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☆ Darren Walker, Who Reoriented the Ford Foundation, to Step Down
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, one of the nation’s largest and most influential philanthropies, recently recalled the day his assistant excitedly told him that President Barack Obama wanted to meet him. He gently corrected her. “I said that President Obama wants to meet with the president of the Ford Foundation — he isn’t interested in meeting with Darren Walker,” he said. “It’s important to have that clarity so that when the day comes that you’re no longer president of the Ford Foundation, you can still find joy and happiness and satisfaction.”For Mr. Walker, who turns 65 next month, that day will soon arrive. He announced Monday that he would step down as the president of the Ford Foundation at the end of 2025 after what will have been a consequential 12-year tenure in which he shifted the institution’s focus to inequality and oversaw the distribution of $7 billion in grants.

Persons: Darren Walker, Barack Obama, “, Obama, ”, Walker Organizations: Ford Foundation, Ford, Detroit Institute of the Arts Locations: Detroit

☆ Art Seeks Enlightenment in Darkness
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Jori Finkel | More About Jori Finkel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel. To enter Kehinde Wiley’s show “An Archaeology of Silence” is to step into darkness, where only the art itself seems to emit light. The space feels somewhere between a crypt and a cathedral, featuring paintings and bronze sculptures of reclining Black bodies, spread out in repose or entombed like corpses, that appear to glow from within. The show, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, culminates with a monumental sculpture of a fallen man on horseback, draped over the horse as if he had just been shot, his Nikes dangling below the saddle. Made in the year after George Floyd was killed by the police in Minneapolis, this monument — and more broadly, the show as a whole — confronts the “legacy and scope of anti-Black violence,” according to Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation.

Persons: George Floyd, Darren Walker Organizations: Museum of Fine Arts, Ford Foundation Locations: Houston, Minneapolis

NEW YORK (AP) — Charlize Theron remembers the moment her role in philanthropy clicked into place. “We heard them say, ‘We know what to do, but we just need the resources to do it,’” Theron said Thursday at the Town & Country Philanthropy Summit in Manhattan. It's a strategy that resonated throughout the Town & Country Philanthropy Summit, which celebrated its 10th anniversary Thursday. “Philanthropy, for me, comes down to a very simple question: ‘What can I do?’,” said Stellene Volandes, Town & Country's editor in chief. The reason declines are not more severe is because wealthier Americans, like those who read Town & Country magazine.

Persons: — Charlize Theron, “, ’ ” Theron, Theron, ” Theron, ”, Stellene, Volandes, ” “, Who’s, aren’t, Arnold Schwarzenegger, “ I'm, Darren Walker, Martin Luther King Jr, ” Walker, Una Osili, Indiana University Lilly, ” Osili, “ It's Organizations: Country, Outreach Project, Associated Press, Country Philanthropy Summit, Philanthropy Summit, Former California Gov, Republican, ” Ford, of America, Philanthropy, Research, Indiana University, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Outreach, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: South Africa, Manhattan, Town

A new documentary “Uncharitable,” from “Paris Trout” and “Losing Isaiah” director Stephen Gyllenhaal, wants to change that. For almost twenty years, researchers and nonprofits have warned about the negative consequences of starving nonprofits of general operating expenses, also known as overhead. In part by emphasizing efficiency, those donors continue to pressure nonprofits to decrease their standing costs, using a slightly different vocabulary. Similarly, more donors understand the value of granting unearmarked funds, which allow nonprofits to change plans or simply to invest in their staff or improve their infrastructure or technology. ___Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc.

Persons: Izzy Smith, ” Smith, Isaiah, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Dan Pallotta, Pallotta, Darren Walker, ” Pallotta, ”, “, Michael Thatcher, ” Elizabeth Organizations: Ford Foundation, Urban Institute, Candid, Navigator, Alliance, University of Texas, Associated, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: The Massachusetts, Dallas

☆ The Repeal of Affirmative Action Is Only the Beginning - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Darren Walker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Let’s be honest about the painful reality: America has functioned as a full democracy — guaranteeing the franchise to all — for less than one human lifetime. I was born in 1959, into an America rived by apartheid. When I was a child, the adults in my life were technically eligible to vote. However, in the Louisiana and Texas towns where I grew up, they were prevented from doing so by the social and cultural norms of the American South. During the first two decades of my life, the American people finally acknowledged this truth and, to borrow a phrase, acted affirmatively to address it.

Persons: Let’s, affirmatively, John Roberts, ” Locations: America, Louisiana, Texas, American

☆ What Steve Martin, Sigourney Weaver and Others Wore to Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Emma Grillo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As June ushered in warmer weather in New York City, guests at two garden-themed events left layers at home and wore their best florals. On June 1, the New York Botanical Garden hosted its annual Conservatory Ball. After cocktails, attendees made their way into the conservatory for dinner and dancing. The ball raised more than $1.3 million, according to organizers, and the guest list included Sigourney Weaver, a chair of the event. After dinner, attendees danced to performances by MUNA, Romy, and Coco & Breezy.

Persons: Ebony G, Sigourney Weaver, Barbara Chase, Ed Ruscha, Marlene Hess, Darren Walker, sipped, MUNA Organizations: New, Botanical Garden, Enid, Haupt, Museum of Modern Art, Party, MoMA, Ford Foundation . Artists, Coco Locations: New York City

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