Organisation The Ford Foundation
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u.r.l. www.fordfoundation.org
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Country United States
Location New York
Address 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017, New York
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Telephone (212) 573-5000
Management u.r.l. http://www.fordfound.org/about/trustee.cfm
Fax (212) 351-3677
Sector Foundations - International
Organisation Type RoW Private Sector
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Stated Role The Ford Foundation is an independent nonprofit grant-making organization. We make grants in all 50 U.S. states and in many countries around the world.<P>
Activities We work mainly by making grants or loans that build knowledge and strengthen organizations and networks. Within our broad goals: we focus on a limited number of problem areas and program strategies. http://www.fordfound.org/program/index.cfm The foundation has offices in Kenya: South Africa & Nigeria. It funds various programmes - mostly with local & partner NGOs
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Current Positions
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Chair of the Board Kathryn Fuller 2007  
President Susan Berresford 2007  
Executive Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel Barron Tenny 2007  
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Links to Related Organisations
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Associated Organisations  
Donor Recipients Institute for Democracy in South Africa
African Economic Research Consortium -Training Programme
International Budget Project
Religious Pluralism Initiative
The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa
Ford Foundation - Media Development in Africa
Institute of Economic Affairs
Medeva
Tanzania Natural Resource Forum
Kenya Community Development Foundation
Centre for Democracy and Development
International Fellowships Program-West Africa
Monitoring of Budgets & Tracking Expenditure for Health & HIV/AIDS in Africa
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Record last updated on 13 NOV 2007