Staff

Our staff are representative of the constituencies and grantees they serve. We promote gender and race equality inside and outside the foundation. More information on how to contact us, here.

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Roles: Blog author, President, Staff

Name: Colin Greer

Name: Colin Greer

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Staff position: President

Biography:
Dr. Colin Greer has been the President of The New World Foundation since 1985. He was a Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and has written several books. Colin Greer has participated in and directed several studies of U.S. immigration and urban schooling policy and history (at Columbia University and CUNY), and Chairs numerous organizations. See full biography, here.

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U.S. State: New York

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Name: Adrianne Shropshire

Name: Adrianne Shropshire

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Staff position: Senior Program Officer

Biography:
Adrianne Shropshire is a Senior Program Officer with the New Majority Fund and other special projects. She comes to New World with nearly two decades of community organizing, alliance-building, political organizing, and public policy campaign experience. Adrianne was a community organizer in South Los Angeles, directed a labor/community/faith-based coalition in New York, and trains undergraduate students preparing for careers in public policy.

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U.S. State: New York

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Name: Ann Bastian

Name: Ann Bastian

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Staff position: Senior Program Officer

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Ann Bastian is a Senior Program Officer with responsibility for Communications and Leadership Development. She came to New World in 1984, having worked as a union organizer, labor educator, and movement activist. Ann is also a college history teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has been a consultant and writer on education policy issues.

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Name: Anna Fink

Name: Anna Fink

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Staff position: Senior Program Officer

Biography:
Anna Levine Fink is a Senior Program Officer with responsibility for COIN and The Phoenix Fund for Workers & Communities The New World Foundation. She previously worked as the coordinator of a grassroots human rights advocacy program in Mexico for the Fund for Global Human Rights. She also served as the co-director of Unite for Dignity for Immigrant Workers Rights in Miami, Florida. Anna holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas, Austin.

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U.S. State: New York

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Name: Heeten Kalan

Name: Heeten Kalan

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Staff position: Senior Program Officer

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Heeten Kalan is Senior Program Officer for the Environmental Health & Justice Fund at The New World Foundation. He is also the part-time director of groundWork USA, the American office of one of South Africa’s strongest environmental justice organizations.

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Country: United States

U.S. State: Massachusetts

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Name: Minnette Coleman

Name: Minnette Coleman

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Staff position: Grants Manager

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Minnette Coleman is Grants Administrator for The New World Foundation, and manages the partnership between New World and the K.I.D.S. in Distress Situations Foundation. She is an actress, writer and singer raised in Atlanta, GA at the height of the civil rights movement. She has written poems and articles about youth and community service.

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Name: Beata Pudelko

Name: Beata Pudelko

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Staff position: Finance

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Beata Pudelko is the Director for Finance and Administration and Assistant Treasurer at The New World Foundation. She has 16 years experience in non-profit management, finance and accounting. She is Treasurer and Co-Founder of the Children's Smile Foundation. Beata also works with other non-profit organizations advising on finance and management issues. She was born in Poland and has lived in New York since 1980.

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Name: Mira Zalewska

Name: Mira Zalewska

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Staff position: Finance

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Mira Zalewska is Assistant Bookkeeper of The New World Foundation. She also consults non-profit groups on organizing fundraisers. She is a jewelry designer and artist from Poland.

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Name: Marisol Ramos

Name: Marisol Ramos

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Staff position: Program Associate

Biography:
Marisol Ramos is a Program Associate at the New World Foundation. She works primarily with the Phoenix Fund for Workers and Communities, which provides organizational and development support to grantee immigrant rights organizations in the US and Mexico. Marisol is also a co-founder of the New York State Youth Leadership Council and was previously a youth organizer at Esperanza del Barrio both organizations which campaign actively on behalf of the Dream Act and Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

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Name: Nubia Scott

Name: Nubia Scott

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Staff position: Administration

Biography:
Nubia Scott-Bennett is the assistant to the President at The New World Foundation. A native of New York City, she is a recent graduate of Hampton University with a degree in journalism and communications.

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Roles: Editor, Staff

Name: Solana Larsen

Name: Solana Larsen

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Staff position: Website

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Solana Larsen is responsible for the creation and maintenance of The New World Foundation website. She is a Danish-Puerto Rican journalist and activist. She was formerly an editor with openDemocracy.net, and is now managing editor of Global Voices Online.

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Featured Grantee:

CAUSE

The mission of Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) is to promote economic, social and environmental justice for working people in the region through policy advocacy, research, organizing, leadership development and community building.

Country: United States

U.S. State: California

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Blog

New World Blog

Philanthropy and activism for social justice

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Title: We Need Smaller Classrooms

Name: Colin Greer

Post date: Feb 24 2010 - 11:33

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In popular education debate, charter schools are vying with public schools. But it would actually make more sense to consider the common denominator that makes some charter schools and some public schools more successful than others.

Featured Publication:

Slideshow: Funding Social Movements

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In this slideshow, Colin Greer explains the grantmaking strategy of The New World Foundation. We believe community-based organizations participating in regional and national movements are the only ones that can create lasting social change in America.

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