Rockefeller Brothers Fund o Philanthropy for an Interdependent World 2002 Annual Report >cr that contains I postconsumcr fiber Photo ciTclits: (]o\erancl I'age i: Richard Lord I'age 4: Jerry L. 'I'hompson Page ": |err\ 1,. Phompson Page 30: Susan Mciselas Magnum Photos Page 34: Photonica Page 40: Reuters NewMedia inc. C^orbis i\ige 44: i'hotoniea l^age 4(S: Corbis Page 54: Bettmann (]orliis Page S'S: Ricliard Lord Page (12: 1 loll} I larris Stone Page 66: Mike Powell Ck'tt\ Page -o: Thomas Dwor/ak Magnum Photos Page -4: (^arl\ n Ross Page 92: Robert A. I.isak 17 Madison Avenue - 3-th Floor k. New York 10022-7001 |i 2.4200 212.812.4299 w.rbf.org CO Conference Center 200 Lake Road antico Hills, New York 10591-1599 PH0Wi5 )J4.524.65a^y|i^«M^24.6550 Rockefeller Brothers Fund 2 RBF 2002 Board of Trustees MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS 4 Message from the Chair 92 Executive Vice President's Report 7 Message from the President 95 Financial Report 16 2003 Program Architecture Chart 112 2002 RBF Staff 17 About the Rockefeller Brothers Fund 23 Asian Cultural Council 25 Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation 27 Staff Grantmaking Fund 31 September 11th Grantmaking Initiative 2002 GRANT PROGRAMS 35 Sustainable Resource Use 41 Global Security 45 Nonprofit Sector 49 Education 55 New York City 59 South Africa 63 Charles E. Culpeper Arts and Culture G-] Health 71 Special Concern: The Balkans 75 Pocantico Programs ANNUAL REPORT 2002 RBF 2002 Board of Trustees David J. Callard James E. Moltz Edmond D. Villani President Vice Chairman Vice Chairman Wand Partners, Inc. International Strategy and Deutsche Asset Management 63o Fifth Avenue, Suite 5435 Investment, Inc. 845 Park Avenue, 35th Floor New York, NY 10111 585 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10154 New York, NY 10033 Richard Chasin Frank G. Wisner 2, Appleton Street John Morning Vice Chairman — External Affairs Cambridge, MA o:?i38 John Morning Design American International Group 333 East 45th Street 70 Pine Street, 18th Floor Peggy Dulany New York, NY 10017 New York, NY 10370 Rockefeller & Co., Inc. 3o Rockefeller Plaza, Room 5600 Robert B. Oxnam Tadataka Yamada, M.D. New York, NY 1011:^ President Emeritus Chairman The Asia Society Research and Development Jessica P. Einhorn 735 Park Avenue GlaxoSmithKline Dean New York, NY 10031 Post Office Box 1589 School of Advanced King of Prussia, PA 19406 International Studies Joseph A. Pierson The Johns Hopki^ns University President 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Cypress Films, Inc. 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Goodwin 140 South Dearborn Street David J. Callard Vice Chair Chicago, IL 6o6o3-5?85 President Wand Partners, Inc. Stephen B. Heintz William H. Luers 63o Fifth Avenue, Suite ^435 President Chairman and President New York, NY 10111 United Nations Association of the William F. McCalpin United States of America Stephen B. Heintz Executive Vice President and 801 Second Avenue EX-OFFICIO Chief Operating Officer New York, NY 10017-4706 President Rockefeller Brothers Fund Linda E. Jacobs^ Mrs. George D. O'Neill 437 Madison Avenue, 37th Floor Vice President Rockefeller Financial Services New York, NY ioo:??-7ooi 3o Rockefeller Plaza, Room 5600 Benjamin R. Shute, Jr. New York, NY 1011? James E. Moltz Secretary Vice Chairman Richard D. Parsons International Strategy and Nancy L. Muirhead* Chief Executive Officer Investment, Inc Assistant Secretary AOL-Time Warner, Inc. 535 Madison Avenue 75 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 100:?:? Boris A. Wessely New York, NY 10019 Treasurer Steven C. Rockefeller David Rockefeller EX-OFFICIO Geraldine F. Watson 3o Rockefeller Plaza, Room 5600 Chair Comptroller New York, NY 1011? Rockefeller Brothers Fund Post Office Box 648 Leah A. D'Angelo^ Laurance S. Rockefeller Middlebuiy, VT 05753 Assistant Comptroller So Rockefeller Plaza, Room 5600 New York, NY 1011? Robert B. Taylor Senior Vice President for Finance ' Until June 6, 3002 Finance Committee Members and Administration ^ As of September 24, ?oo2 ^ Until October 3i, 2002 Colonial Williamsburg Asof December 12, ?oo2 Afsaneh M. Beschloss^ Foundation As of December 12, 2002, and Assistant Treasurer President and Chief Executive Post Office Box 1776 until December 12, 2002 Officer Williamsburg, VA :?3i87-i776 Carlyle Asset Management Group ii33 Connecticut Avenue, N.W Edmond D. Villani, CHAIR Washington, DC ?oo36 Vice Chairman Deutsche Asset Management 345 Park Avenue, ?5th Floor New York, NY 10154 ANNUAL REPORT 2002 Message from the Chair In December :?oo:^ the RBF board of trustees completed a review and redesign of