Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Ten years after announcing it would divest from fossil fuels, the RBF is continuing to assess its carbon footprint and work to decarbonize its endowment. #RBFdivest10 #divestinvest

In the ten years since RBF announced it would divest from fossil fuels, the Fund has demonstrated that you don't have to sacrifice your values for the bottom line. In 2023, the RBF adopted a plan to spend an additional $100 million over ten years to address the #climatecrisis. #RBFdivest10 #divestinvest

#Onthisday 10 years ago, in 2014, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund made an announcement that grabbed global attention: The philanthropy built by heirs to an oil fortune would divest from fossil fuels. #RBFdivest10 #divestinvest

“Stephen Heinz 's paper is right on time for the Summit of the Future, pointing to the necessary reforms to take us into functional multilateralism.” - Bogolo Joy Kenewendo, former minister of investment, trade, and industry, Botswana The UN Summit of the Future opens today in New York with Action Days to elevate the voice of youth in the multilateral system. In his new report, A LOGIC FOR THE FUTURE, RBF president Stephen Heintz argues for substantial investments in a global diplomatic surge: recruiting, training, and deploying a new generation of diplomats who will focus on ethical, inclusive leadership.

“Heintz’s report provides concrete and visionary suggestions on how to make the rules-based global order more suitable for the challenges of the 21st century.” – Henry Alt-Haaker, president, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany In his new report, A LOGIC FOR THE FUTURE, Rockefeller Brothers Fund CEO Stephen Heintz offers a reimagined framework for international relations, based on the equitable distribution of power and primacy of global common interests.

“In ‘A Logic for the Future,’ Stephen Heintz offers a compelling fusion of visionary ideas and concrete proposals to reshape the multilateral order and revitalize the United Nations.” - María Fernanda Espinosa, former foreign minister, Ecuador, and former president of the United Nations General Assembly With the United Nations General Assembly approaching, Rockefeller Brothers Fund CEO Stephen Heintz's new report, A LOGIC FOR THE FUTURE, provides practical recommendations and functions to meet the unfolding challenges of today.

“The international system of the future will continue to have the United Nations at its core, but the complexity and hazards of these turbulent times demand that we establish a more robust, flexible, and nimble ecosystem of networks, organizations, and modalities that work in concert with the United Nations.” In The Fund’s new published report A LOGIC FOR THE FUTURE, president and CEO Stephen Heintz acknowledges the limitations of the current multilateral system urging increased input from non-traditional stakeholders like city and local leaders. https://lnkd.in/gmn6iQTY

“The U.S. is no longer the undisputed hegemon that we were at the end of the second World War. And we now need to think about, instead of zero-sum solutions, positive-sum solutions that bring benefits to all the parties in a dispute or conflict.” Stephen Heintz, president and CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, sits down with James M. Lindsay of the President’s Inbox podcast to discuss how the United States should adapt to an era of renewed great power competition and domestic disagreement over what it should seek to achieve abroad.?

“It is time for a new vision of America’s role in the world based on an understanding that what is good for the world is good for us.” In his recently published report, A LOGIC FOR THE FUTURE RBF President and CEO Stephen Heintz imagines new ways for the United States to embrace its ideals of freedom, liberty, and democracy as a collaborative global leader. Heintz envisions a future where the United States leverages “strategic empathy,” coordination with multilateral entities, and ethical leadership to champion the global response to the age of turbulence. https://lnkd.in/gmn6iQTY

The RBF’s Democratic Practice-Global Challenges program has always emphasized bottom-up empowerment, not just top-down institutional change, to address shared challenges. In a world facing multiple and simultaneous economic, social, political, and climate crises, the new program guidelines affirm this approach and meet the moment with a revised goal that more clearly emphasizes the program’s commitment to social and environmental justice.