Welcome to Bellagio Breakthroughs, where we highlight the work of Bellagio Center residents and conveners who are driving progress on globally pressing issues. In these pages, we invite you to learn more about how these leaders and their work at The Bellagio Center are helping to move the needle on the most important issues of our time.
Features from this Edition
- Bellagio BreakthroughsRadical Collaboration - Sundaa Bridgett-Jones on Building Power, Connections, and Relationships Through Convening
GEAPP's Sundaa Bridgett-Jones talks about the power of convening to build connections, alliances and movements. - Bellagio BreakthroughsMoving From Aid to Innovation - Gary Toenniessen on Leveraging Research to Transform Global Food Systems The Rockefeller Foundation's Dr. Gary Toenniessen discusses how a 1969 Bellagio Center convening helped launch CGIAR and reshape global food and agricultural aid.
- Bellagio BreakthroughsMany Paths to One Mountaintop - Antony Bugg-Levine on Building Movements That Shift Systems The GIIN co-founder Antony Bugg-Levine discusses how a Bellagio Center convening helped galvanize the worldwide impact investing movement.
Previous Editions
March 2024Gender Equality Issue
Women are agents of change. In this edition of Bellagio Perspectives, we interview ten women leaders in economics, government, arts, media, philanthropy, development, & law who use gender as a primary lens in their efforts to eliminate inequities and unlock solutions for the most pressing issues of our time, from climate change to human rights and political empowerment.
Gender Equality Issue
Women are agents of change. In this edition of Bellagio Perspectives, we interview ten women leaders in economics, government, arts, media, philanthropy, development, & law who use gender as a primary lens in their efforts to eliminate inequities and unlock solutions for the most pressing issues of our time, from climate change to human rights and political empowerment. September 2023Climate Change
The world is contending with a climate emergency that threatens to impact lives and livelihoods across the globe, leaving no one unscathed. These impacts will be complex and interrelated, affecting access to food and nutrition, through increased likelihood of crop failures, and negatively impacting health, through increased heat stress as well as the rise of vector-borne diseases. These impacts will also demand new approaches to financing and governance to ensure that resources are available when and where they are most needed.
Climate Change
The world is contending with a climate emergency that threatens to impact lives and livelihoods across the globe, leaving no one unscathed. These impacts will be complex and interrelated, affecting access to food and nutrition, through increased likelihood of crop failures, and negatively impacting health, through increased heat stress as well as the rise of vector-borne diseases. These impacts will also demand new approaches to financing and governance to ensure that resources are available when and where they are most needed. February 2023Racial and Economic Justice
Over the past year, The Rockefeller Foundation has supported key leaders in economic equity through our Bellagio Center Residency and Convening Program, focusing on advancing racial and economic justice at the intersection of democracy, workers' rights, and tax policies.