Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Ford’s Darren Walker Writes About Why Foundations Need to Pay Attention to What Grantees Are Saying
At the Ford Foundation, we are committed to disrupting and dismantling inequality in all of its forms.
Yet we constantly are confronted with an unfortunate irony: All too often, the very partnerships we’ve established in our efforts to eliminate inequality end up being unequal themselves.
Foundations currently hold an inordinate amount of leverage in any grantmaker-grantee relationship. This imbalance forces many organizations we fund to focus on short-term projects, to spend valuable resources accounting for how they use our support, and to hold our priorities above their own...