Eileen Rockefeller (born February 26, 1952) is an American philanthropist. She is the youngest daughter of

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and Margaret "Peggy" McGrath. Eileen is a member of the fourth generation of the

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widely known as "the Cousins". Her elder siblings are Abby,

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, and David Jr.

Biography

Growald attended the

Chapin School Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood in Manhattan. History Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" in 1901. The school origi ...

in New York and graduated from

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in Maryland. She received her

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from

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in 1974 and her master's in Early Childhood Education from

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in association with the

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in 1976. In 1982, she founded and was president of the Institute for the Advancement of Health, dealing principally with the scientific understanding of mind-body interactions in health and disease; this subject has evolved into what is now called Emotional Intelligence. She co-founded The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) in 1992. In 2000, she and her husband, Paul Growald, founded The Champlain Valley Greenbelt Alliance (CVGA), a local non-profit organization to protect

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s along major corridors in

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. They have two sons, Daniel and Adam. Growald, who describes herself as a venture philanthropist, is also the founding chair of

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that currently advises on and manages more than $200 million in annual charitable giving. Its headquarters are in New York City, with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and ...

, set up in New York by various members of the family in 2002. The largest advisory service of its kind, its current chair is Kevin Broderick, who served on the board of Rockefeller Financial Services and took over as chairman from Rockefeller in 2005. Its mission is to create thoughtful, effective philanthropy throughout the world. Growald was also closely involved with

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, when it was located in

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, where she lives on the former Vanderbilt estate,

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. After her brother David Rockefeller Jr., she is seen as a leader of the family's fourth generation, one of whose major funding priorities is reducing the threat of nuclear war.

Bibliography

2014, ''Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself: A Memoir''

References

External links

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) websiteAn entrepreneurial spirit: Three Centuries of Rockefeller Family Philanthropy
This 2005 PDF document contains a history and philosophy of Rockefeller philanthropy, organised by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), founded and formerly chaired by Eileen Growald and set up in New York in 2002.
''The Cousins''
1984 ''

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'' article on the cousins and the transition of power to the fourth-generation.
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Economic Learning (CASEL)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Growald, Eileen Rockefeller Rockefeller family Winthrop family American philanthropists 1952 births Living people People from Shelburne, Vermont Middlebury College alumni American women memoirists American memoirists Writers from Vermont

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