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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund was established in 1940 by the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The five Rockefeller brothers served as the Fund's first five trustees. In 1951, the Fund grew substantially when it received a $58 million endowment from John D. Rockefeller Jr. [6] In 1999, the Fund merged with the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation. [6]
If you're in any way familiar with the history of energy, then the name Rockefeller is synonymous with oil. That's why it's such a surprise to learn that the Rockefeller Brothers fund, worth $860 ...
Stephen B. Heintz is an American nonprofit executive and public policy expert. Since 2001, he has served as president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a family foundation with an endowment of approximately $1.2 billion that advances social change for a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. [1]
Parsons became chairman emeritus of the Partnership for New York City, [20] established by David Rockefeller in 1979. [21] He became an advisory trustee of the family's principal philanthropy, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and he sat with David Rockefeller on the board of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.
The ETA, designed by the Rockefeller Foundation and other groups, also aims to accelerate the shift away from coal by using funds from what they say are high-quality carbon credits, and could ...
The Special Studies Project was a study funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and conceived by its then president, Nelson Rockefeller, to 'define the major problems and opportunities facing the U.S. and clarify national purposes and objectives, and to develop principles which could serve as the basis of future national policy'. The study ran ...
The "mother of all bubbles" is due to pop soon as U.S. outperformance has been inflated by massive amounts of debt, warned Ruchir Sharma, chair of Rockefeller International. The U.S. has become ...
Valerie Blanchette Rockefeller Wayne (born 1971) is an American environmentalist, philanthropist and member of the Rockefeller family. She is a great-great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller . Wayne currently serves as co-chair of BankFWD, a network to persuade banks to phase out financing for fossil fuel and to lead on climate.