RBF Programs » Pivotal Places » Pivotal Place: New York City

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has been active in New York City since the RBF's founding there in 1940. New York City's extraordinarily diverse population, its economic prominence, and its cultural vitality combine to make the city pivotal to the future of its region, the nation, and the world.

New York City has the potential to be a model 21st-century sustainable urban community that nourishes neighborhoods and civic life, supports individual achievement and artistic expression, generates widely shared prosperity, and preserves and enhances its built and natural environments. Linked as it is to the region, the nation, and the world, New York City can become a beacon of excellence and a force for positive change both within and well beyond its boundaries.

Two of the Fund's three program interests are reflected in the RBF's engagement with New York City as an RBF pivotal place.  The Charles E. Culpeper Arts & Culture Grants are a distinctive feature of the Pivotal Place: New York City program.