Southern China Grant Program

Southern China Grant Program

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Last Updated: September 15, 2025

Summary

The Southern China Grant Program, supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, focuses on fostering sustainable development in southern China. It aims to mitigate environmental degradation and promote low-carbon initiatives through collaboration among government, businesses, and civil society. Eligible organizations must be tax-exempt and contribute to educational or charitable projects. The program emphasizes policy development, environmental governance, and capacity building to address pressing ecological challenges while ensuring transparency and accountability.

Overview

Note: Staff members actively identify organizations that are well-positioned to meet programmatic goals. While we remain open to unsolicited requests, applicants should be aware that the likelihood of an unsolicited request becoming a grant is low. ADVANCE HEALTHY AND LOW-CARBON DEVELOPMENT China’s extraordinary development has been accompanied by severe environmental degradation with adverse human and economic impacts, as well as significant threats associated with climate change. As the Chinese government and people take consequential steps to respond in an increasingly integrated way, the RBF assists by engaging with and fostering collaborations among government, business, civil society, and academia. Goal: Advance Healthy and Low-Carbon Development Strategies: Supporting policy development to mitigate environmental pollution, climate change, and risks to human communities and ecological health.Strengthening environmental governance by promoting accountability, transparency, access to information, and legal protection.Engaging the business sector and catalyzing market forces to advance sustainable production and consumption practices.Building leadership capacity for effective collaborations on global sustainable development.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. To be eligible for a grant, organizations should be tax-exempt or seeking support for a project that would qualify as educational or charitable. The Fund’s grantmaking in China focuses on southern China;it also connects work in southern China with Beijing-based and international institutions and stakeholders because of their importance in addressing regional, national, and global sustainable development challenges.

Ineligibility

What We Do Not FundSupport for IndividualsWe do not provide grant support to individuals, including funding for education, health care, and travel to or attendance at conferences.Meetings, Publications, and FilmsWe do not generally support meetings, publications or films, including documentaries, through its grantmaking, unless directly related to a Fund-supported project. Learn more about the use of The Pocantico Center for conferences.Phased-Out ProgramsThe Fund strives to be a strategic funder in carrying out its mission. As such, we evaluate our grantmaking regularly and phase out lines of grantmaking as appropriate. No funding is available for phased-out programs. For more information about the RBF’s past grantmaking, visit the Past Programs page or see the Grants Search.Capital ExpensesWe do not award grants for capital expenses, including the construction and renovation of buildings.Lobbying, as well as the planning or organizing of lobbying activities.Tickets or tables at galas and other fundraising events.