Ford Foundation

• ATLANTA, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LEADing for Life, a trailblazer in learning and leadership development, today announced its evolution to the LEADing for Life Enterprise.
• This strategic shift emphasizes global expansion, providing multigenerational learners with 21st-century programmatic learning experiences, highly sought-after career opportunities, and professional development.
• These initiatives unite learners, parents, corporate and university partners, and staff to connect, engage, and reimagine learning.
• The highly anticipated Global Connect in April 2025 promises to be a landmark event, reinforcing bonds and shaping the future of learning and leadership.

• This is a critical investment in JFF's work to advance economic mobility for the more than 77 million people across the nation with conviction and arrest records.
• Many of these individuals experience daunting challenges in their efforts to access quality jobs that promote economic advancement.
• Through its Center for Justice & Economic Advancement, JFF has launched several key initiatives aimed to drive economic advancement for people with records.
• This award is the second significant gift from the Justice and Mobility Fund to JFF's Center for Justice & Economic Advancement.

• Some young South Africans have begun to question Nelson Mandela’s legacy, and the choices made in the transition to democracy after the end of apartheid in 1994.
• To mark 30 years since South Africa’s post-apartheid transition began, The Conversation Weekly podcast is running a special three-part podcast series, What happened to Nelson Mandela’s South Africa?
• Young people make up 34% of South Africa’s population.
• At the end of 2023, the unemployment rate for young South Africans between the ages of 15 and 34 was 44%.

Elections looming

• We’re coming to the end of that period of domination by the ANC now; we’re into the period of what I call the second transition.
• Ramaphosa has had the very difficult task of rebuilding the state, rebuilding confidence in public ethics.
• Ramaphosa has had the very difficult task of rebuilding the state, rebuilding confidence in public ethics.
• And read more coverage of the 30th anniversary of South Africa’s democratic transition from The Conversation Africa.

Disclosure statement

• Sithembile Mbete has received grant funding for research on South African foreign policy from the National Research Foundation, National Institute of Social Science and Social Science Research Council.
• She’s received research support on South African democracy from the Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

Credits

• Special thanks for this series to Gary Oberholzer, Jabulani Sikhakhane, Caroline Southey and Moina Spooner at The Conversation Africa.
• This episode of The Conversation Weekly was written and produced by Mend Mariwany, with production assistance from Katie Flood.
• Stephen Khan is our global executive editor, Alice Mason runs our social media and Soraya Nandy does our transcripts.

• Latinos in the U.S. make up nearly 20% of the country’s population, with purchasing power reaching $3.4 trillion in 2021.
• But many companies have yet to fully unlock critical opportunities with the Latino population or build key relationships, particularly with a growing number of elected officials.
• Our community is a force to be reckoned with as Hispanic political and purchasing power is projected to grow exponentially in the next 40 years.
• Tusk Strategies is led by CEO Chris Coffey , a Bloomberg administration alum and political affairs advisor to Fortune 500 c-suites.