<P> Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the 1970s, the foundation expanded into civil rights litigation, granting $18 million to civil rights litigation groups . The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund was incorporated in 1967 with a US $2.2 million grant from the foundation . In the same year, the foundation also funded the establishment of the Southwest Council of La Raza, the predecessor of the National Council of La Raza . In 1972, the foundation provided a three - year US $1.2 million grant to the Native American Rights Fund . The same year, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund opened with funding from numerous organizations, including the foundation . In 1974, the foundation contributed funds to the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and the Latino Institute . </P> <P> In 1976, the foundation helped launch the Grameen Bank, which offers small loans to the rural poor of Bangladesh . The Grameen Bank and its founder Muhammad Yunus were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering micro-credit . </P> <P> In 1987, the foundation began making grants to fight the AIDS epidemic and in 2010 made grant disbursements totalling US $29,512,312 . </P> <P> In 1994, American author and former philosophy professor Christina Hoff Sommers alleged that the Ford Foundation funded "gender feminism", ideology that abandoned the feminist quest for equity in favor of a gender war against men . Spanish judge Francisco Serrano Castro (es) made similar claims in his 2012 book The Dictatorship of Gender . </P>

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