its programs that had been in progress for two and a half years. The strategic review process was undertaken following the merger with the Charles E. Gulpeper Foundation in an effort to integrate the programs of the two foundations, adjust programs to a changing world situation, and achieve some reduction in the broad scope of the Fund's activities with the goal of greater coherence in the program design. With the economy in a slump, the RBF's financial resources declined in :^oo? for the second year in a row, and this situation forced new reductions in the Fund's program grant budget and intensified the trustees' interest in consolidation and a more concentrated focus. Stephen Heintz, the RBF's new president, played an especially important leadership role in the review and reconstruction of the Fund's programs. ® Recognizing that the world is increasingly interdependent ecologically, economically, and socially, the trustees reaffirmed their commitment to a grant program that addresses global as well as local and regional challenges. This orientation is reflected in the revised formulation of the Fund's general purpose with which the new Program Statement begins: "The Rockefeller Brothers Fund promotes social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND peaceful world." Toward this end, as explained in the What happened in the course of the strategic review new Program Statement, the Fund pursues grant- process can be further briefly explained as follows. making and related activities designed "to develop For different reasons, four of the Fund's nine pro­ leaders, strengthen institutions, engage citizens, grams have been or are being phased out, including build community, and foster partnerships that the programs in Central and Eastern Europe, include government, business, and civil society." Education in the area of early childhood. Health, It supports programs intended "to expand knowl­ and the Nonprofit Sector. Three programs at the edge, clarify values and critical choices, nurture RBF or former Culpeper Foundation—Sustainable creative expression, and shape public policy." The Resource Use, Global Security, and Arts and Fund will also continue an approach to grantmaking Culture—are being continued under new names and that involves a special emphasis on fundamental with varying degrees of redesign. Their new titles problems and long-term goals, a readiness to make are Sustainable Development, Peace and Security, long-term commitments to issues and regions, and the Culpeper Human Advancement program, a concern to promote synergy among different which includes Arts and Culture, the RBF Teaching projects and programs, and a willingness to launch Fellows, the Magsaysay Awards, and the Health promising new initiatives and to provide grantees program, which will be phased out or transferred with assistance beyond financial support. Often to another foundation. The Fund's fourth major taking advantage of its Pocantico Conference program in the new program architecture. Center, the RBF continues to have an interest in Democratic Practice, is for the most part a new convening groups, including funders, and in program with strong connections to past RBF encouraging collaboration. interests and initiatives. In addition, two former RBF programs are now being continued under the With regard to the Fund's mission, general objec­ designation of an RBF Pivotal Place—New York City tives, and style of gTantmaking, the trustees have and South Africa. The RBF grantmaking in New York endeavored to clarify ideas and to update definitions City has been significantly expanded because the in a way that builds on and is consistent with RBF Fund's Arts and Culture work, which is part of the traditions. There has, however, been some significant Human Advancement program, is now largely reconstruction of the Fund's program architecture. concentrated in the City. The South Africa program At the beginning of ?ooo, the RBF had nine separate has also been expanded to include work designed programs, several of which were named after the to assist South Africa with the AIDS crisis. A third geographic region on which they were focused—New RBF Pivotal Place is Serbia and Montenegro, where York City and South Africa, for example. At the end of the RBF first initiated grantmaking on an experi­ the strategic review process, the RBF trustees settled mental basis in ?ooi. A very helpful chart outlining on four major programs which they have entitled the new program architecture may be found on page Democratic Practice, Sustainable Development, 16, and the new Program Statement and guidelines Peace and Security, and Human Advancement.