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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund's stewardship of the Pocantico Historic Area includes overseeing the maintenance, care, conservation, and restoration of the historic buildings, gardens, and collections of decorative and fine art. This video features the Inner, Brook, Rose, and Japanese gardens.

RBF grantee the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) celebrated the graduation of its New Policy School's third class and the matriculation of its fourth, on Sept. 7.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has earned LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its New York City office.  The new office demonstrates the Fund's commitment to providing its staff with a cost-effective, healthy, and productive workplace that is aligned with its environmental values, and also allows the foundation to concentrate financial resources on advancing social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.

RBF grantee, the Abraham Path Initiative, Inc. is featured in The Guardian, as travel writer Kevin Rushby documents his five-day hike along the Path of Abraham. The Abraham Path Initiative seeks to promote understanding among followers of the Abrahamic faiths.

Sustainable Development Program Director, Michael Northrop, discusses the government's role in investing in renewable energy in this podcast hosted by Mary-Charlotte of Santa Fe Radio Café.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund spotlights four of the 12 grantees—Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Center for Book Arts, Ifetayo, and Morphoses—that received Charles E. Culpeper Arts & Culture Grants in 2008.

At the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative, President Clinton announced and personally congratulated the 1Sky campaign's commitment to accelerate bold federal policy on global warming.