Programs

In addition to providing grants, FNF works with key partners to design and manage new programs. These programs not only employ the most promising practices like early intervention and teacher collaboration, but also allow for direct and immediate impact on Newark’s teachers and students. FNF programs often serve as pilots that have the potential to be scaled district-wide.

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The Foundation for Newark's Future is committed to improving educational outcomes for all Newark schoolchildren, ensuring they are college and career-ready by investing in transformative programs that create large-scale change through short-term philanthropy.

We invite you to learn more about our vision, our team and our vision for this remarkable time in Newark.

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Newark’s young people and the community deserve and demand that funding is invested thoughtfully, in ways that will have impact now and in the future. We value tremendously the support and investment from all of our donors.

FNF is an independent, non-governmental foundation that takes a balanced approach to investing. By supporting and advancing what works, FNF’s goal is to leave Newarkers with system-wide changes that are needed for long-term success.

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Sep
04

WHITNEY TILSON

By Staff in Board of Trustees

Whitney Tilson is the Founder and Managing Partner of T2 Partners LLC and the Tilson Mutual Funds, vice chairman of KIPP Academy Charter Schools, co-founder of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and a director of Democrats for Education Reform.

In 2010, Whitney produced a documentary film – A Right Denied: The Critical Need for Education Reform – that explores the achievement gap between low-income, minority students in the US and their wealthier peers as well as the separation between the achievement levels of the US and its peer countries. Prior to launching his investment career in 1999, Whitney co-founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and ICV Partners, a national for-profit private equity fund focused on minority-owned and inner-city businesses that has raised nearly $500 million.

For his philanthropic work, Whitney has received the 2008 John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award from the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York.

Whitney holds and MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.

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