The Obama Foundation welcomed Ford Foundation president Darren Walker to its board of directors on Monday, where he will ...

Darren Walker’s post-Ford Foundation future is starting to take shape, as the outgoing president is now set to join The Obama ...

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, ...

Heather Gerken The Ford Foundation has announced that Heather Gerken, the current dean of Yale Law School, will become its ...

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 ...

But this effort by America’s top geopolitical adversary isn’t too far afield for the Ford Foundation to fund: It has given CDRF $600,000 to help realize its ambitions.

It was a shift in focus for the philanthropy, which was founded in 1936 by Edsel Ford, the only child of Henry Ford, the auto magnate. For many decades, the foundation’s giving was wide-ranging.

When Ford Foundation President Darren Walker announced the philanthropy’s FordForward plan for “disrupting inequality” in June 2015, the supposed success became a major failure: Somehow ...

The Ford Foundation has awarded the Studio Museum in Harlem a $10 million endowment to fund and name the position of director and chief curator for the foreseeable future.

The Ford Foundation’s net assets approached $16 billion in 2020, according to FoundationMark, which tracks endowments. Ford historically awards $500 to $600 million in grants annually. Walker said in ...

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 ...