Founders’ Day 2025
Celebrating over 70 years of impact
This Founders’ Day, your support keeps trusted research moving forward.
For more than 70 years, Resources for the Future has delivered rigorous, independent analysis that helps leaders evaluate choices, balance priorities, and shape policies that matter. In today’s dynamic policy landscape, our mission has never been more important.
Your support makes our work possible. Together, we can ensure that RFF continues to be the bridge our country needs—connecting facts to decisions and helping leaders across government, business, and communities find practical solutions for the future.
Make your Founders’ Day gift today to build on this momentum and keep RFF’s essential work moving forward.
Impact your support helped make possible
The Economics of Community Engagement: Opportunities for Critical Minerals Mining
Resources for the Future (RFF) released new research earlier this year on how mining companies can more effectively engage with the communities they operate in.
Guiding Smarter Forest Policy
Does cutting down more trees actually make forests safer? This summer, we dove into that question in depth.
Powering Real-World Outcomes
At Resources for the Future, we study the intricacies of electricity markets that most people never think about—but that quietly determine how the lights stay on, what we pay for power, and whether our grid can handle tomorrow’s demands.
Research When It Matters Most
Your support helps us put clear, objective economic research into the hands of leaders when they need it most.
Take a look back at our Founders’ Day impact stories from years past!
Founders’ Day 2024
Click here to view last year's impact stories on accelerating innovation, powering the future of clean transportation, bridging the divide on carbon pricing, and helping Maryland craft a Net-Zero Path
Founders’ Day 2023
Click here to view 2023’s impact stories on air quality in New York schools, the economics of critical minerals, using data to better understand extreme weather, and RFF’s Carbon Scoring Project.