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For International Women's Day, RBF grantmakers discuss philanthropy and the elevation of feminist thought and leadership.

On the 2023 National Day of Racial Healing, we reflect on our commitment to becoming an anti-racist and sexist institution.

In 2020, Our Common Purpose laid out a vision for reinventing U.S. democracy. Two years later, what has changed?

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

A new opera exploring the profound impacts of war is now playing at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York.

In Are The Arts Essential?, a new anthology from NYU Brademas Center, composer Tania Leon explores art's role in family, identity, and justice.

Finance is uniquely positioned to save the planet, but the sector has already financed 1.5֯ C of warming, warns Michael Northrop, the RBF's Sustainable Development program director.

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

Brett KenCairn, founding director of the Urban Drawdown Initiative, discusses composting, scaling up cities’ tree cover, and centering regenerative, equity-based urban agriculture.

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.