The Ford Foundation has announced Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken as its next president. Gerken, a leading expert on ...

Ford Foundation, one of the nation's largest philanthropies, names dean of Yale Law School to head it. Here's why.

The New York-based Ford Foundation, a significant funder in Detroit, has named Heather Gerken, dean of Yale Law School, as ...

Darren Walker: As a person who is sometimes in the room, I think one of the things that I do in the room is to talk about uncomfortable truths. And often people in the room are swayed.

Mr. Walker, who oversaw $7 billion in grants, plans to leave at the end of 2025 after what will have been 12 years. By Robin Pogrebin Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, one of ...

“Darren Walker completely transformed how philanthropy looks at disability,” she said. “People really saw it as a side issue, not as part of how we can lift up everyone as part of our shared humanity.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, exits the building on Jan. 1, 2026, he won’t be looking back on the institution he's led since 2013 and which has shaped ...

Darren Walker, a gay black man from Texas in a realm created by old-money elites, is the connector of connectors. In a new Gilded Age, he believes that wealth can be made to do more good.

Walker is the president of the Ford Foundation and a trustee of the National Gallery of Art, which announced last week that “Philip Guston Now” would be postponed until 2024, in part because ...

FILE - Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, participates in the Gobal Citizen NOW conference in New York, Friday, April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) ...