Several scams in the form of email, phone, and text and social media message solicitations claiming to be from or associated with the Ford Foundation and/or Darren Walker are circulating.
The Response & Vision Fund launches today to support community-led and civil society organizations, workers’ rights groups and social movements that work with those most impacted by the economic fallout of Covid-19.
The Ford Foundation announced the pricing and sale of a $1 billion Social Bond, the net proceeds of which will help support and strengthen nonprofit organizations hit hard by COVID-19 pandemic. This Social Bond is the first-ever such offering by a U.S. nonprofit foundation in the taxable corporate bond market.
The fund will provide much needed capital to emerging impact businesses that lack access to adequate affordable capital and expand racial and gender diversity in the community development field.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation take extraordinary action to increase support to nonprofits faced with an unprecedented crisis due to Covid-19.
Ford is first nonprofit foundation to offer ESG bonds for social impact to strengthen nonprofits affected by the global pandemic and epidemic of social injustice
Ford joins the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to over $1.7 billion to the nonprofit sector
Foundation commits $50 million investment to support the development of 240 global fellows over 10 years, introduces inaugural cohort of 24 emerging social change leaders.
The Disability Inclusion Fund, an initiative supported by Ford and leading philanthropies, launched a $200,000 rapid response fund to support the needs of people with disabilities impacted by the coronavirus.
The fund has raised more than $95 million from 500 donors, with $44 million already awarded to support 276 critical New York City nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
With an aim of raising $20 million, and initial commitment of over $7 million, a new rapid response fund advances direct cash support and policy responses for and with working families affected by COVID-19.
The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Depelsha McGruder as Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer.
The Ford Foundation announces the launch of a $75-million fund to support New York City nonprofits in the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation, Robin Hood and a number of other funders.
