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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) announced today that it has engaged Investure, LLC to serve as the Fund's outsourced investment office.

The Balkan sun is blistering. In Obilic, a town in Kosovo, the region's most unstable corner, coal dust and smoke from a massive power plant taint the air with sulfur. The town hall's drab auditorium fills with people in short-sleeve shirts, standard-issue blue overalls; their hands are calloused. The stale air inside seems to demand answers. Read more

This report examines the case of community organizing for educational equity and school improvement in New York City, represented by a network of neighborhood and citywide collaboratives. These collaboratives are engaging nonprofit organizations in low-income communities of color to become advocates, policy initiators, watchdogs, and civic constituents for school change.

Earth is running a fever. We have measured it. We know the cause: the carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases that we are pumping into the atmosphere. We also know if nothing changes, Earth's fever will continue to rise and things will get much worse. And yet there is a cure; in fact, there is an array of real and executable remedies.  Read more

The Washington Post publishes an editorial by RBF program director Michael Northrop, The Benefits of Cutting Emissions.

Stephen B. Heintz, president of the RBF, announces new grantmaking guidelines and a restructuring of the Fund's program areas, effective January 1, 2003.