2000 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 programs that are developing or in transition, among them the Africa Regional Program, Communication for Social Change, Public/Private Partnerships and Global Philanthropy.
One year into the execution of a new strategic direction that is more pointedly focused on the needs of the poor, we have reaffirmed some of our original assumptions about development, most notably that: