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Recalls the foundation's ongoing commitment to emerging leaders, social movements, building institutions and innovative approaches to improving lives. Includes a pull-out timeline celebrating our first 70 years.
Highlights grantees and projects worldwide that transform the foundation's mission statement into reality.
Special question-and-answer pages explain how the foundation is governed, how we make grants, and other issues.
Discusses where the foundation's money comes from, how we decide what to support and details our grant-making process.
Details how we reorganized our work on reproductive health and human sexuality, now located in each of our three broad program areas.
Highlights the International Fellowships Program, launched with the largest single grant in the foundation's history.
Focuses on three large grants: the Center for Community Self-Help, which seeks to increase homeownership among low-income families; Project GRAD, a public-school reform project; and $40 million in challenge grants to 28 arts and cultural groups in the United States.