What We Know About the Obama Foundation, as Former President’s Plans Take Shape
The much-anticipated foundation is clearly still in planning mode. Experts estimate that it could take more than $1.5 billion alone to construct the Obama Presidential Center, which will include the foundation, presidential library, and museum, in the Jackson Park neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side.
“It will be interesting to see the direction that Obama goes once he establishes the library,” Daniel Borochoff, president of CharityWatch, a non-profit also based in Chicago, told RCL. “He will need time to figure out the course of the foundation. He’s a young man, so he will certainly be more active in the library and foundation than someone older.”
Two months after he left office, all eyes are still on what exactly will be keeping Obama active. On Feb. 24, the former president made headlines when he stopped in the Big Apple to speak with some folks at the Simons Foundation, rumored benefactors for the Obama Foundation.
The Obama Foundation has indicated its focus will be various projects throughout Chicago, the country, and the world, but the specifics are still unclear. Requests for comments from the foundation have gone unanswered, but the Obama.org website states that the Obama Foundation will be “a startup for citizenship — an ongoing project for us to shape, together, what it means to be a good citizen in the 21st century.”
The much-anticipated foundation is clearly still in planning mode. Experts estimate that it could take more than $1.5 billion alone to construct the Obama Presidential Center, which will include the foundation, presidential library, and museum, in the Jackson Park neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side.
“It will be interesting to see the direction that Obama goes once he establishes the library,” Daniel Borochoff, president of CharityWatch, a non-profit also based in Chicago, told RCL. “He will need time to figure out the course of the foundation. He’s a young man, so he will certainly be more active in the library and foundation than someone older.”
Two months after he left office, all eyes are still on what exactly will be keeping Obama active. On Feb. 24, the former president made headlines when he stopped in the Big Apple to speak with some folks at the Simons Foundation, rumored benefactors for the Obama Foundation.
The Obama Foundation has indicated its focus will be various projects throughout Chicago, the country, and the world, but the specifics are still unclear. Requests for comments from the foundation have gone unanswered, but the Obama.org website states that the Obama Foundation will be “a startup for citizenship — an ongoing project for us to shape, together, what it means to be a good citizen in the 21st century.”
