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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Reimagine Recovery: A playbook for an equitable future
Ford Foundation
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What we’ve built with BUILD
Hilary Pennington
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BUILDing an economy that works for all
Anna Shireen Wadia
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Supporting Ukraine and the values of democracy
Darren Walker
Mellon and Ford Foundations Announce Second Cohort of Latinx Artist Fellows
Ford Foundation: frontline organizations and private/public partnerships hold keys to global COVID-19 recovery
Private-Equity Giants Back New Nonprofit Promoting Employee Ownership
Ford Foundation Appoints Sarita Gupta as its Next Vice President of US Programs
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.
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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.
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