New World Foundation completed its fifth decade of grant making in the year 2004.  As we continue our work, we expect the new millennium to be a time of continuing significant transition for America, a search for new directions, a battle between the past and future, between the politics of fear and hope.  We see the strengths of progressive ideals and committed activists, who every day are inventing democracy and extending its boundaries.  But we also know the strength of reaction, inaction, and injustice in blocking democracy’s advance.  Our work and our tradition is to tip the balance, to add resources to the side of justice, to widen the channels for participation, and to ensure that another generation will see by example how they can make a difference.  Throughout, our work aims to remind older generations and educate younger ones that here in America people must continue to struggle for freedom and justice.

Board Members Fred Azcarate Chair Anthony Thigpenn Vice Chair Julie Goodridge Treasurer Charles Hey-Maestre Secretary Julia E. Classen Michael Leon Guerrero Joel Harrison Brenda D. Hyde Nsombi Lambright Penn Loh David Neubert Maria Rodriguez Andrea van den Heever

Staff Colin Greer President New Majority Fund Beata Pudelko Assistant Treasurer to the Board Associate for Finance & Administration Minnette Coleman Assistant Secretary to the Board Grants Administrator Ann Bastian Senior Program Officer Phoenix Fund for Workers & Communities Heeten Kalan Senior Program Officer Global Environmental Health & Justice Fund Alejandra O'Leary Program Associate for the Phoenix Fund Mira Zalewska Assistant Bookkeeper Sarah Burns Assistant to the President