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human rights, as its core objectives. Ubiñas increased the Ford
Foundation's focus on social justice issues. He also spearheaded reinvestment of over 80% of the Foundation's endowment, moving its endowment performance from bottom quartile to top quartile performance among endowments over $ 3 billion, renovated the network of international offices and modernized the Foundation's systems. During his tenure operating costs fell 33%.</ref> Most importantly, Ubinas focused the Foundation's programs on Social Justice issues.
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Education, which provides educational access for international students; and CommerceHub, a cloud-based e-commerce platform. He is currently an advisor to the board of EBSCO industries, the leading provider of full text academic content to libraries, universities and private sector entities.
78:(born 1963) is an American investor, businessman and nonprofit leader. He holds various influential roles in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving American immigration history. Ubiñas served as the president of the
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Restructuring during the 2008/9 financial crisis was not without controversy, since, a few months after announcing $ 22 million in budget cutbacks in spring 2009, Ford announced the closure of field offices in
Vietnam and Russia and offered voluntary severance packages to some New York staff to trim
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Luis has led a career in business, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector and has served in a range of government roles. He has been a Senior
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an additional $ 14 million from the budget. All savings were shifted to the grantee budget, to help social justice organizations in the United States and abroad survive the financial crisis.
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