When the Ford Foundation shifted its grantmaking to focus on inequality in 2015, it did so with a sweeping vision of tackling inequality in "all its forms." That broad approach has meant that Ford remains engaged across many areas, including grant
TUNE IN to a brand new episode of NBC's "The Give" to watch Sterling K. Brown and Brotherhood Crusade Youth featured for Black History Month!
The key to understanding this moment in American history—in black history—is empathy.
That's what Darren Walker is saying. One could argue that if anyone is positioned to understand this dizzying landscape, he is.
Dear Colleagues,
Dear Colleagues,
There's been a lot of attention lately to foundations promoting equity after decades of rising inequality. But one thread of this shift drawing less notice is how these funders are also giving more attention to capacity building.
Mountains of new wealth have been created in the entertainment industry over recent decades, thanks to globalization and technological change.
I'm pleased to introduce our first guest blogger, Daniel Heimpel of Fostering Media Connections. From time to time, I'll be using my President's Blog platform to lift up the voices of leaders in the philanthropy sector and beyond.
Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, the nation’s second-largest philanthropy, spoke with candor and passion about diversity, inequality and privilege and its impact on society at an Oct. 3 event at Rice.
Dear Colleagues,