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    Margaret Pepperdene, 89, teacher and scholar  Nov 24, 2009
    She was the recipient of several fellowships: the Fulbright Program, Ford Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Dublin Institute for for Advanced Studies. In 1987, the Georgia Humanities Council honored her with its Governor's Award, which recognizes community members who work to increase understanding of the state's humanities. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)

    Five Apex Award finalists serve SW Fla.  Nov 20, 2009
    COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Founding member, Hunger Task Force; Harry Chapin Food Bank board of directors; Edison Ford Foundation board of directors; Cape Coral Women's Giving Alliance. WHAT APEX RECOGNITION MEANS TO ME: My accomplishments were not achieved alone, but rather in concert with other community servants. (The News-Press -- Business)

    Top Entertainment Stories Woman prepares hometown exhibit  Nov 9, 2009
    Hoard, a professor in the MU art department, is a former Fulbright Scholar to South Korea, a former Ford Foundation Fellow, and has lived as an artist in Italy and South Africa. Go online for information on Adrienne Walker Hoard's exhibit and other projects at www. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)

    Africa: 'Africans Should Become Their Own Philanthropists'  Nov 7, 2009
    As one example, the Ford Foundation has made 9,785 grants and spent 1 ... In stark contrast, Russell Ally, programme officer at the Ford Foundation, argued that there exists a "false dichotomy" between philanthropy and activism. (allAfrica.com)

    Read more...  Nov 6, 2009
    Ford Foundation Commits $100 Million to Transform Secondary Education :: PNNOnline. Ford Foundation Commits $100 Million to Transform Secondary Education Posted by: philcrosby on Thursday, November 5, 2009 ... The Ford Foundation today announced a new $100 million initiative to transform secondary education in urban schools across the country, saying it wants to help build the conditions and resources required to provide a great education to public school students. (PNN Online)

    Authors scrutiny of the powerful is proof positive  Nov 6, 2009
    In Internal Combustion, he writes about a massive criminal conspiracy perpetrated by General Motors to undermine local mass transit in dozens of cities across the U.S. In his four-part investigative piece for JTA entitled Funding Hate, Black states that the multi-billion dollar philanthropy Ford Foundation was a leading bankroller of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hate overseas. And his article Eugenics and the Nazis reports how The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program... (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Morehouses Crossroads Has Nothing To Do With Ghetto Gear or Cross-Dressing  Oct 21, 2009
    is a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow in American Studies. He writes at. (Slate)

    Matching Gifts  Oct 21, 2009
    Matching Gift Companies - CLEMSON UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE. Matching Gift Companies Thank you for making the extra effort - and for your doubled support. (Clemsontigers.com)

    Running out of room  Oct 18, 2009
    When I went to the League of Oregon Cities meeting, we found out the Ford Foundation does have public safety grants, and we are pursing that, looking into whether we qualify, he said. Pat Caldwell is the editor of the Argus Observer. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)

    Artistic Sketches of Remembered Names -- Donley Phillips Continues to Captivate Readers' Emotions With His Second Edition of Selected Poems  Oct 7, 2009
    In 1953, Phillips was awarded a scholarship to tour Europe in a student exchange program, sponsored by the NAACP. Upon his return to the USA, he received a Ford Foundation Scholarship to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1955, Phillips moved to Los Angeles, California. (Primezone Releases)

    RACE: Are We So Different? Will Help Visitors Explore the Reality - and Unreality - of Race  Sep 19, 2009
    RACE is part of a larger public education project from American Anthropological Association and funded by the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The project is intended to inform and shape the national dialogue about race. (PR Newswire)

    Heard Museum names executive director  Sep 19, 2009
    She is a longtime board member of the Institute of American Indian Arts and Culture, which includes a college and a contemporary Indian art museum in Santa Fe, N.M. She also is a founding director of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, which has ongoing support from the Ford Foundation. Chambers is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and holds a doctorate in educational research and curriculum development from Oklahoma State University. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)

