Convenings

Overview

For more than a century, The Rockefeller Foundation has used its influence to bring together disparate parties and facilitate conversations that promote the well-being of humanity worldwide.

These convenings offer a crucial opportunity for stakeholders to coalesce around clear goals, build far-reaching networks, and develop powerful strategies to implement real-world policies and actions.

Our convenings, held at The Bellagio Center as well as our New York headquarters and our regional offices in Nairobi and Bangkok, help transform energy, public health, finance, and food systems around the globe.

Take a look at some of our upcoming convenings. Then, peruse our list of historic convenings that have launched organizations, developed breakthrough ideas, and driven real-world policies.

Upcoming Convenings

Historical Convenings at the Bellagio Center

Ending Energy Poverty
Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)
We believe connecting everyone to renewable, reliable electricity is the defining task of our time. In 2021, after a pivotal convening at our Bellagio Center, we helped launch the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), which aims to unlock $100 billion in funding. Since its launch at COP26, GEAPP has invested and committed $464 million to 130 projects in 40 countries.

Achieving Health for All
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (known as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance) helps vaccinate more than half the world’s children against deadly and debilitating infectious diseases. It all started at a 1999 Bellagio convening.

Nourishing the World
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the world’s largest agricultural research network, got its start during a series of Bellagio meetings over fifty years ago. Today, it unites 15 top-tier research centers to address climate resilience, food insecurity and other pressing challenges in agriculture.

Impact Investing
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
The field of Impact investing – and the term to describe it – got its start at two Bellagio convenings. The Foundation set the stage in 2007-'08, leading to the 2009 creation of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), an independent nonprofit which connects a diverse network of investors committed to generating social and environmental impact alongside financial returns.

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