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.[2] 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.[3] Des de fa cent anys s'ha dedicat a la missió de "promoure el benestar de la humanitat a tot el món."[1]
| Epònim | John D. Rockefeller  |
|---|---|
| Dades | |
| Tipus | Fundació privada (IRS exemption status): 501(c)(3) |
| Objectius | "Globalització intel·ligent" |
| Objecte social | "promoure el benestar de la humanitat."[1] |
| Forma jurídica | fundació |
| Història | |
| Creació | 1913 |
| Fundador | John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Frederick Taylor Gates |
| Activitat | |
| Mètode | Dotació financera |
| Governança corporativa | |
| Seu | |
| Presidència | Judith Rodin |
| Indicador econòmic | |
| Dotació financera | $3.4 billion (2009) |
| Lloc web | RockefellerFoundation.org |
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ReferènciesModifica
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Rockefeller Foundation. Our Work. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
- ↑ «Company Overview of The Rockefeller Foundation». Businessweek. [Consulta: 17 abril 2013].
- ↑ The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1913-14
BibliografiaModifica
- 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 externsModifica
- 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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