    U. Va. to host 'Engaging the Mind' program  Sep 16, 2009
    In addition, Fairchild is working with the Ford Foundation Rural Equity Project, which recognizes that regional economic prosperity is often increasingly dictated by the ability of local entrepreneurs to turn assets, ideas and opportunity into new business and community ventures. It has long been known that within our nation's rural communities, access to capital to grow job-creating and wealth-creating firms are in short supply. (Chatham Star Tribune, VA)

    COCA founder stepping down  Sep 12, 2009
    Cyrus Driver, program officer of the Ford Foundation called Riven a St. Louis treasure. Stephanie Riven is among a handful of extraordinary leaders in arts education across the country who is able to make her deep commitments to equity, social justice and student voice real through the building of a stunning institution that benefits tens of thousands of children every year, Driver said in a statement. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)

    Survey: Dioxin levels high in Vietnam near US base  Sep 12, 2009
    The study was funded by the Ford Foundation and commissioned by Vietnamese environmental officials, who are working with their American counterparts to address the environmental and health effects of dioxin at several Agent Orange "hotspots" in Vietnam. After years of disagreement, the two sides began working together in 2006 to address problems linked to the herbicide, and they began their efforts in Danang. (Longview Daily News, WA)

    NISBETT COMPLETES DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP  Sep 12, 2009
    The American Chamber of Commerce Executives announced this week that Lou Ann Nisbett, president and chief executive officer of The Economic Development Alliance of Jefferson County, completed the 12-month Fellowship for Regional Sustainable Development funded by the Ford Foundation ... Nisbett was one of 54 fellows in the 2008-2009 program, the second year that the New York-based Ford Foundation has funded the fellowship. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)

    Organic Electronics A Two-way Street, Thanks To New Plastic Semiconductor  Sep 8, 2009
    The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the Ford Foundation. Silicon Valley got its name for a reason: Silicon is the "workhorse" of today's electronics industry, Jenekhe said. (Science Daily)

    The Oval politics blog  Aug 27, 2009
    A George Mason University professor who has worked for The Washington Post,The New York Times and the Ford Foundation, Wilkins, 77, counts his time at the Community Relations Service as "the highlight of my life.". Despite some "horrible moments" -- Wilkins was at the agency at the time of the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy -- he said the job was particularly fulfilling. (Florida Today)

    Wide Angle Investigates an International Plot to Control West African Oil in Once Upon a Coup, August 26 on PBS  Aug 26, 2009
    Funding for Wide Angle is provided by PBS, Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, Judy and Josh Weston, the Estates of Helen and Sam Roseman, Bernard and Irene Schwartz, The Shelley d Rubin Foundation, and the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation. Corporate support is provided by Mutual of America Life Insurance Company. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Indonesian Fabrics Offer Glimpse Into Life of Obama’s Mother  Aug 25, 2009
    After leaving Indonesia and moving back to Hawaii, Dunham was involved with the Ford Foundation and USAID, helping create projects that benefited poor craftswomen. Gittinger noted, She excelled in understanding little people. (Roll Call)

    Richard Poirier; literary critic and writer who founded Library of America  Aug 22, 2009
    With grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the nonprofit venture began publishing in May 1982, with works by Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman. Nearly 200 volumes collecting the works of Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Philip Roth, and other writers have been published to date. (Boston Globe)

    McKinney Chamber announces new President & CEO  Aug 18, 2009
    In 2009 she completed the Ford Foundation Fellowship for Regional Sustainable Development also through the American Chamber of Commerce Executives. I am excited about the opportunity to serve the members of the McKinney Chamber and work with our community partners in positively impacting the future growth and development of McKinney. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)

    Power Breakfast: Health reform, pensions, Japanese rebound  Aug 18, 2009
    The United States VOTER should have the last word, not corrupt members of the Democratic leadership, the Republican minority party and certainly not La Raza or ACLU, US Chamber of Commerce, Council of Foreign Relations, Cato Institute, billionaire George Soros, Ford Foundation and a multitude of self interest groups. In health care the insurance companies have used their political currency, to weaken any prospect of a Canadian or European style public health care option. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)

