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Interview Charles Keidan 30 March 2023

Darren Walker and Monica Aleman: we thread the needle as far as we can

Charles Keidan catches up with Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation and Monica Aleman, its International Program Director, Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice at Canada House shortly before a panel appearance at The Philanthropy …

Interview Alliance magazine 27 February 2022

Business of Philanthropy: Darren Walker

In a recent episode of the Business of Philanthropy, Badr Jafar, Emirati philanthropist and Founding Patron of the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge speaks with Darren Walker, President of the Ford …

Conference reports John Harvey 4 May 2015

Interview with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker

John Harvey sat down with Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, at the recent Global Philanthropy Forum, for a conversation on how he sees Ford moving forward under his leadership. JH   You’ve fairly recently …

Interview Darren Walker 1 June 2014

Interview with Darren Walker

‘What we have learned is that the Ford Foundation has done three things very well: building institutions, investing in people and advancing social innovation.’ The car has a new driver. Will he change direction? Will …

News Shafi Musaddique 20 October 2024

Kenya president U-turns on Ford Foundation attack 

Kenya president William Ruto has thanked the Ford Foundation for its role in supporting democracy, just months after accusing the US-based philanthropy of funding anti-government protests.  A meeting took place between Ruto and the Ford …

Opinion Ujjwal Gupta and Charlotte Vangsgaard 19 August 2024

On the journey to equitable philanthropy

In the 1960s, ‘the Negro Problem’ was a key agenda topic for a board meeting at the Ford Foundation. This reminder by Darren Walker, the current President of the Ford Foundation, during a public event …

Opinion 2 Beth Breeze 16 July 2024

Must we welcome philanthropy’s Prodigal Son? Yes, but there is work to do first

The poster boy for criticising philanthropy has changed his mind. What should we make of Rutger Bregman’s declaration that he was wrong to castigate philanthropy and now agrees that there is a role for private …

Editorial Charles Keidan 5 March 2024 For Subscribers

Where is philanthropy as we sleepwalk into conflict?

Few would disagree that the loss of almost 30,000 Palestinian lives in Gaza (at the time of writing) and the massacre of 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October 2023 are moral failings of huge …

News Shafi Musaddique 10 January 2024

“Fundamental rights under attack” with US discrimination lawsuit

Progressive philanthropic groups the Council on Foundations and Independent Sector have described a US lawsuit, in which a foundation providing support to black women entrepreneurs is accused of being racially discriminatory by nature, as an …

News Shafi Musaddique 25 October 2023

Ford Foundation and Australian billionaire respond to Gaza crisis

The Ford Foundation is to provide life-saving support and essential aid for the Palestinian civilians of Gaza, it has announced.   Relief will be undertaken by the foundation’s representative and staff in the Middle East …