Partners

With our extended network, we’ve found some of the most talented and resourceful advocates, in every region of the country, and are able to draw on people from various sectors and with different perspectives. We’ve also been lucky to work with other foundations and funding partners.

We remain close with many of the people and organizations we’ve supported, and they ultimately join in our collaborative efforts with funders. The distinction between funder and grantee is not so important over time – we end up sharing the work. Together, we’ve built a national network practicing the highest and most effective forms of strategic philanthropy and advocacy.

Among our many partners are the following:

Appalachian Voices
Appalachian Voices is an award-winning, environmental non-profit committed to protecting the land, air and water of the central and southern Appalachian region. Since the impacts of coal threaten Appalachia more than any other single source of pollution, the organization is committed to reducing coal’s impact on the region and advancing its vision for a cleaner energy future.

Center for Worklife Law
A research and advocacy group that promotes social and organizational change in work/life policies, the Center for Worklife Law has partnered with RFF on developing reports and legal strategies that challenge the status quo on work/family balance.

Chesapeake Climate Action Network
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) is the first grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Its mission is to amass undeniable grassroots power in this unique region surrounding the nation’s capital to call for state, national, and international policies that will put the U.S. on a path to climate stability.

Columbia Journalism School
The Journalism School has been the nation’s leader in journalism education and development of new standards of practice in the web-driven media age.  Its partnership with RFF led to CJRDaily, a web journal that accesses the media’s day-to-day performance as well as the forces that affect that performance, while delivering real-time criticism and reporting.

Energy Foundation
The Energy Foundation is a partnership of major donors interested in solving the world's energy problems. Its mission is to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy — new technologies that are essential components of a clean energy future.

Environmental Integrity Project
EIP combines research, reporting, and media outreach to spotlight illegal pollution, expose political intimidation of enforcement staff, and encourage federal and state agencies to take enforcement action to stop these practices.  EIP’s work has been cited in Congressional hearings and debates, in reports by the US General Accountability Office, and in frequent news articles.

Family Values@Work
Family Values @ Work is made up of labor-community coalitions in 14 states and national policy and data experts, collaboratively advocating for policies that provide paid time to care. RFF collaborates with the member coalitions on its paid sick days initiative.

Flora Family Foundation
The Flora Family Foundation was established in 1998 by the family of William R. Hewlett (co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Company) and his late wife, Flora Lamson Hewlett. It is predicated on the belief that each individual has an obligation to go beyond the narrow confines of his or her personal interests and be mindful of the broader concerns of humanity.

Fresh Energy
Fresh Energy is a nonprofit organization leading the transition to a clean, efficient and fair energy system. The organization works to enhance our economy, protect human health and communities, restore our environment, and establish energy independence. In a sustained and coordinated effort to promote a modern, innovative energy system for the 21st century, Fresh Energy provides research, advocacy and innovative policy models while engaging citizens to take action on the energy issues that affect us all.

Georgia Watch
Since 2002, Georgia Watch has served as the state’s leading consumer advocacy organization. The organization focuses mainly on issues that impact citizen’s wallets and their quality of life, such as health care, access to civil justice, energy and utility issues, identity theft, and foreclosure. Georgia Watch works to protect Georgia families by developing pro-consumer policies and advocating for the average Georgian at the state Capitol.

Government Accountability Project
GAP is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. Its mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists.

Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU Law School
IPI partners with advocacy organizations to use economics and law to ensure that the benefits of better protections are properly counted. Through presentations and in-depth workshops on the use of cost-benefit analysis, and consultations on government regulations and economic analysis, it helps these groups reach their goals.

John Merck Fund
The late Serena S. Merck founded The John Merck Fund, a New York charitable trust named for her son, in 1970. For the first sixteen years, The Fund worked exclusively to support research into children’s developmental disabilities. Beginning in 1986, it added programs in other fields that also were of concern to Mrs. Merck and her late husband, George W. Merck. Currently, The Fund has four program areas: Developmental Disabilities, Climate and Clean Energy, Environmental Health and Rural New England.

Moms Rising
Moms Rising’s goal is to “build a nation where kids, parents and businesses thrive, and to end discrimination against mothers.” RFF has collaborated with Moms Rising to develop an internet and social network wing of the advocacy world supporting work and family policy reform. 

NoVo Foundation
The NoVo Foundation’s mission is to “foster a transformation in global society from a culture of domination and exploitation to collaboration and partnership, empowering women and girls as the primary agents for change.”

Plains Justice
Plains Justice provides legal resources to help communities in the Northern Plains make the transition to a new energy future.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund advances social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.  The RBF's grantmaking is organized around three themes:  Democratic Practice, Sustainable Development, and Peace and Security.  Though the Fund pursues its three program interests in a variety of geographic contexts, it has identified several specific locations on which to concentrate cross-programmatic attention, which it refers to as “pivotal places.”

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) is a nonprofit organization that currently advises on and manages more than $200 million in annual giving. Headquartered in New York City, it traces its antecedents to John D. Rockefeller Sr., who in 1891 began to professionally manage his philanthropy “as if it were a business.” With thoughtful and effective philanthropy as its one and only mission, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors has grown into one of the world’s largest philanthropic service organizations, having overseen more than $3 billion to date in grantmaking across the globe from four regional offices in the United States. 

William B. Wiener Foundation
The Wiener Foundation is committed to a funding architecture of “Red, White, & Green,” which includes a commitment to protecting civil liberties and safeguarding ecosystems and human health. The Foundation has emerged as a close ally of the Family Fund. The collaboration has strengthened both organizations’ effectiveness and strategic capabilities.