    JSU raises profile of research center  Aug 17, 2009
    In addition to support from Jackson State, the center also has obtained grants from non-profit organizations like the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It also brings in funding from individuals who pay amounts ranging from $5 to become a student member to $2,000 for a corporate membership. (The Clarion-Ledger)

    Cambodia joinsmicroloan clean-up  Aug 14, 2009
    In June, Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea was one of three MFIs worldwide to receive the first gold award for social performance reporting from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and Consultative Group to Assist the Poor. "Cambodian MFIs have been at the forefront of industry reporting for many years," MIX's chief operating officer Blaine Stephens wrote in an e-mail in response to Asia Times Online questions. (Asia Times Online)

    * Obama driven by mothers tragedy  Aug 13, 2009
    His mother, who held a doctorate degree in anthropology, forged a career in international economic development, working for a while with the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and later with the US Agency for International Development and the World Bank and helping to guide micro-enterprise projects to aid poor women. In [her] last painful months, she was more worried about paying her medical bills than getting well, Obama said in one campaign advertisement that aired last year. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)

    Tanzania: Development is a Walk in the Park...  Aug 11, 2009
    com: Tanzania: Development is a Walk in the Park. Tanzania: Development is a Walk in the Park. (allAfrica.com)

    Tanzania: Historic Forodhani Park Shines Again, After U.S.$2 Million Facelift  Aug 4, 2009
    The Trust has also worked with the government and international partners -- such as the government of Sweden and the Ford Foundation -- to provide workshops on conservation practices and traditional construction methods for craftsmen, building professionals and government officers. According to Mr Pickens, the creation of an Indian Ocean Maritime Museum is also proposed. (allAfrica.com)

    Park board, Jensen honoring Scholder at Chahinkapa  Jul 31, 2009
    Last Updated on Thursday, Jul 30, 2009 - 03:23:08 pm CDT. by Erin C. Hevern Daily News Published/Last Modified on Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:23 PM CDT. (Wahpeton Daily News, ND)

    Tanzania: Forodhani Restoration Completed  Jul 27, 2009
    The trust has also worked with the Government of Sweden and the Ford foundation to provide training workshops on conservation and traditional construction methods for architects. The trust has been active in Zanzibar since 1989 and has successfully completed restoring eleven buildings in the stone town. (allAfrica.com)

    Obama appoints Berrien new head of EEOC  Jul 17, 2009
    Berrien previously served for three years as program officer in the Ford Foundation s peace and social justice program, where she administered more than $13 million in grants to promote political participation by underrepresented groups. She also has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union. (Boston Globe)

    End secrecy for campus nonprofits  Jul 16, 2009
    The conference, "Transformative Models in Higher Education," was organized by the University of Michigan's Center for Advancing Research ions for Society (CARSS), hosted by Emory University and funded by the Ford Foundation. Groups participating in the conference, held June 18-19, were education researchers, higher-education administrators and foundations with a strong focus on education. (Fresno Bee)

    College culture wars: Campuses seek balance  Jul 11, 2009
    Missouri recently hosted a Ford Foundation "difficult dialogues" workshop for campus leaders from nine schools: Alaska-Anchorage, Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri-St ... Robert O'Neil, who heads the Ford Foundation effort, called the balancing act required of faculty members faced with divisive classroom comments a "constant dilemma.". (USA Today -- News)

    College campuses seek balance when views collide  Jul 11, 2009
    A $4 million Ford Foundation initiative that began in 2006 and was expanded this year aims to promote dialogue on college campuses after a series of clashes between liberals and conservatives ... Missouri recently hosted a Ford Foundation "difficult dialogues" workshop for campus leaders from nine schools: Alaska-Anchorage, Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri-St ... Robert O'Neil, who heads the Ford Foundation effort, called the balancing act required of faculty members faced with divisive... (The Augusta Chronicle)

