Allen and Tlou Meet with Foundations Consortium in New York
Wallace Allen, Associate Director for Corporate Foundations at Virginia Tech, and Josiah Tlou, Director of CRaDIE, traveled to New York in early July to meet with Susan Grant Lewis, Coordinator of Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, which is a consortium of foundations. The purpose of their meeting was to discuss opportunities for funding that might be available through the partnership or through individual foundations. The Partnership is located in The Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and is comprised of the following foundations: Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Kresge Foundation. Together they have made available 200 million dollars to support partnership initiatives of universities in Africa. As a result of their visit, some inquiries have been sent to specific contacts.