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29 unusual facts about Ford Foundation


Al-Azhar Park

New foundations providing supplemental funding (such as Egyptian-Swiss Development Fund and Ford Foundation) were approached to start an invigoration program of the area of Darb-al-Ahmar and continue the flux of the program.

American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods

The program was funded early with a $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.

Burmese Way to Socialism

Foreign aid organizations, like the American-based Ford Foundation and Asia Foundation, as well as the World Bank, were no longer allowed to operate in the country.

Carl H. Freeman

He holds the Ford Foundation-Harvard University Innovations in American Government Award and the Organization of American States Medal for distinguished service in the areas of humanitarian de-mining and natural disaster assistance.

Center for High Impact Philanthropy

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy relies on a number of foundations for its funding, including the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

Frank Logue

After leaving the mayor's office, Logue was an active civic volunteer in New Haven and worked as a labor arbitrator and as a consultant to organizations including the Ford Foundation.

George B. Thomas

In the late 1950s, Thomas went to India with a grant from the Ford Foundation to train mathematics instructors.

George Tscherny

His corporate clients included Ernst & Whinney, Monadnock Paper Mills, The Ford Foundation, Pan Am, General Dynamics and Johnson & Johnson.

Gladys Carrion

After a period as a community development program officer at the Ford Foundation, Carrión was named executive director of Inwood House, one of the oldest programs in the city working to lift children and families out of poverty.

Hyam Plutzik

Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship for study of science as background to modern poetry 1954-1955.

International Centre for Theatre Research

Money was raised from the French government and various international foundations (Ford Foundation, Gulbenkian Foundation and Anderson Foundations)

Kustom Kar Kommandos

Production of the film was funded by a $10,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to Anger following the completion of his biker-themed film Scorpio Rising.

KUT

1993 - KUT celebrated its 35th anniversary and—in partnership with UT Austin's Center for Mexican American Studies and with major initial grants from The Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—launched the national radio series Latino USA at a "Cinco de Mayo" reception in Washington, D.C., with President Clinton in attendance along with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and cabinet secretaries Federico Peña and Henry Cisneros.

Mental Engineering

Two somewhat similar television shows aired on public TV stations in the 1960s: Public Broadcast Laboratory and Your Dollar's Worth, both sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

Meridian House

In 1960, a newly created non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international understanding, which later became Meridian International Center, received a grant from the Ford Foundation to purchase Meridian House.

National Ballet of Washington, D.C.

The National Ballet of Washington, DC was co-founded in 1962 by Jean Riddell, chairman of the board of the Washington Ballet Guild and a committed patron of the arts, and Frederic Franklin, artistic director, with financial assistance from the Ford Foundation.

National Educational Radio Network

With funding from the Ford Foundation, the network began broadcasting on six radio stations on April 3, 1961.

National Educational Television

The network was founded as the Educational Television and Radio Center (ETRC) in November 1952 by a grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Education.

New Israel Fund

In 2003 and 2008, the Ford Foundation provided five-year grants worth $20 million each to NGOs in Israel through the New Israel Fund.

Patuxent Youth Ballet

Before beginning a studio of her own, Ms. Mesa had been teaching at various studios throughout the Howard County district holding a B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland along with having training with the New York City Ballet through a Ford Foundation Scholarship.

Professional Master's in Social Sciences and Humanities

Professional Master's in Social Sciences and Humanities, abbreviated PMA, is an initiative by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and support from the Ford Foundation to create master's programs in social sciences and humanities that better prepare graduates for professional careers in business, government, and nonprofit sectors.

Public Radio Exchange

The PRX site and services launched in September 2003 after a two-year planning, research, and development phase supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ford Foundation.

San Francisco Ballet School

The Ford Foundation established its first ballet training program in 1958; beginning in 1959, the Foundation offered grants covering tuition and expenses for advanced ballet students selected to attend either New York City Ballet’s School of American Ballet or San Francisco Ballet School.

Sanskriti Museums

In the early years, it was largely privately funded by its members, later on it was received government funding, and from organisations like Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), and the Ford Foundation, and recently from the corporate sector.

Syahrir

After getting out of the prison, Ford Foundation, the sponsor of his scholarship, still granted him the opportunity to pursue his master degree.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Assisted by a Ford Foundation Challenge Grant, their budget grew, and recordings were regularly being broadcast on WONO-FM.

