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Article: Center for Young Women's Development Wins National Ford Foundation Award; Lateefah Simon, Executive Director, Receives ``Leadership for a Changing World'' Award.
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- January 28, 2002
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2002
The Center for Young Women's Development (www.cywd.org) today announced that its executive director received a "Leadership for a Changing World" award from the Ford Foundation. Lateefah Simon is one of 20 awardees selected from a pool of more than 3,000 nominations nationwide.
The twenty-five-year-old Simon was first approached by an outreach worker from CYWD at the age of 17. She soon accepted an entry-level position with CYWD and was promoted several times until being appointed executive director in 1997.
"I know firsthand what life on the streets is like," stated Simon, ...