Rockefeller Foundation To Pull The Plug On Climate Activism?

[rangerrebew]

Rockefeller Foundation To Pull The Plug On Climate Activism?

    Date: 30/03/19
    Bloomberg

The Rockefeller Foundation intends to disband its 100 Resilient Cities initiative, the largest privately funded climate-adaptation program in the U.S., according to people familiar with the foundation’s plans.

The program was started by Rockefeller in 2013 to help U.S. cities — including Boston, Miami, New York and Los Angeles — as well as cities overseas prepare for threats related to climate change. Rockefeller plans to close the organization’s offices and dismiss its staff of almost 100 as soon as this summer, said the people, who asked to be anonymous because they weren’t authorized to discuss the move.

The Rockefeller Foundation didn’t respond to requests for comment. Neither did 100 Resilient Cities, which operates as a separate entity.

https://www.thegwpf.com/rockefeller-foundation-to-pull-the-plug-on-climate-activism/

[Hoodat]

The resilience program, to which Rockefeller provided $164 million in grant money, pays for cities to hire “chief resilience officers’’ who develop and then implement strategies for coping with climate change. The initiative also gives cities access to the organization’s staff and external consultants, as well as to a global network of cities trying to grapple with similar problems.

Twenty-four large and medium U.S. cities use the program

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-28/rockefeller-s-climate-resilience-program-said-to-be-in-jeopardy

$164 million for 24 cities to hire one chief resilience officer?  At a salary of $120k, this was enough money to keep them employed for the next 57 years.  Yet they are closing it down after only two years?  Where in the heck did that money really go?

[Sanguine]

$164 million for 24 cities to hire one chief resilience officer?  At a salary of $120k, this was enough money to keep them employed for the next 57 years.  Yet they are closing it down after only two years?  Where in the heck did that money really go?

Great question.