The Study Of The Ford Foundation

Modern charitable foundations has the process from the emergence,development to improvement in the United States in the 20th century. Modern charitable foundations is the product of the famous "progressive movement". The Ford Foundation founded in 1936 was the result of American tax law.It was founded by the Ford family members, Henry Ford and Edsel Ford.The text consists of five parts:The first part was the defination of modern charitable foundations. It was a non-profit institution and a non-governmental, non-profit organization. Charitable Foundation was divided into four categories, Independent Foundations, Company-Sponsored Foundations, Privata Operating Foundation, and Community Foundations. Independent Foundations was founded for the purpose of management of property donated. This kind of foundation was often named by the family name or the name of founder.The Ford Foundation was an Independent foundation.The second part was the sources of modern charitable foundations and the background of the times for the establishment of Ford Foundation.American modern foundations was the direct result of the rules of the British charity funds and practice. American tax law has promoted the development of Foundations.The Ford Foundation founded in 1936 was the result of American tax law.The third part introduced the history of Henry Ford who was the founder of The Ford Foundation. Firstly, Henry Ford was a shrewd businessmen and business owners after the analysis. Then he was a charity capitalists. The Ford Foundation founded by Edsel Ford in 1936 was the response to the law in 1935. To 1945, Henry Ford II took a series of reforms to the Ford Foundation .The implications was becoming greater in the United States and the world.The fourth part was the analysis based on the Ford Foundation's work in India and China .It was the Cold War thoughts based on Hoffman,showing a kind of enthusiasm to politic and world affairs of the Ford Foundation at that time. American Foundations has become the foundation of the social welfare.It is important to the development of China's charity.The development of China's charity cause is important to build socialist harmonious society.Ethical encouragement,the formulation of legal policy, reposition of the role of government management and the improvement to strengthen charitable organizations are the problems that must be solved during the development of the charity cause in our country.