For Immediate Release: April 5, 2012

Contact: Blair FitzGibbon 202-503-6141

Sara Gould, Former President of the Ms. Foundation for Women, Joins Caring Across Generations New York, NY April 1, 2012. Sara K. Gould, former president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and most recently the Atlantic Philanthropies Senior Fellow at the Foundation Center, has joined the staff of Caring Across Generations Campaign. As the campaignassociate director and director of the Care Fund, she will work with the national coalition and its partners to strengthen the nations long-term care system by changing how the country supports the aging population and peoplewith disabilities. The campaign is moving federal, state and local legislation that improves conditions for both home care workers and those who receive services. We are changing the way our nation cares for people, Gould said of the campaign. We are working to ensure that seniors, people with disabilities, and the workers who support them to stay in theirhomes and communities, all have respect and dignity. Working with the campaign is a natural next step for Ms. Gould, a recognized thought leader, trusted expert, and frequent speaker in the areas of womens economic security, advocacy and public policy, social justice philanthropy, and organizational effectiveness. My work has always focused on increasing economic security for women, particularly women working every day in low-wage jobs with few or no benefits. As a nation, we now have both the opportunity and the need to create 2 million new jobs in the care industry Gould said. As the independent and innovative Baby Boomer generation continues to age, we will need workers to provide care and the support to enable them to remain independent. Just as importantly, those workers will need the protections that all workers deserve. We on the campaign are not only excited about the expertise that Sara is bringing with her, we are honored to have a woman who has dedicated so many years to uplifting other women, said Ai-Jen Poo, co-director of Caring Across Generations. Sara is the perfect fit for this campaign. In her recent fellowship at the Foundation Center, Ms. Gould undertook research and other activities to increase the philanthropic sector's focus on social justice philanthropy. She authored Diminishing Dollars: The Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Field of Social Justice Philanthropy a report released in the Fall of 2011 revealing that a small but important subset of grantmakers those who work on issues ranging from human rights to environmental justice has been disproportionately impacted by the global financial crisis, and its recovery remains in jeopardy. She also played a leadership role in the Progressive Public Foundations Project, a collaborative effort of progressive public foundations in the US to define their shared challenges and opportunities and identify individual and collective actions to strengthen the fields impact.

While president of the Ms. Foundation, Ms. Gouldexpanded the foundation's grantmaking directed at organizations creating meaningful connections across issues, movements, constituencies, and geographies to engage more women and men in working for positive and sustainable change in both public policy and the broader culture. She also established the Katrina Women's Response Fund immediately after the levees broke in New Orleans, which granted nearly $3 million in Louisiana and Mississippi to organizations building the leadership of women of color and low-income women to impact the recovery and rebuilding process. Early in her tenure at the Ms. Foundation, Ms. Gould spearheaded the creation of the Collaborative Fund for Women's Economic Development, a pioneering initiative that leveraged more than $12 million to support organizations assisting low-income women to create their own jobs, while engaging both funding partners and grantee organizations in a learning and evaluation process essential to advancing the field of women's microenterprise development. Ms. Gould holds a Masters degree in city and regional planning from Harvard University and a Bachelor's degree in political science from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. She currently serves on the board of directors of the National Immigration Law Center and the Proteus Fund, and on the Steering Committee of the Opportunity Agenda. About Caring Across Generations Campaign The Caring Across Generations campaign is mobilizing home care workers, people with disabilities, seniors, and all those who care about them to change the way our country cares for and supports those who need home care workers or care at home. Caring Across Generations is focusing on five areas: expanding worker rights and increasing job quality for home care providers, most of whom are women; expanding public funding for home care providers; creating 2 million new jobs; ending the trend toward institutionalizing seniors and people with disabilities, instead maintaining them in their homes with dignity and respect; and creating a path to citizenship for immigrant home care workers.