Darren Walker

Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, an international social-justice philanthropy with a mission to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.

Recent Articles

It's Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center

Informal work is the essential service that billions of people give to a world that barely notices.

By Darren Walker and Sally Roever

Charlize Theron and Darren Walker on How to End Global Vaccine Inequity

This month, for the first time in two years, the G20 will meet in Rome to discuss a global, multilateral agenda. The stakes could not be higher.Certainly, member states are feeling the COVID-19 pandemic’s ongoing...

By Charlize Theron and Darren Walker

Organizations Must Reorient Work to Center Workers

These last 18 months constitute a watershed. On one side, history’s tributaries run in one direction; on the other, toward something new.Years from now, we will refer to these periods as the B.C. and P.C....

By Darren Walker

How Corporations Can Address Racial Inequality

Since protests over the killing of George Floyd erupted across the country, I’ve received numerous calls from corporate CEOs who want to know what they should do, and where can they quickly donate $10 million...

By Darren Walker

A Lesson on Philanthropy From Martin Luther King Jr.

In the year before the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. prepared a series of sermons that would become the book Strength to Love. This was King at his most prodigious and enduring, affirming...

By Darren Walker

Art Doesn’t Just Imitate Life. It Infuses It With a Radical Kind of Hope

'Today we find ourselves in a moment of possibility'

By Darren Walker

Darren Walker: Giving Back Is a Birthright

Charity–humanity’s most benevolent impulse–is a timeless and borderless virtue, dating at least to the dawn of religious teaching. Philanthropy as we understand it today, however, is a distinctly American phenomenon, inseparable from the nation that...

By Darren Walker

Darren Walker to Grads: 'Stand For Something'

Watch the Ford Foundation president's New York University commencement speech

By Darren Walker

Darren Walker to Grads: Build a Bridge to a Better World

Darren Walker gave this commencement speech at University of Texas at Austin

By Darren Walker
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