Complex sentence: The Center grew out of a research project conducted in 2002 by a division of ShoreBank on behalf of the Ford Foundation to examine the gap between supply and demand of financial services for low-income consumers as well as potential strategies to close it.
Split into simpler sentences: The Center grew out of a research project conducted in 2002 by a division of ShoreBank on behalf of the Ford Foundation. It examined the gap between supply and demand of financial services for low-income consumers as well as potential strategies to close it.