Ford Foundation 70 Years: Delivering on a Promise to Advance Human

1936 how the foundation can best 1953 sciences. By 1956, 63 research students direct experience in Stabilization program, which affordable housing, job SOCIAL INVESTING SCHOLARSHIPS 1973 worldwide. ShoreBank has Defense and Education Fund future generations of lawyers, use its new resources to fulfill grants are awarded, including poverty-related legal issues. poverty reduction provides incentives for per- training and social services. The foundation introduces FOR MINORITIES women’s A NEW KIND grown to $1.5 billion in assets to promote gender equality participate in academic human rights its charter. grants to anthropologists Further grants support the forming arts groups to build As of 2006, an estimated “program-related investments,” Ford establishes a program OF BANK with affiliates throughout and prohibit gender-based exchanges and promote long- Margaret Mead and Claude National Defender Project, long-term economic stability. 4,600 CDCs are operating in or PRIs, in which endowment of doctoral fellowships for the United States and projects discrimination. In addition, term legal change. Subsequent The foundation finances Lévi-Strauss. which establishes legal Some 30 years later, the foun- the United States. funds are invested directly in African-American students rights around the world. Ford supports the Internation- support addresses reforms in the creation of what is now 1950 services programs across the dation introduces the New Di- income-generating projects and faculty, the start of a al Women’s Health Coalition’s criminal justice and adminis- ShoreBank Corporation, GAITHER REPORT research United States and introduces rections/New Donors program with social purposes, to be paid SESAME STREET long commitment to scholar- efforts to ensure that women trative law. With the opening 1971 one of the first community 1976 The panel’s recommendations in israel the “public defender” concept. to further strengthen cultural 1968 back over time like loans. By The Children’s Television ships for minorities. In the gain access to reproductive of an office in Beijing in 1988, development banks in the A MOVEMENT founded for the foundation’s future are Ford’s support enables the Ford goes on to provide sup- organizations nationwide. 2007, the foundation has com- Workshop receives grant early 1970’s, the foundation health care services worldwide. grants support economic United States. Serving busi- FOR WOMEN The Ford Foundation is char- unanimously approved by the Israel Foundations Trustees port to a number of public mitted some $400 million for support for its efforts to edu- initiates a six-year, $100 mil- policy research, environment 2000 2004 2005 2006 STUDYING THE FIRST nesses, individuals, nonprofits Reflecting some 20 years of tered in Michigan by Edsel trustees, led by Henry II. The to conduct research on how interest law and legal services social investments, and thou- cate preschoolers, including lion program to strengthen and development, education POPULATION SCHOLARSHIPS and faith-based organiza- foundation support for global Ford, with an initial gift of panel advises that the founda- Israel’s human and natural groups into the 1990’s. 1966 sands of donors now use PRIs a new 26-week series entitled private, historically black 1979 reform, international relations The foundation helps develop Ford helps establish the tions located in low-income women’s empowerment and $25,000 to be used “all for the tion become a national and resources can best be used in WOMEN’S HEALTH to advance philanthropic work. “Sesame Street.” colleges and universities and and reproductive health. the field of demography with Center for Advanced Study in communities, it has become a health, Ford provides assis- public welfare.” international philanthropy the country’s development. The foundation supports to provide graduate fellow- grants to the Population the Behavioral Sciences and model for community devel- tance to the National Orga- dedicated to reducing poverty, Grants to the institution research in the reproductive ships for minorities. Today, Reference Bureau and later the later makes a series of grants EQUAL UNDER opment finance institutions nization for Women’s Legal promoting democratic values, continue over 30 years. sciences, contraceptive devel- this work continues as the Population Council. to scholars in the behavioral THE LAW 1940 striving for peace and building opment and contraceptive Ford Foundation Diversity Foundation President civil rights edison institute educational capacities and un- safety, through its extensive Fellowships. Delivering McGeorge Bundy increases 1979 ENSURING PROMISES ARE KEPT The foundation makes a derstanding of human conduct. 