Our response to COVID-19
- Ford issues first-of-its-kind social bond of up to $1 billion to support social justice sector and more
- The Ford Foundation was pleased to have hosted a vaccination site within our Center for Social Justice from Feb-June, 2021.
- Ford doubles racial justice funding to $330 million as America faces a historic and long-needed reckoning
- Ford and partners commit more than $30 million for workers impacted by the pandemic and $156 million to arts and culture groups of color
Disrupting systems to advance social justice
We believe inequality is at the root of nearly every injustice. To create meaningful, lasting change, we focus on nine interconnected areas.
Shifting the conversation
Dig into the newest collection of stories of change, hope and resilience from our community
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Celebrating the remarkable legacy of Franklin Thomas
Darren Walker
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Emerging leaders in a changing South
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This alliance of Indigenous peoples brings climate solutions to COP26
Kevin Currey and Farah Sofa
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BUILDing resilience in finances: Ashé Cultural Arts Center
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Ford Foundation Appoints Sarita Gupta as its Next Vice President of US Programs
Ford Foundation announces new fund to strengthen natural resources governance in West Africa
Ford Foundation and Open Society Initiative for West Africa Launch New Fund to End Sexual Violence in West Africa
More than 2 billion workers make up the informal economy
Building on 85 years of impact
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.
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Year:1969
Sesame Street is created to teach the world kindness
In 1969, Ford joined the Carnegie Foundation and a small team of investors to back a new idea for a unique, educational TV show for children: Sesame Street. For more than 50 years, Sesame Street has remained on the air, holding a special place in everyone’s hearts and helping generations of kids become smarter, stronger, and kinder.
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Year:1976
Muhammad Yunus pioneers the idea of microfinance
Muhammad Yunus came to Ford with a vision to provide Bangladesh’s low-income communities with small loans to gain financial power and security. This work developed into the Grameen Bank—which today has more than 8 million borrowers across Asia, of which 97 percent are women—and earned Yunus a Nobel Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Year:2015
The Center for Reproductive Rights wins a critical Supreme Court case
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which Ford helped to establish in 1992, won the Supreme Court case, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 579 US, prohibiting Texas from placing medically undue restrictions on the delivery of abortion services. With our support, the organization has become a formative player that has strengthened laws and policies to protect women’s rights in more than 50 countries.
Find us at the Center for Social Justice
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.
Ford Foundation Gallery
Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA
17 September 2020 – 14 August 2021
The gallery remains closed, all programming will be online.