Press Room Media contacts Press LineTel (+1) 212-573-5126Fax (+1) 212-351-3643 [email protected] Press Highlights Javier Valdés News 4 May 2021 Ford Foundation Appoints Javier Valdés as U.S. Director of Civic Engagement and Government Abstract shapes complex systems, people, finance, and strategies employing arrows shapes and circles converge in a bullseye of concentric circles News 7 April 2021 Ford Foundation Expands Flagship BUILD Program to Provide $1 Billion to Hundreds of Organizations Four individuals wearing masks are in a COVID-19 vaccination center. Two of the individuals are student nurses, while the other two are there to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations. In The Headlines 6 April 2021 An equitable vaccine rollout must prioritize the most vulnerable around the world Innocent, Chukwuma, New York 2014-2015. Photo Credit: Simon Luethi ©Ford Foundation. News 5 April 2021 Mourning the loss of Innocent Chukwuma In The Headlines 1 April 2021 Sharing Power and Curbing Racial Inequities: How Grant Makers Can Commit to Real Change a Year After Covid In The Headlines 31 March 2021 Let Them Lead: It’s Time to Follow Black Women and Girls Toward Justice A group of young Black women seated together smiling. News 25 March 2021 Ford Foundation Supports Launch of First Global Fund Addressing Key Issues Facing Black Women News 18 March 2021 Ford Foundation, Borealis Philanthropy, Center for Cultural Power, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Launch "Reclaiming the Border Narrative" Aerial view showing clusters of people connected by lines. Photo Orbon Alija. News 3 March 2021 Major Philanthropies Tackle Inequality by Strengthening How Open Source Code is Developed and Maintained Outline of a human head with an equal sign in the middle cut out of an ocean of people.$1.3M in grants go towards making the web’s open source infrastructure more equitable In The Headlines 3 March 2021 $1.3M in grants go towards making the web’s open source infrastructure more equitable Amanda Gorman is wearing a yellow and white striped blouse, standing in front of a brick wall with angel wings painted on it. Photo Peter Stevens / Flickr In The Headlines 4 February 2021 Exceptionalizing Amanda Gorman: Who Gets Left Behind? Hilary Pennington is wearing a shiny grey jacket, gesturing with her hands as she speaks at a Ford Foundation gathering. In The Headlines 2 February 2021 Hilary Pennington: From Virtue Signaling to Hard Self-Examination Anthony Bebbington News 12 January 2021 Ford Foundation Appoints Anthony Bebbington as Director of Natural Resources and Climate Change Senior man wearing protective face mask that says vote while carrying CSA box at community garden. News 16 December 2020 Families and Workers Fund Raises Nearly $30 Million for Workers Hardest Hit by COVID-19 News 16 December 2020 Ford Foundation Announces 2019-2020 JustFilms Documentary Grantees In The Headlines 16 December 2020 Gender-based violence and social justice in the Global South In The Headlines 30 October 2020 5 Actions Nonprofits Can Take to Embrace Disability Rights and Access Black and yellow "Black Lives Matter" posters on a graffitied wall. In The Headlines 30 October 2020 Anti-Blackness Is Global and Gendered—Philanthropy’s Response Must Be, Too Portrait of Samantha Power in a pinkish-red blouse against a gold background. ©Martha Stewart, 2020 News 19 October 2020 Ford Foundation Appoints Samantha Power to Board of Trustees A brilliantly colored glitch art in fluorescent pinks, purples, blues and greens blending together almost into a painting. News 14 October 2020 Ford Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announce Disability Futures Fellows News 9 October 2020 Ford Foundation Announces $180 Million in New Funding for U.S. Racial Justice Efforts The Puerto Rican flag, with a white star inside a blue triangle backed by five red and white stripes, hangs over the balcony of a colorful old building. News 30 September 2020 22 Foundations and Donors Pledge to Redouble Commitments to Puerto Rico The Puerto Rican flag, with a white star inside a blue triangle backed by five red and white stripes, hangs over the balcony of a colorful old building. News 30 September 2020 Veintidós fundaciones y donantes se comprometen a redoblar su compromiso con Puerto Rico In The Headlines 30 September 2020 Grant Makers Including Ford Push for Sustained Puerto Rico Recovery Effort News 24 September 2020 Sixteen Major Donors and Foundations Commit Unprecedented $156 Million to Support Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous Arts Organizations News 29 July 2020 NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund