Funding Support for Current Issues

Rockefeller Brothers Fund 

RBF supports expanding knowledge, nurturing creativity and shaping public policy, with an emphasis on leadership development, strengthening institutions, citizen engagement, community building and partnership development. The Fund maybe be a source for:

• Civic participation – interventions in community empowerment to promote voting and election reform;
• Information/technology – Interventions in innovative technology  in organizing methods that expand opportunities for underrepresented communities to influence policy outcomes  

Proposal application

• Foundation staff members are actively engaged in seeking organizations that receive foundation funding.

Rutgers University, Post-Hurricane Sandy study, $20,000 (2013)

Park Foundation

Park's primary interests are in promoting media awareness and environmental protection.

• Most of the grants that have been awarded have been made to intermediary organizations that are focused on national or regional policy efforts.  It will be important for faculty to show how their work will inform policy to promote social change around issues that the foundation cares about.

Traverse City, Flow for Water, protecting the water of the Great Lakes Basin, $40,000 (2015)

Multicultural Resource Center, Ithaca NY, Talking Circles on Race and Racism, $22,500 (2015)