Ford Foundation 70 years how the foundation can best sciences. By 1956, 63 research students direct experience in Stabilization program, which affordable housing, job SOCIAL INVESTING SCHOLARSHIPS worldwide. ShoreBank has Defense and Education Fund future generations of lawyers, 1936 1953 FOR MINORITIES 1973 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 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