That was when McGeorge Bundy of the Ford Foundation famously decreed that endowments should invest for total return.
That must make the folks at the Ford Foundation and United Way grit their teeth.
She is a strategy consultant who has worked with clients including Google, Yale University, and the Ford Foundation.
She is a strategy consultant who has worked with clients including Google, the National Park Service, and the Ford Foundation.
Warren has been principal investigator on empirical studies funded by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and more than a dozen other foundations.
Another cofounder, Mary Houghton, was reportedly a friend of President Obama's mother, who had worked for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's father, Peter, at the Ford Foundation.
In 1981 the Ford Foundation hired her to guide it into funding small NGOs that it might have otherwise missed and to direct more support to women.
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The late John Bissell had been a buyer for Macy's when he came to India in 1958 on a Ford Foundation grant to advise a government-run handicrafts institution.
They secured funding from the Ford Foundation through Joan Kaufman, a Harvard Professor who has studied China's family-planning policies since the early 1980s and worked in the foundation's Beijing office between 1996 and 2001.
When I visited last December as the chief representative of the Ford Foundation to review a biodiversity project, the men complained about the lack of access to credits, markets and knowledge to improve their farming.
When John Bissell arrived at the government-owned Central Cottage Industries Corp. in New Delhi on a two year Ford Foundation fellowship in 1958, Bimla Nanda, who was working there, had to give up her desk to accommodate the American visitor.
They set up two classes of stock--a large block of nonvoting Class A stock (which was willed to the charitable Ford Foundation) and a much smaller block of Class B stock that had voting rights (and was willed to the family).
The event will include two panel discussions, featuring high-level participation of government representatives (Indonesia, Namibia, USA), UN agencies and international organizations (Deputy Secretary-Genearal, UNESCO, UNOP and Education International), foundations (IDP Foundation, and Ford Foundation), NGOs (Sesame Workshop and Absolute Return for Kids).
Her impact, at AID and the Ford Foundation and with departments of the Indonesian government, grew out of her deep understanding of village peasant economics, the importance of women in the rural economy, and her love of the people she met in her work.
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In the mid 1930s, Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, set up the two-class structure as part of their estate planning: the charitable Ford Foundation received most of the shares, but they kept a small block of Class B shares that had voting rights, thus assuring family control.
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It's an unprecedented event, actually -- despite the wide-ranging demographics of gaming in the modern world, no such event has been held before, nonetheless hosted by one of the the game industry's largest publishers (Electronic Arts teamed with the Ford Foundation and the Human Rights Campaign for today's event).
Ford's divorce from the foundation that bears his family's name was messy and well chronicled.
Yet they also feel that passively turning over billions to a foundation of the sort left behind by Rockefeller or Ford is a cop-out.
Other Today guest editors over the festive season have included HSBC chairman Sir John Bond, broadcaster Anna Ford and Steve 'Chandrasonic' Savale, from the band Asian Dub Foundation.
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Mayor Ford used the city of Toronto logo and his status as city councilman to solicit funds for the football foundation.
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