Topic: Issues in Philanthropy

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.”

In the 1980s, critics argued that some groups had been left behind by the Green Revolution.

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

Foundation policy toward reconstruction was shaped by uncertainty over Europe’s — and in particular Germany’s — future

In the aftermath, Foundation staff struggled to rectify their organization’s involvement with this weapon of mass destruction.

Saving scholars threatened by Nazis was not easy, but choosing which ones to save was even more difficult.

Global war drew a new philanthropy into relief work.

Prompted by Reagan-era budget cuts, a new program serving low-income single parents receiving public aid failed to meet its constituents’ needs.

When the restrictive military regime that had taken power in Brazil in 1964 became even more repressive by 1969, staffers at the Ford Foundation found themselves facing a conundrum.