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Submitted: August 14, 2007 - 8:13am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 8:32am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 8:32am
FORD FOUNDATION SELECTS ITS NEW LEADER FROM OUTSIDE THE PHILANTHROPIC WORLD
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Stephanie Strom]
Luis A. Ubiñas, who has worked for McKinsey & Company, the consulting firm, for 18 years, will lead the Ford Foundation, the nation’s second-largest foundation, with $11 billion in assets. Increasingly, high-profile nonprofit jobs are going to people who have done well in the business world or in politics, a reflection on the pressure on charities and foundations to become more accountable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/us/14foundation.html
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* Ford Foundation Announces New President
http://www.fordfound.org/newsroom/view_news_detail.cfm?news_index=207
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