From our very first grant—to the American Red Cross more than a century ago—through to today’s vast array of initiatives, The Rockefeller Foundation has built a reputation as a trailblazer …
In the United States, when you face an emergency, you dial 911 and an ambulance will be sent to your house to help. What if people living in poverty all over the world could dial a number to have cash delivered to them in a crisis?
Modeling and data-driven analytics have been invaluable tools in the global response to the Covid-19 crisis. However, deploying these analytical tools, and communicating insights, has been challenging in the best …
Millions of U.S. families are exposed to lead through contaminated water piped into their homes; children are particularly at risk of neurological damage and developmental delays. But the data needed …
Supported projects will produce text and speech datasets for natural language processing (NLP) technologies that will have significant downstream impacts on education, financial inclusion, healthcare, agriculture, communication, and disaster response …
Domestic work is mostly done and paid for in the shadows, and technology has a role to play in supporting this workforce: It can enshrine and preserve existing power imbalances, or disrupt them.
The decision by the Singapore investment fund Temasek to establish a $500 million strategic partnership with LeapFrog Investment Group is a landmark moment for the impact investing industry. Attracting an …
When people look for help from safety net programs, they are often at a low point. That the process for receiving legally mandated aid should so often be bewildering and, …
A core motivation for establishing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 was to break from business-as-usual. As the past year’s Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing global crises have only underscored, …