SPOTLIGHT
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Richard Kapp: A Legacy in Music
By Willard J. Hertz Richard Kapp, a Foundation program officer in the arts in the 1970s, died in 2006. But Dick was also an orchestral conductor during and after his Foundation days, and his music lives on through his many recordings. |
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Excerpts from recent articles by LAFF members
“Last week we participated in a teach-in at Occupy Wall Street, in which we linked the problems caused by the financial sector with a broader concern over human rights in the U.S.” |
NEWSLETTER
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Latin America and the Arab Spring: Civil-Military Relations By Shepard Forman Four former Foundation staff members were reunited recently in Brasilia at a workshop, “Agents or Guardians: Military-Civilian Relations in Latin America and the Middle East”... |
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Tamiflu, Scamiflu, A Bi Gezunt By David Finkelstein In recent weeks I’ve had occasion to wonder whether Talmudic scholars of yore ever debated the question of what to do when a nice Jewish boy came down with swine flu. |
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By Sheila Gordon A recent study by the Pew Foundation reports that 15 percent of new marriages in the United States are inter-racial. And gay marriage is breaking legal barriers daily. |
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Foundation History: Ford's IPO Foreshadowed Facebook's By Richard Magat Like Facebook’s recent public stock offering, more than a half-century earlier, in 1956, the Ford Motor Company floated the single largest IPO until then in Wall Street history. |
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The Mystery Corner
By Richard Magat A half century or so ago, Henry Ford II was a member of the board of the Ford Foundation. … |
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Michael Seltzer spoke recently with David R. Jones, president of Community Service Society of New York, about poverty in America and what “the growing... |
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A history of the Foundation’s first three decades has been written by two long-time Ford staff and current LAFF members. |
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The Society’s website, redesigned and reimagined, has its official unveiling. |
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LAFF’s website furthers the Society’s goal of “promoting social and professional contacts among its members” by publishing items on their experiences, activities and ideas … |
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Artist-endowed Foundations: A Growing Force in Philanthropy By Christine J. Vincent Newly emerged as a force in cultural philanthropy, artist-endowed private foundations react to censorship by major museums. |
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LAFF members have a standing invitation to a documentary film series sponsored by Philanthropy New York. This is the series’ fourth year and some of the films are shown at The Ford Foundation. |
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The focus of the meeting’s panel was on Latin America’s transition from military to civilian rule, the end of apartheid in South Africa, and the shift in Eastern Europe from communism to democracy. |
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By Richard Magat Despite acres of annual reports, news releases and voluminous records, it is safe to assume that the Ford Foundation harbors some mysteries. Time unveils some of them. Who, 20 or so years ago, could … |
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This month, we present the new LAFF Society Logo, produced by designer Laura Toma, and approved by the President, Shep Forman, and the Executive Committee. It is also being used with the tagline in … |
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By Robert E. Tolles The unusual details of Ann Dunham’s life are now the subject of a biography titled “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of the Mother of Barack Obama”. |
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By Ann Lesch A very public beating to death last June of 28-year-old Khaled Said outraged the public and rallied crowds of all ages on the streets of Alexandria and Cairo. |
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By Andrew Watson Migration has been one of the key factors creating prosperity in China’s urban and coastal areas and helping the emergence of a strong, internationally-competitive economy. |
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An illustrated text describing how Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal subsidized the work of artists, photographers, post office muralists, travel guide writers, and other interpreters of American culture to regenerate pride in our democracy. |
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By Robert Schrank This is an edited version of a much longer piece that appears on Bob Schrank’s very active and always intriguing blog at: robertschrank.blogspot.com. |
LAFF PARADE |
News About Former Ford Foundation Staff3/29/2012 News about Christine J. Vincent, Steven Solnick, Suzanne Siskel, Sara Rios, Titi Liu, Cyrus E. Driver, and Barbara Klugman. |
CLIPPINGS
Selection Of Articles Published Elsewhere
Blame Saddam: Another Way of Seeing Iran’s Nuclear Program4/20/2012 “When the revolution happened in 1979 the Shah of course was in the midst of developing a nuclear power program, and everybody suspected that he was really going to go for a bomb,” notes Gary Sick, a Columbia University expert who was at the National Security Council when... |
Meeting Iran: A Nuclear Summit Not for the Faint-HeartedBy Gary Sick | 4/11/2012 Gary Sick worked in international affairs at the Foundation from 1990 to 1995. The United States, Iran, and five other countries—Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany—are set to engage in a new round of talks in Istanbul, Turkey beginning on Friday and continuing into Saturday. |
Foundation Files Reveal Insights on Culture4/9/2012 James Baldwin needed some money. It was 1959, six years before Congress created national endowments for the arts and humanities to support struggling artists and cultural institutions....Mr. Lowry had the last word in deciding which artists, writers and performers would receive grants from the Ford Foundation, the richest private source of cultural largess at the time. |
Occupy Wall Street Abandoned PR 101By Leslie Gottlieb | 4/9/2012 I wasn’t involved in the Occupy Wall Street activities, although I followed the movement closely and admired many of its ideas and ideals. As a public relations professional, however, I was increasingly frustrated by the inability of its participants to adhere to basic PR principles. If they had, I believe they would have made a much more powerful impact on the public... |
Media Watch | Leaks Ahead of Nuclear Talks4/8/2012 "If it's Sunday," Columbia University scholar Gary Sick wrote in an email to Gulf 2000, a listserv he moderates, "it must be time for major U.S. government 'leaks' (really planted stories) about Iran. Positioning and spinning is particularly important with negotiations possibly ready to start." |
Corporate Personhood with Fran KortenBy Frances Korten | 4/7/2012 YouTube Video - Fran Korten, Executive Director of "Yes!" Magazine talks about our relationship to corporations and how we can end corporate rule. She spoke at Chimacum High School on March 30, 2012 with Steven Reisler, President of the Seattle Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. |
What It Will Take to 'Graduate' 1.2 Billion People Out of Extreme Poverty4/4/2012 A new report from the World Bank brings welcome news on the global poverty front. |
Can Goldman Sachs Find Its Purpose?By Judith F. Samuelson | 3/20/2012 A teacher at a prominent business school takes her students through a simple exercise each semester. Every student must register a new company, which means paying a $60 fee and describing the new enterprise's purpose on a form. The professor's teachable moment in this: Purpose is the starting point, and as the principal of the business, you get to decide. |