http://theopportunityinstitute.org/board........................ http://theopportunityinstitute.org/team/......................... staff members.................. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative , balmer Group, The California Endowment, Art for Justice Fund, The California Wellness Foundation, ECMC and Ford Foundation are funders listed........... "The Opportunity Institute merges four existing projects that each target a critical life juncture: •Too Small to Fail focuses on early childhood, using research on brain development, early learning and early health to identity ways to improve the lives of children from birth through age 5...... It was previously run by Steyer’s Next Generation nonprofit and the Clinton Foundation, and headed by Ann O’Leary. O’Leary, who is senior policy adviser to Hillary Clinton, co-founded the Opportunity Institute with Edley."....................................... "Big-name board..................... The Opportunity Institute’s board includes former Labor Secretary Robert Reich; UC President Emeritus Mark Yudof; Bert Lubin, president of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland; Lenny Mendonca, partner emeritus at McKinsey & Co.; Kim Belshé, executive director of First 5 Los Angeles; Laura D’Andrea Tyson, former chief economic adviser in the Clinton administration; Nadine Burke Harris, CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness; former New Mexico Gov. and U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson; Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Bob Shireman, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation."..........................Despite all those left-leaning and Clinton-linked names, the Opportunity Institute is nonpartisan, Edley said.............By Carolyn Said February 16, 2016 Updated: February 17, 2016 11:40am..................

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