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On September 15, 2025, the Concordia Leadership Council announced the recipients of its 2025 Leadership Award, including RBF President and CEO Stephen Heintz for the civil society sector. 

In 1928, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller addressed a letter to her sons, who would go on to establish the RBF in 1940. “It is not enough to rid ourselves of prejudice,” she wrote. “We must undo it.” Her charge remains our own, inspiring workplace policies that project empathy, uphold dignity, and help sustain performance through challenging times.

Pocantico and the Katonah Museum of Art present Shen Wei: Still/Moving, a dual-venue exhibition celebrating trailblazing artist Shen Wei. 

The Investment Integration Project released a review of the RBF’s investment strategy a decade after it divested from fossil fuels.

U.S. democracy faces myriad new challenges in 2025. The DPUS program revised its guidelines to respond to this evolving context. 

After a comprehensive review of grantmaking from 2017 through 2024, program staff determined that the current Sustainable Development goal and strategies should remain unchanged.

For the RBF’s Central America program, accountability sits at the very heart of its grantmaking. During a recent visit to Guatemala and El Salvador, a delegation of RBF staff and trustees had the chance to meet with some of its grantees, whose work requires commitment, sacrifice, adaptability, and, all too often, courage.

Research indicates that museums boost visitors’ mental and physical health and combat feelings of social isolation. Communities with access to cultural institutions like museums rank better on health, happiness, and social cohesion indicators. In a time when polarization is on the rise and membership in traditional connectors like churches and social clubs is on the decline, the role of museums has never been more critical.

This conversation between RBF CEO Stephen Heintz and author Kim Stanley Robinson explores the interplay between fiction and reality, pragmatism and visionary utopianism.

The U.S. attack on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend was a dangerous military action, derailing ongoing negotiations to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon while bringing the US and Iran to the brink of an all-out war.