Editing Ford Foundation (section)

== Mission ==
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After its establishment in 1936, the Ford Foundation shifted its focus from Michigan philanthropic support to five areas of action. In the 1950 ''Report of the Study of the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program'', the trustees set forth five "areas of action," according to Richard Magat (2012): economic improvements, education, freedom and democracy, human behavior, and world peace.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OtvTBwAAQBAJ&q=minority&pg=PA18|title=The Ford Foundation at Work: Philanthropic Choices, Methods and Styles|last=Magat|first=Richard|date=2012-12-06|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9781461329190|language=en}}</ref> These areas of action were identified in a 1949 report by [[Horace Rowan Gaither]].<ref>{{cite book|last=McCarthy|first=Anna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvBM1BeUwBcC&pg=PA120|title=The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America|publisher=New Press|year=2010|isbn=978-1-59558-596-7|page=120|access-date=June 24, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Wilson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KFNy-BIExW8C&pg=PA4|title=American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005: Documenting the National Discourse|last2=Bender|first2=Thomas|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-8018-9585-2|page=4|access-date=June 24, 2020}}</ref>

Since the middle of the 20th century, many of the Ford Foundation's programs have focused on increased under-represented or "minority" group representation in education, science and policy-making. For over eight decades their mission decisively advocates and supports the reduction of poverty and injustice among other values including the maintenance of democratic values, promoting engagement with other nations, and sustaining human progress and achievement at home and abroad.<ref name=":0" />

The Ford Foundation is one of the primary foundations offering grants that support and maintain diversity in higher education with fellowships for pre-doctoral, dissertation, and post-doctoral scholarship to increase diverse representation among Native Americans, African Americans, Latin Americans, and other under-represented Asian and Latino sub-groups throughout the U.S. academic labor market.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Smith |first=Daryl|year=1996|title=Achieving Faculty Diversity. Debunking the Myths|url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED398785|language=en|publisher=<!-- Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1818 R Street, N -->|isbn=9780911696684}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Knowles|first1=Marjorie Fine|last2=Harleston|first2=Bernard W.|year=1997|title=Achieving Diversity in the Professoriate: Challenges and Opportunities.|url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED450619|language=en}}</ref> The outcomes of scholarship by its grantees from the late 20th century through the 21st century have contributed to substantial data and scholarship including national surveys such as the [[Nelson Diversity Surveys]] in STEM.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cep.org/making-it-count-the-evolution-of-the-ford-foundations-diversity-data-collection/|title=Making It Count: The Evolution of the Ford Foundation's Diversity Data Collection - The Center for Effective Philanthropy|date=2018-09-20|work=The Center for Effective Philanthropy|access-date=2018-10-20|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://datahound.scientopia.org/2015/12/03/nelson-diversity-surveys-a-rich-data-source-regarding-women-and-minorities-in-science/|title=Nelson Diversity Surveys: A Rich Data Source regarding Women and Minorities in Science|date=2015-12-03|work=Datahound|access-date=2018-10-20|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://ucd-advance.ucdavis.edu/post/nelson-diversity-surveys|title=Nelson Diversity Surveys - UC Davis ADVANCE|work=UC Davis ADVANCE|access-date=2018-10-20|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last1=Nelson|first1=Donna J.|title=Diversity in Science: An Overview|date=January 2017|work=ACS Symposium Series|pages=1–12|publisher=American Chemical Society|doi=10.1021/bk-2017-1255.ch001|isbn=978-0841232341|last2=Cheng|first2=H. N.|doi-access=free}}</ref>