Ford Foundation Program Helped Advance Social Justice, Study Finds
A $420 million Ford Foundation program that funded the advanced education of social justice leaders from marginalized groups led to significant positive change in communities and organizations around the world, a report from the Institute of International Education finds.
The report, Social Justice and Sustainable Change: The Impact of Higher Education (36 pages, PDF), evaluated the impact of the International Fellowships Program, which supported graduate-level education for more than forty-three hundred emerging social justice leaders from twenty-two countries between 2001 and 2013, with the goal of giving emerging leaders the tools to succeed in their studies and improve conditions in their communities upon returning home...