Decade: 1950s

Convenings at Bellagio have tackled global challenges of every sort, from trade and finance to public health, agriculture, and food security.

In the early 20th century, the General Education Board was devoted to the cause of improving education throughout the United States, without distinction of race, sex, or creed.

A foundation set on eradicating mosquito-born diseases had to accept that disease control was good enough.

As the scarcity of global resources became increasingly worrisome in the 20th century, these organizations more boldly approached work in population and family planning.

India was not the first country to take up the new seeds and methods developed by the Rockefeller Foundation, but the story of India’s adoption of them in the 1960s is dramatic.

The Rockefeller Foundation’s first intensive agriculture endeavor is now credited with launching the global transformation known as the “Green Revolution.”

A foundation-supported publication challenged McCarthyism and caused a controversy.

A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing.

The American public broadcast system as it exists today came out of years of work by organized philanthropy.

What might appear to be a simple publication project came to fruition only after a decade of political upheaval, cultural repression, war, and Rockefeller Foundation support.