    National groups prepared to head to court on council's prayer policy (1872)  Jul 11, 2009
    danielh wrote on Jul 4, 2009 11:51 AM:" Mazie, Here's something that would be good to do:In the figures above, do you see the $1.033 million in other contributions, and$241,306 in income from the foundation's investments.Is not there a law for tax-exempt organizations to disclose the sources for their revenue?Who and what are they?If you want to do a counter-strike, it would be helpful to know who and what are these sources.Everybody has something that they don't like. If you learn that one of... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)

    No rubber stamp  Jul 7, 2009
    Kenya's XYZ Show has been in the pipeline since 2002 but was recently given a financial leg-up when several embassies and the Ford Foundation came forward to support it. Projects that might help keep the politicians under scrutiny and promote democracy and accountability are seen by donors as worth sponsoring. (BBC News -- Africa)

    National foundation heads met in Anchorage  Jul 5, 2009
    USA was started as a partnership between the Ford Foundation -- which Berresford led until last year -- Prudential Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Alaska's Rasmuson Foundation; Rasmuson head Diane Kaplan is part of the national board. In the past three years eight Alaskans have received unrestricted USA Fellowship Grants of $50,000 each. (Anchorage Daily News)

    Grants available for workforce partnerships focused on green skills  Jul 3, 2009
    National Funders for NFWS include The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, The Hitachi Foundation, The U.S. Department of Labor, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Microsoft, and The Prudential Foundation. Additionally, national partnerships have been established with Jobs for the Future and the Council on Foundations. (Chatham Star Tribune, VA)

    Nigeria: Country's External Debt Rises to $3.6 Billion  Jul 1, 2009
    Disclosing this yesterday at a two-day workshop on the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007 organised by the Centre for Social Justice with the support of Ford Foundation in Owerri, Imo State, Director General. of Debt Management Office (DMO), Dr. Abraham Nwankwo, noted that it was important that the external debt accounted for about 16 percent and the domestic debt about 84 percent of the total public debt portfolio. (allAfrica.com)

    JIM DOYLE: Effects of Agent Orange carry on  Jun 27, 2009
    On June 2, the Ford Foundation released the results of a lengthy study on the effects of Agent Orange/Dioxin, and confirmed what Vietnam veterans have known for years: This stuff will kill you, or worse, pass to your children and grandchildren and cause a range of disabilities and diseases that will profoundly affect their lives ... The Ford Foundation report calls for improved diagnosis and treatment, and continued study of the environmental and health effects of Agent Orange. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)

    California Immigrant Activist Charged With Vote Fraud...  Jun 26, 2009
    Southern California - this just in From the staff of the Los Angeles Times and. Felony charges have been filed and an arrest warrant issued for a well-known Orange County political activist suspected of committing election and voter registration fraud, the California secretary of State's office announced Wednesday. (The Drudge Report)

    Judge Probing Cheney's CIA Leak Role  Jun 19, 2009
    Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Journalism Awards luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, June 1, 2009. (AP). (CBS News)

    Ghanaian Engineers and Scientists: Do they have low IQs?  Jun 18, 2009
    Every year DFID, Ford Foundation etc offer scholarships to so called brainy students from Ghanaian institutions to further their education abroad. Well, DFID or Ford Foundation should consider focusing their attention on our artisans like the blacksmiths, wood carvers kente weavers etc. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Cheney's secret briefings defended interrogations  Jun 4, 2009
    Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Journalism Awards luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, June 1, 2009 ... Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Journalism Awards luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, June 1, 2009. (Albany Times Union)

    Ford Foundation gives $1 million to Detroit Symphony to aid fundraising efforts  Jun 4, 2009
    DETROIT (AP) The Ford Foundation is boosting the struggling Detroit Symphony Orchestra with a three-year, $1 million grant to help expand its donor base ... Symphony President Anne Parsons tells the Detroit Free Press that Ford foundation officials see the symphony "going in the right direction.". (FOX61, CT)

    Geithner's Asia Background Shows on His China Trip  Jun 2, 2009
    His father Peter was a senior executive running Asia programs for the Ford Foundation, and as a boy Geithner lived in India and Thailand. In college he studied both Mandarin and Japanese, and as he told the students this morning, his two summers in Beijing (he came after his junior year as well) helped convince him that "I wanted to work for my government, and help to shape its policy toward this part of the world." (). (Time.com)

