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The RBF is committed to reducing emissions from our investment portfolio to align with climate goals long supported by our grantmaking.

A new report, 'Mission-Aligned Investing: How We Assess Our Progress,' focuses on impact and ESG investing and active ownership.

Persistent action by Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard and others paid off in September 2021 with the university’s historic announcement to divest.

A new anthology tells the stories of impact investors and entrepreneurs, climate litigants, frontline defenders, and environmental advocates and activists who have opened pathways to a more sustainable development path.

Upstart Co-Lab's The Guide: what cultural institutions need to know about investing for values and mission describes how impact investing can help cultural organizations multiply their impact and invest in the creative economy.

The journey we have taken to deploy our endowment investments for greater sustainability has led us to a broader realization that the impact of our institutional decisions and practices can bolster and extend the social change efforts of our grantees.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund turned its back on the source of family wealth—and reaped the returns.

Corporate Knights magazine celebrates companies that catalyzed green solutions in the 50 years since the first Earth Day.

As part of the RBF's efforts to better align our investment practices with our mission, we have set a goal to invest 25 percent of our endowment with firms majority-owned by people of color and women.

Informed by a new report from the Knight Foundation, several foundations have begun to explore how we can better support diversity, equity, and inclusion in the investment space.