“In ‘A Logic for the Future,’ Stephen Heintz offers a compelling fusion of visionary ideas and concrete proposals to reshape the multilateral order and revitalize the United Nations.” - María Fernanda Espinosa, former foreign minister, Ecuador, and former president of the United Nations General Assembly With the United Nations General Assembly approaching, Rockefeller Brothers Fund CEO Stephen Heintz's new report, A LOGIC FOR THE FUTURE, provides practical recommendations and functions to meet the unfolding challenges of today.
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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund advances social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is a philanthropic foundation with a mission to advance social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Through our grantmaking, mission-aligned investing, and convenings at The Pocantico Center, the RBF supports the people and organizations building lasting solutions to the challenges facing today’s increasingly interdependent world. Our grantmaking is organized into seven programs. Three thematic programs—Democratic Practice, Sustainable Development, and Peacebuilding—address the interrelated challenges of democratic decline, climate change, and violent conflict. The Culpeper Arts & Culture program, created through the 2008 merger with the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, supports arts organizations and artists in the New York City region that shape understanding of these critical concerns and the human experience. Pivotal Place programs in China, Central America, and the Western Balkans focus on one or more RBF themes in a specific geographic context that we believe has disproportionate significance for the future of the surrounding regions, an ecosystem, or the world. Recognizing that the problems the RBF aims to address are profound and our resources are modest, our grantmaking programs share common approaches to achieve enduring impact: Nurture bold ideas from the ground up; Support solutions grounded in evidence and lived experience; Advance equity and inclusion; and Respond to changing contexts. The Pocantico Center is the community facing extension of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s philanthropic mission. Through a robust slate of programming— including conferences for nonprofit and policy leaders, artist residencies, tours, performances, and educational programs for the community—Pocantico continues to bring together people from near and far to learn, share, and imagine a better future. Community Guidelines: https://www.rbf.org/community-guidelines
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Elly Weisenberg Kelly
Manager of Public Programs and Residencies at The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
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Rukaiyah Adams
CEO | Investor | Capital Entrepreneur | Independent Director | 2x Tedx
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“The international system of the future will continue to have the United Nations at its core, but the complexity and hazards of these turbulent times demand that we establish a more robust, flexible, and nimble ecosystem of networks, organizations, and modalities that work in concert with the United Nations.” In The Fund’s new published report A LOGIC FOR THE FUTURE, president and CEO Stephen Heintz acknowledges the limitations of the current multilateral system urging increased input from non-traditional stakeholders like city and local leaders. https://lnkd.in/gmn6iQTY
A Logic For the Future
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“The U.S. is no longer the undisputed hegemon that we were at the end of the second World War. And we now need to think about, instead of zero-sum solutions, positive-sum solutions that bring benefits to all the parties in a dispute or conflict.” Stephen Heintz, president and CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, sits down with James M. Lindsay of the President’s Inbox podcast to discuss how the United States should adapt to an era of renewed great power competition and domestic disagreement over what it should seek to achieve abroad.
PODCAST | The President's Inbox: The Case for Multipolar Pluralism
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“It is time for a new vision of America’s role in the world based on an understanding that what is good for the world is good for us.” In his recently published report, A LOGIC FOR THE FUTURE RBF President and CEO Stephen Heintz imagines new ways for the United States to embrace its ideals of freedom, liberty, and democracy as a collaborative global leader. Heintz envisions a future where the United States leverages “strategic empathy,” coordination with multilateral entities, and ethical leadership to champion the global response to the age of turbulence. https://lnkd.in/gmn6iQTY
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The RBF’s Democratic Practice-Global Challenges program has always emphasized bottom-up empowerment, not just top-down institutional change, to address shared challenges. In a world facing multiple and simultaneous economic, social, political, and climate crises, the new program guidelines affirm this approach and meet the moment with a revised goal that more clearly emphasizes the program’s commitment to social and environmental justice.
New Democratic Practice–Global Challenges Guidelines Elevate Social and Environmental Justice
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“Politicians now have the duty to further unlock Europe from fossil fuels, scrap the ISDS parallel justice system that lets industry sue states over public interest policies in many other trade and investment deals, and accelerate the clean energy transition.” In April, the EU withdrew from the Energy Charter Treaty, which insulated fossil fuel companies through an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism that allows companies to sue governments for any measure that can affect profits. RBF grantees began work to highlight the ISDS threat to climate action in 2015, and a coalition of trade campaigners, climate campaigners, and researchers spurred the campaign to eliminate the ECT. Boston University Global Development Policy Center, Corporate Europe Observatory, GRAIN, Transnational Institute, Friends of the Earth Europe, the OPEN (Online Progressive Engagement Network), Climate Action Network International, and others provided a constant and growing stream of information to the public, policymakers, and the scientific community that illuminated the harms of ECT and sustained pressure to exit the treaty. https://lnkd.in/eG5BYpEY
EU Parliament votes for exiting the climate-wrecking Energy Charter Treaty
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The RBF’s Democratic Practice-Global Challenges program has always emphasized bottom-up empowerment, not just top-down institutional change, to address shared challenges. In a world facing multiple and simultaneous economic, social, political, and climate crises, the new program guidelines affirm this approach and meet the moment with a revised goal that more clearly emphasizes the program’s commitment to social and environmental justice.
New Democratic Practice–Global Challenges Guidelines Elevate Social and Environmental Justice
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"It's the greatest borough in the city, and these are things we want to bring to the forefront of what we teach the kids: that the Bronx in and of itself is important." Christopher Gomez, Bronx Children's Museum The Bronx has an incredibly vibrant and rich cultural fabric, despite long being among the most underfunded counties in the United States. Recognizing the Bronx’s outstanding contributions to the New York arts & culture scene and exponential potential for growth, the RBF announced a series of grants to Bronx-based organizations including Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education, Bronx Children's Museum, BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance,Literary Freedom Project, and DreamYard Project. These community-based organizations embody the power of arts and culture to transform lives. ---- Photo 1: Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education Photo 2: Bronx Children's Museum Photo 3: The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance Photo 4: Literary Freedom Project Photo 5: DreamYard Project
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“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not turbulence itself; rather, it is ‘acting with yesterday’s logic.'” The Rockefeller Brothers Fund released a new report by president and CEO Stephen Heintz, A LOGIC FOR THE FUTURE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE AGE OF TURBULENCE, proposing a reformed international system that better meets the global challenges of this century. Written during his time as a Richard von Weizsaecker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, Heintz examines the origins of today’s system and imagines not merely what can be, but what might be. https://lnkd.in/gmn6iQTY
A Logic For the Future
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“We need a hope and a vision for democracy that is larger than our politics—and more robust than our political imaginations currently allow." -Kristen Cambell Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) launched the Democracy Futures Project to expand the capacity of funders to think longer-term about American Democracy. A collaborative effort for philanthropy to prepare for and imagine a better future, the initiative will offer workshops, learning sessions, and other resources to identify durable democratic strategies in the face of uncertainty. https://lnkd.in/gTYgm_i6
The Democracy Futures Project
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