Foundation Mission Statement

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based at Adams House, Harvard University dedicated to preserving the memory of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and to the renewal of their legacy for the 21st century.

Looking to the past, we maintain a museum of FDR’s years as a college student, the restored 1904 FDR Suite at Adams House, Harvard College.

Looking to the future, we utilize our unique position within one of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses to harness the Roosevelt legacy for the future. Through active cross-disciplinary collaboration between policy-shapers, scholars and students, we reintroduce tomorrow’s decision-makers to the New Deal philosophy that inspired the most effective and long-lasting reforms of that era: bold, persistent experimentation and above all, harnessing the power of hope to promote a spirit of social cooperation and activism.

Worth A Look

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    ‘No Escape’ for Refugees on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis

    UN News · November 6, 2026 A new UNHCR report released before the COP31 climate talks in Türkiye finds that about three in four refugees, nearly 90 million people, live…

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt with members of his administration in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, August 12, 1933

    Who Really Was FDR?

    American Heritage Historian Derek Leebaert draws on the private accounts of the four cabinet members who served through the whole Roosevelt presidency (Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes and Henry…

  • A Civilian Conservation Corps planting crew

    A Century Ago, the Government Hired Unemployed Young Men to Build America’s Forests, Trails, and Parks

    Business Insider, via Yahoo News A photo essay on the Civilian Conservation Corps, the New Deal program that put unemployed young men to work planting trees, fighting fires and building…

  • Abram August Champanier, Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York, 1938–40

    A New Deal in Wonderland

    Living New Deal · August 24, 2026 Federal Art Project murals that showed Alice touring 1930s New York were painted for a children’s tuberculosis ward at Gouverneur Hospital, rescued when…

  • What if Dems didn’t scuttle Henry Wallace VP nomination in 1944?

    What if Dems didn’t scuttle Henry Wallace VP nomination in 1944?

    Responsible Statecraft · October 27, 2026 — Historians Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolić Hughes revisit the 1944 Democratic convention, where party leaders replaced Vice President Henry Wallace with Harry Truman on FDR’s ticket. They ask how the Cold War and the nuclear arms race might have unfolded had Wallace stayed.

  • Protester in Iran with a Wi-Fi symbol drawn on her hand, raising a victory sign

    Freedom on the Net 2026: Seismic Shifts on the Global Internet

    Freedom House · October 2026 — Internet freedom fell worldwide for the 16th straight year, according to Freedom House’s annual survey. Iran’s prolonged national shutdown produced the steepest decline, Russia moved to wall its citizens off from the global internet, and Bangladesh showed the greatest improvement.

Address

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation
Adams House, Harvard College
26 Plympton Street, Box 471
Cambridge, MA 02138