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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 'Ivanka Fund' drops Ivanka
LONDON Ivanka Trump, daughter of the United States president, will have no official role in the so-called Ivanka Fund for women entrepreneurs, World Bank officials told Devex, despite earlier suggestions that she could.Ms. Trumps role in the creation of the World Bank-administered facility officially known as the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, or We-Fi has been controversial. The bank has previously suggested she would be a figurehead for the fund, and delegates at the recent Chatham House 2017 International Policy Forum, which was attended by World Bank officials, told Devex there had been talk of a possible board position for Ms. Trump. However, it would be unprecedented for a World Bank financial intermediary fund such as We-Fi which has so far raised $325 million from 13 government donors to include a White House official in a governance or fundraising role.
Ms. Trump currently works in the White House as adviser to the U.S. president in an unpaid federal capacity. She developed the idea for the fund alongside the World Bank, and is reported to have been instrumental in securing commitments to it from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates both controversial for their track record on womens rights during an official trip to the Gulf in May. She also recently posted on her Facebook page about high-level talks on the fund. But officials now say she will play no formal role.
The fund aims to leverage $325 million raised from donors into more than $1 billion in financing to improve women entrepreneurs access to capital, provide them with technical assistance, and invest in projects and programs that support women and women-led small to medium sized enterprises in World Bank Group recipient countries.
Officials told Devex that the fund will launch at the World Bank annual meetings in October, with the first awards to be released in early 2018.
https://www.devex.com/news/the-ivanka-fund-drops-ivanka-90706
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The 'Ivanka Fund' drops Ivanka (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2017
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Wounded Bear
(58,771 posts)1. Anybody surprised? Really?
That might entail, for lack of a better term, work.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)2. So now they're just going to be known as "The Fund"?
TheBlackAdder
(28,246 posts)3. The new name will be, "Go F Me!"
C_U_L8R
(45,033 posts)4. Persona non grata
Gothmog
(145,821 posts)5. How do your get fired from your own charity?
Skittles
(153,271 posts)6. the idea that snobby, entitled rich gal thinks she can talk for working women