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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1998







Human Development and Reproductive Health Approved Grants and Projects, Fiscal Year 1998

United States and Worldwide Programs

Welfare and teen pregnancy
  • Finance Project Toward Improved Methods of Financing Education and Other Children's Services (Washington, D.C.)
    $200,000
    For the Welfare Information Network for state and local policy makers and officials.

  • Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (New York)
    $7,000,000
    For its investment fund.

  • Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (New York)
    $2,000,000
    For its venture fund.

  • Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (New York)
    $700,000
    For general support.

  • Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (New York)
    $500,000
    For a project on devolution and urban change.

  • National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations (Washington, D.C.)
    $200,000
    For a youth initiative called Growing Up Hispanic.

  • Public/Private Ventures (Philadelphia)
    $4,000,000
    For its endowment.

  • Public/Private Ventures (Philadelphia)
    $3,500,000
    For its joint venture fund.

  • Training, Inc. National Association (Indianapolis)
    $150,000
    To build a strategic plan.

Fair start for children
  • Aspen Institute (Queenstown, Md.)
    $200,000
    For a discussion on community initiatives.

  • Avance (San Antonio)
    $500,000
    To expand the organization and its programs.

  • Avance (San Antonio)
    $50,000
    For a conference entitled "Opening Doors to the Barrio: Forging New Partnerships."

  • Catholic Charities, Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens (New York)
    $50,000
    For a vocational project at Queens North Settlement House.

  • Children's Defense Fund (Washington, D.C.)
    $500,000
    For a public education campaign on early child care.

  • Family Resource Coalition (Chicago)
    $300,000
    For research on policies that affect disadvantaged fathers and their families.

  • Fund for the City of New York
    $100,000
    To develop case studies on the work of Agenda for Children Tomorrow.

  • Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
    $200,000
    For team-parenting services.

  • Mar Vista Family Center (Culver City, Calif.)
    $250,000
    For core support.

  • Mathematica Policy Research (Princeton, N.J.)
    $100,000
    To evaluate how early intervention programs enhance child development.

  • MELD (Minneapolis)
    $150,000
    To replicate the MELD program model.

  • Morehouse College
    $65,000
    For a national conference on fathers and families.

  • National Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.)
    $100,000
    For activities related to children, youth and families.

  • National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (Washington, D.C.)
    $250,000
    For general support.

  • National Center for Strategic Nonprofit Planning and Community Leadership (Washington, D.C.)
    $50,000
    For a conference on public-private partnerships to help fathers.

  • National Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth (Kansas City, Mo.)
    $92,000
    To increase the involvement of fathers with their families.

  • National Institute for Human Development (Atlanta)
    $45,000
    To expand public/private partnerships that focus on involving low-income fathers in Head Start programs.

  • Wheelock College
    $200,000
    For the Early Childhood Futures Project.

  • Wheelock College
    $200,000
    For the Center for Career Development in Early Care and Education.

Social science and research training
  • Association of African Women for Research and Development (Senegal)
    $50,000
    For a conference on gender, globalization and human development.

  • Indiana University (Indianapolis)
    $210,000
    For the Kinsey Institute's academic and public relations activities.

  • International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (Belgium)
    $250,000
    For scientific committees on reproductive health, gender, AIDS and demographic anthropology.

  • Laboratory for Social Sciences (Venezuela)
    $90,000
    For the International Forum for Social Sciences in Health.

  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America (New York)
    $300,000
    For the federation's diversity initiative.

  • Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene (New York)
    $310,000
    For a sexuality training program for community-based organizations.

  • West Indies, University of the (Jamaica)
    $225,000
    For community youth intervention research on gender relations, conflict management and reproductive health.

Community involvement
  • African-Caribbean Institute (Hanover, N.H.)
    $320,000
    For programs to combat the spread of HIV among military and peacekeeping personnel, their families and local communities.