Who We Are
For over 60 years, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center has brought together a diverse, multifaceted group of residents and conveners from around the globe to share their knowledge, ideas, and strategies. Their combined vision, ingenuity, and experience can transform ideas into action that define our present and shape our future.
Every year, the Bellagio Center provides approximately 100 leaders from around the world with month-long residencies to advance their specific breakthrough projects while engaging with a globally diverse community. Former residents include: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, renowned authors Maya Angelou and Michael Ondaatji, and international policy makers such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Robinson, and Montek Ahluwalia.
The Bellagio Center also hosts approximately 60 week-long convenings annually for groups working collaboratively to create and implement breakthrough solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. Bellagio convenings have launched landmark initiatives that have transformed our energy, food, health, and financing systems, such as the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the CGIAR and the Global Impact Investing Network. Learn more about the history of the Bellagio Center here.
Because of Bellagio
Reflections on how Bellagio unites people to create meaningful change
Program Offerings
Bellagio includes individual residency and group convening programs
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Bellagio residencies provide individual leaders with four weeks of dedicated time to advance a breakthrough solution or project while building meaningful connections with a diverse group of fellow changemakers from around the world – all in a serene setting conducive to focused, goal-oriented work.Individual Residency
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Bellagio convenings bring leaders together to share diverse perspectives, unite their efforts and resources, and forge partnerships that create change. They spark dialogue and result in action—developing and strengthening solutions, forming coalitions that change the course of global issues, and transforming how we approach long-standing challenges.Group Convenings
The Bellagio Center has proven that bringing together leaders with different backgrounds is a powerful recipe for innovation. By fostering collaboration, the Center has become the birthplace of countless solutions that have changed the world.
Sarah GeisenheimerVice President, InnovationThe Rockefeller Foundation
Bellagio Voices
- Highlighting people and solutions from the Bellagio Alumni Network.
- Lifting up breakthrough solutions to pressing global issues being advanced by visionary Bellagio Center residents and conveners.
- Coming from all over the world and representing a wide cross-section of expertise, our 2022-2023 residents are some of the most ambitious, innovative, and committed leaders of our time.
- The Rockefeller Foundation and TED teamed up in March 2024 for a special event focused on bold, innovative "big bets" that address global challenges by transforming food, health care, energy, and financial systems through novel solutions and partnerships.
Recent News
- Oct 05 2023CARE USA Launches Arts for Gender Equality Fellowship With Support From The Rockefeller Foundation
- Jul 27 2023The Rockefeller Foundation Announces New Head of Bellagio Center
- Jun 08 2023Women Political Leaders Gather in Bellagio, Italy for Summit Hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security and The Rockefeller Foundation