    Cheney: Gitmo holds worst of the worst  Jun 2, 2009
    Former Vice President Dick Cheney at the Ford Foundation Journalism Awards luncheon on Monday. . (MSNBC -- International)

    US Treasury said Monday global recession losing force(2nd update)  Jun 1, 2009
    In addition to meeting with some of his former professors on Monday, Geithner was scheduled to visit an economist training program set up by his father when the elder Geithner was in charge of Ford Foundation programs in Asia ... In addition to meeting with some of his former professors on Monday, Geithner was scheduled to visit an economist training program set up by his father when the elder Geithner was in charge of Ford Foundation programs in Asia ... In addition to meeting with some of his... (The Star Online, Malaysia)

    * Geithner leaves for China visit  Jun 1, 2009
    Geithner will hold an event at a Ford Foundation program in Beijing to support the study of economics in the US. The program was started by his father when the elder -Geithner was based in Asia as a foundation official. That the chief US economic policymaker is going hat-in-hand to the Chinese to explain the soaring deficits shows how much has changed since Bushs treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, met with the Chinese in 2006. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)

    In China, Geithner calls for closer cooperation  Jun 1, 2009
    In addition to meeting with some of his former professors on Monday, Geithner was scheduled to visit an economist training program set up by his father when the elder Geithner was in charge of Ford Foundation programs in Asia. The Obama administration and China have come out with two massive economic stimulus plans while European countries have resisted Obamas calls to do more. (MSNBC -- Business)

    Geithner Sees More Durable Stability in Economy  Jun 1, 2009
    He'll also visit the Ford Foundation, a place he has a personal interest in given that his father helped establish the Beijing office of the organization. Experts say the crisis and rising deficits have left Geithner with less maneuverability to push China for immediate, significant economic policy changes. (SmartMoney)

    US Treasury reaches out to China  May 30, 2009
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    `Real Housewives' of D.C. Can't Beat C-SPAN  May 29, 2009
    As for philanthropy, there is no or Ford Foundation. The Rockefeller we have is in the Senate, lives quietly and lets the relatives handle the family fortune. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)

    Girl's guide to Gotham  May 27, 2009
    Head toward the UN, past the Chrysler building and to the Ford Foundation, designed by Kevin Roche. Its indoor garden is a gift to the public its beautiful and serene, a lovely moments pause in this crazy-busy city. (iAfrica.com)

    Gun-Grabbers Undermine U.S. Sovereignty  May 26, 2009
    Its funders include the United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Compton Foundation, Ploughshares Fund. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Samuel Rubin Foundation and Christian Aid. (Human Events Online)

    Gov, 'Gloria' Light Up Fete  May 22, 2009
    Also raising the roof were honoree Lin-Manuel Miranda, Museo Director Julian Zugazagoitia, actor Richard Turley, frockmongers Isabel Toledo and Brian Reyes, and Vogue sub-editor Meredith Burke, who busied herself switching place cards and chitchatting while Ford Foundation President Luis Ubias laid 1 million on the museum. . (New York Post -- Gossip)

    Elton John talks AIDS at BIO convention  May 21, 2009
    We are not endowed like the Ford Foundation or the Gates Foundation, John said, adding that every dollar spent is raised privately. We are the David of non-profits, fighting the Goliath of diseases. (San Francisco Business Times, CA)

    New Economy Initiative Announces $9.25 Million Investment to Assist Automotive Suppliers and Advance Entrepreneurship  May 19, 2009
    the Ford Foundation (New York), the Hudson-Webber Foundation (Detroit), the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich. the John S. and James L. (PR Newswire)

    Haiti Hosts Opening Ceremony of the 2009 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial: Worldwide Events Commence With the Announcement of a National HIV Testing Campaign in Haiti  May 17, 2009
    The Ford Foundation and the Abbott Fund are major supporters of the IACM.. The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. (PR Newswire)

