How we're transforming our culture and grant making as we continue to learn and advance our work on disability justice.
Judith Heumann, Senior Fellow
Disability rights leader and Ford Fellow Judy Heumann discusses the essential findings of her new report, Road Map for Inclusion: Changing the Face of Disability in Media.
Moushira Elgeziri, Former Program Officer
Displacement should not deprive refugees of their rights to education, adequate housing, and decent work—and we believe that their cultural and artistic rights must be addressed at the same time.
Marielle Velander, Research Manager, Reboot
Reflections on the Ford Foundation’s tech fellows program, and a set of key principles for others interested in using this model.
Darren Walker, President
We mourn the loss of Kevin Roche, the architect behind some of the world’s most remarkable buildings—including the Ford Foundation’s own.
Ritse Erumi, Technology Fellow, Future of Work(ers)
To shape a future of work that offers opportunity, security, and prosperity for all people and communities, we’ll need to think outside the box.
Wilneida Negrón, Technology Fellow, Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice
In the wake of high-profile data breaches at Cambridge Analytica, Yahoo, Equifax, and other companies, privacy issues are increasingly the focus of attention and conversation. But privacy is a complicated issue—and often a contested one.
Darren Walker, President
Later this year, our esteemed program vice president, Xav Briggs, will depart the foundation to return to the frontlines of social change.
Carly Benkov, Senior Systems Analyst
Catherine Townsend, Disability Inclusion Adviser
Megan Morrison, Officer, Strategy and Learning
We are always working to improve our grant making process, and to make sure our systems are efficient, easy to use, and accessible to everyone.
Hilary Pennington, Executive Vice President for Program
Bess Rothenberg, Senior Director, Strategy and Learning
Megan Morrison, Officer, Strategy and Learning
Based on feedback from our grantees, we have begun a number of initiatives to help improve our impact as grant makers, improve our responsiveness, and share what we're learning.
Michael Brennan, Program Officer, Technology and Society
We’re excited to announce thirteen new research grants being made by the Ford and Sloan foundations, focused on the sustainability, maintainability, and security of open-source digital infrastructure.
Darren Walker, President
Philanthropy is not immune from the plague of inequality, Darren Walker writes in his annual letter. If we are to be legitimate participants in the fight against it, there is urgency to our embracing this truth.