has issued over $110 Million in emergency funds to New York City-Based Nonprofits In The Headlines 10 July 2020 Darren Walker: How to disrupt philanthropy in response to crisis News 30 June 2020 Avoid and report email and phone scams News 29 June 2020 Funders join forces to advance a global economy that works for people and the planet. In The Headlines 29 June 2020 Foundations Establish $5 Million Covid-19 Response Fund to Focus on the Global Economy In The Headlines 25 June 2020 Are You Willing to Give Up Your Privilege? News 23 June 2020 Ford Foundation Announces Sale and Pricing of Landmark $1 Billion Social Bonds News 23 June 2020 Morgan Stanley, TruFund Financial Services and Ford Foundation Announce Launch of $26 Million Impact Developers Fund News 11 June 2020 Five Major Foundations to Increase Support with over $1.7 Billion to Assist Nonprofit Organizations in Wake of Global Pandemic News 11 June 2020 Ford Foundation Takes Historic, Unprecedented Action to Increase Grantmaking for Nonprofits by $1 Billion with Proceeds of Offering of Social Bonds in Response to COVID-19 News 1 June 2020 Ford Foundation Launches Global Fellows Network to Tackle Inequality Worldwide In The Headlines 30 April 2020 The Disability Community is Essential in Our Responses to COVID-19 In The Headlines 27 April 2020 Essential Protections for Essential Workers News 22 April 2020 Amidst COVID-19 Crisis, Disability Inclusion Fund Launches Rapid Response Fund News 17 April 2020 NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund Issues $44 Million to Social Services and Arts Nonprofits In The Headlines 15 April 2020 Big New Funder Initiatives Support Policy Advocacy and Low-Income Workers In The Headlines 15 April 2020 Major Foundations Commit $7.1 Million to Aid Workers and Families In The Headlines 15 April 2020 Foundations Launch COVID-19 Fund for Low-Wage Workers News 14 April 2020 Ford and Leading Philanthropies Launch Fund to Support Low-Wage Workers Hardest Hit by COVID-19 In The Headlines 14 April 2020 Foundations and Donors Step Up Grants to Help Workers Hurt by the Pandemic News 8 April 2020 Ford Foundation Appoints Depelsha McGruder as Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer In The Headlines 30 March 2020 Andrew Cuomo, Stop a Coronavirus Disaster: Release People From Prison News 20 March 2020 NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund Launched to Support New York City Nonprofit Organizations News 19 March 2020 Top Foundations Pledge Flexible Funding to Grantees in Wake of COVID-19 Crisis News 11 March 2020 Consortium Forms Advisory Council, Announces Plans to Preserve Historic Ebony and Jet Photographic Archive News 2 March 2020 Ford Foundation Names Thomas L. Kempner Jr. to Board of Trustees News 25 February 2020 #AfricaNoFilter Announces Expanded Collaborative Funding, Introduces New Executive Director Carl Joe Williams, Whispers to God, Being Here When Women Need Me to Be Here!, 2018 News 27 January 2020 Ford Foundation Gallery Announces Opening of Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana News 29 December 2019 Nilcéa Freire, uma grande perda News 29 December 2019 Nilcéa Freire: Remembering a colleague, friend and human rights activist News 6 December 2019 Ford Foundation appoints Michele Moore as vice president of Global Communications In The Headlines 6 December 2019 Grantmaking in the #MeToo Era In The Headlines 21 October 2019 Devex: Ford Foundation puts the grantee "in the driver's seat" News 11 October 2019 Announcing the Ford Foundation Global Fellowship program News 27 September 2019 A message from Darren Walker to the NYC criminal justice community News 9 September 2019 Mourning the loss of Marca Bristo Cannupa Hanska Luger, The One Who Checks & The One Who Balances, 2018 Courtesy of the artist, Photo credit: Chip Thomas, Ginger Dunnill News 21 August 2019 Ford Foundation Gallery announces opening of Utopian Imagination Athi-Patra Ruga Umesiyakazi in Waiting, 2015 In The Headlines 21 August 2019 Radical Love reviews In The Headlines 29 July 2019 Darren Walker’s NYT op-ed on strengthening cultural institutions through diverse leadership News 25 July 2019 Foundation consortium acquires historic African American photographic archive In The Headlines 12 July 2019 New York Times' profile: Darren Walker's ambition to reset the power balance News 10 July 2019 Ford Foundation appoints Sarita Gupta as director of Future of Work(ers) In The Headlines 10 July 2019 Let’s help funder collaboratives work better for grantees In The Headlines 9 July 2019 Bess Rothenberg in Chronicle of Philanthropy: How grant makers can see the future more clearly
