Institution: Ford Foundation

Women and technocratic elites clashed at the 1974 World Population Conference. At stake was women’s control over their own bodies.

A 1994 meeting moved women’s empowerment front and center for grantmaking in global population.

Rockefeller Foundation agriculture programs begun in Mexico achieved global reach through four major research institutes. Building them was the result of partnership.

India was not the first country to take up the new seeds and methods developed by the Rockefeller Foundation, but the story of India’s adoption of them in the 1960s is dramatic.

When the restrictive military regime that had taken power in Brazil in 1964 became even more repressive by 1969, staffers at the Ford Foundation found themselves facing a conundrum.

In honor of Women’s History Month, we highlight thirteen individuals from our collections to show the range of contributions women have made in the field of philanthropy and in the world at large.

Delving into a century of philanthropic engagement with race, from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era.

A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing.

The American public broadcast system as it exists today came out of years of work by organized philanthropy.

Moving scholarship by and about women from margin to center.