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  • Carmen Mattia: Collaborating with Community to Meet Local Needs
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    Carmen Mattia: Collaborating with Community to Meet Local Needs

    Carmen Mattia had been working for Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan for 30 years when Ford Fund contacted Gleaners about opening a center in Southwest Detroit that would provide critical services and programs.

  • Duminie Allen & Victor Mgbeafulu: Lifting Up Entrepreneurs in Black Barbershops
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    Duminie Allen & Victor Mgbeafulu: Lifting Up Entrepreneurs in Black Barbershops

    Men of Courage is a grassroots initiative of the Ford Motor Company Fund that showcases positive narratives about African American men through storytelling, leadership forums and community outreach.

  • Ford Vaccinates over 14,600 at its Public COVID-19 Vaccination Center in Craiova
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    Ford Vaccinates over 14,600 at its Public COVID-19 Vaccination Center in Craiova

    Ford Motor Company Fund, working with its international grant making partner GlobalGiving, Ford Romania, the Craiova City Hall and nonprofit Rotary Craiova Probitas opened a public COVID-19 vaccination center in May 2021 to help the rollout of the…

  • After Years of Reserching HIV Treatment, Nurse Now Runs A Mobile Medical Clinic Providing Care to Those in Need
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    After Years of Reserching HIV Treatment, Nurse Now Runs A Mobile Medical Clinic Providing Care to Those in Need

    Unjani Clinics is a network of 100 primary healthcare clinics in South Africa providing much-needed access to medical care to low-income communities—particularly those caught between...

  • Innovative Start-Up Brings Mobile Dental Care to Communities in Need
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    Innovative Start-Up Brings Mobile Dental Care to Communities in Need

    "I decided to be a dentist when I was a junior in high school. I also wanted to be an entrepreneur. So, I shadowed dentists and just kind of fell in love with the artistic component and the fact that the dentists were helping people and were…

  • Ford and Ford Fund Help Power Relief and Recovery Efforts Following Deadly Tornadoes in the Midwest
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    Ford and Ford Fund Help Power Relief and Recovery Efforts Following Deadly Tornadoes in the Midwest

    Ford and its philanthropic organization Ford Fund have taken quick action to help bring aid to communities in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee affected by recent devastating tornadoes.

  • Ford to Bring 10,000 Pounds of Fresh Food to Southwest Detroit Residents with Autonomous Vehicle Delivery Pilot
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    Ford to Bring 10,000 Pounds of Fresh Food to Southwest Detroit Residents with Autonomous Vehicle Delivery Pilot

    Ford is launching an autonomous fresh food delivery pilot, which is expected to bring 10,000 pounds of fresh food to the doorsteps of mobility challenged senior citizens in need in Southwest Detroit

  • Detroiter's "Building Better Men" Program Receives Ford Fund Award
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    Detroiter's "Building Better Men" Program Receives Ford Fund Award

    "I never met my father. He didn't acknowledge me. It made me feel like I was half a person, maybe I wasn't worthy. And this feeling followed me and was part of everything I did. As I grew older, I knew how guys like me felt. I knew I…

  • Ready 2 Lead Takes U.S. Hispanic High Schoolers to Washington D.C. - Virtually
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    Ready 2 Lead Takes U.S. Hispanic High Schoolers to Washington D.C. - Virtually

    Dani was among the 100 Hispanic high school students in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to participate in the 2020 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's Ready2Lead (R2L) NextGen program.

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