Visualising Social Justice Strategies

Project lead: Nadine Metzger

The mission of the Ford Foundation is to reduce structural inequality in several key areas, such as civic engagement and governance, disability inclusion, future of workers, gender, racial and ethnic justice and technology and society.

Behind all this work are complex programme strategies, often 10-15 pages long. These are used to make explicit the problems they address, concrete opportunities and challenges, how Ford believes change happens and what work they will undertake to enable change.

Nadine works with Ford to produce visual representations of both the strategies (what they will do and what changes they expect their work will contribute to) and the broader theories of change underlying the strategies. The visual strategies are editable and prepared in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Each strategy is finalised after a rigorous feedback process. Once they have completed this process, the strategy is available on the Ford Foundation Website.

Finalised strategies include:

Technology and Society

US Disability Rights

Future of Work(ers)