Jean Case

Laura Bush announces a $60 million partnership between the U.S. government and the Case Foundation at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York on Sept. 20, 2006. With her, from left, are: Ray Chambers , Chairman, MCJ and Amelier Foundations; former President Bill Clinton ; and Jean Case and Steve Case . Bush and Laura Bush, during a briefing on volunteerism at the White House on Feb. 13, 2007. With Jean Case, chair of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, and Bob Goodwin, president and CEO of Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National Network .¹ Case (born 1959) is CEO of the Case Foundation , which she and her husband, AOL co-founder Steve Case , created in 1997.² In June 2006 she was appointed by President Bush to chair the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation . She is also chair of PlayPumps International . In 2007, Case was asked by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as a co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership to promote economic opportunity for the Palestinian people, prepare Palestinian youth for the responsibilities of citizenship and good governance, and marshal new private investment in the West Bank . Case is a board member of Malaria No More , a New York-based nonprofit that was launched at the December 2006 White House Summit to end all deaths caused by malaria . She also serves on the boards of Points of Light/Hands On Network, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), ePals, Brainscope, Miraval Resort , National Geographic Ventures and The Potomac School , as well as on the advisory council of the National Geographic Society and the advisory board to the National Council on Citizenship. Wackes (who had worked for The Source)... : Check date values in: |date= ( help ) National Geographic Society: About Us - Council of Advisors: Jean N.³