The California Community Foundation has secured a $1.5 million investment from the Ford Foundation for extended learning opportunities in up to 15 high schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District, as part of a strategy for improving student outcomes in high poverty communities.
The Ford Foundation is guided by its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.
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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.