To mark the Rockefeller Foundation’s centennial, the Rockefeller Archive Center has created a website to tell the story of the Foundation’s first hundred years, drawing on primary documents, photographs and film. The documents you will find on the site represent a fraction of the records held at the Archive Center. We invite you to explore the work of one of America’s oldest philanthropies as it confronted global and domestic challenges in health, agriculture, education, and many other fields.

The website can be found at
<http://www.rockefeller100.org/>

"100 Years: The Rockefeller Foundation" chronicles the growth of a philanthropic organization from bold plans to eradicate disease and hunger at the dawn of the twentieth century to a global network of initiatives dedicated to scientific research and building social capital in the twenty-first. Exhibits on agriculture, peace and conflict, culture, education, health, sciences and social sciences highlight the Foundation’s diverse interests and projects over the last one hundred years. An exhibit tracing the Foundation’s evolution guides readers through the many organizational changes that have influenced Foundation policy and programs. Biographical essays illuminate influential personalities throughout the Foundation’s history, while a map feature locates sites of Foundation activity across the globe.

This website showcases selected images, documents, and films from the Rockefeller Foundation collection held at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Contextual essays are provided alongside the digital resources in order to provide a thorough history of the site’s featured topics. Resources for teachers can be found under Teaching Modules. These modules provide several question-based lesson plans for high school teachers. In addition to contextual material for teachers, primary source material has been digitized for use in the classroom.

The website, while presenting documents and essays on the Foundation's major fields of activity, is not meant to be a completed project; scholars' suggestions for further documents and essays are a welcome contribution to the on-going project.

Beyond this website and virtual exhibition, the Rockefeller Archive Center's Digital Library will be expanded over the course of the following months. The centennial project will be completed by a number of workshops and events for scholarly discussion at the Rockefeller Archive Center. Future announcements can be found at
<www.rockarch.org>.