    Open forum: Journalism students lead way  May 16, 2009
    org), the school earned a $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation last year to replicate the digital site for other communities in the Bay Area increasingly neglected by the local media. At a time when the Bay Area print news industry is in a struggle for survival, with audiences and advertising increasingly streaming to the Web, Linjun's remarkable experiences engaging Albany citizens in the news - and similar high-quality local journalism by her 49 fellow students in the class of 2009, who... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Same Old Cuba  May 15, 2009
    Designers like Carolina H 00004000 errera, Francisco Costa and Narciso Rodri guez will also toast Luis Antonio Ubias, the South Bronx Puerto Rican who got an MBA from Harvard and be came president of the Ford Foundation. . (New York Post -- Gossip)

    GM chiefs dump their shares, and investors follow  May 13, 2009
    The public offering of common stock is a first for the 105-year-old Ford Motor Co., which went public when the Ford Foundation liquidated its shares of the company in 1956. Since then, the number of shares has multiplied with employee stock options, stock splits and preferred stock offerings. (Globe and Mail)

    Ford Foundation to Help Buy Up Foreclosures  May 5, 2009
    REALTOR Magazine Online: The real estate professional's business support tool. YOUR INTERACTIVE MAGAZINE REALTOR.ORG/realtormag. (Realtor Magazine Online)

    Bailouts Not Enough — How About Philanthropies?  May 3, 2009
    Private charities like the Ford Foundation are helping people fend off foreclosures in the Atlanta area ... Many of our areas of work focus on the very issues that the crisis has brought to the surface, so we are well-positioned to make useful contributions now and as things continue to unfold, said Ford Foundation spokeswoman Fiona Guthrie ... And in Atlanta, where Consumer Credit Counseling Services is now using the Ford Foundation s grant to create software to prevent foreclosure, they expect... (Fox News)

    Soledad O'Brien, Anthony Romero and Other Latino Leaders Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Hispanics in Philanthropy  May 2, 2009
    The other recipients of the HIP Leadership Award were Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union; Lin-Manual Miranda, star, creator & composer of the Tony-winning Broadway musical In the Heights; Luis Ubinas, president of the Ford Foundation; and Linda Griego, CEO of Griego Enterprises and a trustee of the Packard Foundation. "When Diana started Hispanics in Philanthropy 25 years ago, Hispanics were an invisible minority, unseen and unheard in the philanthropic... (PR Newswire)

    Schedule of Upcoming Luncheons at the National Press Club  May 1, 2009
    Text hiding to spacing. NATIONAL PRESS CLUB LOGO. (PRNewsFoto/NATIONAL PRESS CLUB) WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES. (PR Newswire)

    Native Hawaiian named national CEO  Apr 29, 2009
    The Ford Foundation recently donated $10 million, and the Wintun Indians have given another $1. 3 million. (Pacific Business News, HI)

    India's politicos dangle US$1 trillion hope  Apr 28, 2009
    Individuals and 25 foundations, including the Ford Foundation, give it donations. 2. (Asia Times Online)

    Big Brother watching  Apr 28, 2009
    They will kill any proposed legislation such as E-Verify, Real ID act, Feds police illegal immigration training law such as 247(g) Any illegal immigration law will be confronted by the corporate wealthy elites, ACLU, US Chamber of Commerce, Ford Foundation and other open border entities, who have no intention of stopping the estimated 13 to 20 million illegal alien invasion or the drug trade. Nobody works for the public good in Washington anymore. (Helena Independent Record)

    Indigenous peoples at world summit to share climate change observations, coping techniques  Apr 20, 2009
    Public release date: 19-Apr-2009. Contact: Terry Collins. (EurekAlert!)

