Jan 01 2011Having been catalyzed by the support of The Rockefeller Foundation, the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network completes its third stage of development in forming multinational collaborations to slow the spread of disease.
Jan 01 2010In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is launched to address food insecurity in Africa. New seed varieties, innovative water management, and a Market Access Program increase crop production and income for farming families.
Jan 01 2010The Rockefeller Foundation invests $22 million in its Disease Surveillance Networks Initiative to help contain the spread of infectious diseases and pandemics by strengthening national, regional and global disease surveillance and response systems.
Jan 01 2010The Transforming Health Systems initiative awards more than $17.5 million in grants to engage local entrepreneurs, public and private organizations, and global health experts to focus on strengthening approaches to health systems stewardship, e- and mobile health approaches, and private sector integration.
Jan 01 2010The Transportation Initiative achieves a major milestone when a Foundation-supported campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulted in the California Air Resources Board approving aggressive standards for the state.
Jan 01 2010Support for researchers at Yale University led to the development of the Economic Security Index (ESI), a key to unlocking a better understanding of economic security and addressing the problems workers face.
Jan 01 2009U.S. President Barack Obama announces initiatives that emerged from recommendations made by Rockefeller Foundation-supported grantees for developing tools for American workers to save more and better weather periods of economic uncertainty.
Jan 01 2009The Impact Investing initiative supports the launch of the Global Impacting Investing Network (GIIN), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of impact investing.
Jan 01 2009The Foundation launches its Impact Investing initiative to help accelerate the growth of the field. Impact investing is investments intended to generate both a social or environmental impact, as well as a financial return for investors.
Jan 01 2009Nobel Peace Laureate, and "father of the Green Revolution" Norman Borlaug dies after a lifetime of contributions to the productivity of global agriculture and food security.
