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Bridging the Divide

A report summarizing a meeting convened by the Ford Foundation on reproductive health and human development issues in Istanbul in 1998. The meeting brought together program officers in an attempt to explore issues and challenges in the areas of reproductive health, sexuality and human development specifically pertaining to the developing world.

Child Survival/Fair Start

A Ford Foundation Working Paper that discusses the factors threatening the survival, health and cognitive development of the world's disadvantaged children. Also describes the Foundation's program to help these children get a fair start in life.

Created Equal: A Report on Ford Foundation Women's Programs

A discussion of Foundation support for efforts to enhance women's rights and opportunities in the 1970's and 1980's.

Early Childhood Services

A Ford Foundation Program Paper on efforts to meet the increased demand for early childhood education and care.

Ford Foundation's Work in Population, The

This working paper is a result of a review of the Ford Foundation's work to slow population growth against the background of a reduction in U.S. government support for population-related activities in the early 1980's. The report outlines key demographic issues, reviews the Foundation's work in population, and sets forth a strategy for future work that includes reducing infant mortality and enhancing women's economic participation, improving the quality of family planning services and informing population policy.

Limiting Population Growth and the Ford Foundation Contribution

Ford spent $270 million on population activities ranging from research on human reproduction to demography to family planning programs from 1952 to 1983. This book describes Ford's pioneering role in the population field. Chapters describe the history of demography, Ford's interventions into population control and education and plans for upcoming decades.

Reproductive Health

Report on a projected $125-million,10-year program in reproductive health, with a focus on the needs of disadvantaged women, particularly in developing countries. The recommended program strategy focuses on social science research, women's empowerment and communications in the areas of policy, ethics and law, and marks a shift away from programs in earlier decades which had focused on population control.

Too Little, Too Late: Services For Teenage Parents

A Ford Foundation Working paper that examines some major programs operating in the United States in the early 1980's to serve teenage parents and their children.

Violence Against Women

A seminar on violence against women and programs to combat it. Includes discussion of services for battered women and reforms in the criminal justice system. A publication of the Women's Program Forum.

Women in the World

In 1980 Ford more than doubled its funding of programs aimed at advancing women's roles and opportunities around the world, investing a total of $19.3 million. This position paper outlines in general terms the effects of gender discrimination on women around the world and outlines Ford's plans for addressing these inequities.