[okfn-coord] Response from Ford on Weaving History: a negative

Tue Oct 16 12:00:11 UTC 2007

Just received the Ford letter regarding Weaving History in which they 
politely say no:

"Unfortunately I cannot be encouraging about the possibility of Ford 
Foundation support for your project as it does not fall within the 
current program priorities of the Foundation. Due to competing demands 
and budget limitations, we must decline support to many organizations 
whose worthwhile programs are outside our area of focus."

(I note that the response was from Janice Petrovich, head of their 
Education, Sexuality and Religion programme rather than from Media, Arts 
and Culture which was the other programme in the Knowledge, Creativity 
and Freedom area most appropriate to our application).

Given that they receive around 40000 requests a year this isn't perhaps 
very surprising and we can now move on to the next set of possible 
funders (Sloan/Macarthur etc -- btw anyone in the EU/UK we can think 
of?). With this stuff I think we've just got to keep trying.

~rufus