Fundació Rockefeller

La Fundació Rockefeller, Rockefeller Foundation, és una organització filantròpica i una fundació privada amb seu a la 420 Fifth Avenue, de la ciutat de Nova York. Va ser fundada per la família Rockefeller, va ser fundada pel propietari de la companyia Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller ("Senior"), junt amb el seu fill John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ("Junior"), i per Frederick Taylor Gates, a l'Estat de Nova York el 14 de maig de 1913. Des de fa cent anys s'ha dedicat a la missió de "promoure el benestar de la humanitat a tot el món."

Fundació Rockefeller-The Rockefeller Foundation

Epònim	John D. Rockefeller
Dades bàsiques
Tipus	Fundació privada (IRS exemption status): 501(c)(3)
Objectiu del projecte o de la missió	"Globalització intel·ligent"
Objecte social	"promoure el benestar de la humanitat."
Forma jurídica	fundació
Forma jurídica
Creació	1913
Fundador	John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Frederick Taylor Gates
Activitat
Mètode	Dotació financera
Organització i govern
Seu	420 Fifth Avenue, ciutat de Nova York
Presidència	Judith Rodin
Xifres destacables
Dotació financera	$3.4 billion (2009)
Lloc web	RockefellerFoundation.org

Bibliografia

• Berman, Edward H. The Ideology of Philanthropy: The influence of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller foundations on American foreign policy, New York: State University of New York Press, 1983.
• Brown, E. Richard, Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
• Chernow, Ron, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., London: Warner Books, 1998.
• Dowie, Mark, American Foundations: An Investigative History, Boston: The MIT Press, 2001.
• Fisher, Donald, Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the United States Social Science Research Council, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
• Fosdick, Raymond B., John D. Rockefeller, Jr., A Portrait, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
• Fosdick, Raymond B., The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York: Transaction Publishers, Reprint, 1989.
• Harr, John Ensor, and Peter J. Johnson. The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
• Harr, John Ensor, and Peter J. Johnson. The Rockefeller Conscience: An American Family in Public and in Private, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991.
• Jonas, Gerald. The Circuit Riders: Rockefeller Money and the Rise of Modern Science. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1989.
• Kay, Lily, The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Lawrence, Christopher. Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930: New Science in an Old Country, Rochester Studies in Medical History, University of Rochester Press, 2005.
• Nielsen, Waldemar, The Big Foundations, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
• Nielsen, Waldemar A., The Golden Donors, E. P. Dutton, 1985. Called Foundation "unimaginative ... lacking leadership and 'slouching toward senility.'"
• Palmer, Steven, Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.
• Rockefeller, David, Memoirs, New York: Random House, 2002.
• Shaplen, Robert, Toward the Well-Being of Mankind: Fifty Years of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964.
• Theiler, Max and Downs, W. G., The Arthropod-Borne Viruses of Vertebrates: An Account of The Rockefeller Foundation Virus Program, 1951-1970. (1973) Yale University Press. New Haven and London. ISBN 0-300-01508-9.

Enllaços externs

• CFR Website - Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996 The history of the Council by Peter Grose, a Council member - mentions financial support from the Rockefeller foundation.
• Interview with Norman Dodd An investigation of a hidden agenda within tax-free foundations, including the Rockefeller Foundation (Video).
• Foundation Center: Top 100 US Foundations by total giving
• New York Times: Rockefeller Foundation Elects 5 - Including Alan Alda and Peggy Dulany
• SFGate.com: "Eugenics and the Nazis: the California Connection"
• Press for Conversion! magazine, Issue # 53: "Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism," Bryan Sanders, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, March 2004
• Rockefeller Foundation website, including a timeline
• Hookworm and malaria research in Malaya, Java, and the Fiji Islands; report of Uncinariasis commission to the Orient, 1915-1917 The Rockefeller foundation, International health board. New York 1920

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