2001 ANNUAL REPORT
ABOUT THE FOUNDATION
The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world.
In order to maximize its resources and leverage the Foundation's strengths, grantmaking is organized around four thematic lines of work: Creativity & Culture, Food Security, Health Equity and Working Communities. A cross- theme of Global Inclusion supports, promotes and supplements the work of these themes.
In addition, the Foundation supports a number of regional and special programs that are developing or in transition, among them the Africa Regional Program, Southeast Asia Regional Program, Communication for Social Change, Public/Private Partnerships and Global Philanthropy. We also offer a unique place for study and creative endeavor through our Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Northern Italy.
The Foundation's strategic direction focuses explicitly on the challenges faced by poor and excluded people and affirms our assumptions about development, most notably that: