Current Executive Searches
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Director of Grants Administration
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation (PGPF), founded in 2008 by Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the private equity firm The Blackstone Group, is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the nature and urgency of key fiscal challenges threatening America's future, and to accelerating action on them. As a nonpartisan foundation, they neither lobby nor represent special interest groups. Located in New York City, the Director of Grants Administration will be responsible for the execution and day-to-day administration of PGPF’s grant-making activities.
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Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
ConnectED
ConnectEd is dedicated to advancing practice, policy, and research designed to help young people prepare for college and career—both goals and not one or the other. ConnectEd has as its primary mission supporting the development Linked Learning: Pathways to College and Career Success, by which young people can complete high school, enroll in postsecondary education, attain a formal credential, and embark on lasting success in work, community, and civic affairs.
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Executive Director, Seattle
Year Up
Year Up is a nonprofit organization with a mission to prepare urban young adults aged 18-24 for life and work in our technology-driven society, while guiding them toward successful careers and higher education. Through a one-year, intensive training program, students receive a unique combination of hands-on technical and professional skills, college-level coursework, and corporate internships.
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Executive Director, Chicago
Year Up
Year Up is a nonprofit organization with a mission to prepare urban young adults aged 18-24 for life and work in our technology-driven society, while guiding them toward successful careers and higher education. Through a one-year, intensive training program, students receive a unique combination of hands-on technical and professional skills, college-level coursework, and corporate internships.
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President and Chief Executive Officer
Scholarship America
Headquartered in Minneapolis and St. Peter, Minnesota, Scholarship America's mission is to mobilize America, through scholarships and educational support, to make postsecondary education possible for all students. Indeed, since its founding in 1958, Scholarship America® has distributed more than $2 billion to nearly 2 million students nationally. Today, the organization is the largest private scholarship and educational support service organization in the United States, and advances its mission through three main programs.
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President
Horizons for Homeless Children
Extensive research has documented that significant early adversity and “toxic stress” in the lives of young children leads to a greater likelihood of developmental delays, as well as physical and mental health problems. Early childhood education is even more critical for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially homeless children. Horizons for Homeless Children (HHC) was founded in 1988 to serve young homeless children and their families.
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Executive Director, New York
College Summit
A national nonprofit founded in 1993, College Summit partners with school districts and states to increase their college-going rates by fostering a culture where going to college is the expectation of every student, not the exception. College Summit is the country's largest high school college-going culture provider, currently equipping 165 low-income high schools in 12 states and the District of Columbia serving more than 25,000 students.
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President and CEO
The Heifer Foundation
Heifer Foundation (the Foundation) and its partner, Heifer International, envision a sustainable world where hunger and poverty no longer exist. These organizations share a common mission to partner with people in the global movement to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. Founded in 1990 by Heifer International's Board of Directors, the Foundation has developed, and continues to manage, an endowment to support the work of Heifer International.
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Executive Director, Strategic Data Project
Harvard University, Center for Education Policy Research
The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR), situated at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, works with university-based researchers, local and state education agencies, school networks, foundations, and policymakers to leverage the overwhelming amount of school-, teacher-, and student-level data to address highpriority policy questions in education and to inform education reform. The Strategic Data Project (SDP), an initiative of CEPR, works to reduce barriers inhibiting use of data and analysis in decisions made by education leaders. SDP is funded through a generous grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and has for its goal to increase student achievement and attainment through data and analysis informed decision-making by education leaders.
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Chief of Field Operations
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is an international, single 501(c)(3) nonprofit known for its outstanding success in providing entrepreneurship education programs designed to engage young people from low-income communities. Through innovative methods that give kids a reason to learn, NFTE’s programs offer students the fundamentals of starting and operating a small business in addtion to math, reading, writing, critical thinking, workplace readiness, teamwork, planning, organization, communication, and decision-making skills.
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Chief Operating Officer
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation (PGPF), founded in 2008 by Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the private equity firm The Blackstone Group, is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the nature and urgency of key fiscal challenges threatening America's future, and to accelerating action on them. As a nonpartisan foundation, they neither lobby nor represent special interest groups.
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Chief Operating Officer
Community Action Project
Community Action Project (CAP) is a Tulsa, Oklahoma nonprofit whose vision is to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by improving the prospects of long-term economic success for very young, low-income children, their families and the communities in which they live.
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