Jun 23 2021
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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 …
Jun 09 2021
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?
Jun 09 2021
#RFBreakthrough
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 …
May 24 2021
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 …
Apr 28 2021
Press Releases
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 …
Mar 19 2021
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.
Mar 09 2021
Perspective
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 …
Mar 03 2021
Perspective
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, …
Mar 03 2021
The social safety net in the United States is meant to not only give people in need the means to get by, but is an investment in a humane and …
Health Technology & Innovation U.S. & the Americas
Feb 23 2021
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, …
Technology & Innovation Global