Topic: Environment

Photo Essay: Radburn, New Jersey – the Town for the Motor Age
How philanthropy helped architects and planners create a new kind of suburban community.

Funding a Social Movement: The Ford Foundation and Civil Rights, 1965-1970
A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing.

New Research: Black Conservatives, Climate Policy, African Universities, and Aid to Intellectuals
Research reports drawing on several Rockefeller Archive Center collections span continents, disciplines, and eras.

Philanthropy and Oceanography: An Episode in Field-Building
Funding on levels large and small helped this new area of scientific research grow and evolve.

Photo Essay: Mexico and the Launch of the Green Revolution
One foundation’s program in Mexico created the blueprint for ending hunger worldwide.

“Investment Philanthropy” Investing for Social Good, a Century Ago
An early twentieth-century foundation tried using its endowment to support for-profit projects that also would achieve a social goal.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Creates a National Park
Who defines the public good? The showdown caused when a wealthy philanthropist bought land and tried to give it to the American people.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Supports Modern Environmentalism
Environmental education was once an unusual idea. The Audubon Society changed that and became the household name it is today.

In Brief: The Rockefeller Foundation Supports Renowned Urbanist Jane Jacobs
One small grant gave enduring voice to one of the most famous critiques of postwar urban renewal.