Common Justice Recognized with Award for Professional Innovation in Victim Services
The Rockefeller Foundation NYC Opportunities Fund grantee Common Justice was recognized with the Award for Professional Innovation in Victim Services from the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). Every year, OVC recognizes individuals and organizations that demonstrate outstanding service in supporting victims and victim services.The Award for Professional Innovation in Victim Services recognizes a program, organization, or individual who has helped to expand the reach of victims' rights and services.
Municipal Art Society Unveils Results of 2nd Annual NYC Livability Survey
83% Say Life in New York is Good, but Dissatisfaction with City Services and Amenities are Top Concerns.
Global Capital of Creativity
The Rockefeller Foundation has contributed to New York City since our founding in 1913. During the ensuing nine decades, our predecessors supported a number of artistic, scientific and social advances—and institutions like Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art—that continue to benefit the people of New York’s myriad communities.
Today, New York’s streetscapes serve as more than a setting for our work. Our city inspires and informs an active appreciation for and investment in the strength of cities and the significance of cultural innovation around the world.
The Rockefeller Foundation exercises unwavering commitments to urban experimentation, civic responsibility and creative expression in our hometown.
Local Institutions We’ve Supported
Today, through our New York City Opportunities Fund, the Foundation sparks bold solutions to local challenges, encourages innovation within the cultural and civic sectors, and builds on our legacy of support to key local institutions:
- Asia Society examined the way social changes have affected the great Indian traditions of mysticism, monasticism, music and dance through readings and performances based on William Dalrymple’s book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India.
- Jazz at Lincoln Center and Teachers College created Let Freedom Swing, a free study guide and curriculum to stimulate student interest in two of America’s greatest creative contributions—jazz and democracy.
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Stillspotting NYC, an exploration of the concept of stillness in a restless urban landscape through a series of walking tours of ‘still spots’ that surround the more than 8.3 million residents of New York City.
- MoMA will publish a catalogue for the exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront, which will feature the designs proposed by 5 interdisciplinary teams for the redesign of New York’s shoreline in response to climate change projections. The catalogue will outline and evaluate the teams’ research and design processes for potential adaptation by other cities in the United States and worldwide.
- The New Museum will hold the Festival of Ideas for a New City, a multi-institutional partnership that seeks to provide a platform for new thinking, the adopting of sustainable solutions and promoting the value of creative capital to improve everyday life in New York City. The Festival will run May 7- 8, 2011.
Our Three Primary NYC Projects
NYC Cultural Innovation Fund
The Foundation’s NYC Cultural Innovation Fund, launched in 2007, supports creativity and the arts, with an emphasis on innovation. The Foundation awards two-year grants, ranging from $50,000 to $250,000.
Jane Jacobs Medal
In 2007, the year after the visionary urban activist Jane Jacobs died, the Rockefeller Foundation launched the Jane Jacobs annual award and medal to honor her work and to reaffirm the Foundation’s commitment to New York City.
Opportunity NYC
The Rockefeller Foundation is the leading funder of Opportunity NYC, which recognizes the day-to-day challenges faced by low-income people.
