My Brother's Keeper Merges with Obama Foundation

Former President Barack Obama’s key signature program for at-risk young men of color -- spun off from his White House in 2015 as a nonprofit group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance -- will merge with his Obama Foundation. The merger and the mission make sense for the foundation, headquartered in Hyde Park in Chicago’s Southside. MBK Alliance board members include John Rogers, the chairman and CEO of Ariel Investments, who is also on the Obama Foundation board; Broderick Johnson, Former Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary and MBK Alliance Board Chair; Robert Raben of The Raben Group; new Starbucks COO Rosalind Brewer; and Arne Duncan, Obama’s former Education Secretary who last week was tapped to be the co-chair of the new, unnamed development organization created to leverage the economic impact of the Obama Center for its surrounding neighborhoods, among others. See full board here.