SPOTLIGHT
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Peter Bell: An Unreconstructed Idealist
Peter Bell died April 4 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after a long struggle with cancer, surrounded by his family. He was 73. |
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An Interview With Darren Walker
A recent conversation between the new Ford Foundation president and Michael Seltzer. |
NEWSLETTER
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By Jon Funabiki Listen to the people and you quickly understand that the situation in Detroit is complicated and that it didn’t sneak up on them. |
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Detroit Bankruptcy: A Work in Progress
By James Kelly The Ford Foundation’s new president, Darren Walker, is front and center among foundation leaders who are involved in a philanthropic initiative to help Detroit move forward to a more promising post-bankruptcy future. |
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The play finished its scheduled month-long run April 13, but the cast can be seen discussing the play and their experiences during its creation and New York run. |
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Cesar’s Last Fast, a film chronicling Cesar Chavez’s 36-day water-only hunger strike near the end of his life, is scheduled to be shown June 5 at the Ford Foundation. |
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By Richard Magat A long-deserved tribute to the modern elevator has been issued by Daniel Levinson Wilk, an associate professor of history at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and a board member of the Elevator Museum in Queens. |
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Fran Korten, “Money and Politics”; Rosalia Sciortino, “Beware Emerging Neo-Malthusian Concerns”; Alan Jenkins, “The Need for Executive Action”. |
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Ten people got together in January in Bangkok for an informal lunch of the LAFF Society’s Thailand chapter. |
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A Call for Reforms After Philippines Typhoon
By Raymond C. Offenheiser Oxfam America’s recovery efforts after Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines in November 2013. |
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Robert Bellah: A Bit of FF History
By Willard J. Hertz Little-known facts about how the interests of the Foundation intersected with Bellah's interests. |
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By Willard J. Hertz The homicidal contractor at the Navy Yard in Washington reminded me of a disturbing incident with a gun-carrying contractor that the Ford Foundation had to contend with in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) 47 years ago. |
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Call for articles and photos for a special issue on the Ford Foundations’s role in South Aftrica. |
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A Farmers Market For the Urban Poor
In an opinion piece in The Washington Post, Michael Lipsky writes of a farmers market founded in a Washington, D.C., suburb to meet the needs of low-income people. |
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These disturbing videos of the turmoil in Egypt have been provided by Alia Arafa, who wrote the article “Morsi of Egypt After One Year”. |
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Brazil: Soccer and Citizenship
By Shepard Forman A decade of dramatic economic growth has led to vast private foreign investment and the emergence of Brazil on the world stage. |
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Morsi of Egypt After One Year: Neither a Muslim nor a Brother
By Alia A. Halim Arafa President Morsi took major decisions that manifested misuse and abuse of power, violated the constitution, and gave himself unprecedented powers. |
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After Gay-Rights Victory, a New Challenge for Grant Makers By Michael Seltzer The Supreme Court’s decision marks a time for philanthropy to reflect on its power to further social justice. |
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Guinea-Bissau: International Orphan
By Shepard Forman The LAFF president traveled to Guinea-Bissau earlier this year as part of a team on an assignment from the Secretary General of the United Nations. |
LAFF PARADE |
News About Former Ford Foundation Staff6/3/2014 News about Tom Malinowski, John Colborn, Elizabeth Theobald Richards, and Elizabeth McKeon. |
CLIPPINGS
Selection Of Articles Published Elsewhere
Four Dimensions of Nuclear Chess GameBy Gary Sick | 5/5/2014 A government negotiating with another government is almost inevitably required to conduct a second negotiation with its own domestic constituents whose own interests will be affected by the outcome. |
Faith in FishBy David Finkelstein | 3/20/2014 AN OUTDOOR EDITOR FRIEND OF MINE, A MAN BORN in the South but long resident in New York City, recently moved back to Alabama. Calling to say hello from his new home in a Birmingham suburb, he reported "a big difference down here from up there." |
Coalition Seeks Public's Advice on New York City's Goals11/11/2013 As Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio prepares to succeed Michael R. Bloomberg, a coalition of leading foundations will unveil an ambitious citywide effort to enlist regular New Yorkers in sharing their views about the city’s future. |
Ubinas Reflects on Six Years as President of the Ford Foundation8/6/2013 In a wide-ranging interview with Rahim Kanani of the Skoll World Forum, Ubiñas reflects on his tenure at the foundation, the state of philanthropy today, measuring and evaluating long-term progress, critical lessons in leadership, and much more. |
After a Gay Rights Victory, A New Challenge for Grant MakersBy Michael Seltzer | 7/12/2013 The Supreme Court found that the Defense of Marriage Act violates the constitution of the United States and that marriage equality is the law in those states where same-sex marriage is legal. It’s also time for philanthropy to reflect on its power to further social justice |
Warren Wilson president is down-to-earth guy4/26/2013 For those of us whose leanings are toward gentler disciplines such as literature and philosophy, a quick perusal of Warren Wilson College President Steve Solnick’s curriculum vitae might invite a touch of academic intimidation. |
Reminiscences on a grantee-grantor relationshipBy Rosalia Maria Emanuela Sciortino | 1/16/2013 When one reaches a certain age – as in my case – there is a tendency to look back and reflect on one’s experiences, including the transformations in one’s own career landscape over time. In the more than 20 years of working with international philanthropic and development organisations of a grant-making nature in Southeast Asia, I have seen many ideologies and trends emerge and wane. |
Mideast peace starts with talking to IranBy Gary Sick | 11/16/2012 (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is getting a lot of free advice. Here's a question, not an answer: With every issue in the Middle East intertwined with every other, like a giant bowl of spaghetti, where do you begin? |
Former White House Aide Reviews 'Argo'By Gary Sick | 10/18/2012 On NPR's Talk of the Nation, Gary Sick reviews the movie Argo that "tells the story of the six American diplomats who narrowly escaped the U.S. embassy in Tehran as the Iran hostage crisis erupted in late 1979." |
Ford Needs a Smarter Approach to Newspaper Grants8/14/2012 The Ford Foundation’s announcement last month that it is providing $500,000 to help The Washington Post strengthen its coverage of government-accountability issues is inappropriate and a waste of money. |
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. |
Crisis-Managing U.S.-Iran RelationsBy Gary Sick | 3/6/2012 The results of Iran's March 2 parliamentary elections have bolstered the position of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with a majority of seats going to his allies (NYT). Khamenei will now likely move to end the presidential system to further consolidate “his power as the ultimate leader in Iran,” says Iran expert Gary Sick. |
How to Ask Candidates Questions that Make a DifferenceBy Frances Korten | 2/24/2012 The Occupy movement has changed the political conversation. But will it make a difference in what politicians actually do? We can help—through the questions we ask. |