Mar 19 2020The Rockefeller Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts commit $100 million over 10 years to create the Energy Foundation, aimed at making energy generation and consumption in the United States more efficient and sustainable.
Jan 01 1999The Foundation supports the creation of the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network to strengthen national and sub-regional capabilities in disease surveillance and response to outbreaks of priority diseases in the six countries of the region.
Jan 01 1998The Foundation introduces an initiative on public-private partnerships in research and development for neglected diseases of poverty to support the establishment of the Medicines for Malaria Venture, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, the International Partnership on Microbicides, the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative, and the Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property Rights in Health R&D.
Jan 01 1997The final group of Social Science Research Fellows in Agriculture is selected. Established in 1975, this program enables young social scientists to work on agricultural and rural development projects while based at universities and research institutions in developing countries.
Jan 01 1997The Foundation announces a new initiative on Global Health Equity to establish the conceptual foundations for considering equity in health with empirical assessments of the scale and nature of health inequities and assessments of relevant policy implications.
Jan 01 1997The Foundation approves the third and final round of funding for the National Community Development Initiative. HUD and more than 1,400 corporate and philanthropic donors will provide $253 million over the next decade and leverage more than $2 billion in local funding for community development.
Jan 01 1997Scientists in the Foundation’s rice biotechnology network discover that all cereals have essentially the same basic genes as rice, an insight that allows much of what has been learned in the rice biotechnology program to be applied to maize, wheat, sorghum, and other cereals.
Jan 01 1996The Foundation convenes experts in HIV/AIDS to find ways for industry, philanthropy, development and health agencies to collaborate in finding an AIDS vaccine that would be affordable and available throughout the world. The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) emerges from that effort, along with four other partnerships to develop and manufacture safe, effective, affordable treatments for HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and dengue fever, as well as a microbicide that women can administer on their own to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
