The Metairie Park Country Day School has been awarded a Edward E. Ford Foundation Educational Leadership Grant valued at $250,000 as one of four independent schools in the country to receive the grant. Head of School Carolyn Chandler said it will be used to create a New Orleans Scholars Program.
The school raise $250,000 in matching funds to receive the money and will be used to create a program that will equip high school juniors and seniors with knowledge and skills to become future leaders in New Orleans.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.