Youve headed the Ms. Foundation for 17 of its 30 years has that helped foster a certain level of continuity and allegiance to the foundations mission?
When organizations like the Ms. Foundation for Women were first started, there was this naive belief that we would be able to hurry history and that the changes that we were after were going to be over in a very short time. We’d come through a very active civil rights movement, and I think it was a time when we felt like everything was moving to change. We didn’t realize with either of these movements that they would take so long. And when we look at it now, we realize that organizations need the kind of continuity of leadership that’s extremely important to people who are thinking about investing in or endowing organizations. And it is continuing to be important as we think about how long we still have to go. What did the foundation look like when you came? I walked in to this wonderful, diverse, amazing board that included Maxine Waters, Aileen Hernandez, Jean Bolen, Marlo Thomas, Jean Hardisty and Gloria Steinem. Who could resist them even if you were going to have to walk in and st
