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

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.

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

“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.

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, 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.

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If there are rock stars in philanthropy, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, is one of them. And he's about to exit the stage. Walker, 64, has been named one of ...

Darren Walker returns to his Texas hometown, with help of technology 03:04. Nestled behind overgrown shrubs and clearly long-abandoned, Darren Walker's first childhood home in rural Ames, ...

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 ...