Rockefeller Foundation General Information

Description

Rockefeller Foundation is an independent non-profit foundation based in New York, New York. Established in 1913, the foundation supports work that expands opportunity and strengthens resilience to social, economic, health, and environmental challenges, affirming its pioneering philanthropic mission since 1913 to promote the well-being of humanity. It focuses its resources and energies on five interconnected issues, selected because they are critically global challenges that the foundation is distinctively positioned to address: basic survival safeguards, global health, climate and environment, urbanization, and social and economic security. The foundation is governed by the board of trustees which consists of no fewer than twelve members, with the foundation's president serving as an ex-officio member. The board is generally responsible for overseeing the foundation's program and grantmaking strategy; budgets, expenditures and appropriation policies and guidelines, and investment strategies, allocations, and performance.