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Grounded in our core values, our new strategic direction will drive our next chapter of impact. Join us on the journey.
What is required of us at this moment?
Since our founding ninety years ago, the Ford Foundation has asked, answered, and then asked this question anew. For more on how we’re answering for our era of stewardship and focusing our grantmaking for scale and flexibility:
The Ford Foundation unveiled a new strategic plan to protect and strengthen democratic values, fundamental freedoms, and inclusive economies worldwide.
Discover how the Ford Foundation is reorganizing grantmaking teams during a transition year to implement its new strategic vision.
The Ford Foundation, one of the world’s largest private grantmakers, will overhaul its spending to counter what new leadership views as the mutually reinforcing rise of both autocracy and inequality.
Our legacy demands our unwavering commitment to people pushed to the margins and denied equal justice, equal rights, and equal opportunity–to women, to people of color and people with disabilities, to LGBTQ+ and rural communities.
Everyone deserves a voice in shaping the rules and tools with which to build better lives and stronger communities.
Our legacy demands our unwavering commitment to people pushed to the margins and denied equal justice, equal rights, and equal opportunity–to women, to people of color and people with disabilities, to LGBTQ+ and rural communities.
Everyone deserves a voice in shaping the rules and tools with which to build better lives and stronger communities.
The Ford Foundation is embedding multiyear flexible funding and institutional strengthening as baseline practices across its global portfolio. Starting with a 50% multiyear general operating floor, this shift guarantees predictable, flexible capital for partners working to protect democratic values worldwide.
Global care systems are being restructured into financial assets, creating negative impacts for care recipients and workers. Explore how financialization threatens quality care, and why investing in worker power, human-centered infrastructure, and democratized finance reclaims care as a public good.
The Ford Foundation has elected Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, to its board of trustees. A nationally recognized expert in gender justice, she brings extensive legal expertise and advocacy experience to the six-year term.
American democracy faces renewed threats from government overreach and disinformation. Authors Heather Gerken and Robert Rubin urge leaders across business, academia, philanthropy, and law to stop retreating and actively protect free, fair election processes.
We have supported the work of some of history’s greatest minds, helped build pivotal institutions and seeded big ideas that have fueled groundbreaking movements.
Our building—including our garden and gallery—is open to the public.
The Ford Foundation is located in New York City at the Center for Social Justice—a hub for social good and the courageous people who devote their lives to achieving it.
In this space, we shine a light on artwork that wrestles with difficult questions, calls out injustice, and points the way toward a more fair and just future.
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