The Rockefeller Foundation envisions a world with Smart Globalization – a world in which globalization’s benefits are more widely shared and social, economic, health, and environmental challenges are more easily weathered. We support work that enables individuals, communities, and institutions to access new tools, practices, resources, services, and products. And we support work that enhances their resilience in the face of acute crises and chronic stresses, whether manmade, ecological, or both. This is our 21st century interpretation of the Foundation’s pioneering and enduring philanthropic mission to “promote the well-being” of humanity.
RPA advises individuals, foundations and corporations on creating thoughtful, effective philanthropy to achieve their social impact goals. With nearly a decade of experience in impact investing, including the publication of “Solutions for Impact Investors,” RPA continues to advance the field through thought leadership, fiscal sponsorship, and foundation implementation.
The Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation is centered on building a more just, equitable, and sustainable world in which all people thrive. We pursue this mission through grantmaking and community activities in our key areas, as well as by leveraging our financial resources to positively contribute to social and environmental outcomes. In 2019, the Foundation officially committed to creating a portfolio of mission-related investments that supports positive change in our communities and the field of finance more broadly. This impact investing portfolio consists of both equity and debt holdings and employs a gender, racial, and environmental lens that seeks a financial return and fills the social and environmental gaps often created by traditional investment tactics." More specifically, at this time the foundation is committing 10% of its’ endowment capital to do our part to help catalyze the important and growing field of impact investing. We aim to invest in and with early stage fund managers of color and women managers, deposit cash reserves with community banks and low interest program related investments to address capital challenges of community development financial institutions and grantee partners.
