Mar 18 2020The Rockefeller Foundation proudly joins the universal health coverage coalition and signs the Global Compact at the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva, formalizing its support for UHC2030, which lays the groundwork for achieving health for all.
Mar 18 2020The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation commit $5 million to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria and to work with Puerto Rico’s philanthropic, business, government, and NGO sectors to rebuild as a stronger, more resilient island on a path to a sound future.
Mar 18 2020Leading philanthropists, including Richard Chandler, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jeff Skoll, Romesh and Kathy Wadhwani, and The Rockefeller Foundation announce Co-Impact, a global collaborative for systems change, with $500 million in planned initial funding for multi-year investments in health, education, and economic opportunity.
Mar 18 2020The Rockefeller Foundation announces the inaugural class of a new Fellowship, designed to support work on a range of projects across the fields of health, power, innovative finance, governance, economic opportunity, and the life sciences.
Mar 18 2020From Missoula to San Juan, 10 organizations receive $1 million each to expand their community-led approaches to improve economic opportunity in their neighborhoods and beyond.
Mar 18 2020MacArthur Foundation commits $150 million to help address critical social challenges, joining The Rockefeller Foundation and Omidyar Network in the new Catalytic Capital Consortium and calls for more flexible impact investments and collaboration.
Mar 18 2020The Rockefeller Foundation announces the Opportunity Zones Initiative, an effort to help U.S. cities attract responsible private investment in economically-distressed communities and ensure delivery of sustainable benefits for more than 30 million low-income Americans living in designated Opportunity Zones.
Mar 18 2020The Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP) is formed to help drive a new agenda to provide electricity to hundreds of millions in pursuit of the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 7.
Mar 18 2020The Rockefeller Foundation and leading global health partners announce Precision Public Health, a $100 million initiative to empower community health systems and frontline health workers with the latest data science innovations and aims to prevent 6 million deaths in 10 countries by 2030.
Mar 18 2020The Food System Vision Prize invites organizations, universities, institutions, companies, cooperatives, and partnerships from around the world to create compelling and progressive visions of the world’s system by 2050. A Prize of $2 million will be distributed among 10 winners.
