Ford Motor Company Fund Goes to School with Innovative Education Programs, New Investments
September 23 2015 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
- Ford Motor Company Fund helps kick off
the new school year with more than $1.7 million in education grants
and scholarships
- Five automotive design students receive
the first scholarships awarded in honor of William Clay Ford
- Each year, Ford Fund invests more than
$8 million to advance educational opportunities and assist students
in developing essential workplace skills
Automotive design can stir a person’s deepest passion. Rami
Khoury knows the feeling. So does Konnor Bartels. They are two of
the first five winners of the William Clay Ford Automotive Design
Scholarship, honoring Mr. Ford’s legacy of design innovation and
leadership.
“I look at the automobile as a rolling sculpture on wheels,”
said Khoury, a student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
Calif. “All of these shapes and forms that move on the street, and
yet carry people to their destinations. It has both form and
function.”
Bartels, a student at Cleveland Institute of Art, has always
liked creating designs and bringing them to life. “Design fuels my
passion and desire to create,” he said. “I am excited by the
collaboration, the creation, the story and the user.”
The $1 million William Clay Ford Automotive Design Scholarship,
honoring William Clay Ford’s outstanding contributions to
automotive design, will award $10,000 to five outstanding college
sophomores or juniors each year for 20 years. It’s one of several
new initiatives Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of
Ford Motor Company, is launching to accelerate its commitment to
helping young people reach their potential.
All told, Ford Fund is investing more than $1.7 million in new
and ongoing global educational programs, part of more than $8
million annually in scholarships, grants and other initiatives that
offer promising and at-risk students the opportunity to follow
their career dreams and hone essential workplace skills. Ford Fund
also is focused on helping vulnerable students stay in school and
graduate, keeping them on track for future success.
In addition to continuing signature education programs such as
Ford Blue Oval Scholars, Ford Next Generation Learning and Ford
Freedom Award, Ford Fund’s educational investments getting underway
include:
- Alan Mulally Engineering
Scholarship: Ford created the new Alan Mulally Leadership in
Engineering Scholarship to develop engineering talent. The global
$1 million program, which starts this fall, awards 10 scholarships
for $10,000 each to outstanding engineering students at 10 partner
universities.
- Ford College Alliance (FCA): FCA
will provide $500,000 in scholarships to engineering, IT and
business students at select universities, plus $150,000 in
university vehicle team funding and $50,000 in school grants.
- Ford Driving Dreams: Ford
Driving Dreams recently launched in Panama and will soon be
underway in Arkansas, California, Illinois, New Mexico, Texas,
Washington and Wisconsin to help Latino youth graduate from high
school on time and pursue higher education. The Ford Driving Dreams
initiatives include drop-out prevention grants, book donations and
a motivational tour featuring pep rallies, scholarships, and
contests that are investing $520,000 in local communities. By the
end of this school year, Ford Driving Dreams will have reached more
than 40,000 students in more than 40 markets and will have
delivered more than $3 million in educational resources since
2010.
- Ford College Community Challenge
(Ford C3): This global competition encourages college
students to put their knowledge and creativity to work by taking
the lead in developing projects around the theme of building
sustainable communities. Ford C3 has launched in Brazil, China and
the United States, which also includes the Ford Historically Black
Colleges & Universities (HBCU) Community Challenge. New this
year are Ford C3 grants in Ghana, Kenya, Morocco and South Africa.
Ford is also making grants to Tribal Colleges and Universities in
the Native American community in the U.S. for the first time.
Ford’s investment in C3 grants and supporting programs is
$525,000.
- Heart Behind the Oval: College
students and high school seniors in the Ford Blue Oval Network are
asked to propose a project with a local nonprofit that addresses
“Building a Brighter Future.” Students and their non-profit
partners have the opportunity to earn $10,000 in support.
Henry Ford believed deeply that education was the key to success
and he acted by founding schools and developing other learning
opportunities that helped benefit generations of people and their
communities. Today, education remains a pillar of Ford Fund’s
efforts to create a better world through innovative programs and
strategic investments aimed at the next generation of innovators
and world leaders.
“The tools have changed dramatically since Henry Ford’s day but
the goals are the same – teach young people the essential skills
they will need to succeed in the workplace,” said Jim Vella,
president, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services.
“Education is a critical ingredient in determining individual and
community economic success, and Ford Fund is always looking ahead
for new ways to help.”
About Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services
Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services works with
community and global partners to advance driving safety, education
and community life. Ford Motor Company Fund has operated for more
than 65 years with ongoing funding from Ford Motor Company. Ford
Driving Skills for Life is free, interactive, hands-on safety
training focused on skill development and driving techniques, while
addressing inexperience, distractions and impaired driving.
Innovation in education is encouraged through Ford Blue Oval
Scholars, Ford Next Generation Learning and other inspiring
programs that enhance high school learning and provide college
scholarships and university grants. The Ford Volunteer Corps
enlists more than 30,000 Ford employees and retirees each year to
work on local projects that strengthen their communities and
improve people’s lives in more than 40 countries around the world.
For more information, visit http://community.ford.com.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in
Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six
continents. With about 195,000 employees and 66 plants worldwide,
the company’s automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The
company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit
Company. For more information regarding Ford and its products
worldwide, please visit www.corporate.ford.com.
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