The Hanoi office makes grants in Vietnam and Thailand.
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Ford Foundation
Pacific Place, 14th Floor
83B Ly Thuong Kiet Street
Hoan Kiem District
Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel. (+84) 4-3-946-1428 or (+84) 4-3-946-1418
Fax (+84) 4-3-946-1417
ford-hanoi@fordfoundation.org
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Hanoi Office Opened in 1996
The Ford Foundation has been making Vietnam-related grants for four decades. In the 1970s and 80s we provided support for research and scholarly exchange with the newly reunited Vietnam. These grants provided Vietnamese with a means of building relationships with individuals and institutions in the United States and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries long before diplomatic agreements confirmed them. These early grants were administered from our Jakarta and Bangkok offices. Our support for projects in Vietnam increased in the early 1990s and in October 1996 the foundation was issued a license to establish an office in Hanoi. Since 1996, the Hanoi office has approved more than 700 grants totaling $100 million to organizations and individuals in Vietnam and to foreign institutions working for the benefit of Vietnam. In 2008, our grant making in Vietnam totaled nearly $11.4 million.
Winding Down Our Work
The foundation has concluded, with great regret, that in response to the serious economic downturn it is necessary that we wind down our operations in Vietnam by the end of September 2009.
We are enormously proud of our decades of work in Vietnam. We are particularly proud of the accomplishments of our staff and partners in Vietnam and Thailand over the past 13 years since we established our Hanoi office. The office has supported initiatives to strengthen academic innovation and create strong communities of scholars; supported the development of new talent and fresh approaches in filmmaking; helped test new financial mechanisms in support of the rural poor; and has significantly advanced work to address the legacy of Agent Orange. The people and organizations we have supported are creating new knowledge and developing promising solutions to pressing social and economic needs.
While in-country operations will cease, some of the work that we support in Vietnam will continue, including the International Fellowships Program through 2014 and the Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin through 2011.
The foundation is very grateful to have had the opportunity to work in Vietnam and to engage with such a broad array of organizations and individuals. We are heartened and encouraged by the ongoing work of these partners, who are working tirelessly to build a strong, inclusive and sustainable future for Vietnam.