WASHINGTON — The Barack Obama Foundation added three board members on Thursday, all big donors, as President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle face the daunting challenge of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to construct and endow their museum and library.
The new board members are Michael Sacks, John Rogers Jr. and Robert Wolf, all with close ties to Obama.
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Sacks and Rogers, who are enormously active in a variety of Chicago philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, also will help figure out how the Obama Center, to be constructed on the South Side, will fit into the civic fabric of Chicago.
The board of the foundation, with headquarters in Hyde Park, expands to 10 as the Obamas’ are stepping up their post-presidential planning in the final months of Obama’s second term.
On Wednesday, during a question-and-answer session with kids whose folks work in the White House, Michelle Obama was asked how she was going to keep Let’s Move! and her other initiatives going.
The new board members are Michael Sacks, John Rogers Jr. and Robert Wolf, all with close ties to Obama.
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Sacks and Rogers, who are enormously active in a variety of Chicago philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, also will help figure out how the Obama Center, to be constructed on the South Side, will fit into the civic fabric of Chicago.
The board of the foundation, with headquarters in Hyde Park, expands to 10 as the Obamas’ are stepping up their post-presidential planning in the final months of Obama’s second term.
On Wednesday, during a question-and-answer session with kids whose folks work in the White House, Michelle Obama was asked how she was going to keep Let’s Move! and her other initiatives going.
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