Winthrop Rockefeller Institute

Founded in 2005, the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute (commonly called the Institute) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to continue Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller’s collaborative approach to creating transformational change and a 509(a)(3) supporting organization of the University of Arkansas System. 

During Winthrop Rockefeller’s twenty years in Arkansas, he hosted hundreds of conferences and meetings at his model mountaintop homestead here on Petit Jean Mountain. In keeping with this history, the Institute engages its own resources and Winthrop’s values and legacy of leadership to convene purposeful gatherings. This Institute does this by employing the “Rockefeller Ethic” — the belief that transformational change is created by combining diversity of opinion, respectful dialogue, and collaborative problem solving.