Wharton MBA Alumnus Eric Adler (WG'96) is co-founder and managing director of The SEED Foundation, which was recently featured on CBS's 60 Minutes. Click here to watch the video.
The SEED Foundation is a national nonprofit that partners with urban communities to provide innovative educational opportunities that prepare underserved students for success in college and beyond. The SEED Foundation is a catalyst for change in urban education: it developed the SEED boarding school model and opened its first school, The SEED School of Washington, D.C., in 1998. The SEED Foundation opened its second school in Maryland in August 2008.
Mr. Adler taught high school physics for eight years and was dean of students at St. Paul's School in Baltimore, before earning an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Adler has been a management consultant to Fortune 500 clients, the principal of an investment advisory firm and an adjunct faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University Graduate Division of Business and Management. He is a graduate of the Sidwell Friends School and of Swarthmore College, where he earned degrees in engineering and economics. Mr. Adler is an Echoing Green fellow and was named a Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine. He serves on the boards of Swarthmore College and the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust. He is a 2001 recipient of the Manhattan Institute’s Outstanding Social Entrepreneurship Award and received an Oprah Winfrey “Use Your Life” Award. He is also a recipient of the Innovations in American Government Award from the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and is a multi-year recipient of Fast Company/Monitor Group’s Social Capitalist Award.
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