Ford Foundation
Template:TOCnestleft Ford Foundation is a grant-making foundation that was chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford that has distributed more than $15.6 billion worldwide. Its fiscal year 2008 assets were valued at $11 billion. Annually, the Ford Foundation receives about 40,000 proposals and awards about 2,000 grants.
It has partnerships with the New Israel Fund and the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.[1]
Darren Walker is the president of the Ford Foundation.
Grants
- New America Foundation: In 2008, the organization donated between $250,000 - $999,999 to the New America Foundation.[2]
- Proteus Fund: The Ford Foundation funds the Proteus Fund's Piper Fund
- Families and Work Institute: The Foundation funds Families and Work Institute
- Brookings Institution: Between July 1, 2008–June 30, 2009, the Ford Foundation contributed at least $1,000,000 to the Brookings Institution.[3]
- American Committee on East-West Accord: As at March 10, 1982, the Ford Foundation was funding the American Committee on East-West Accord. The ACEWA, based in Washington, D.C., was a tax-exempt "independent educational organization", with the stated aim of "improving East/West relations, with special focus on U.S.-Soviet relations."
- Arms Control Association: The Arms Control Association was founded in 1971 and is based in Washington, D.C. The Association claims to be a national nonpartisan membership organization, dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies. As at March 19, 2010, Ford Foundation was funding the Arms Control Association.
Officers
2010
The following are officers with the Ford Foundation, as of April 14, 2010:[4]
- Luis A. Ubinas, President
- Barron M. Tenny, Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
- Marta L. Tellado, Vice President, Communications
- Eric W. Doppstadt, Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
- Alison R. Bernstein, Vice President, Education, Creativity and Free Expression
- Pablo J. Farías, Vice President, Economic Opportunity and Assets
- Maya L. Harris, Vice President, Democracy, Rights and Justice
- Nicholas M. Gabriel, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer
- David B. Chiel, Deputy Vice President, Program Management
- Jacob A. Gayle, Deputy Vice President, Global Initiative on HIV/AIDS
- Nancy P. Feller, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel
2011
As at July 26, 2011, the following served as officers for the Ford Foundation:[5]
- Luis A. Ubiñas, President
- John Colborn, Vice President for Operations
- Eric W. Doppstadt, Vice President and Chief Investment Officer
- Pablo J. Farías, Vice President, Economic Opportunity and Assets
- Nancy P. Feller, Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
- Nicholas M. Gabriel, Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer
- Maya Harris, Vice President, Democracy, Rights and Justice
- Marta L. Tellado, Vice President, Communications
- Darren Walker, Vice President, Education, Creativity and Free Expression
Board of Trustees
2010
The following are members of the Board of Trustees, as of April 14, 2010:[6]
- Kathryn S. Fuller, Chair of the Board
- Luis A. Ubiñas, President
- Kofi Appenteng, Partner at The West Africa Fund
- Afsaneh M. Beschloss President and Chief Executive Officer of The Rock Creek Group
- Anke A. Ehrhardt, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and Director of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute
- Juliet V. García, President of University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
- Irene Hirano-Inouye, President of the U.S.-Japan Council and President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
- J. Clifford Hudson, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for Sonic Corporation
- Yolanda Kakabadse, Senior Adviser for Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano
- Robert S. Kaplan, Professor, Management Practice at Harvard Business School and Senior Director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
- Thurgood Marshall, Jr., Partner at Bingham McCutchen and Principal of the Bingham Consulting Group
- Richard Moe, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
- N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor at Infosys Technologies Ltd.
- Peter A. Nadosy, Managing Partner at East End Advisors, LLC
- W. Richard West Jr., Founding Director Emeritus of the National Museum of the American Indian
2011
As at July 26, 2011, the following served on the Board of Trustees for the Foundation:[7]
- Irene Hirano-Inouye, Chair of the Board; President, U.S.-Japan Council, Washington, D.C.
- Luis A. Ubiñas, President, New York, N.Y.
- Kofi Appenteng; Partner, The West Africa Fund; Partner, Constant Capital, Redding, Conn.
- Afsaneh M. Beschloss; President and Chief Executive Officer, The Rock Creek Group, Washington, D.C.
- Juliet V. García; President, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Tex.
- J. Clifford Hudson; Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer; Sonic Corporation, Oklahoma City, Okla.
- Yolanda Kakabadse; Senior Adviser, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, Quito, Ecuador
- Robert S. Kaplan, Professor, Management Practice, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass.; Senior Director, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., New York, N.Y.
- Thurgood Marshall, Jr.; Partner, Bingham McCutchen; Principal, Bingham Consulting Group, Washington, D.C.
- N. R. Narayana Murthy; Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore, India
- Peter A. Nadosy; Managing Partner, East End Advisors, LLC, New York, N.Y.
- Cecile Richards; President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, New York, N.Y.
Support for Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer was a Communist-supporter who was accused but not charged of acting as an espionage agent for the Soviet Union. In 1955 the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic financed an hour-long interview between the Columbia Broadcasting System's Edward R. Murrow and Robert Oppenheimer. Hundreds of reproductions of the interview were made for free distribution to collegiate and civic groups. The interview was a deliberately contrived whitewash of Oppenheimer, who emerged from the propaganda effort as a much-maligned and abused innocent victim of vicious and narrow-minded reactionaries.
External links
References
- ↑ About
- ↑ New America Foundation website: Our Funding (accessed on May 4, 2010)
- ↑ 2009 Annual Report, Brookings
- ↑ Officer
- ↑ Ford Foundation: Officers (accessed on July 26, 2011)
- ↑ Board of Trustees
- ↑ Ford Foundation: Board of Trustees (accessed on July 26, 2011)