This report presents the first findings of a groundbreaking impact study of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP). Funded by the Ford Foundation for over a decade (2001-2013), IFP provided advanced higher education opportunities to 4,305 emerging social justice leaders from marginalized communities in 22 countries. In 2013, the Institute of International Education (IIE) began the IFP Alumni Tracking Study, a ten-year longitudinal study that explores how IFP affected the lives of its Fellows and the communities in which they live and work. Carried out in 2015, the IFP Global Alumni Survey was the first round of global data collection to occur during the course of the ten-year study. The findings in this report reflect the self-reported survey responses of 1,861 alumni worldwide, capturing 43% of the program population.