Initial Funding From Ford Foundation, New York Community Trust Supports New Council on Criminal Justice
Release Date:
07/23/2019
New justice group aims to provide ‘Center of Gravity’ for reform.
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A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role, Study Funded by Ford Foundation Finds
Release Date:
07/22/2019
Reactive oxygen species associated with cellular damage actually aid photosynthesis, according to study.
24
Oct
2019
The Capacity Building Blind Spot: What’s Holding NYC Nonprofits Back?
Thursday, October 24, 2019 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Every year, the nonprofits we support are forced to choose. Do they budget more for program or budget to invest in growth of their small donor or fee-for-service programs? What they ultimately are choosing between is performing more program work...
Ford Foundation Appoints Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode to Board of Trustees
Release Date:
06/20/2019
The Ford Foundation announced today that Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode have been elected to serve as members of its Board of Trustees.
Ford Foundation Appoints Diane Samuels as Vice President for Talent and Human Resources
Release Date:
06/13/2019
The Ford Foundation announced today that Diane Samuels will serve as vice president for Talent and Human Resources.
Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation Honored at Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary
Release Date:
06/10/2019
The evening celebrated Sesame Street 's 50-year history of helping kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder.
Hilton, Ford Foundations Help Support Research for New Report: The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth
Release Date:
05/16/2019
New report calls for policies and practices to promote positive adolescent development and close the opportunity gap.
28
May
2019
Technology, Inequality and the Future of Work(ers)
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Technology has arrived and is rapidly changing the workplace at a magnitude that we have yet to fully grasp. From a projected 36 million American jobs facing "high exposure" to automation, to new jobs being created, to the changing relationship...
A Consequential Myth
Release Date:
04/09/2019
Race is a fictive idea that holds real-life consequences. As a black man, who has a six-foot-and-three-inch-tall presence, I am intimately familiar with the tangibility of the myth. Although many anthropologist and geneticists have disproved any...
Ford Foundation Appoints Nishka Chandrasoma as Vice President and General Counsel
Release Date:
04/04/2019
The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Nishka Chandrasoma as its next vice president, secretary, and general counsel of the foundation.
Every New Yorker Deserves to Be Counted
Release Date:
04/02/2019
NYS Census Equity Funders group sourced a video to advocate for every New Yorker in the upcoming 2020 Census.
Ford Foundation Contributes to Preservation of Hemingway's Works with New Restoration Center in Cuba
Release Date:
03/31/2019
Ford Foundation Contributes to Preservation of Hemingway's Works with New Restoration Center in Cuba A restoration center to preserve the work of Ernest Hemingway opened in Cuba on Saturday, highlighting an area of cooperation with...
Building on #MeToo, Foundations Look to Change Workplaces in the U.S. and Around the World
Release Date:
03/19/2019
Feeling safe at work is not something many people, especially women, can take for granted—a fact strongly tied to men’s tendency to mistreat women in many cultures. Women’s safety at work in the U.S. and around the world is the initial focus of a...
09
May
2019
Newsrooms & Philanthropy: Is There a Shared Playbook for Impact and Social Change?
Thursday, May 9, 2019 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Journalism can be a powerful tool and information source for funders seeking to amplify the causes they are investing in. But how can funders evaluate these investments, consider investment in media alongside other programmatic grants, and better...
Ford Foundation to Support Ongoing Work of Generation Indigenous Response Fund
Release Date:
02/21/2019
Native Americans in Philanthropy is proud to announce that it has received a $450,000 grant from Ford Foundation to support the Generation Indigenous Response Fund (#GenIndigenous Fund), a pooled fund housed at The Minneapolis Foundation that...
Henry Ford III Elected to Ford Foundation's Board of Trustees
Release Date:
02/25/2019
The Ford Foundation has elected Henry Ford III as a board member. He is the great-grandson of Edsel Ford, who created the foundation in 1936. It is the first time in more than 40 years that a Ford family member serves as a trustee.
Ford Foundation to Open Gallery for Socially Engaged Art in New York
Release Date:
02/13/2019
Next month, the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice will open an art gallery in its iconic Midtown headquarters, which just underwent a two-year renovation
Centering Disability Justice
Release Date:
02/06/2019
Two years ago, the President of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker, penned a blog entitled, “Ignorance is the enemy within: On the power of our privilege, and the privilege of our power” committing the Ford Foundation to consider the voices and...
Ford Foundation Appoints Maria Torres-Springer As Next Vice President for US Programs
Release Date:
02/01/2019
The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Maria Torres-Springer as its next vice president for US programs. She will join the foundation in May, succeeding Xavier de Souza Briggs, who has served as vice president for five years and...
$4 Million From Ford, Mellon, and Alice Walton Fund Goes to Promote Diversity on Museum Boards
Release Date:
01/15/2019
A board-member matching service to identify and train candidates of color — and assess groups’ readiness to engage people of different backgrounds — will be key to change.