Monday, December 15, 2014
Ford Foundation Invests in Environmental Philanthropy
Rob Gioielli is following the money trail as he researches funding for environmental reform in the U.S.
The assistant professor of history at UC Blue Ash College specializes in environmental history and was one of 41 scholars nationally to earn a 2014 Rockefeller Archive Center Grant. This allowed him to spend a portion of this past summer at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York, the premier location for research on the history of philanthropy and foundations in the United States.
Gioielli notes that the Ford Foundation was a leader in environmental philanthropy when it started to take hold in the 1960s. “Through funding and management expertise, Ford helped found or professionalize a number of America’s most respected environmental organizations, such as the Natural Resources Defense Council and The Nature Conservancy,” he said....