Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Founded in 1940, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund encourages social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.  The RBF's grantmaking is organized around three themes:  Democratic Practice, Sustainable Development, and Peace and Security.  Though the Fund pursues its three program interests in a variety of geographic contexts, it has identified several specific locations on which to concentrate cross-programmatic attention.  The Fund refers to these as "RBF pivotal places": subnational areas, nation-states, or cross-border regions that have special importance with regard to the Fund's substantive concerns and whose future will have disproportionate significance for the future of a surrounding region, an ecosystem, or the world.  The Fund currently works in three pivotal places:  New York City, Western Balkans, and Southern China.