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Philanthropic Organizations
- The Omidyar Network
- Operation Family Fund
- The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
- The Robin Hood Foundation
- The Rockefeller Foundation
- Ronald McDonald House Charities
- The Ross Institute
- The Ruth Lilly Philanthropic Foundation
- The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fund
- The Saban Family Foundation
- The Larry and Jane Scheinfeld Foundation
- The Skoll Foundation
- The Smith Richardson Foundation
- The Soros Foundation Network
- Tomorrow's Hope Foundation
- United Nations Foundation
- The Waitt Family Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Founders: John D. and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
John D. Rockefeller and his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., founded the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913. The essay written by Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, which was published in 1889, inspired the older Rockefeller to start his own philanthropic activities. That year, he started his big-scale charitable pursuits by donating to the University of Chicago, which would later amount to $35 million in over two decades.
Areas of Interest: Humanitarian projects to alleviate poverty across the world
Notable Projects/Programs:
The first grant made by the Rockefeller Foundation was a $100,000 donation to the Red Cross, which the Red Cross used to purchase the property of their headquarters in Washington D.C.
Agriculture being one of its core areas, the Rockefeller Foundation has provided important funding to the International Rice Institute in The Philippines in efforts to develop and produce improved varieties of rice for consumer consumption. Another notable project in the agriculture region was the Mexican Agriculture Project, which concentrated on corn propagation. The project was successful and was later introduced to other Latin American countries. Overall, the Foundation has given over $600 million for agricultural research, farming technologies and innovations, and expansion of crop yields; plus, the Foundation has granted $100 million to train scientists from Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the field of plant biotechnology. More recent agricultural projects funded by the Foundation are now concentrated in Africa.
The Rockefeller Foundation has already given in funds and grants over $14 billion and has been involved in training 13,000 Rockefeller Fellows worldwide.
Among the notable achievements launched or funded by the Rockefeller Foundation were:
- The proper dissemination of education regardless of race and religion
- The creation of the first schools geared towards public health
- The development of the vaccine that prevents yellow fever
- Support of the development of Social Sciences
- >Support of the creation of American and international cultural institutions across the United States
- Contribution to the improvement of agriculture and expansion of food supplies all over the world.
More about the Rockefeller Foundation:
The Rockefeller Foundation has participated in the development and advancement of the Arts, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences. The Foundation has contributed to the constructions of libraries in several universities all over United States, including Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, and Columbia University, among others.
The Rockefeller Foundation may no longer be the largest non-profit organization in terms of assets, but the Foundation is considered as one of the most influential NGOs that operate on a global basis.