February 22, 2007

Grant Maker Gains Insight While on Active Duty

By Ian Wilhelm

OUTSIDE THE NONPROFIT WORLD

Last year, Bonnie Jenkins received a phone call with a message that few foundation officials have ever received. She was going to war.

Ms. Jenkins, who works at the Ford Foundation, in New York, learned that March morning that her U.S. Naval Reserve unit had been called up to serve in Iraq. While eventually her orders changed — she's currently stationed at the U.S. Central Command, or Centcom, in Tampa, Fla. — her experience

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