IRD Adds Harold D. Cranston to Board of Directors

Washington, DC — December 3, 2007 — IRD announced today that Harold D. Cranston, a San Francisco-based businessman and entrepreneur, will join the organization's Board of Directors.

“The Board of Directors - and the entire organization - is so pleased to have Harold join us,” said IRD President and CEO Dr. Arthur B. Keys, Jr. “Given IRD's phenomenal growth in the past few years, his wealth of experience and business operations knowledge will be invaluable.”

Mr. Cranston is currently owner and president of Cranston Investments, LLC, a real estate management, development and private equity investment firm. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Cranston served as Chief Operating Officer and Company Director for ServiceMaster, formerly LandCare USA, and as owner and president of Four Seasons Landscape and Maintenance, Inc.

Mr. Cranston also serves on the St. Ignatius Preparatory Board of Regents, as well as the boards of the Yosemite Fund, Episcopal Charities, and St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco. He received both his associate's and master's in business administration from Stanford University.

Founded in 1998 by Dr. Arthur B. Keys, Jr., IRD is a charitable, non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to reduce the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable groups and provide tools and resources needed to increase their self-sufficiency.

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