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 ...

Ford Foundation’s New Leader Says She’ll Work to Protect Democracy. Heather K. Gerken, the dean of Yale Law School, will run the powerful philanthropy, known for pushing for social justice.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wanted: a Rolls-Royce at Ford. The search for a new president of the Ford Foundation is under way, stimulating discussions of possible new directions and priorities for the second-wealthiest grant ...

Xavier de Souza Briggs, the Ford Foundation’s vice president for economic opportunity and markets, puts the value of the emerging impact investing market north of a trillion dollars.

Jonathan Rose Cos. closed its Affordable Housing Preservation Fund VI at $660 million, with Capital One and Ford Foundation among investors.

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 ...

MY TAKE: To the Ford Foundation, we don’t need a new kind of capitalism. We need to train women and minorities to succeed in this one – and the key to this is training them to develop unicorns.