A Generational Vision to Tackle our Biggest Challenges

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 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 Partner Helps Catalyze First-of-Its-Kind Wrongful Death Suit Against Oil and Gas Companies

Climate Accountability Initiative

Earlier this week, suit was filed against seven oil and gas companies for their responsibility in the wrongful death of Juliana Leon. The claim, brought by Ms. Leon's daughter with support from RFF grantee, the Center for Climate Integrity, alleges that the oil and gas companies failed to warn the public of the dangers of the planet-warming emissions produced by their products.
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Democracy

DPI Partners, Gregory Edwards and Marcus Bass, Pen Op-Ed about the Nuanced Political Views of Black Men

Rev. Dr. Gregory Edwards, the interim executive director of POWER Interfaith in Pennsylvania, and Marcus Bass, the deputy director of North Carolina Black Alliance, co-wrote an opinion piece featured in Newsweek about the need to understand the varied political views of black men. Read the full piece here.