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福特基金(Ford Foundation)成立于1936年,开始仅为美国密西根州的地方慈善机构,逐步发展至1950年成为全美乃至全球基金会,总部设在纽约。1998年1月起,福特基金在北京设立办公室,至今已支助中国8000多万美元。现驻华代表华安德先生(Representative AndrewJ.Watson)非常关注中国的生殖健康/计划生育事业。 半个世纪以来,福特基金致力于为具有创新意识的人们提供资助,已提供了超过100亿美元的资助和贷款。其资金来源于享利·福特和爱德·福特遗留的福特汽车公司股份所从事的投资事业。由于其从事慈善事业的初衷,福特基金一直是一个独立、非盈利、非政府的组织,
Founded in 1936, the Ford Foundation began as a local charity in Michigan, USA. It gradually grew into a foundation established in the United States and even the world by 1950 with headquarters in New York. Since January 1998, Ford Fund has set up an office in Beijing and has so far supported over 80 million U.S. dollars in China. Representative Andrew J. Watson, the current representative to China, is very much concerned with reproductive health and family planning in China. For half a century Ford funds have been dedicated to providing funding for innovative people and have provided more than $ 10 billion in grants and loans. Its funding comes from investments in shares of Ford Motor Company left behind by Henry Ford and Ed Ford. Because of its philanthropic intentions, Ford Fund has always been an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organizations,