Robin Hood Foundation

The Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable foundation that has set itself the goal to alleviate the consequences of poverty in New York City. The Fortune Magazine 's wrote on September 8, 2006: " ... one of the most innovative, influential and philanthropic organizations of our time."

The Robin Hood Foundation has a pioneering role in the so -called " venture philanthropy ". Any use of funds will be checked for their success. Programs that turn out to be ineffective will be stopped immediately.

"Robin Hood was a pioneer in what is now called venture philanthropy, or charity did embraces free -market forces. An early practitioner of using metrics to measure the effectiveness of grants, it is a place where strategies to alleviate urban poverty are hotly debated, ineffectual plans are coldly discarded, and its staff of 66 hatches radical new ideas "

The Foundation was established in 1988 from an idea of the hedge fund manager " Paul Tudor Jones ". The Board of the Foundation since 2006 members include Jeffrey R. Immelt, Diane Sawyer, Harvey Weinstein, Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs and Gwyneth Paltrow. World-renowned bands like the Rolling Stones and The Who support the project through charity concerts.

Principle

Programs

The Robin Hood Foundation works with more than 200 local nonprofit organizations and projects in New York City. A well-known collaborative project is the " 9/11 Relief Fund, which was created after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The Annual Report for 2011 has support services of over 146 million U.S. dollars, with a total turnover of more than 158 million U.S. dollars from.

The Robin Hood Foundation divides its support in four categories:

• Children 's and youth work ( " Early Childhood & Youth" )
• Education ( "Education" )
• Labor and financial security ( " Jobs and Economic Security " )
• Survival ( "survival " )