Topic: Language

In this timeline, we will follow the path Ford Foundation programs took from the early beginnings to the end of the twentieth century. By no means comprehensive, this selection of grants, large and small, demonstrates the breadth and evolution of funding creativity over the decades. 

Encouraging cross-cultural knowledge in an interconnected postwar world by shaping new interdisciplinary programs and retooling traditional academic fields.

Saving threatened scholars and confronting a dramatically changed world.

What might appear to be a simple publication project came to fruition only after a decade of political upheaval, cultural repression, war, and Rockefeller Foundation support.