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Jan 23 2020

Press Releases

Mastercard and The Rockefeller Foundation Announce data.org: A Platform for Data Science Partnerships

$10 Million Challenge Launched to Help Crowdsource Solutions to Social Challenges DAVOS, Switzerland, January 23, 2020 - The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Rockefeller Foundation today announced data.org as a …

Jan 16 2020

Perspective

In the Year of Women’s Rights Anniversaries, Now is the Time to Make Foreign Policy Feminist

Mexico became the latest country to launch a distinctly “feminist” foreign policy, an approach to foreign relations aimed at advancing gender equality, promoting peace and combatting the most egregious challenges …

Jan 09 2020

Press Releases

William Asiko Joins The Rockefeller Foundation As Managing Director of Africa Regional Office

NEW YORK – The Rockefeller Foundation today announced that William Asiko, former Executive Director of Grow Africa, has joined the Foundation as the Managing Director of the Africa regional office. In …

Dec 18 2019

Perspective

Fighting poverty by modernizing the tax filing system

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the most effective ways of combatting poverty and inequality in the United States. The EITC supplements the earnings of low-income workers, …

Dec 18 2019

Perspective

Power for the Planet, Power for Pathways Out of Poverty

As world leaders gathered last week at the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid to debate greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and discuss climate action plans, The Rockefeller Foundation …

Dec 17 2019

Press Releases

Piramal Swasthya and The Rockefeller Foundation Announce Partnership to Accelerate India’s Public Health Transformation

Collaboration will harness innovative digital technology to support the Government of India’s vision to provide quality healthcare for all This partnership will focus on mothers and children in Aspirational …

Dec 10 2019

Perspective

Unlocking the Power of Open Source for Government

Digital goods — a video, a song, a book, a network configuration, etc. — can be duplicated an unlimited number of times at near-zero marginal cost. This is what economists …

Dec 03 2019

Press Releases

All On and The Rockefeller Foundation Launch All On Hub to Support Off-Grid Entrepreneurs in Nigeria

$3.5 million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation will fund establishment of support facility for energy entrepreneurs in Nigeria All On Hub will create a pipeline of scalable, investable and sustainable off-grid …

Dec 03 2019

Perspective

Taking a Human Rights Approach to AI Governance

In response to concern about the impact of AI on society companies and civil society organizations have raced to write ethical frameworks to guide the development and use of these …

Dec 03 2019

Perspective

GivingTuesday Goes Global

December 3rd 2019 is the eighth GivingTuesday, the annual day of celebrating generosity of all sorts, from donating money to volunteering. In its first seven years, GivingTuesday has inspired millions …

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