May 29 2015
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Editor’s Note: Funded by a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation, 100 Resilient Cities Platform Partner Shadrock Roberts outlines how community based open-data ecosystems have played an important role for disaster response …
May 28 2015
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As we at The Rockefeller Foundation work to advance inclusive economies that expand opportunities for more broadly shared prosperity—and, specifically, address the global employment crisis—we are devoting a lot of …
May 26 2015
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The following originally appeared on ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss at the University of Illinois ant Urbana-Champaign. Recognition that reducing postharvest loss is an important opportunity to enhance global food …
May 22 2015
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Editor’s Note: This is the third of four in our StoryCorps "Spoken From the Heart" series. Check back next week for the last installment, which brings us to West Philadelphia. While overall employment …
May 21 2015
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This post originally appeared on the World Economic Forum. As individuals we sometimes feel that there is very little that we can do in the face of big global challenges such as …
May 20 2015
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Only a few weeks ago, Nepal experienced a 7.8 earthquake that took the lives of more than 7,000 people, destroyed almost 300,000 homes, and left the remaining population with years …
May 18 2015
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Amazon recently announced—and for the first time—the earnings of its cloud storage and computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The report from the company pegged AWS revenue for the fourth …
May 15 2015
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Editor's Note: This is the second of four in our StoryCorps "Spoken From the Heart" series. Check back next week for the next installment, which brings us to Carrollton, Georgia. Home to a …
May 14 2015
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Today marks The Rockefeller Foundation's 102nd anniversary, a milestone that finds us hard at work toward the same mission that has inspired us since 1913: to promote the well-being of …
May 13 2015
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This post originally appeared on 100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation. It is estimated that by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Denser cities and shrinking …