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Robert B. Oxnam, former trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) and president of the Asia Society, shared his decades of China scholarship and visionary approach to help shape the RBF’s China program. Robert passed away at home from complications of Alzheimer’s disease on April 18, 2024.

The RBF has had no direct involvement in the campus protests nor have we earmarked funds for them. Some RBF grantees have provided training, messaging, and/or legal support to student protest leaders. Details of our grants are published on our website. 

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) announced it would award its annual Pocantico Prize for Visual Artists to Chie Fueki. Drawing on her experience as a Japanese-born artist growing up in Brazil and later practicing in the United States, Fueki’s work embraces the visual language of these three distinct cultures. 

Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Janai Nelson, Robin Strawbridge, and Henry Timms have been elected to the RBF's Board of Trustees.

The program will retire its strategy focused on indigenous philanthropy and add a new strategy to build the capacity of Chinese partners in support of China’s constructive role in global climate and environmental governance. 

The Trust will support local efforts that bring residents together to solve the challenges they decide are most critical for their community to thrive. 

Since 2011, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has made grants in pursuit of justice, security, dignity, and peace for all Israelis and Palestinians.

On Monday November 6, Open Society Foundations-Western Balkans and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund kicked-off the third forum of donors working across the Southeastern European region.

Few people outside the Rockefeller family have made an impact on the RBF as profound as Bill Dietel.

Bronze life casts of the hands of thirty-four acclaimed artists including Eric Fischl, Huma Bhabha, Kiki Smith, Maya Lin, and Martin Puryear, on view at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center from September 21–December 23, offer intimate views into the world of contemporary American art.