Novo Foundation Plans to Spend $90M to Improve the Lives of Young Women of Color
The NoVo Foundation, created in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, the youngest son of Warren Buffett, plans to announce the multimillion investment on Wednesday. T
he foundation says this will be the largest single investment dedicated solely to addressing inequities faced by young female minorities in the United States.
The foundation will canvas the nation, talking to girls and their advocates to solicit ideas from them on how best to invest the money. The official funding process won’t begin until early 2017, the Buffetts said.
“Our goal is to create the conditions for change by advancing the work of the real experts in this movement: girls and young women of color and the advocates working with them,” Peter Buffett said...