Luncheon and Speech by Richard T. Ford
Rip Rapson of the McKnight Foundation provided remarks about the role of philanthropy in regional equity; Richard T. Ford discussed regional governance models during his lunchhour talk.
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Rip Rapson
Rip Rapson has been president of The McKnight Foundation since August 1999. Rapson is McKnight’s third executive since 1975 and reports to the 10-member board, of which all but one are descendents of the founding family. The Foundation is Minnesota’s largest, with assets of approximately $2 billion. It pays out approximately $90 million annually in grants. Prior to joining the Foundation, Rapson was a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Design Center for American Urban Landscape, where he directed a multidisciplinary effort to help aging suburban communities, both locally and throughout the country, address the challenges generated by rapidly changing social, economic, and political forces. |
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Richard T. Ford
Richard Thompson Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He has published in the area of local government law, constitutional law, race relations and anti discrimination law in numerous legal journals including the Harvard Law Review and the Stanford Law Review and has lectured on these topics internationally. He is co-author of two books: Local Government Law and The Legal Geographies Reader. He is the author of Racial Culture: a Critique. |
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