1958 funding of clinics and labora- grants to civil rights groups The foundation initiates support for an infrastructure of $1.1 million grant to the 1964 THE GREEN revolution tories, as well as the Planned making the case innovation HUMAN from 2.5 percent of annual international human rights groups such as the Lawyers Edison Institute—one in a peace and justice The foundation commits funds to agricultural develop- Parenthood Federation of 1970 The Women’s Law Fund of COMMUNITY IMAGINATION giving in 1960 to 36.5 percent Committee for Human Rights (now known as Human on a promise series—that helps build 1951 ment programs on three continents. Later, Ford forms a America and the American Cleveland is founded to help REVITALIZATION A major program of in 1968. A significant number Rights First), the International Human Rights Law Group this national museum of PUBLIC partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation to establish Public Health Association. litigate gender discrimination Ford helps establish the Local fellowships in the creative arts of grants are directed to the (now known as Global Rights) and Physicians for Human American innovation and BROADCASTING agricultural research centers in Mexico, Colombia, cases and paves the way for Initiatives Support Corpora- STRIDES IN DANCE includes painter Josef Albers NAACP Legal Defense and Rights. During this time, Ford also helps establish Helsinki to advance resourcefulness. Now known The foundation begins its sup- Nigeria and the Philippines, building the foundation for foundation support to tion, a national organization The foundation has seen some and writers James Baldwin, Educational Fund for civil Watch to monitor international compliance with the as the Henry Ford Museum, it port of public broadcasting by the Green Revolution—the introduction of high-yielding 1967 organizations such as the dedicated to revitalizing low- 60 dance companies attain Saul Bellow, E. E. Cummings rights litigation. human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Agreement, provides unique educational funding the Radio-Television varieties of crops that dramatically improved food National Women’s Law Center, income, distressed communi- greater financial security. New and Flannery O’Connor. which linked economic and scientific cooperation with human welfare experiences based on authen- Workshop, which produces LINCOLN CENTER production in developing nations. the Center for Reproductive ties. Other urban and rural grants are made to, among demonstrated progress on human rights. By 1988, tic objects, stories and lives several program series be- The foundation commits Law & Policy and the ACLU’s revitalization work involves others, the Twyla Tharp Dance 1969 Helsinki Watch expands its work to cover other regions from America’s traditions and tween 1951 and 1956 such as Women’s Rights Project. the Enterprise Foundation Foundation, the North $25 million to build and 1960 of the world and soon evolves into Human Rights Watch, contains an extensive collec- “Omnibus.” In addition, Ford operate Lincoln Center. The 1965 NEIGHBORHOOD and local development funds Carolina Dance Theatre and which continues to receive foundation support. tion of Americana. helps develop local public tele- landmark performing arts SAFETY and banks that help develop cooperative marketing efforts vision stations and educational institution was one of the first Support goes to organizations 1972 leadership, business and by five major modern dance channels; funds innovative in the United States to bring RENEWING that research, monitor and ENERGY POLICY housing in low-income areas. groups: Alvin Ailey, Merce funded organization, address 1947 programming and experimen- together venues for all of the COMMUNITIES improve law enforcement and The foundation establishes Cunningham, José Limón, the connections between GROWTH AND tation in the field; sets forth a 1954 JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA major performing arts and is A grant to New York’s the administration of justice. the Energy Policy Project to 1976 EARLY MICROFINANCE Murray Louis and Alwin welfare and work and the OPPORTUNITY plan for a domestic commu- In an effort to promote understanding between the now home to 12 independent Bedford-Stuyvesant Restora- 1968 FIGHTING DISCRIMINATION Recipients include the Police broaden understanding of The foundation’s Bangladesh office makes a grant to the Nikolais. link between employment Henry Ford II, Edsel’s eldest nications satellite system; and United States and South Africa, grants support exchange and autonomous resident tion Corporation to revitalize DANCE THEATRE To create a broad civil rights network, the foundation