Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

Friday, April 29, 2016

Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

The Ford Foundation named Kathy Reich as director of a new foundation initiative to help strengthen institutions and networks critical to social movements.

Reich currently serves as director of organizational effectiveness and philanthropy at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She has been with Packard since 2001, earlier serving as policy analyst and program officer for early education programs inCalifornia.

Reich will guide the foundation's BUILD efforts in the United States and across its 10 global offices to implement sector-leading approaches to supporting the sustainability, vitality, and effectiveness of organizations and networks that serve as pillars of broader social movements...