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The Obama Foundation welcomed Ford Foundation president Darren Walker to its board of directors on Monday, where he will ...
Darren Walker’s post-Ford Foundation future is starting to take shape, as the outgoing president is now set to join The Obama ...
Jonathan Rose Cos. closed its Affordable Housing Preservation Fund VI at $660 million, with Capital One and Ford Foundation among investors.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Ford Foundation has settled on its next leader. Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken will succeed Darren Walker as the president of one of the largest U.S. charitable organizations, ...
In a stunning move to signal to the philanthropy world that providing general support grants to nonprofits built by women, people of color, and others is a successful strategy for closing the ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Ford Foundation is coming through for documentary filmmakers in a big way. Today, the nonprofit philanthropic institution announced its latest round of grants under the foundation ...
The Ford Foundation’s Dunning says that the demand for advisory services among Build grantees was “huge.” Still, Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, says he hopes ...
The Ford family itself is partly to blame. The Ford Foundation, established by Edsel Ford in 1936 and funded with stock from Henry Ford, had a temptingly vague statement of donor intent: “To further ...
As a Ford Foundation executive, Mr. Armsey directed more than $350 million in grants to universities in the 1960s while prompting the foundation to deny grants to segregated universities. By ...
Today, the Ford Foundation announced that Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor of New York City, will return to the foundation as a senior fellow. Senior fellows are leaders who ...
David Hume Kennerly quit the Gerald Ford Foundation board when the group refused to honor Liz Cheney because, Kennerly says, it's afraid of Donald Trump.
The Ford Foundation announced plans to spend $200 million over the next five years on programs aimed at better connecting cities and suburbs to create cohesive metropolitan areas.