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Recent Articles about Ford Foundation

Community Development Corporations

Community development corporations (CDCs) are locally based nonprofit organizations that work to help the residents of impoverished areas to improve their...  Read more

Working Fathers

By T. Pittinsky |  Jul 1, 1997

A reprint from a current book called Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family.  Read more

How I Did It: Raymond Damadian

By Kasey Wehrum |  Feb 14, 2012

He invented the MRI device—then came the hard part.  Read more

Hotline

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Dec 1, 1990

Current trends and government programs affecting small business.  Read more

Put Government Pension Funds To Work

By Belden Hull Daniels and Nancy Barbe |  Sep 1, 1982

Small companies need capital, and state and local government pension funds can help if lawmakers will allow it.  Read more

Cooperative Ventures

Apr 1, 1984

Jay Guben made his name in Philadelphia as a restaurant and head of the highly regarded Restaurant School, where he taught entrepreneurs how to make payro...  Read more

Bootstrap Banking

By David Osborne |  Aug 1, 1987

For decades, the federal government has tried in vain to bring entrepreneurship to the poor. Now, a small Chicago bank may have found the answer in -- of all...  Read more

The Nonprofit's Motive

By Samuel Fromartz |  Dec 1, 1999

A look at how Charles Lief, president of the nonprofit Greyston Foundation, is devising for-profit ventures to generate income, create jobs, and expand his o...  Read more

The Thinking Man's CEO

By Steve Solomon |  Nov 1, 1988

Interview with with a CEO who pursues outside activities to expose his company to emerging areas of opportunity.  Read more

Plowing New Ground In The Delta

By Tom Richman |  Dec 1, 1982

CEO Charles Bannerman learned that the most effective social activism is a healthy bottom line.  Read more

Requiem For An Entrepreneur

By Curtis Hartman |  Feb 1, 1986

Allan Gallant was building one of the most successful businesses in Alaska's history -- until his employees turned on him.  Read more

Tender Offers

By Robert A. Mamis |  Sep 1, 1986

Charles Leighton's approach to managing acquisitions is enough to make even the most independent private business owner want to be bought.  Read more