Independent Videos

The Big Juicy Question is a practice developed by director Adria Goodson. It gives fellows tools to create and explore the questions that matter most to them. Rather than following a fixed curriculum, fellows use their questions to shape their learning journey across different geographies with their peers.

The Ford Global Fellowship supports the next generation of leaders from around the world who are advancing solutions to end inequality. The program focuses on shared learning across issue areas, building and strengthening connections across borders, and developing a supportive, interconnected cohort from across a wide variety of sectors.

Afro-descendant peoples across Latin America and the Caribbean are seeking overdue recognition of their long-standing practices that have long helped protect nature. CITAFRO–a regional alliance of Afro-descendant organizations spread across 16 countries–is calling for full territorial protections for Afro-descendants and participation in decisions affecting their territories and livelihoods.

Environmental rights defenders often put their lives on the line to defend their territories. The Leaders Network for Environmental Activists and Defenders (LEAD) brings governments, defenders, civil society, multilateral institutions, and other key actors together to protect environmental human rights defenders and achieve climate justice.

At the Ford Foundation, we are invested in expanding civic space and democracy. We know from history that ordinary people have the potential to keep leaders and institutions accountable by advocating for ideas and movements. Access to civic space helps ensure a fair and equitable future for all.

Civil rights advocate Judy Heumann was instrumental in the development and passage of integral pieces of legislation that advanced the inclusion of disabled people around the world. Judy’s career spanned decades as she worked tirelessly for disability rights.

America’s Cultural Treasures is an initiative to acknowledge and honor the diversity of artistic expression and excellence in the United States and provide critical funding to organizations that have made a significant impact on the cultural landscape, despite historic underinvestment.

What happens when a technologist joins forces with an organization like the ACLU of Massachusetts? The single largest dismissal of wrongful convictions in U.S. history. An innovative partnership between the nonprofit and public technologist Paola Villarreal enabled lawyers to build a story based on data and expose injustice.