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The Rockefeller Foundation is a philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company Overview of The Rockefeller Foundation )〕 The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by Standard Oil owner John D. Rockefeller ("Senior"), along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ("Junior"), and Senior's principal oil and gas business and philanthropic advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, in New York State May 14, 1913, when its charter was formally accepted by the New York State Legislature.〔(The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1913-14 )〕 Over the past 100 years it has been dedicated to the mission of "promoting the well-being of humanity throughout the world."〔 Some of its objectives and achievements include: * Financially supported education in the United States "without distinction of race, sex or creed"〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/who-we-are/our-history/ )〕 * Helped establish the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom; * Established the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Harvard School of Public Health, two of the first such institutions in the United States;〔Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, (History )〕〔Harvard School of Public Health, (History )〕 * Established the School of Hygiene at the University of Toronto in 1927; * Developed the vaccine to prevent yellow fever;〔National Library of Medicine〕〔(Wilbur A Sawyers Papers )〕 * Helped The New School provide a haven for scholars threatened by the Nazis〔("History" ), The New School for Social Research webpage. Retrieved 2013-02-17.〕 Some of its infamous activities include: * Funding various German eugenics programs, including the laboratory of Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, for whom Josef Mengele worked before he went to Auschwitz. * Construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's Institute for Brain Research with a $317,000 grant in 1929, with continuing support for the Institute's operations under Ernst Rüdin over the next several years.〔 (Also published at (San Francisco Chronicle )). According to HNN, this material was drawn from Black's books "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race".〕 Although it is no longer the largest foundation by assets, the Rockefeller Foundation's pre-eminent legacy ranks it among the most influential NGOs in the world.〔(The Foundation Center )〕 By year-end 2008 assets were tallied at $3.1 billion from $4.6 billion in 2007, with annual grants of $137 million.〔FoundationCenter.org, (The Rockefeller Foundation ), accessed 2010-12-23〕 ==Leadership== The foundation's president is Judith Rodin, who succeeded Gordon Conway in 2005. A former president of the University of Pennsylvania, Rodin is the first woman to head the foundation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Judith Rodin, Rockefeller Foundation CEO: 'Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rockefeller Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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