Wednesday, December 7, 2016
How Judith Rodin Created A New Model For Philathropic Funding At The Rockefeller Foundation
During her 11-year tenure at the helm, Rodin has added two more complex overriding priorities.
That communities should be designed for more resilience—the ability to survive and thrive in the face of increasingly unpredictable natural or manmade disasters, often spurred by climatic change or hiccups in the global economy.
And that Rockefeller shouldn’t be alone in writing checks to fund that, or really any other pressing cause: Why not structure grants that encourage the investment and participation from other foundations, governments, or businesses who see payoffs (both social and at times profitable) in social change?