Test of English as a Foreign Language

The TOEFL test was first administered in 1964 by the Modern Language Association financed by grants from the Ford Foundation and Danforth Foundation.

University World News

University World News also publishes a fortnightly Africa edition that is supported by the Ford Foundation.

William S. Livingston

During his tenure, he received Ford and Guggenheim Fellowships, chaired two departments, developed numerous programs and served as Dean of the Graduate School and acting President of the University of Texas at Austin.


Center for Women in Government and Civil Society

CWGCS research has been supported through grants by the United States Department of Education, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Department of State (DoS), the Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Charles H. Revson Foundation, and other government agencies, private foundations, and non-profit organizations.

Charlie Hernández

After participating in the summer internship of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of the Princeton University in New Jersey, Hernández received a scholarship to continue postgraduate studies in Public Administration sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and then the Ford Foundation.

Cloverdale Corporation

The winner of the coveted American Library Association's Choice Magazine Academic Book of the Year Award in 1995, Cloverdale Corporation went on to receive five consecutive annual endorsements from both the Ford Foundation and the National Research Council as a leader in publishing first-book academic authors.

Dan Stoenescu

Among many honors and distinctions he was awarded the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, Ford Foundation scholarship, First Phi Theta Kappa All-California Academic Team, Presbyterian Church USA Samuel Roberson award, and distinctions from California governor Gray Davis, assembly member Wilma Chan, and senator Don Perata.

David S. Yost

Dr. Yost has been a consultant to various organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the Hudson Institute, the Ford Foundation, the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP), Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Edward Weidner

His work brought him and his family to countries including Vietnam, where he was consultant on assistance needs to the Foreign Ops Administration, and Pakistan, consulting on rural development academies for the Ford Foundation.

Frances D. Fergusson

While serving as Vassar's president, Fergusson also contributed her administrative talents as a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Ford Foundation from (1989–2001) and the Mayo Foundation / Mayo Clinic from 1988 to 2002.

International Center for Transitional Justice

Their initial five-year proposal received funding support from the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Andrus Family Fund.

Irving Kriesberg

Kriesberg has received two Ford Foundation grants, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Awards, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Award.

J. Clifford Hudson

Clifford Hudson (born 1954, Dallas) is an American business executive best known for serving as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Oklahoma City-based Sonic Corp. He also serves as a trustee of the Ford Foundation and was a past chairman of the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Jerome Swartz

Swartz received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The City College of New York and a Ph.D. also in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, receiving fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation along the way.

Mahendra P. Lama

Prof. Lama had been Chairman, Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asia and South West Pacific Studies at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, a Ford Foundation Fellow at Notre Dame University, USA, and a Visiting Professor in Hitotsubashi University, Japan.

Marc Galanter

He is an honorary professor of the National Law School of India, served as advisor to the Ford Foundation on legal services and human rights programs in India, and was retained as an expert by the government of India in the litigation arising from the Bhopal disaster.

Mark Bassin

His research has also been supported by grants from the AHRC, British Academy, DAAD, NCEEER, NEH, and the Ford Foundation.

Patrick V. Murphy

In late 1973, Murphy became president of the Police Foundation, which the Ford Foundation established in 1970 with a $30 million commitment.

Robert D. English

In addition, he has received fellowships from- among others- the Institute for Advanced Studyl the Princeton Society of Fellows; the U.S. Fund for Peace; the International Research & Exchanges Board; the Ford Foundation, where he has a "'Dual Expertise Fellowship' in Soviet/East European and national security affairs".

Roger M. Milgrim

He did graduate comparative law studies at NYU and the University of Paris School of Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.

Samuel Hoi

He has juried numerous exhibitions and served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Surdna Foundation, Wallace Foundation, the DC Commission on Art and Humanities, and the California Community Foundation.

Transformative social change

In 2009, the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation, a funding collaborative of representatives from small to large foundations, including W. W. Kellogg Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hidden Leaf Fund, Fetzer Institute, Jewish Funds for Justice, Seeds of Justice, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program and small family funds held an inaugural Transformative Leadership Awards and awarded six collaborative teams $30,000 and two finalists $5,000 for their work in the field.

Upendra Baxi

He was a former Ford Foundation Professor of Human Rights at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, and was succeeded by Justice Ruma Pal.

Women of Color Policy Network

The Women of Color Policy Network is a policy research entity funded by the Ford Foundation, New York Community Trust and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.