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She serves as board chair of both organizations. Laurene is lead investor and board chair of The Atlantic and she serves on the boards of Chicago CRED, Elemental Excelerator (where she is board chair), The Council on Foreign Relations and The Ford Foundation. She is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of ...
Francisco G. Cigarroa, Ford Foundation Board of Trustees Chair said, “We are honored to have Laurene Powell Jobs and Richard Verma, two experienced and trusted leaders, join the Ford Foundation board of trustees. I look forward to working with them and our existing board members in continuing Ford’s work to challenge global inequality and ...
Laurene Powell Jobs. Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder of the Emerson Collective, shares what brings her joy as a philanthropist and sheds light on a new class harnessing policy, advocacy and technology to change philanthropy. More in her excerpt From Generosity to Justice with Ford Foundation President Darren Walker: Laurene Powell Jobs (right ...
The board’s oversight of grantmaking. Our Board of Trustees determines the substantive areas and geographic focus of the foundation’s grantmaking. Within the budget approved by the board, the foundation makes about 1,400 grants throughout the year. The board has delegated authority for approving these grants to the president and senior staff.
With contributions from Laurene Powell Jobs, Ai-jen Poo, Kenneth Frazier, Carly Hare, Elizabeth Alexander, and more, Walker challenges and emboldens readers to consider philanthropy as a tool for achieving economic, social, and political justice.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Enjoy this collection of conversations with leaders, thinkers, and activists from philanthropy, business, the arts, tech, and beyond outlining bold visions for the future of philanthropy. Stay Connected. Get the latest Ford Foundation news, stories and announcements in your inbox. Email Address *.
A search committee composed of trustees Francisco Cigarroa, Ursula Burns, Laurene Powell Jobs, Tom Kempner, Lourdes Lopez, Paula Moreno, and Ai-jen Poo will assist the board with the search process. “Every day, Darren brings to the role intelligence and curiosity, strategic vision, and an infectious, positive spirit and energy that will leave ...
These activists have gained prominent global allies, including Pope Francis, Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, UN leaders Ban Ki-moon and Helen Clark, actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Alec Baldwin, supermodel Gisele Bündchen, business leader Paul Polman, and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Alexander Soros.
LAURENE POWELL JOBS, EMERSON COLLECTIVE: All these systems that touch humans are connected. There’s a fabric of connection. It’s not just a single thread. DARREN WALKER: And so the question is, how do we think about philanthropy through the lens of justice? [Book cover “From Generosity to Justice, a New Gospel of Wealth by Darren Walker.”]
Kenneth Frazier. Kenneth Frazier, Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co, Inc. and one of three African American CEOs in the Fortune 500, discusses how we can all champion the cause of justice. More in his excerpt From Generosity to Justice with Ford Foundation President Darren Walker: Switch to video with audio descriptions. Transcript.