Since April 1997 the Rockefeller Foundation, through its Communications Office in New York under the leadership of Denise Gray-Felder, has been promoting a series of meetings among communications specialists to reflect on communication for social change at the hinge of the millennium. These meetings in Bellagio, Italy, Cape Town, South Africa, and New York, New York, have helped to define the questions, rather than the models. They contributed to the creation of a position paper that has been widely distributed in print and through various Web sites, in English, Spanish and French. Some issues discussed during the meetings - and also through e-mail exchanges between meetings - lead the group to realize that much of the ideal communication processes that involve people could be found in a number of grassroots experiences in a variety of forms in many developing countries. The need for more research that would bring to light relevant information on experiences of participatory communication for social change war. That is how this exercise came to life.

Making Waves

Alfonso Gumico Dagron

The Rockefeller Foundation

"The book Endure- Renewal from ground zero.... is perhaps the finest of the books published in the immediate aftermath. Meditative, pained, highly visual with laconic captions, it coalesces the work of five photographers into the form of a photographic diary searching quietly for redeeming metaphors." - Fred Ritchin, Print Magazine, September/October 2002 
Conveyed by Jurek Wajdowicz and featuring for the first time, now almost iconographic images by Carolina Salguero, Antonin Kratochvil, Alex Webb, Larry Towell and Gilles Peress, Endure was designed by Lisa LaRochelle and Jurek Wajdowicz in the first 6 weeks following 9/11 tragedy and organized ad hoc. This pro bono book was originally published and distributed by The Rockefeller Foundation throughout the New York City area to nonprofit organizations. For the last 18 months, this uniquely restrained but profound book has been embraced by photography collectors around the world and is now available for a limited time and in a very limited edition to the general market. All profits are earmarked for charitable organizations in the New York City area. 
Non-exploitive, brilliantly contemplative in a poignant presentation, Endure - Renewal from ground zero has been internationally awarded for its thoughtful, noncommercial creative approach and concept by the world's most prestigious design juries such as American Communications Arts and British Design &amp; Art Direction Show. 
The following is an excerpt from a book review written by Eileen E. Ganter, Editor, Media Via. 
"This unusual and thought-provoking book incorporates the work of five photographers: Antonin Kratochvil of VII, Gilles Peress, Larry Towell and Alex Webb of Magnum Photos, and Carolina Salguero of Sipa Press. Their documentation spans September 11 through October 21, 2001 and delivers a message that is so subtle its power is easy to underestimate. Its sense of consciousness, however, is keenly evident and grows upon contemplation. 
While a number of other noteworthy photographic books provide seismic intensity with their images of fleeing faces, dust and debris, Endure views the tragedy much as a solar eclipse. To stare directly at the sun is to overwhelm the sense of sight. To render the unrenderable power of its force is to view it obliquely. To bear the unbearable is to contemplate it in the mirror of humanity: art. 
'It was my deep desire to create an introspectively eloquent lament of the 'day after,'" says Wajdowicz. "I wanted Endure to be cohesive and poetic, as opposed to a more chopped and disjointed catalog effect. Endure should come across as movie-like--that is, a sequence-- with still life 'flashbacks' scattered throughout; a journey is how I envisioned it." 
Thus Endure's images show the less dramatic, but no less profound shifting of foundations, as human beings find their footings in an unimaginably unsettling time. The focus-- the point-- is the resiliency of what lives within flesh and blood, and not what dies inside an icon of steel."

Endure: Renewal from Ground Zero, Limited Edition

Larry Towell

Antonin Kratochvil

Jurek Wajdowicz

Carolina Salguero

Alex Webb

Gilles Peress

This anthology was created to raise the profile of community cultural development around the world by stimulating pluralism, participation and equity in cultural life and as a response to globalization's pull toward the standardization of commercial culture.

Community, Culture and Globalization

Politics & Social Sciences

Adams, Don

Goldbard, Arlene

Politics & Government

"Around the world, unplanned urban expansion is multiplying slums; overburdening housing, transportation, and infrastructure systems; stifling economic growth; and leaving millions vulnerable to new environmental and health threats. To help manage and plan for this accelerating urbanization, the Rockefeller Foundation convened an exceptional group of urbanists -- leading policy makers and government officials, finance experts, urban researchers, members of civil society organizations, and other innovators -- for the Global Urban Summit at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. This book shares their diverse perspectives...." -- from back cover.

Century of the City: No Time to Lose

Neal R. Peirce

Curtis W. Johnson

My books are brand new. U.S Edition. Priority shipping as a compliment. Your satisfaction is my entire goal. Buy with confidence. You will never dis-appointed. Offering best price for standard books. Once again my books are brand new, high quality maintained. Priority shipping in beautiful packages and box rushing to you as short time as possible.

Beyond Charity a Century of Philanthropic Innovation

Eric John Abrahamson

Food & Prosperity: Balancing Technology and Community in Agriculture

Waterhouse, Amanda Carroll

Vividly portrays how the relationship between democracy and philanthropy has been constantly tested over the last century, and offers insights and anecdotes to guide the next generation of American philanthropists on these issues. The book also includes a beautifully-written foreword by the Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice and former Rockefeller Foundation Board Member.

Democracy and Philanthropy : The Rockefeller Foundation and the American Experiment by Eric John Abrahamson (2013, Hardcover)

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