

John Doerr Legendary venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley.

• Board Member

Jonathan Sackler former director, Purdue Pharma & founder of ConnCAN

• Board Member

Dave Whorton Managing Director, Tugboat Ventures

• Board Member

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

• 2nd CEO and President ('05→'14)* [+1]

• Former CEO ('05→'14)*

Joanna Rees Founder and Managing Partner, VSP Capital

• Board Member

Donors

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

• Grant · 100,193,165 USD ('03→'19)*

Silicon Valley Community Foundation $13.5 billion of assets under management.

• Grant · 79,000,880 USD ('08→'18)* [+5]

• Grant · 26,000,000 USD ('16)

• Grant · 25,000,000 USD ('15)

• Grant · 10,000,000 USD ('16)

• Grant · 5,000,000 USD ('15)

• Grant · 3,800,000 USD ('15)

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

• Grant · 24,746,668 USD ('12→'18)* [+1]

• Grant

The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation

• Grant · 11,687,500 USD ('08→'17)*

The Broad Foundation

• Grant · 9,934,789 USD ('02→'16)* [+1]

• Grant

Arnold Ventures Foundation of natural gas billionaire John Arnold

• Grant · 4,578,667 USD ('16→'18)* [+1]

• Grant ('11)*

Robertson Foundation Hedge fund manager Julian Robertson's foundation

• Grant · 3,000,000 USD [+1]

• Grant

Jewish Communal Fund Publicly supported foundation that helps people meet philanthropic and tax-saving goals

• Donation/Grant · 260,000 USD ('14)

David Welch

• Donation · 200,000 USD ('11) [+1]

• Donation

One8 Foundation private foundation, Boston, MA

• Donation/Grant · 145,000 USD ('14)

Donations

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New Leaders national nonprofit that develops transformational school leaders and designs effective leadership policies and practices

• Grant · 3,557,500 USD ('01→'13)

Leading Educators

• grant · 500,000 USD [+1]

• Grant

Big Picture Learning School Redesign with Personal Learning Plans

• Grant · 75,000 USD*

Envision Education, Inc. Charter School Franchise In Bay Area Promoting Portfolio Defense Model of Education

• Donation/Grant

Accelero Learning Provider of Head Start Services

• Supporter

Caliber Schools Bay Area Charter Franchise Promoting Personalized and Project Based Learning

• Supporter

HundrED Finnish NGO Supporting Global K12 Ed-Tech

• Donation/Grant

Equal Opportunity Schools

• Donation/Grant

FOCUS

• Donation/Grant

Achievement First Inc

• Grant

Memberships

Primary School (The) Integrated Healthcare / Education Private School, Low Income (Priscilla Chan)

• Partner*

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

• Partner*

National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) Carnegie Funded Ed Reform Training Program Affiliated with NCEE, Marc Tucker

• Partner ('99→?)*

Future Ready Schools Program to implement personalized, research-based digital learning strategies

• Member

Services & Transactions

MasteryConnect education technology software startup

• investment · 600,000 USD (Dec 7 '11→?)

eSpark educational software company

• investment · 400,000 USD (Sep '12→?)*

Junyo Online Education, Data Analytics Company

• Investment of

Tynker creative computing

• investment

Socrative educational software company

• investment (Aug 1 '13→?)*

Miscellaneous Relationships

Common Core State Standards The Common Core State Standards

• supported by

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

Bellwether Education Partners

• Affiliation

ER Strategies strategic resource allocation

• Affiliation