Mar 29 2017
Press Releases
NRI selected for an award of up to $500,000 to develop solution for increasing cassava shelf life, with the potential to enhance food security and increasing income for millions of …
Mar 29 2017
Press Releases
Nairobi, March 29th 2017 - Over 600 delegates have converged in Nairobi today to launch the first ever All Africa Post-Harvest Congress. The three-day event, whose theme is “Reducing Food …
Mar 28 2017
Perspective
Just shy of a decade ago, The Rockefeller Foundation broke from a long tradition of focusing its health-related work on disease-specific interventions. Instead, it began to explore the question of …
Mar 22 2017
Perspective
What can we do to foster and further amplify equitable ways of working, decision making, and engagement within the communities we serve? At the annual conference of the Alliance of Artists …
Mar 21 2017
Perspective
This is a critical moment for unemployed youth in America. As the labor market tightens and demographic and technological shifts usher in major changes in the workforce, companies are increasingly …
Mar 16 2017
Perspective
An estimated 83 million rural households across India still struggle for access to a dependable source of electricity, making them particularly vulnerable, as cities take precedence over “last mile” connections …
Mar 16 2017
Perspective
If the Ebola crisis in West Africa and the global Zika outbreak taught the world anything, it is that all health systems – regardless of size and available resources – …
Mar 13 2017
Perspective
Late last week, SXSW—the Austin-based conference and festival that explores the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries—made a bold statement.
In an ambitious blog post at the start of …
Mar 07 2017
Press Releases
New Platform, Zilient, Allows Individuals Working in the Global Resilience Field to Network and Share Knowledge Online Platform Developed through a $5.5 Million Commitment by The Rockefeller Foundation, In Partnership with …
Mar 03 2017
In 2015 The Rockefeller Foundation partnered with the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) to launch the National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC)
Resilience Academies. Recognizing the salient need to infuse …
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