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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that currently advises on and manages more than $200 million in annual charitable giving. Its headquarters are in New York City, with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. It traces its antecedents to John D. Rockefeller Sr., who in 1891 began to ...
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. [3] The foundation was created by Standard Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller ("Senior") and son "Junior", and their primary business advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, on May 14, 1913, when its charter was granted by New York. [4]
In 2013, the Rockefeller Foundation’s largest grant recipient (other than its offshoot, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors), was Dalberg Global Development Advisors, a consulting firm. “All the work was to provide advice on internal decision-making,” a former Rockefeller employee told me.
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.
If there are rock stars in philanthropy, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, is one of them. Walker, 64, has been named one of Rolling Stone’s “25 People Shaping the Future ...
Beginning March 31, nonprofits with an annual budget of $3 million a year or less can submit applications to receive one of the community grants facilitated by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) website; An entrepreneurial spirit: Three Centuries of Rockefeller Family Philanthropy This 2005 PDF document contains a history and philosophy of Rockefeller philanthropy, organised by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), founded and formerly chaired by Eileen Growald and set up in New York in 2002.
The donor has made the one-time gift, to be paid over five years, through Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisors of New York City. "We had no idea this was coming," said Tracy Kraus, executive ...