New World Foundation

The New World Foundation, a 501c3 public charity based in New York City, was established in 1954 through the will of Anita McCormick Blaine and "grew to maturity during the civil rights era." Through its grants, the Foundation supports "organizations working to strengthen and expand civil rights and the active participation of citizens in American democracy ... [and] to support the building of social movements by supporting organizing, which builds a sustainable mass base of activists in viable organizations." [1]

• Former Chair, Peggy Saika

Board Members

• Leroy Johnson, Chair
• Burt Lauderdale, Vice Chair
• Julie Goodridge, Treasurer
• Yin Ling Leung, Secretary
• Fred Azcarate
• Stephen B. Bright
• Cindy C. Choi
• Scott Douglas
• Joel Harrison
• Sofia Quintero
• Anthony Thigpenn

2006

• Burt Lauderdale - Chair
• Sofia Quintero - Vice Chair
• Julie Goodridge - Treasurer
• Fred Azcarate - Secretary
• Leroy Johnson - Chair Emeritus
• Stephen B. Bright
• Cindy C. Choi
• Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins - (new)
• Joel Harrison
• Charles Hey-Maestre - (new)
• Michael Guerrero - (new)
• Penn Loh
• Anthony Thigpenn

Source

Staff

• Colin Greer, President
• Ann Bastian, Senior Program Officer, Phoenix Fund for Workers and Communities
• Minnette Coleman, Assistant Secretary, Grants Administrator
• Chad Jones, Program Associate, Phoenix Fund for Workers and Communities
• Heeten Kalan, Senior Program Officer, Global Environmental Health & Justice Fund
• Beata Pudelko, Assistant Treasurer, Associate for Finance and Administration
• Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Program Assistant, Global Environmental Health & Justice Fund
• Alta Starr, Senior Program Officer, Fund for Unity, Sustainability & Effectiveness

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• Karl Mathiasen
• Peter Cove

Contact details

The New World Foundation
666 West End Avenue
New York, NY 10025
Telephone: (212) 249-1023
FAX: (212) 472-0508
Email: info@newwf.org
Website: http://www.newwf.org/

External links

• "Sleeping with the Enemy," sfbg.com, October 8, 1997: "The New York-based New World Foundation is one of the most prominent funders of progressive social activity in the country. The foundation underwrites such organizations as the Tides Foundation's Military Toxics Project, the Vanguard Public Foundation, the Center for Third World Organizing, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Planned Parenthood. ... But New World, like most foundations, also invests its assets in the stock market -- and doesn't seem to care if its investments clash with its progressive ideals."