Ford Foundation Annaul Report 2001
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Ford Foundation Annual Report 2001 Ford Foundation Annual Report 2001 October 1, 2000 to September 30, 2001 Ford Foundation Offices Inside front cover 1 Mission Statement 3 President’s Message 18 Board of Trustees 18 Officers 19 Committees of the Board 20 Staff 25 The Foundation Responds to September 11 26 Program Approvals 27 Asset Building and Community Development 49 Peace and Social Justice 65 Education, Media, Arts and Culture 83 Grants and Projects, Fiscal Year 2001 Asset Building and Community Development Economic Development 84 Community and Resource Development 92 Human Development and Reproductive Health 105 Programwide 118 Program-Related Investments 119 Peace and Social Justice Human Rights and International Cooperation 120 Governance and Civil Society 136 Programwide 151 Education, Media, Arts and Culture Education, Knowledge and Religion 152 Media, Arts and Culture 163 Programwide 172 Foundationwide Actions 173 Good Neighbor Grants 175 177 Financial Review 193 Index Communications Library of Congress Back cover flap Card Number 52-43167 Guidelines for Grant Seekers ISSN: 0071-7274 Inside back cover flap April 2002 Ford Foundation Offices • MOSCOW { NEW YORK BEIJING • NEW DELHI • • MEXICO CITY • CAIRO • HANOI • MANILA • LAGOS • NAIROBI • JAKARTA RIODEJANEIRO • • JOHANNESBURG SANTIAGO • United States Africa and Middle East Asia Vietnam Andean Region and Suites 1502-1504 Southern Cone Headquarters Eastern Africa China 15th Floor 320 East 43rd Street International Club Chile Kenya Vietcombank Tower New York,New York Office Building Mariano Sanchez P.O. 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Our goals are to: ̈ Strengthen democratic values, ̈ Reduce poverty and injustice, ̈ Promote international cooperation and ̈ Advance human achievement This has been our purpose for more than half a century. A fundamental challenge facing every society is to create political, economic and social systems that promote peace, human welfare and the sustainability of the environment on which life depends. We believe that the best way to meet this challenge is to encourage initiatives by those living and working closest to where problems are located; to promote collaboration among the nonprofit, government and business sectors, and to ensure participation by men and women from diverse communities and at all levels of society. In our experience, such activities help build common understanding, enhance excellence, enable people to improve their lives and reinforce their commitment to society. The Ford Foundation is one source of support for these activities. We work mainly by making grants or loans that build knowledge and strengthen organizations and networks. Since our financial resources are modest in comparison with societal needs, we focus on a limited number of problem areas and program strategies within our broad goals. Founded in 1936, the foundation operated as a local philanthropy in the state of Michigan until 1950, when it expanded to become a national and international foundation. Since its inception it has been an indepen- dent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization. It has provided more than $10 billion in grants and loans. These funds derive from an investment portfolio that began with gifts and bequests of Ford Motor Company stock by Henry and Edsel Ford. The foundation no longer owns Ford Motor Company stock, and its diversified portfolio is managed to provide a perpetual source of support for the foundation’s programs and operations. The Trustees of the foundation set policy and delegate authority to the president and senior staff for the foundation’s grant making and operations. Program officers in the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Russia explore opportunities to pursue the foundation’s goals, formulate strategies and recommend proposals for funding. Graduate students supported by Néstor Velásquez, Melquíades I.F.P. fellowships at the Universidad Quintasi. All are studying for Mayor de San Simón (U.M.S.S.), master’s degrees in intercultural Cochabamba, Bolivia. From left: communications and bilingual Félix Tito, Elizabeth Uscamayta, education. Another I.F.P. fellow, Vidal Carbajal, Hipólito Peralta, Domingo Oñate,is not pictured. President’s Message In 2001 the Ford Foundation and the Institute for International Education (I.I.E.) launched the largest single initiative in the foundation’s history— the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (I.F.P.). This 10-year, $330 million program has two parts. Through the International Fellowships Fund (I.F.F.),a new entity established by Ford and I.I.E., the program will provide approximately 3,500 graduate fellowships for disadvantaged individuals with academic promise and proven leader- ship capacity, for study anywhere in the world for up to three years. Ford will also make complementary grants to strengthen overseas undergraduate institutions’ability to recruit and prepare traditionally excluded groups for opportunities of this sort. The I.F.P.responds to the world’s need for new generations of outstand- ing leaders with direct knowledge of some of their societies’worst problems and inequities, and a sense of moral urgency about them. Such leaders will need more than talent,good ideas and determination, crucial as these qualities are. Many will also need the analytic skills, social networks and know-how that can come from advanced profes- sional or interdisciplinary education, and from the diversity of thought and experience now found on many of the world’s university campuses. Because the I.F.P.uses a variety of innovative recruitment and selec- tion procedures to reach its target groups, and because fellowships can be such a crucial strategy for personal and national development, 3 I want to describe what the I.F.P.’s first year has involved. The program seeks academically talented men and women who would not normally have the opportunity for graduate study,whether because of geographic isolation, family poverty or discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, physical disability or other factors. The I.F.P.’s dual focus on talent and social exclusion, combined with the freedom to study anywhere in the world, was noted by experts in each country as nearly unique and challenging to implement. A decentralized operation and partnerships with experienced regional, national and international organizations have been key to addressing the challenges. In each location, three organizations combined forces to make the program work as intended: the I.F.F., its local partner organization, and a local Ford Foundation office (see table on page 4). IFP International Partners February 2002 Ford Foundation overseas offices (see inside front cover) collaborated with the following local and regional organizations to develop and operate the Interna- tional Fellowships Program in 21 countries around the world. Asia China Institute of International Education (IIE) www.china-ifp.org India United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) www.ifpsa.org Indonesia Indonesian International Education Foundation (IIEF) www.iie.org/iie/iief Philippines Philippines Social Science Council (PSSC) www.philsocsci.org Vietnam Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN) [email protected] Africa West Africa: The Association of African Universities (AAU) Ghana, Nigeria www.aau.org/ifp and Senegal East Africa: Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) Kenya,Tanzania www.iucea.org/scholarships/Scholarships.html and Uganda Southern Africa: Africa-America Institute (AAI) Mozambique and www.aaisa.org.za South Africa North Africa and America-Mideast Educational and Training Services the Middle East: (AMIDEAST) Egypt and Palestine www.amideast.org Latin America 4 Andes and Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Southern Cone: www.programabecas.org Chile and Peru Brazil Carlos Chagas Foundation (CCF) www.programabolsa.org.br Mexico and Institute of International Education (IIE) Guatemala [email protected] Mexico Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) www.ciesas.edu.mx/bibdf/ciesas-ford/home.html Guatemala Center for Research on the Mesoamerica Region (CIRMA) www.cirma.net/becas.htm Russia Institute of International Education (IIE) www.iie.ru/IFP Ford Foundation Annual Report 2001 Outreach and selection processes combined knowledge of best prac- tices as well as new techniques designed to find hidden talent. In Vietnam, for example, nominators sought out women and ethnic minority people known to be good students and social innovators, particularly those involved in rural economic and social development.