Darren Walker, outgoing president of the Ford Foundation, is joining The Obama Foundation’s board of directors on November 1.

The Obama Foundation welcomed Ford Foundation president Darren Walker to its board of directors on Monday, where he will ...

Heather Gerken The Ford Foundation has announced that Heather Gerken, the current dean of Yale Law School, will become its ...

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, ...

During her tenure as dean, Gerken has focused on increasing the diversity within the law school. She launched two pipeline–to–law school programs, which aim to help members of ...

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 ...

But this effort by America’s top geopolitical adversary isn’t too far afield for the Ford Foundation to fund: It has given CDRF $600,000 to help realize its ambitions.

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.

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 ...

The Ford Foundation announced plans to spend $200 million over the next five years on programs aimed at better connecting cities and suburbs to create cohesive metropolitan areas.