Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, will step down from his role by the end of 2025.
FILE - Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, participates in the Global Citizen NOW conference in New York, April 28, 2023. The foundation announced Monday, July 22, 2024, that Walker, who has led the foundation since 2013, will step down from his role by the end of 2025. – 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.
A former corporate attorney and chief operating officer of the Harlem-based Abyssinian Development Corporation, Walker oversaw major investments in advocating for Latanya Mapp, president and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, called Walker an “icon' and ”a beacon," for how to lead authentically in the struggle for social justice in a changing world.
Other foundations followed suit, helping to both stabilize nonprofits and to strengthen the racial justice movement that exploded again after the murder of George Floyd.
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