Institution: Ford Foundation
![Elementary children of diverse ethnic backgrounds get ready to go inside their school, two hold hands](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SchoolchildrenPhoto_TFAE_DecadeOfExperiment-500x500.jpg)
1950s
1960s
Can Data Drive Social Change? Tackling School Segregation with Numbers
In the years before Brown v. Board, a philanthropic fund hoped research and data would turn the tide on attitudes toward segregation.
![Black and white image of local residents sitting around a large table discussing the start-up capital for Progress Plaza.](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/FA738_S3-17_B106_F1902_018_Display-500x500.jpg)
1960s
20th Century
Supporting Economic Justice? The Ford Foundation’s 1968 Experiment in Program Related Investments
How the largest US foundation began supporting market-based projects in the late 1960s.