The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation founded in 1913, with head offices in New York is a knowledge-based foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world. In order to maximize resources and leverage the Foundation’s strengths, grant-making is organized around four thematic lines of work:

  • Creativity and Culture
  • Food Security
  • Health Equity
  • Working Communities

A cross-theme of Global Inclusion supports promotes and supplements the work of these themes. In addition to offices in New York and San Francisco, and the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy, the Foundation has an African Regional Office in Nairobi, Kenya and a Southeast Asia Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand.

For more specifics on the Foundation’s global programs, please contact

The Rockefeller Foundation
420 Fifth Avenue, New York
New York 10018-2702, U.S.A
www.rockfound.org


 

Southeast Asia Regional Office

The inauguration of the Bangkok Regional Office on January 9, 2002, recommits and deepens a presence the Foundation has had in the region since the 1960s. The new office is entrusted with the development and implementation of the Southeast Asia Regional Program (SEARP), applying grant-making strategies tailored to the specific needs of the region.

As part of this mandate, staff launched the Learning Across Boundaries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (LAB) area of work with the goal of fostering regional capacity to collectively understand and respond to cross-border and inter-cultural challenges that are arising from sub-regional development.

LAB aims to enhance the capacity of people and institutions in the GMS to reflect upon and respond to these cross-border and intercultural challenges.

Capitalizing on the Foundation’s core themes, LAB further aims to promote a greater focus of intervention on unforeseen impacts of regional integration through three shared grant-making initiatives.


  Bridging Diversity, in collaboration with Creativity & Culture, to enhance recognition and appreciation for the religious and ethnic pluralism of the sub-region.

Cross-Border Health, in collaboration with Health Equity, to stem the cross-border flow of infectious diseases, especially AIDS.

Upland Communities in Transition, in collaboration with Food Security, to increase agricultural production and access to regional markets for marginalized upland communities in border areas.


The staff consists of the following employees:

  • Mr. Alan Feinstein, Acting Director, Southeast Asia Regional Office
  • Ms. Busaba Tejagupta, Grant Administrator
  • Mr. Somkiat Rongchitprapus, Senior Accountant
  • Ms. Pen Suwannarat, Program Associate
  • Ms. Kitima Praphandha, Executive Assistant
  • Ms. Treenuch Wongsuebkhao, Information & Communication Assistant
  • Ms. Paksupa Chanarnporn, Administrative Assistant
  • Ms. Thitikarn Thongdee, Front Desk Assistant
  • Mr. Suchart Komol, Office Assistant
  • Mr. Chalermpol Attasara, Office Assistant
  • Ms. Pannipa Ruamboon, Services Assistant


For more information, contact:

The Rockefeller Foundation
Southeast Asia Regional Office
21st Floor, UBC 2 Building,
No. 591, Sukhumvit Road (Soi 33),
Wattana, Bangkok 10110
Thailand
Tel : 66-2-262-0091 to 95
Fax : 66-2-262-0098
website : www.rockmekong.org

For summit ideas for grants, please contact The Rockefeller Foundation. For information on programs supported by The Rockefeller Foundation in this region, publications and upcoming events, please contact here.

Mail address :
P.O. Box 26
Prasarnmitr
Bangkok 10114
Thailand