Foundation, created in 1970 the factors contributing to University of Chittagong’s Economics Department and and youth development. son, assumes leadership of supports the establishment programs in education, business and journalism. In the companies. OVERTURE TO the disadvantaged Brooklyn OF HARLEM supports the founding of new civil rights groups over with a five-year, $30 million energy problems in the United Muhammad Yunus to help launch a project to show that the foundation after the of the Corporation for Public 1980’s, under the leadership of former President Franklin ORCHESTRAS neighborhood signals the The Dance Theatre of Harlem the next two years, including the Mexican American commitment, which funds States. With a staff of scholars, landless people, primarily women, can use credit and 1982 GENDER EQUITY deaths of his father and Broadcasting in 1967. Thomas, foundation grants help create a network of inter- ARTS In what was then the “largest beginning of the foundation’s is established with foundation Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Council efforts to improve police lawyers, economists, engineers repay loans. This microfinance demonstration evolves into COMMUNITY Ford funds the National grandfather in the mid 1940’s. national and South African legal experts who challenge 1959 URBAN FELLOWSHIPS single action in the history of work in a new kind of commu- support. Dedicated to the of La Raza, the Native American Rights Fund, the Puerto patrol, investigation and and scientists, the project the Grameen Bank, which by 2005 has outstanding loans COLLEGES WELFARE Council for Research on Wom- Virtually overnight, their the legal basis for apartheid and are central participants LEGAL AID DEVELOPMENT Humanities and Arts Fellow- organized philanthropic nity initiative: Community development of nonprofit Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National crime prevention, as well as releases a series of reports of more than $300 million and cumulative disbursements EDUCATION The foundation launches the AND WORK en, which brings together 28 bequests turn it into the 1952 in helping shape the new constitution. Dedicated to Funding to the National Legal The foundation’s commit- ships are awarded to, among support of the arts,” the Development Corporations professional theaters, Ford Committee Against Discrimination in Housing and the the Vera Institute of Justice, that illuminate a range of en- of more than $4 billion. Yunus and the Grameen Bank IN CHINA Urban Community College The Manpower Demonstra- academic centers to evaluate largest foundation in the A GLOBAL MISSION supporting education, the arts and community develop- Aid and Defender Associa- ment to urban areas begins many others, painter Jacob foundation gives $85 million (CDCs). Formed by residents, supports organizations such Legal Action Center. Ford also funds the Voter Education independently established ergy issues, encourage public are awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Support is also Ford launches grant making Transfer Opportunities Pro- tion Research Corporation, the roles and contributions world. Henry II commissions In Delhi, India, the founda- ment, the foundation opens an office in Johannesburg in tion advocates for the legal with the Gray Areas program, Lawrence, poet Robert Lowell for orchestras throughout the small business owners, as the Brooklyn Academy of Project to support minority voters’ rights and increase in 1961, which supports court discussion and help set the given to the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, in China. Support helps build gram, helping 71 community created by the Ford Founda- of women and to offer policy a blue-ribbon panel led by tion opens its first office 1993 to help the people of the country build a peaceful profession’s responsibility to emphasizing investment in and theater directors Alvin United States. This initiative congregations and other local Music and the Theatre voter registration in the South. In 1992, Ford helps create reform and the prevention of stage for the formation of new which organizes village cooperatives and trains health, a community of legal educa- colleges prepare their students tion, and Public/Private recommendations for gender H. Rowan Gaither to explore outside the United States. and prosperous nonracial democracy. serve the poor and gives law people, not just property. Epstein and Gene Frankel. leads to the National Arts stakeholders, CDCs produce Communications Group. the Asian American Justice Center. juvenile crime. national energy policies. nutrition and family-planning workers. tors and scholars who train for higher education. Ventures, another Ford- equity in the United States.

