Ford Foundation's Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy
Release Date:
06/30/2017
It’s one of the most loved ideas in American life. Perhaps, though, it should be one of the most resented.
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Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking
Release Date:
06/29/2017
It’s time to end Potemkin philanthropy that builds the façade of successful organizations that, in fact, teeter on the brink of collapse. We believe there is a better way—one that supports strong programs and strong organizations.
Ford Foundation Appoints Ai-jen Poo to Board of Trustees
Release Date:
06/19/2017
The Ford Foundation announced the appointment of Ai-jen Poo to serve as a member of its Board of Trustees. As a well-established advocate for women, immigrants, and low-wage workers, Poo is currently the director of the National Domestic Workers...
Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund
Release Date:
06/12/2017
Agnes Gund is partnering with the Ford Foundation, in the creation of a new fund, titled the Art for Justice Fund, and has sold a very valuable painting to kickoff the fundraising. She has asked other collectors to do the same, in the hopes of...
Wallace, Ford, and Mellon on Strategies that Boost Arts Engagement Across Diverse Communities
Release Date:
06/09/2017
The foundations weigh in on the challenges and strategies in reaching a diverse audiences and using art to build positive, relevant, and inspiring forces in the daily lives of diverse communities.
Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted
Release Date:
06/07/2017
Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals
Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting
Release Date:
06/05/2017
GroundTruth has a fellowship program to support journalists in all media, including photographers, documentary filmmakers, radio reporters and podcasters. To date, the project has granted about 150 fellowships of varying durations and dollar amounts.
Pop Culture Collaborative Accepting Applications for 'Pop-Up' Grants
Release Date:
06/05/2017
Applicants sought for rapid response grants that are available on a rolling basis throughout the year for any individual, organization or company working to harness the power of pop culture to create just, authentic narratives of people of color,...
Ford Foundation Hires Detroit Native, Kevin Ryan, as Program Officer for its New Detroit Office
Release Date:
05/31/2017
Ford Foundation opens a Detroit office after 64-year hiatus and hires Detroit native and New York Foundation staffer as program officer.
Ford Foundation to Open First Detroit Office In 64 Years
Release Date:
05/31/2017
The Ford Foundation is getting ready to open its first office in Detroit since leaving the city in 1953 as it ramps up an initiative to invest in affordable housing in Detroit.
Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss
Release Date:
05/24/2017
Female vampire bats form friendships with non-family-member bats, and researchers have discovered that those unrelated friends are important backup support when family members go missing. "Is it better to have a few strong social bonds or a greater...
Why the Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People—and How They Did It
Release Date:
05/19/2017
The foundation’s work with BPI also aligns with our support for fair chance hiring policies and other efforts to eliminate barriers to employment for people with conviction records...
Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island
Release Date:
05/15/2017
The NYC jail is a microcosm of everything wrong with America’s criminal-justice system—but may also offer a model for how it can be righted.
Alarming Number of Young Girls in Mexico Are Forced to Marry, Ford-Funded Report Finds
Release Date:
05/04/2017
Nearly 25,000 girls aged between 12 and 14 are living in "early unions." Hundreds of thousands of young girls in Mexico are being forced into marriages with older men, a new report reveals.
Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women
Release Date:
05/04/2017
Women for Afghan Women (WAW), which describes itself as a “grassroots, civil society organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York,” has backing from NY foundations...
Ford Foundation Supports GenForward Survey on Young Americans' Perceptions of Trump
Release Date:
04/21/2017
That Trump is undeniably the nation’s 45th president doesn’t sit easily with young Americans like Anderson who are the nation’s increasingly diverse electorate of the future, according to a new poll.
NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing
Release Date:
04/17/2017
Last week, the foundation announced that it would commit $1 billion to investments that “earn not only attractive financial returns but concrete social returns as well,” as it said in a news release.
Behind the Billion: The Ford Foundation and Mission-Related Investments
Release Date:
04/13/2017
Xavier de Souza Briggs , the foundation’s vice president for Economic Opportunity and Markets, discusses the foundation's work on mission-related investments with Lenora Suki , head of sustainable finance product...
Why Ford Foundation’s $1B Announcement Matters More Than You Think, and the Blind Spot of Two-Pocket Thinking
Release Date:
04/07/2017
“Two-pocket thinking” is the idea that “what we do for a living” and “what we really care about” live in entirely separate spheres. Two-pocket thinking is everywhere, it’s easy to understand, and it’s wrong.
Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and Others Launch $14M Fund To Support News Integrity
Release Date:
04/03/2017
Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and others help launch $14M global News Integrity Initiative administered by CUNY to improve online news literacy.