Ford Foundation Grants: How to Win Funding
The Ford Foundation's Creativity and Free Expression (CFE) Arts and Culture program views culture not merely as aesthetic enrichment, but as a primary battleground for social and narrative change.
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Ford Foundation: the inequality framing and institutional infrastructure approach
The Ford Foundation current focus is reducing inequality in all its forms. Proposals must frame their work as addressing structural inequality, not as service delivery. Fund institutional infrastructure — organizations, networks, and capacity — not just programs.
The Ford Foundation Reducing Inequality strategy is the lens for all their grantmaking. If your proposal does not address structural inequality, it will not be competitive, regardless of program quality. The inequality framing: Ford funds work that addresses the systems and structures that create inequality — not work that treats the symptoms. We will provide job training to 200 people is service delivery. We will change workforce policies and employer…
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