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The RBF is proud to announce it's exhibit featuring: China's Great Wall: The Forgotten Story, by photographer Jonathan Ball and historian David Spindler; and a series of driftwood sculptures based on the great tradition of Chinese scholars rocks by Robert Oxnam.

Four youth from RBF grantee Global Kids were part of a delegation of 13 young people selected by UNICEF to participate in the opening and closing sessions of the High Level Summit on Climate Change held in New York City this week.

The Campaign Legal Center, Inc., the League of Women Voters, and Americans for Redistricting Reform released a "Statement of Essential Principles on Redistricting" in August.

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Current and former Rockefeller Brothers Fund grantees, Ma Jun of The ADM Capital Foundation Limited and Yu Xiaogang of Yunnan Participatory Watershed Management Research and Promotion Center, have been granted the 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Award for their human development work in Asia.

RBF grantee Center for Public Integrity was recently awarded a prestigious Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism.

Edwin Rekosh, human rights lawyer and founder and executive director of the Public Interest Law Institute (PILI), an RBF grantee, is this year's recipient of the International Human Rights Award from the American Bar Association Section of Litigation.

The Connect U.S. Fund, a project of RBF grantee Tides Foundation, has been featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy for fostering engagement among foundations that advocate a progressive, internationally cooperative American foreign policy agenda.

Recently profiled as a CNN Hero, Alfa Demmellash of Rising Tide Capital was recognized by President Obama at a White House event highlighting effective nonprofit programs.

"There is no question about the power of the immigrant vote," says Chung-Wha Hong, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition.  In New York, where more than 4 million foreign-born workers produce nearly a quarter of the state's economic output, Ms. Hong's organization has sought to implement a "community-based electoral machine."