The Ford Foundation
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -College Senior 11-College Senior |
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Community-based Service Learning Engineering Diversity Engineering Education Research Engineering Management General Engineering, Engineering Science Technology and Society |
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Community - Award/Recognition/Scholarship |
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Organization:Ford Foundation |
| Description: | The site is organized around the Ford Foundation's missions through three strategic programs: # Asset Building and Community Development, # Peace and Social Justice, and # Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom. "The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions around the world. We were founded to advance human welfare, and all of our work flows from this fundamental commitment. Approach to grant making: A fundamental challenge facing every society is to create political, economic and social systems that promote peace, human welfare and the sustainability of the environment on which life depends. We believe that finding solutions to the world's most complex problems requires engaging the people and the communities closest to them, including men and women from diverse backgrounds and all levels of society. We work mainly by making grants or loans that build knowledge and strengthen organizations and networks. These methods of problem-solving reflect our mission and the diverse ways we support grantees. They also describe a model of philanthropy that the foundation has pursued for more than 70 years: To be a long-term and flexible partner with innovative leaders of thought and action. We make grants from our New York headquarters and our regional offices in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Russia." |
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| Keywords: | Funding Sources for Engineering Education Research and Scholarship Ford Foundation |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
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| Publication Date: | September 2008 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.fordfound.org/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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