The Mexico City office makes grants in Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
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Ford Foundation
Apartado Postal 105-71
11560 Mexico, D.F.
Tel. (+52) 55-9138-0270
Fax (+52) 55-9138-0279
ford-mexico@fordfoundation.org
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Strengthening Civil Society
Established in 1962, the office for Mexico and Central America seeks to strengthen participation in civil society and help eradicate poverty and injustice by supporting organizations that work closely with rural, indigenous and other vulnerable groups in Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In 2008, our grant making in the region was more than $18 million.
Grant Strategies
Our grants support organizations and projects that reflect the Ford Foundation's key values:
Our human rights and democracy goals are to:
- Promote and protect human rights for all, especially disadvantaged groups
- Advance pluralism and diversity
- Encourage regional cooperation on issues that transcend borders, particularly human security
Our economic opportunity goals focus on helping low-income people:
- Build financial, human, social and natural assets
- Attain sustainable improvement in their families and communities, as well as greater participation in society
- Achieve greater control over their own finances and natural assets
Our freedom of expression goals are to:
- Promote knowledge and creativity as vital to resolving conflicts and bringing about progress in society
- Foster greater access to higher education for the disadvantaged
- Support sexuality education to improve health outcomes and gender equity
- Uphold freedom of thought as an essential building block of just and plural societies
Across all of these issues, we place emphasis on the concerns of women and the region's indigenous and afro-descendant peoples. We also address how increasing population flows within the region and migration outside the region pose new challenges to fulfilling the goals described above.