Expanding its work on disability rights and inclusion, the Ford Foundation Tuesday announced a first-of-its-kind national fund targeting discrimination in technology against people with disabilities.
The Disability x Tech Fund, which Ford launched with Borealis Philanthropy, will earmark $1 million for work to, among other things, research accessibility and inclusion, develop litigation strategies, and promote tech development with the help of people with disabilities. It will be housed at the Disability Inclusion Fund, which Borealis manages.
The effort is relatively small compared with the more than $300 million that Ford has invested since 2018 in disability organizations and social-justice groups that feature disability in their work. But Ford officials and the fund’s proponents say it’s an important first step that will bring attention and additional funding to inclusion in…
