Cornelia Grumman

Cornelia Grumman is an American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist. She is the director of the Early Education Program at the Robert R. McCormick Foundation[1] in Chicago. From 2008 to 2012, she was the executive director of the First Five Years Fund (FFYF).[2] The First Five Years Fund is an education initiative committed to improving the lives of at-risk children by leveraging cost-effective investments in early learning. A project of the Ounce of Prevention Fund,[3] FFYF is supported by five major family foundations: the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Irving Harris Foundation, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Children's Initiative, a project of the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation.[4]

  1. ^ "Robert R. McCormick Foundation". Robert R. Mccormick Foundation. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  2. ^ "First Five Years Fund || The First Years Last Forever". First Five Years Fund. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  3. ^ http://www.ounceofprevention.org/ [bare URL]
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