SPOTLIGHT
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Frank Sutton (1917-2012): One of a Kind
Remembering Frank Sutton by Richard Magat, Arthur I. Cyr, Robert Edwards, and David Featherman |
NEWSLETTER
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Sushma Raman, who has considerable experience in several countries with programs in social justice and strengthening civil society, will complete the mid-career program at the Kennedy School at Harvard University in May and is seeking a new position. Details are available in the classified section of this site. |
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Change at the Top at the Foundation
Luis Ubiñas, who has been the Ford Foundation’s president for the last six years, announced this week that he will be leaving in September. |
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Henry Saltzman is traveling to Japan later this spring and would like to contact people who can help him with his work there. Details on what he needs is in the classified section of this site. |
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We’re inaugurating the special classified section of the website with an announcement of a job opening. |
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Frank Sutton: ‘A man richly blessed with talents’ By Robert H. Edwards Robert Edwards delivered this tribute to Frank Sutton at a memorial service at the Century Club in New York City on February 1. It is printed here in its entirety. |
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Excerpts from recent articles by and interviews with LAFF members Rosalia Sciortino, Gary Sick, and Dina el-Khawaga. |
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By Willard J. Hertz At 88, Will Hertz, an editor of the newsletter, moved into a new life style that he documents movingly here. |
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Speaking of Off-the-Wall Grants.... By Willard J. Hertz Early this year I came across an article in The Detroit News that triggered memories of the most off-the-wall grant I recommended in 20 years of Ford Foundation grant-making. |
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Fords Role in Grappling with Poverty By Alan Divack LAFF Society members gathered at a rather unusual venue last fall for a review of the Ford Foundation’s attempts to grapple with poverty in the United States over the decades. |
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A panel discussion and reception for a new book edited by Jorge Balán is scheduled for Wednesday, February 13, in New York City. |
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The Ford Foundation recently observed the fiftieth anniversary of its work in Brazil. |
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Social Justice Grantmaking in Today's World By Michael Seltzer Today, the term “social justice” has gained greater currency among foundations than ever before. Its ascendency could not be more timely as many early victories spearheaded by foundation grantees are now under serious challenges. |
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Ted Smith, an undaunted visionary
Theodore M. Smith, whose career at Ford included being country representative in Indonesia and a special assistant to the Foundation’s president, died September 1 when he fell during a hiking trip in the Mission Mountain Wilderness in Montana, where he lived. |
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Family and friends of Peter Geithner gathered at his home on Cape Cod this summer to observe his eightieth birthday. |
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Marriage in the Woods: Ford Transfers Archive to Rockefeller Center
By Richard Magat Ford Foundation has consigned its archive to the Rockefeller Archive Center. |
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Verne Atwater’s memoir on the early years of the Foundation, written with Evelyn C. Walsh |
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Latin America and the Arab Spring: Civil-Military Relations By Shepard Forman Four former Foundation staff members were reunited recently in Brasilia at a workshop, “Agents or Guardians: Military-Civilian Relations in Latin America and the Middle East”... |
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By Sheila Gordon A recent study by the Pew Foundation reports that 15 percent of new marriages in the United States are inter-racial. And gay marriage is breaking legal barriers daily. |
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Foundation History: Ford's IPO Foreshadowed Facebook's By Richard Magat Like Facebook’s recent public stock offering, more than a half-century earlier, in 1956, the Ford Motor Company floated the single largest IPO until then in Wall Street history. |
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A history of the Foundation’s first three decades has been written by two long-time Ford staff and current LAFF members. |
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LAFF’s website furthers the Society’s goal of “promoting social and professional contacts among its members” by publishing items on their experiences, activities and ideas … |
LAFF PARADE |
News About Former Ford Foundation Staff2/21/2013 News about Sally Kohn, David Smock, Radhika Balakrishnan, and Charles Bailey. |
CLIPPINGS
Selection Of Articles Published Elsewhere
Warren Wilson president is down-to-earth guy4/26/2013 For those of us whose leanings are toward gentler disciplines such as literature and philosophy, a quick perusal of Warren Wilson College President Steve Solnick’s curriculum vitae might invite a touch of academic intimidation. |
Reminiscences on a grantee-grantor relationshipBy Rosalia Maria Emanuela Sciortino | 1/16/2013 When one reaches a certain age – as in my case – there is a tendency to look back and reflect on one’s experiences, including the transformations in one’s own career landscape over time. In the more than 20 years of working with international philanthropic and development organisations of a grant-making nature in Southeast Asia, I have seen many ideologies and trends emerge and wane. |
Mideast peace starts with talking to IranBy Gary Sick | 11/16/2012 (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is getting a lot of free advice. Here's a question, not an answer: With every issue in the Middle East intertwined with every other, like a giant bowl of spaghetti, where do you begin? |
Former White House Aide Reviews 'Argo'By Gary Sick | 10/18/2012 On NPR's Talk of the Nation, Gary Sick reviews the movie Argo that "tells the story of the six American diplomats who narrowly escaped the U.S. embassy in Tehran as the Iran hostage crisis erupted in late 1979." |
Ford Needs a Smarter Approach to Newspaper Grants8/14/2012 The Ford Foundation’s announcement last month that it is providing $500,000 to help The Washington Post strengthen its coverage of government-accountability issues is inappropriate and a waste of money. |
Blame Saddam: Another Way of Seeing Iran's Nuclear Program4/20/2012 “When the revolution happened in 1979 the Shah of course was in the midst of developing a nuclear power program, and everybody suspected that he was really going to go for a bomb,” notes Gary Sick, a Columbia University expert who was at the National Security Council when... |
Meeting Iran: A Nuclear Summit Not for the Faint-HeartedBy Gary Sick | 4/11/2012 Gary Sick worked in international affairs at the Foundation from 1990 to 1995. The United States, Iran, and five other countries—Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany—are set to engage in a new round of talks in Istanbul, Turkey beginning on Friday and continuing into Saturday. |
Occupy Wall Street Abandoned PR 101By Leslie Gottlieb | 4/9/2012 I wasn’t involved in the Occupy Wall Street activities, although I followed the movement closely and admired many of its ideas and ideals. As a public relations professional, however, I was increasingly frustrated by the inability of its participants to adhere to basic PR principles. If they had, I believe they would have made a much more powerful impact on the public... |