Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Gates in 1901 with a mission to produce science for the benefit of humanity.

And last the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, founded in 1940 by the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr. with a mission to advance social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable and peaceful global community.

In 2005, Rockefeller Brothers Fund proclaimed, The warming of the climate is no longer merely or primarily an environmental issue.

It is an energy issue, a business issue, an investor issue, a moral issue, a security issue.

An agricultural issue.

In 1948, two groundbreaking books by Fairfield Osborn Jr. and William Vogt, were published with a dire message.

The expanding global population would bring environmental disaster if not checked with birth control measures and global management of resources.

These ideas were spread with the help of conservation foundation, an organization founded by Osborne and Wacht in 1948 together with John D. Rockefeller's grandson, Lawrence Rockefeller, and funded by Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

One of the chief organizers of that event was a man by the name of Gerald Barney, who was the director of the Millennium Institute.

He is a former program director for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Uh, the Rockefeller institutions are not without influence in the world.

I think I do not exaggerate by describing them in those terms.

I had adrenal issues.

I'd been going and I had a very, quite a big career at the Prince's Trust and before that at Ogilvy and Mather and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

I'd just been going.

And then I did a master's in Middle Eastern studies at SOAS.

This episode brings together two incredible organizers committed to resourcing trans and non-binary movements to reflect on ways philanthropy can act from a space of abundance in a time of growing attack.

I am wildly honored to have Elliot Wade of the Louisiana Trans Advocates and Keisha Gaskins-Nathan of Rockefeller Brothers Fund joining us today.

And so now to kind of kick us off, I'm going to start with a question that Fannie Lou Hamer asked our people so many years ago.

Who are you? Who are your people? And what is the work you are here on this earth to do? Elliot, can I ask you to start us off?

Keisha, I'll pass it

to you.

Who am I? I'm Keisha, daughter of May and Dick, child of Shango, and the director of the Democratic Practice Program for the United States at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Who are my people? I got to say, my people are all people who act according to the belief that all humanity deserves dignity, that nature has sovereignty, that there is beauty in all people, and that animation is an art form.

And

Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

And this thing went to the Venice Film Festival and it received, Glenn, how many minutes of standing ovation did it receive? It was 24 and a half minutes.

I just want you to explain quickly, exactly like in a minute, what this is about.