Ounce VP to be honored by Chicago Foundation for Women

March 10, 2011

Bela Moté, the vice president of Bounce Network, an LLC of the Ounce of Prevention Fund, will be honored by the Chicago Foundation for Women on April 14. At the 8th Annual Breaking Barriers Awards Moté will be honored as one of five "Asian American Women Transforming Education."

At the Ounce, Moté works to cultivate and sustain relationships with various stakeholders, including philanthropic partners, to ensure strategic and successful expansion of the Educare model. Through a growing coast-to-coast network of state-of-the-art, full-day, year-round schools, funded mostly by existing public dollars, Educare serves at-risk children from birth to 5 years. Each school embraces a community's most vulnerable children with programming and instructional support that develop early skills and nurture the strong parent-child relationships that create the foundation for successful learning.



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