Accepting the Council on Foundations highest honor, RBF President Stephen Heintz offered remarks on the state of philanthropy in these turbulent times.
Have we got a long way to go? Absolutely. But we have proven that we can recover from setbacks, regroup, rethink, and set out anew on the struggle for peace, social justice, and environmental sustainability.
The Fund is often recognized as an example of a family foundation that has thrived through the generations, decades after its inception. Here are 12 lessons from our history.
"The climate crisis is really the forcing mechanism: it is so big, so existential, so serious. But it reveals these bigger issues around humanity—the sense of fairness and justice and equality. Unless we reestablish an ethos of caring and sharing as a way of acting on this planet, we’re not going to solve this crisis.”
Sustainable Development program director Michael Northrop catalogues the surprising breadth and depth of local, regional, and corporate actions announced at the first subnational climate summit.
