History
EARN was founded in 2001 by a group of prominent individuals and organizations, including financier F. Warren Hellman, California State Senator Mark Leno, Bob Friedman, former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and San Francisco County Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg, and Saundra Hernandez, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation. Ben Mangan, EARN’s current President and CEO, is also a co-founder of the organization.
The organization was the 2005 winner of the Fast Company Magazine/Monitor Group Social Capitalist of the Year Award and was named one of the ten finalists for the Amazon.com Non Profit Innovation Award that same year. In 2008, EARN was among the winners of the Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.
EARN’s work has been featured in national media outlets including TIME Magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR. The organization has been singled out for praise by former San Francisco Mayor and current California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.
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