Jun 09 2020
Video
The number of children and families who experience food and nutrition insecurity is expected to increase because of the economic downturn and the surge in unemployment due to the Covid-19 …
Jun 08 2020
Jun 04 2020
Press Releases
On June 4, 2020, The Rockefeller Foundation and the City of Baltimore announced the launch of a groundbreaking pilot program – the Baltimore Health Corps –designed to address the city’s interconnected economic and public health crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Baltimore Health Corps will recruit, train, and employ more than 300 residents who are currently jobless due to the pandemic to serve as contact tracers, care coordinators, and Community Health Workers. Health Corps staff will be deployed to address critical COVID-19 needs in Baltimore’s most vulnerable communities, performing three key functions: public health education outreach, contact tracing, and care coordination and social support.
Jun 01 2020
Perspective
We hear and see it everywhere these days: “We’re all in this together.” Our friends and neighbors are committing selfless acts of community every day. Here in New York City …
Awarded Jul 13-2020
for use by its John A. Burns School of Medicine to convert its labs into COVID testing labs, thus enabling the processing of an additional 1,100 samples per day which will especially benefit homeless and under-served communities
$228,045
Jun 01 2020
Press Releases
Support will promote the adaption and scale-up of innovative approaches to empower health workers responding to the pandemic and continuing immunization services.
Focuses on leveraging digital technologies – such …
Awarded Sep 02-2020
in support of strengthening health data systems to enable scale up and use of data analytics by Ministries of Health in at least 4 low-income economy countries, referred to as the “Digital Health Catalytic Fund.”
$15,000,000
May 28 2020
Press Releases
NEW YORK, May 28, 2020 – The Rockefeller Foundation announced today that it will award three new grants to support organizations that are working with countries, communities, and regions in …
May 27 2020
Wuhan native Chang Liu joined a WHO team two days after the shutdown. Now he and his colleagues, hoping to save lives, are urgently sharing digital lessons learned.
May 24 2020
Perspective
Every year on Memorial Day, we honor and remember America’s fallen heroes – the military men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country in uniform. We …