Strategy Review

Announcing the Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s New Grantmaking Strategy

Strategy Update: October 2019

At the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2019 has been a year of designing a strategy aligned to the Foundation’s new mission, vision, values, and goals towards racial equity. We can also say that 2019 has been a year of reflecting, learning, growing, and transforming for us.

An Update on Our Strategy Review and Development Process

Introducing Our 2019 Community Advisory Group

Dear Friends,

Announcing our New Mission, Vision and Values Statements

Dear Colleagues:

Interview with Ellen Wang, Program Officer at the Nellie Mae Education Foundation

We had the chance to sit down with Ellen Wang, a program officer at NMEF and member of our Equity Leadership Team, to talk about her journey through the foundation’s strategy and equity work.

NMEF Board Member Deborah Jewell-Sherman Shares Her Perspectives on the Foundation’s Equity Journey

We had the chance to sit down with Nellie Mae Board Member Deborah Jewell-Sherman, who is the Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Practice in Educational Leadership…

Personal Reflections on a Foundation’s Equity Journey

Have You Ever Seen a Black Band-Aid?

As I have thought about describing my experiences with racial inequity in America, I wanted to do more than simply talk about the overt signs of bigotry we see in the headlines. It certainly would be easy to point to police violence against young black males and…