Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility

Diversity, inclusion, equity, and accessibility are fundamental principles of Ford House, where access to the estate and experiences are offered without regard to an individual’s abilities, perspectives, and varied experiences.

INCLUSION

Ford House ensures that our interns, staff, and volunteers demonstrate cultural sensitivity and competence. Our community events, programs, and tours aim to reflect and respond to diverse cultures, interests, and the needs of our regional communities.

DIVERSITY

Ford House prioritizes diversity across all dimensions, including our vision, mission, strategic goals, leadership structure, audiences, community partners, programs, vendors, and staff, to uplift us all. Embracing difference makes us better colleagues, employers, employees, friends, leaders, learners, researchers, students, teachers, and citizens.

EQUITY

Ford House is committed to challenging, responding to, and rectifying habits and traditions of bias, harassment, and discrimination and developing a reputation for inclusion, warmth, and hospitality. We prioritize equity across all dimensions of our organization through our staffing, selection of vendors, variety of partners, outreach, and access to programs and events.

ACCESSIBILITY

Ford House ensures that our interns, staff, and volunteers demonstrate cultural competence and that our programs and tours reflect and respond to our regional communities’ diverse cultures, interests, and needs. We strive to provide fair accessibility to programs, resources, and assets and ensure equitable experiences for all interns, staff, volunteers, and the public we serve.

Learn about our accessibility programs and offerings here.

These principles of diversity, inclusion, equity, and accessibility apply to all aspects of Ford House operations across all categories of individuals. Individuals should be able to experience Ford House free from biased or demeaning conduct or statements based on their personal characteristics.

To achieve all this, our Inclusion/Diversity/Equity/Accessibility (I.D.E.A.) committee develops action plans that create policies and implement side-wide training, build partnerships with individuals, businesses, and organizations that share our cultural values while telling fuller, more complex, and more relevant stories.