Ford Foundation presidents Ford Foundation presidentS Ford Foundation president Ford Foundation president Edsel Ford, February 1936–June 1943; Henry Ford II, July 1943–November 1950; Paul G. Hoffman, November 1950–March 1953 H. Rowan Gaither Jr., March 1953–October 1956; Henry T. Heald, October 1956–December 1965 McGeorge Bundy, March 1966–May 1979 Franklin Thomas, June 1979–April 1996 Ford Foundation 70 years

1983 capacity of communities and of Government at Harvard, 1991 in the field, strengthening 1996 tion to determine whether 1997 1999 2001 and established foundations 2006 United States Latin America photo credits key institutions to address gives its first round of awards community foundations and Individual Development in Africa, Asia, the Middle and Caribbean public radio hiv/aids economic THE MIDDLE EAST EXPANDING higher education SHARING HELP FOR artists and culture Headquarters 1953 Sophie Bassouls/Corbis Sygma refugee and migration issues for creative approaches to regional organizations of Accounts—matched savings East, the Americas, Eastern Following decades of support Grants are made to conduct MICROFINANCE KNOWLEDGE VIETNAM 320 East 43rd Street Andean Region and 1954 Roger-Viollet/The Image Works globally, which continues important social and econom- grant makers, encouraging accounts—can help low- Europe and Russia. In 2006, for public television, Ford research on war, peacekeeping Ford funds a five-year project The foundation formally The foundation supports New York, N.Y. 10017 Southern Cone 1958 Susan Siegrist/Lincoln Center today. Ford provides support 1988 ic problems at the state and opportunity the development of strong income people save and achieve the foundation helps esta- funds the strengthening of operations and Arab-Israeli by the Institute for Develop- launches GrantCraft to research and education on Mariano Sánchez 1959 (in order) Reuters/Corbis; AP Images to many national and state local levels. Similar programs nonprofit sectors in poor economic stability. Six years blish TrustAfrica, an indepen- National Public Radio to relations in hopes of further- ment Studies, at the Univer- strengthen the philanthropic environmental hazards in Fontecilla 310 1960 Walter Bibikow/Danita Delimont organizations and coalitions are established around the countries and providing sup- later, Ford initiates the Savings dent African philanthropic Africa and distribute music, drama and ing Middle East peace. Ford sity of Sussex, to assess the sector and develop tools Vietnam, particularly dioxin. Piso 14 1964 (bottom) Burstein Collection/Corbis that help integrate newcomers world through Ford’s global port for groups including the for Education, Entrepreneur- foundation that addresses the Middle East public affairs programming also provides support for impact of microfinance work and best practices for grant Grants will help build under- Las Condes 1969 CTW-Sesame Street into American society. offices. In 2001, Ford makes National Network of Women’s ship and Down Payment pro- most difficult challenges to 283 public radio stations community development in such areas as Africa, Asia, makers worldwide. By early ARTS IN standing of these issues, Eastern Africa Santiago, Chile 1979 (top right) Peter Turnley/Corbis a $50 million endowment Funds; the Twenty-First ject in sites across the nation confronting the continent. across the country. efforts in the region; higher Latin America and Central 2007, GrantCraft has 15,000 INDONESIA inform solutions that address P.O. Box 41081 1988 Joel Stettenheim/Corbis grant to establish the Ash Century Foundation, which TOWARD to assess whether children’s MORE EQUITABLE Brazil education institutions, such and Eastern Europe. In 2006, subscribers and over 165,000 The foundation supports the impact on people and the Nairobi, Republic of Kenya 1989 David Turnley/Corbis 1987 Institute for Democratic primarily serves African- ECONOMIC savings accounts can help BUDGETS Praia do Flamengo 154 as Birzeit University; and Ford helps the Central Ameri- documents downloaded from Indonesia’s efforts to transform environment and bring critical 1997 (top) Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Newscom WORKPLACE A PANDEMIC Governance and Innovation Americans; the National SECURITY young people save for college, Ford supports the establish- 2005 Middle East and 8th Floor organizations conducting can Microfinance Network its Web site. the place of arts in education health services to people living 2000 (far left) Doug McFadd/Getty Images EQUALITY grows at the Kennedy School. Foundation for India; the The foundation initiates the buy a first home, even build ment of the International A REGION IN NEED North Africa 22210-030 research on key human rights expand the financial services and public dialogue. New arts with long-term disabilities. 