backThe Rockefeller Foundation Timeline
2000 -- Present
2000
- RF joins the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in supporting the improvement of higher-education institutions in a number of sub-Saharan countries.
- James F. Orr III becomes Chair of the Board of Trustees.
2001
- RF funds Living Cities, a partnership of foundations, financial institutions, government agencies and local community development corporations to assist in the redevelopment of inner-city neighborhoods, including affordable housing, in 23 cities across the U.S.
- RF convenes several foundations to support integrated AIDS care for mothers and their families in Africa. The initiative, MTCT Plus, was launched by the Secretary General of the UN and helped catalyzed WHO’s call to treat millions of people living with AIDS in poor countries.
2003
- RF convenes a Joint Learning Initiative on Human Resources for Health (JLI-HRH), which brought the crisis of HRH in developing countries and the international brain drain of doctors and nurses to the top of the international agenda and offered a human face to the plight of health systems in the world.
2005
- Judith Rodin becomes RF President.
2006
- RF sponsors a fertilizer summit in Abuja, Nigeria, that brings together 40 African governments to promote the removal of taxes and tariffs on fertilizer, support an emerging network of agrodealers, and create a program through the African Development Bank to finance the production and distribution of fertilizer.
- RF makes a $3.5 million grant to support a planning process to help the city of New Orleans prepare a comprehensive rebuilding plan for all 73 neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Katrina, setting the stage for the city to receive significant federal funds.
- Together with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, RF commits $150 million to African agriculture over the next five years. The goal: to train and support African scientists in developing and delivering improved seed varieties and to help African farmers gain access to modern plant breeding techniques.
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