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On Monday, HUD Secretary Donovan awarded $920 M of disaster recovery funding to New Jersey, New York State, and New York City for six Rebuild by Design proposals. Rebuild by Design …

This post originally appeared on 100 Resilient Cities. Oscar Santiago Uribe Rocha is Medellín, Colombia's first Chief Resilience Officer (CRO)—the second CRO appointed anywhere in the world. His story is one …

The World Bank recently published a noble and important report with answers to the question Is anyone reading our reports and publications? They note that nearly 50 percent of their …

This post was co-authored by Min Pease, Impact Investing Manager at Echoing Green. In 2007, we selected Felix Brandon-Lloyd as an Echoing Green Fellow. Felix's organization, Skill-Life, was a game-based platform …

Like many regions, Latin America and the Caribbean face a mismatch between what its educational system offers and the skills that are demanded by the market. A recent trend monitoring …

The Rockefeller Foundation congratulates WETA's documentary, Latino Americans, for winning the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. As the award panel said, the series' "six fascinating installments traced a people's history that's …

Ranjit is a farmer who owns land in Bharayen village in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, where he sows sugarcane, wheat, and rice crops, some of which he sells in the region. …

This article, co-authored by Nick Mead, is cross-posted with special permission from The Guardian. It is frequently cited that more than half of us now live in cities. But it might …

Achieving scale is a challenge as old as the field of social enterprise itself, one whose wide-reaching implications cut to the heart of what it means to make meaningful impact. …

Leveraging social media and digital technology to hear from a wide array of voices is part of The Rockefeller Foundation’s approach to enriching its understanding of the dynamic challenges facing …