2001 AFP/Getty Images In its continued effort to Ford establishes a multimil- Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit American Dream Demonstra- up a nest egg for retirement. Budget Project, based at the In partnership with the W.K. P.O. Box 2344 Rio de Janeiro, R.J. and public policy issues. available to the region’s poor, curricula are introduced in 2005 (bottom left) Lee Celano advance the economic status lion-dollar program to Sector Research Fund; the Center on Budget and Policy Kellogg Foundation, Ford Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt Brazil a key step in the foundation’s secondary schools in three A GLOBAL 2006 (in order) Diller Scofidio + Renfro; of women and equality in improve AIDS education and 1989 Foundation Center; and the Priorities, in Washington, D.C., commits $7 million to support efforts to develop and expand cities; programs are launched VOICE ON AIDS Southern Africa Mexico and Amy Stein the workplace, the foundation treatment, including the global reach Council on Foundations. to make government budgets a public/private initiative to 1993 local microfinance institutions to build appreciation for the Building on 20 years of local P.O. Box 30953 Central America supports the Working Women creation of the National- The foundation opens of- in 40 countries more respon- spur economic development SOCIAL SCIENCE homeownership and networks. country’s traditional and non- partnerships to fight the Braamfontein 2017 Apartado 105-71 Education Fund, the Coal Community AIDS Partner- fices in Beijing, and later in sive to the needs of the most in formerly industrial stretch- RESEARCH traditional art forms, including spread of HIV/AIDS on five 2006 ARTISTIC PROMISE Johannesburg, South Africa 11560 Mexico, D.F. Mexico integrating Employment Project, ship, which develops Vietnam and Russia, to help vulnerable, as well as more es of Detroit’s waterfront. Sup- Building on the foundation’s indigenous art; and after- continents, the foundation In partnership with three major foundations, Ford helps newcomers the Women’s Equity Action community-based education those countries in transition transparent and accountable port for cultural institutions West Africa Foreign-Area Fellowships 2000 2000 HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA school programs give young launches the $50 million launch a groundbreaking initiative, United States Artists, The foundation launches a League and the Center for and care strategies. address emerging needs and to the public. and community development P.O. Box 2368 Russia program from 1952 to 1974, The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa launches HEALING THE people the opportunity to Global Initiative on HIV/AIDS to significantly increase support for individual working program to strengthen the Women Policy Studies. opportunities. in struggling neighborhoods Lagos, Nigeria funding goes to 20 colleges with a commitment of $150 million by Ford and three WOUNDS OF WAR engage in the performing arts. to help ensure that massive artists in the United States. $20 million in seed funding Pushkin Plaza A FUND is designed to help Detroit and universities around the other foundations. It aims to strengthen African univer- With major foundation new global investments in from the Ford, Rockefeller, Prudential and Rasmuson Tverskaya Ulitsa 16/2 FOR PEACE revitalize its economy. world for interdisciplinary sities by providing them with high-speed Internet connec- support, the International medical and technological foundations represents an ambitious private investment Asia 5th floor Ford begins its support of 1992 COMMUNITY FORESTRY seminars for faculty and stu- tions, improving programs in economics and the sciences Center for Transitional Justice breakthroughs are matched in individual artists and the creative vibrancy of America. 125009 Moscow, Russia the New Israel Fund, a The foundation supports innovative forestry initiatives China social justice dents from the social sciences and broadening opportunities for women. In 2005, the is created to secure sustainable by an equally significant focus philanthropic partnership that enlist rural communities and forestry agencies in International Club and foreign area studies. The Partnership is renewed by Ford and five other foundations peace and justice in countries on the social, political and of Israelis, North Americans projects to improve management of forest lands while Office Building effort focuses on emerging with an additional commitment of $200 million. emerging from years of conflict. cultural factors of the disease. 1987 eyes and Europeans. By 2003, Ford creating economic opportunities for poor rural households. Suite 501 talent in Asia, the Middle East, on the prize forms a partnership with Over the years, this includes grants in India for joint forest Jianguomenwai Dajie No. 21 PARTNERSHIPS Africa, Russia and Eastern The landmark civil the New Israel Fund and management; China for efforts to protect biodiversity history, $280 million. Over Beijing 100020, China Europe and seeks to promote 2005 rights documentary provides $20 million to create while improving livelihoods; and Indonesia, Mexico and 2,500 students from margina- HURRICANE global exchange and coopera- India, Nepal and Eastern Europe series, “Eyes on the a new peace and social justice Brazil to assist indigenous communities in obtaining land PUBLIC SCHOOL THE DREAM FUND lized communities will receive KATRINA tion by encouraging doctoral Sri Lanka