    Fund raiser planned to aid Ambos Nogales  Apr 18, 2009
    SCCF has received a two-year Ford Foundation grant to help agencies address the epidemic of diabetes in the border region. Funds raised will help the foundation provide technical assistance to local non-profits. (Nogales International, AZ)

    Hilton Als: How Katherine Anne Porter perfected herself.  Apr 14, 2009
    Enameled Lady: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker (New Yorker)

    Eight Cities Selected to Promote Financial Stability Through Bank On Cities Campaign  Apr 13, 2009
    NLC's Bank On Cities Campaign is supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Ford Foundation. In 2008, the YEF Institute's Bank On Cities Campaign provided technical assistance to ten cities, many of which have already launched successful programs to reach the unbanked. (PR Newswire)

    Sundance exec director steps down  Apr 11, 2009
    He also attacted grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Annenberg Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. "I have completed my work in building an outstanding leadership team," he said in a statement. (Variety)

    San Joaquin Delta College campus may host new high school (5)  Apr 2, 2009
    The Early College High School Initiative is sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Source: California Department of Education. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)

    Arts leader Peter F. Donnelly dies  Mar 30, 2009
    Donnelly arrived at the in 1964 as a Ford Foundation intern, and rose through the ranks to become head of the theater. He joined ArtsFund, then known as the Corporate Council for the Arts, in 1989. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)

    A Closer Look At Treasury Sec. Geithner  Mar 29, 2009
    With a father who worked abroad for the U.S. Agency for International Development and then the Ford Foundation, Geithner lived in Zambia and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as a child ... As it happens, Geithner's father, Peter, at one point oversaw a program developed by Obama's mother, Ann Dunham Soetoro, when she worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia. (CBS News)

    Against the Odds, New Public Radio International Documentary Series Debuts Monday April 6th with Hour-Long Feature on Rwanda Timed to 15th Anniversary of Genocide and Holocaust Awareness Month This April  Mar 27, 2009
    AGAINST THE ODDS is supported by The Ford Foundation, the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and The Goldman Sachs Foundation. AGAINST THE ODDS is a production of Ellis Cose, Incorporated. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Art, students and community spirit join in Laton  Mar 19, 2009
    Encouraging student involvement is a key part of the Otis project, which is partially funded by a Ford Foundation grant. Otis student Faith Purvey, for example, is guiding a group of Laton High School students in creating sculptures, which will be on display Saturday at the celebration. (Fresno Bee)

    ROBERT BRUCE SMITH:Beethoven rolls on!  Mar 17, 2009
    The American composer Joseph Schwantners Chasing Light opened the program, commissioned by the TSO and other U.S. orchestras under a Made in America grant from the Ford Foundation. Next came the world premiere of Polish composer Bartek Chajdeckis ethereal Hymn, a choral tribute to Pope John Paul II.. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)

    Who's who in the battle to save journalism  Mar 14, 2009
    Drawing on grant money from the Ford Foundation, this website operated out of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is trying to find a business model for community news. It does investigative journalism at a community level and attempts to cover issues that larger papers don't, such as micro-economic trends. (Globe and Mail)

    New look at sentencing guidelines for cocaine  Mar 8, 2009
    Her reporting was supported by the Justice and Journalism Fund, established by USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism with Ford Foundation funding. This article appeared on page H - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Helping language teachers in testing times  Mar 4, 2009
    He worked in Thailand for six years as a project specialist for the Ford Foundation, where he directed an intensive English program and conducted research into the assessment of language proficiency. He also spent three years at Teheran University in Iran developing an ESP reading curriculum. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)

    Nkrumah Already Has March Six!  Mar 4, 2009
    Now, let him get the following into his clinical numbskull: Mr. Mprah, I have read and written extensively about most of the King Literature, and was even once, while a Ford Foundation Undergraduate Fellow at the City College of New York, short-listed among the ranks of potential editorial assistants for the King Papers Project by Stanford University; and nowhere, absolutely nowhere, does the kind of guff that you are retailing appears. In any case, it was not for any woeful lack of leadership... (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    The New Economy Initiative Announces Support for Michigan's Economic Transition  Mar 2, 2009
    NEI includes $100 million in funding commitments from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (Detroit), the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation (Southfield, Michigan), the Ford Foundation (New York), the Hudson-Webber Foundation (Detroit), the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Michigan), the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami), The Kresge Foundation (Troy, Michigan), the McGregor Fund (Detroit), the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Michigan), and the Skillman... (PR Newswire)

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