A Generational Vision to Tackle our Biggest Challenges

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Who We Are

The Rockefeller Family Fund's staff of issue experts and strategists work across three program areas to develop and implement initiatives and make grants in partnership with national and state-based organizations, leaders, experts, and other funders.

Limit Climate Change & Hold Polluters Accountable

We are directly and publicly fighting to slow the production of oil and gas and hold the industry accountable for climate damages.

Build & Sustain Multiracial Democracy in the United States

We help research, develop and test strategies to build and sustain a multiracial democracy in the United States.

Achieve Economic Equity for Women

We are making a family-friendly economic agenda a political reality by supporting a diverse coalition of women.

RFF works at multiple levels to drive social change – identifying necessary transformative steps, galvanizing the right organizations and individuals to lead, providing seed funding, working as strategic partners, and recruiting other funders and allies to help our efforts grow.

News & Updates

Economic Justice for Women

RFF Grantee, The Century Foundation, Releases Follow-up Report on the Child Care Cliff

Last year, The Century Foundation published a report on the child care cliff as a result of the expiration of ARPA child care stabilization funds. Last week, Julie Kashen and Laura Valle-Gutierrez released a new follow-up report that looks at how families, early childhood educators, and policymakers are grappling with the fallout from the child care cliff. In this report, TCF dives deep at the...

Climate

RFF Grantee, Center for Climate Integrity, Featured in The New York Times for its Plastics Report

Climate Accountability Initiative

Last month, California filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil, the world’s largest producer of single-use plastic polymers, for plastic recycling fraud. ExxonMobil orchestrated a 50-year deceptive campaign that falsely promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste, driving increased consumption of single-use plastics and fueling the global plastic pollution crisis. The...

Democracy

Making Politics Work for Local Communities: DPI Partner, PICO California, Featured in Axios for their work to engage Latino farmworkers

DPI Fund partner PICO California, a faith-based organizing network that operates nine federations across the state, was featured in an article in Axios highlighting its work to shift focus in the political ecosystem away from partisan battles toward solving local problems faced by the Latino community. PICO California’s outreach and civic engagement work is rooted in public opinion...