Subject: Re: FW: Organizational win!
From: Byron Auguste <[email-masked]>
To: Heather Boushey <[email-masked]>
Cc: John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Steve Daetz <[email-masked]>, Ira Fishman <[email-masked]>, Herb Sandler <[email-masked]>, Susan Sandler <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:09:06 -0400

Heather,

Thanks for sharing this.  Congratulations to you and the team.

Building a reputation for a great experience for Equitable Growth grantees
will be a real asset in attracting the most compelling research talent to
EG's network.  Well done!

Byron

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On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Heather Boushey <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I wanted to share this note from Korin on our grants program for 2015 —
> what a difference a year makes! Her and Elisabeth have done a fantastic job
> making this program into something top notch and I think this is very
> brag-worthy.
>
> We’ll be focused in the next few months on making sure that as we become
> independent, we’re able to continue to hit the mark on our grant making to
> the same standards we’ve achieved this year.
>
> Best,
> Heather
>
> From: Korin Davis <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 2:12 PM
> To: Heather Boushey <[email-masked]>, Elisabeth Jacobs <
> [email-masked]>, Ed Paisley <[email-masked]>,
> John Schmitt <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Bridget Ansel <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Organizational win!
>
> Hello All,
>
>
>
> I wanted to share what I think is a big organizational win (although
> unfortunately not external brag email worthy). As of this week, 13 out of
> our 24 grantees have been paid *before the due date!*  As for the
> remaining 10, all the hold-ups are with the grantees’ home institutions, or
> the grantees themselves. (The remaining one is Nate Jensen, whose grant is
> being administered by Kauffman and which is moving along on track.)
>  Equitable Growth and CAP’s systems are working!
>
>
>
> I found that heartening.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> KD
>
>
>
> Korin Davis *|* Academic Programs Manager
>
> Washington Center for Equitable Growth
>
> [email-masked]*|* 202.545.3343
>
>
>