[NOTE: This is the August 2010 installment of the National Center for Family Philanthropy's "On the Phone With" interview series. Each month, NCFP shares a short audio conversation with family philanthropists and leaders from around the country.]

Robert Friedman is the general counsel, founder and chair of CFED, and serves as a board member of the Friedman Family Foundation, Levi Strauss & Co., the Rosenberg Foundation, and Ecotrust.Since 1979, Friedman has worked with CFED to foster widely shared and sustainable economic well-being by promoting asset-building and economic opportunity strategies that bring together community practice, public policy and private markets in new and effective ways. In 2009, CFED launched the American Dream Match Fund, an initiative to connect individual donors willing to match the savings of low-income working families saving for education, business, and home ownership.

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