Founders’ Day 2026

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

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Illuminating the Serious Costs of the Endangerment Finding Repeal

Thanks to the support we receive from friends like you, RFF researchers are applying rigorous, independent analysis to one of the most significant environmental policy shifts in decades.

Powering the Critical Minerals Conversation

Resources for the Future (RFF) is expanding its focus on critical minerals and the economic and policy questions around their supply.

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Helping Flood-Prone Communities Build Resilience

Resources for the Future is combining cutting-edge flood modeling with detailed property data and on-the-ground engagement to identify practical, nature-based approaches to reducing flood risk and improving community resilience.

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Safeguarding Science for the Public Good

Resources for the Future has hired researchers formerly with the federal government, bringing deep expertise and helping us carry forward important work once housed within federal agencies.

Take a look back at our Founders’ Day impact stories from years past!

Founders’ Day 2025

Click here to view last year’s impact stories on community engagement and critical minerals, guiding smarter forest policy, electricity market design, and our policy engagement efforts.

Founders’ Day 2024

Click here to view our 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 our 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.