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Rockefeller Foundation
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The '''Rockefeller Foundation''' is a
charitable organization based in
New York City. It was founded by
John D. Rockefeller and
Frederick T. Gates to "promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." The president of the Foundation is
Judith Rodin, former president of
University of Pennsylvania.
On
May 14,
1913,
New York Governor
William Sulzer approved the charter for the foundation which soon after began operations.
Through the years the foundation has given assistance to public health, medical education, increasing food production, scientific advancement,
social research, the arts, and other fields all over the world. When created in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) was endowed in several installments that totaled about $250 million. The market value of the Rockefeller Foundation's endowment was $3.1 billion at year-end
2001.
The Foundation’s International Health Division expanded the work of the Sanitary Commission worldwide, working against various diseases in fifty-two countries on six continents and twenty-nine islands, bringing international recognition of the need for public health and environmental sanitation. Its early field research on
hookworm,
malaria, and
yellow fever provided the basic techniques to control these diseases and established the pattern of modern public health services. The RF built and endowed the world's first School of Hygiene and Public Health, at The
Johns Hopkins University, and then spent over $25 million in developing public health schools in the U.S. and in twenty-one foreign countries.
Its agricultural development program in
Mexico led to what has been called the
Green Revolution in the advancement of food production around the world; and the RF provided significant funding for the
International Rice Research Institute in the
Philippines. Thousands of scientists and scholars from all over the world have received RF fellowships and scholarships for advanced study. The foundation helped to found the
Social Science Research Council and has provided significant support for such organizations as the
National Bureau of Economic Research, the
Brookings Institution, the
Council on Foreign Relations, and Russian Institute at
Columbia University. In the arts the RF has helped establish or support the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in
Ontario, Canada, and the American Shakespeare Festival in
Stratford, Connecticut;
Arena Stage in
Washington, D.C.; Karamu House in
Cleveland, Ohio; and
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.
External links
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