Prize: America’s Civil fund that will support orga- RURAL and forest rights. VIOLENCE REFORM Building on decades of graduate and post-graduate The foundation supports Trust for Civil Society in students in the social sciences 55 Lodi Estate Rights Years (1954– nizations in Israel working DEVELOPMENT AGAINST WOMEN The foundation provides support under former presi- degrees. An additional ADVANCING approximately 30 organiza- Central & Eastern Europe to develop competence New Delhi 110 003, India 1965),” funded in part to strengthen the country’s With more than 30 years of Research on violence against $1.35 million to support dents McGeorge Bundy and $75 million commitment in PUBLIC MEDIA tions that will provide relief 22A San Stefano Str. in international studies. by the foundation, airs democracy, as well as advance support in rural development, 1990 Indian at the Smithsonian women and advocacy for Houston’s Project GRAD, a Franklin Thomas, Ford 2006 will enable IFP to reach Building upon the founda- to people in the Gulf Coast lincoln center Indonesia 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

on public television. human rights, equality and the foundation expands its NATIVE Institution and later funds victims of domestic abuse are public school reform project awards a series of grants for some 4,300 students by 2014. tion’s long history of work in region. Through 2006, nearly renewal P.O. Box 2030

The foundation supports peace for its citizens. reach beyond India, Asia, AMERICAN ARTS the development of the 1994 supported with grants in 1998 affordable mortgages that is achieving successful research and dialogue about Complementing IFP, Ford public media, $50 million is 64 organizations receive sup- The foundation commits $15 Jakarta 10020, Indonesia Israel the production of an Africa, Latin America and AND CULTURES Museum’s Cultural Resource Brazil and the Philippines. The foundation collaborates with the Center for Commu- results in improving test affirmative action, which is launches Pathways to Higher given to support innovative port to rebuild their commu- million to Lincoln Center to MORE EFFECTIVE Vietnam and Thailand eight-part sequel, GOVERNMENT rural areas of the United Building on its history of Center in Maryland and In South Africa, the Women’s nity Self-Help and Fannie Mae to develop the Self-Help scores and graduation rates, followed a few years later with INTERNATIONAL Education, a 10-year, $50 INTERNATIONAL public-service media organi- nities, and the work continues. help kick off the first major New Israel Fund PHILANTHROPY Suites 1502-1504 entitled “Eyes on the INNOVATION States to include projects in commitment to Native Ameri- elsewhere. This is part of a Development Foundation Initiative, which makes available $2 billion in affordable reducing teen pregnancy and support for the design and FELLOWSHIPS million initiative to help PHILANTHROPY zations to improve program- Also in 2005, funds are desig- renovation of the landmark 1101 14th Street, N.W. The foundation explores 15th Floor Prize II: America at The foundation’s Innovations the Soviet Union and Eastern can arts and cultures, Ford larger effort to help cultural receives funds to support mortgages for 35,000 minority and low-income home raising college enrollment. In management of the Fulfilling Ford creates the International colleges and universities Dedicated to building ming and make use of nated for emergency relief, performing arts institution to 6th floor the role and effectiveness of Vietcombank Tower the Racial Crossroads (1965–1985),” which portrays the in State and Local Government Europe that address environ- begins its support of the institutions serve their establishing a legal aid and buyers nationwide. The $50 million grant marks one of the next few years, new funds the Dream Fund, a donors’ Fellowships Program (IFP), a better serve students from philanthropy worldwide, Ford emerging technologies to rehabilitation and reconstruc- make it more inviting and Washington, D.C. 20005 philanthropy and nonprofits 198 Tran Quang Khai Street largely unrecorded years of the civil rights movement. Awards Program, adminis- mental protection and natural newly established National communities and uphold a advocacy clinic for battered the largest commitments to homeownership by a philan- allow the project to expand to collaborative to fund affirma- 10-year program funded with marginalized communities in launches a $100 million initia- serve new audiences in a tion in the aftermath of the accessible to visitors, artists by sponsoring new research Hoan Kiem District P.O. Box 53410 This sequel is broadcast in 1990. tered by the Kennedy School resource management. Museum of the American vibrant cultural heritage. and abused women. thropic institution. 100,000 students in six cities. tive action-related activities. the largest grant in foundation countries around the world. tive to support 18 emerging variety of formats. tsunami in Asia. and students. Hanoi, Vietnam Jerusalem, Israel 91534

Ford Foundation president Susan V. Berresford, April 1996–present OFFICES

Ford Foundation president Susan V. Berresford, April 1996–present