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RAC HomepageTeach with Archives Privacy Policy Search for: Search Home About this Site Arts & Culture Environment Global Engagement Issues in Philanthropy Medicine & Public Health Race & Social Justice Teach with Archives Subscribe Contact Us REsource Explore by Topic Arts & Culture Environment Global Engagement Issues in Philanthropy Medicine & Public Health Race & Social Justice Explore by Type Photo Essays Timelines For Educators Research Reports Toggle menu Toggle search Search for: Search Stories from the History of Philanthropy Go to homepage content RE:source is a publication of the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC), where a team of archivists, educators, and historians share stories, photo essays, timelines, educational resources, and updates on new research in RAC collections. Subscribe to our email newsletter to learn about new content. Just Published Medicine & Public Health A very small number of men control all the money and the ideas”: Women Revolutionize Population Programs in the 1970s Women and technocratic elites clashed at the 1974 World Population Conference. At stake was women’s control over their own bodies. Explore all Women’s Health In Case You Missed It Global Engagement The Irish Language Debate: Nationalism and Rockefeller Foundation Medical Education Reform in the Irish Free State Ireland’s independence revived the nationalist campaign for mandatory Irish language. The debate discouraged Rockefeller Foundation funders. Black History is Philanthropy History Race & Social Justice Ted Watkins and the Rockefeller Foundation: An Unlikely Partnership How a charismatic community activist from Watts challenged a foundation’s civil rights strategy through a jobs training program. Race & Social Justice Who Belongs in the Boy Scouts? Philanthropy’s Support for Black Scouting A foundation struggled to make one of America’s oldest youth organizations more racially inclusive. But it only got so far under Jim Crow. Issues in Philanthropy Funding a Social Movement: The Ford Foundation and Civil Rights, 1965-1970 A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing. Race & Social Justice Photo Essay: Supporting Minority Enterprise in the late 1960s In 1968, the Ford Foundation began to make social investments using a new tool borrowed from the for-profit world, the Program-Related Investment. Race & Social Justice Black Education and Rockefeller Philanthropy from the Jim Crow South to the Civil Rights Era Applying a vast fortune to the American race problem, but with decades of false assumptions and well-intended approaches that fell short. Race & Social Justice Highest Standards”: Elite Philanthropy and Literary Black Voices during the Civil Rights Era Against a backdrop of white, establishment concepts of literary excellence, one foundation struggled to appreciate Black voices. Race & Social Justice Can Data Drive Social Change? Tackling School Segregation with Numbers In the years before Brown v. Board, a philanthropic fund hoped research and data would turn the tide on attitudes toward segregation. Explore all Race & Social Justice Teach with Archives SubscribeContact Us Accessibility Statement Privacy Policy This material is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License . Images may be subject to copyright. facebook instagram linkedin twitter...