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The Barack Obama Foundation is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization founded in 2014. It oversees the creation of the Barack Obama Presidential Center, runs the My Brother's Keeper Alliance (a program Barack Obama began while he was president), and operates a scholarship program through the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.
The Barack Obama Presidential Center is a planned museum, library, and education project in Chicago to commemorate the presidency of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The center will also include community and conference facilities and will house the nonprofit Obama Foundation .
Hired by the Obama Foundation, she began in this role 1 December 2020. [ 1 ] Prior to joining the Obama Foundation, Healey served as president of a new Chicago regional business unit for Clayco, a real estate development, architecture, engineering and construction firm.
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Present-day Woodlawn is a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Per 2020 U.S. census data, the neighborhood's racial makeup is 79.8% Black, 10.1% white, 3.6% Asian, and 3.1% Hispanic, with an additional 3.1% belonging to two or more races.
Jeannette Hoyt, environmentalist and Chicago professor, said there’s a “trend” of the community not being involved in the project, including a decision to cut down 1,000 trees in the area. "I
The Obama Foundation raised $311 million in contributions and grants in 2022, according to the foundation’s annual IRS filing. That’s the largest sum the foundation has raked in since it got ...
In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition was held in Hyde Park and Woodlawn.. In 1891, two years after the city of Chicago annexed Hyde Park, [9] the University of Chicago was established in the neighborhood through the philanthropy of John D. Rockefeller and the leadership of William Rainey Harper.