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Darren Walker, outgoing president of the Ford Foundation, is joining The Obama Foundation’s board of directors on November 1.
The Obama Foundation welcomed Ford Foundation president Darren Walker to its board of directors on Monday, where he will support Barack and Michelle Obama's mission to promote democracy and active ...
Heather Gerken The Ford Foundation has announced that Heather Gerken, the current dean of Yale Law School, will become its 11th president in November 2025.Gerken, a nationally recognised expert on ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Ford Foundation has settled on its next leader. Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken will succeed Darren Walker as the president of one of the largest U.S. charitable organizations, ...
Late last month, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, one of the world’s most influential left-leaning philanthropic organizations, announced his intention to step down. Mr ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Ford Foundation is coming through for documentary filmmakers in a big way. Today, the nonprofit philanthropic institution announced its latest round of grants under the foundation ...
Ford Foundation president Darren Walker Under a new strategy announced today, the Ford Foundation will double the amount it provides to grantees to cover administrative overhead costs and steer $1 ...
The Ford Foundation’s website states, [Ford has] a commitment to making human rights a key part of all our work, not an isolated component but a deliberate and integral approach within how we ...
Seth Wenig. FILE - Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, participates in the Global Citizen NOW conference in New York, April 28, 2023.
The Ford Foundation in 1968, a year before its interiors were landmarked. Photo by John Duprey/NY Daily News via Getty Images. Many were dismayed, in December, to read that Dan Kiley’s plantings ...
The Ford Foundation, which has provided $40 million to civil society NGOs in Israel since 2003, will not resume its funding for programs in Israel once its current grant round ends in two years.
The Ford Foundation grant will allow the newspaper to quickly hire two additional reporters and a deputy editor. To date, the newspaper has raised nearly $1.4 million of its $1.5 million goal, ...