RF | Home We Make Opportunity Universaland Sustainable Spotlight Stories Food is Medicine We are applying foodbased interventions to help prevent manage and treat dietrelated diseases while lowering healthcare costs for Americans. Our Collective Work At The Rockefeller Foundation we work with anyone to ensure everyone has good jobs good food good health and more at a time when climate changes effects are taking lives and undermining livelihoods. Historical Impact Contributions From our initial grant to the American Red Cross a century ago The Rockefeller Foundations history is marked by bold initiatives breakthroughs and unique partnerships driving transformative change over the past 111 years. LEARN MORE Achieving Health for All From eradicating hookworm in the American South and funding the Nobel Prizewinning yellow fever vaccine to scaling Covid19 testing during the pandemic The Rockefeller Foundation has shaped public healths principles practices and institutions.