| 06/27/2007 |
Ford Foundation in Eastern Africa
This booklet highlights the activities of the Ford Foundation office for Eastern Africa in Nairobi. Opened in 1962, the office focuses its work in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The foundation’s longstanding presence in the region is characterized by tackling root causes of problems and working directly with those affected to find solutions. The office makes grants in the areas of Education and Sexuality, Environment and Development, Governance and Civil Society, Human Rights and Social Justice and Media, Arts and Culture. |
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| 06/13/2007 |
Ford Foundation: 70 Years
This comprehensive timeline highlights major events in the foundation’s history and chronicles its expansive role in national and international philanthropy. |
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| 06/12/2007 |
Delivering on a Promise to Advance Human Welfare
Celebrating 70 years of the foundation’s contributions to improving lives, this booklet contains a comprehensive pull-out timeline marking key moments in Ford history. Essays from board Chair Kathryn Fuller and President Susan Beresford highlight the foundation’s diverse approaches to grant making: finding leaders, supporting social movements, building institutions and creating opportunities. |
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| 05/23/2007 |
2006 Annual Report
Our latest annual report recalls the Ford Foundation’s ongoing commitment to emerging leaders, social movements, building institutions and innovative approaches to improving lives. It includes a pullout timeline celebrating the foundation’s first 70 years, a review of our 2006 grant making and financial statements. |
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| 12/05/2006 |
Ford Foundation Vietnam
The Ford Foundation began making grants in Vietnam in the early 1990's and was issued a license to establish an office in Hanoi in October 1996. During its first decade, the foundation approved more than 550 grants to organizations and individuals in Vietnam, as well as to foreign institutions working for the benefit of Vietnam, totaling $71 million. In 2006, grant making in Vietnam reached $9 million per year.
The foundation makes grants in Development Finance; Education and Scholarship; Environment and Development; International Cooperation; Media, Arts and Culture; and Sexuality and Reproductive Health. |
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| 08/07/2006 |
Sexuality and Social Change Making the Connection: Strategies for Action and Investment
After widespread neglect over many years, the value of studying human sexuality has recently been recognized for its bearing on many important debates and problems in contemporary society. |
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| 06/26/2006 |
Ford Foundation: Current Interests 2006
Information on how to apply for a grant within the guidelines of the Foundation's several fields of interest. |
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| 02/11/2005 |
From The Ground Up: Building Assets Through Development Finance
To emerge from poverty, low-income people need reliable sources of adequate income, strategies to minimize risk, and the ability to build, manage, and control financial assets. At the Ford Foundation, we believe that building upon people’s existing resources and capacities is the starting point in a process that leads to economic security that can be maintained over generations. |
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| 08/23/2004 |
Ford Foundation: Knowledge, Creativity & Freedom Program
In order to articulate the aspirations and values behind this restructured program, we therefore decided to rename EMAC as The Program on Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom (KC&F;) and to craft a new statement communicating our sense of the context in which we work. This publication enables us to share the new KC&F; program title and statement with current and potential grantees and others in the philanthropic and public policy worlds. |
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| 06/15/2004 |
Peace and Social Justice: Building a more secure and equitable world through governance, civil society, and human rights
Peace and Social Justice program activity brochure. |
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| 02/24/2004 |
Asset Building for Social Change: Pathways to Large-Scale Impact
An in-depth examination of the Assets Program's grantmaking activities that have pursued significant scale. This paper is the result of an effort to discern patterns of successful scaling up from among the Program's portfolios worldwide... |
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