Five(ish) Questions for Jennifer Rainin, CEO of Arts and Education Funder the Rainin Foundation

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Five(ish) Questions for Jennifer Rainin, CEO of Arts and Education Funder the Rainin Foundation

Jennifer Rainin is CEO of the Bay Area-based Rainin Foundation, a funder to watch that supports early ed, arts and medical research. We talked to the artist and former teacher about her foundation and career in philanthropy.

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Keeping Up: Behind a Foundation's Growing Push on Early Childhood Learning

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Keeping Up: Behind a Foundation's Growing Push on Early Childhood Learning

Once the youngest school kids fall behind in literacy, they rarely catch up. The Kenneth Rainin Foundation wants to make sure that doesn't happen in Oakland, and it's ramping up grantmaking.   

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Here's One Heir Who Knows How To Build a Foundation

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If you're worth big money, care deeply about philanthropy, and die earlier than expected, the last thing you want is for your kid to take over the family foundation and royally screw things up, wasting your money on stupid stuff. What you want is for your PhD daughter to step in and do everything right.
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