Jan 05 2017
Perspective
How can a well-constructed road add the most value to Machakos County, Kenya? How can it help manage the shock of intense downpour during the rainy seasons, but also support …
Dec 16 2016
Press Releases
Coalition of 12 organizations set to launch FurtherWithFood.org, an online hub for information and solutions to cut food waste NEW YORK--Today, The Rockefeller Foundation announced its collaboration with the U.S. Department of …
Dec 06 2016
Perspective
Nature’s goods and services—e.g., food, raw materials, water flows, soil productivity, and a stable climate—underpin all human and economic activity. Despite broad recognition of this fact, our economic systems does …
Nov 16 2016
Perspective
Legendary urban activist and author Jane Jacobs once wrote that, “big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.” At the time she wrote it, the world’s …
Nov 12 2016
Press Releases
MARRAKECH—The Rockefeller Foundation and UNFCCC today announced a new, three-year project that will shine a light on solutions to balancing the need for both human health and a healthy planet. Momentum …
Oct 31 2016
Perspective
When Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States, it breached more than 50 levees and floodwalls, leaving nearly 80 percent of New Orleans underwater and …
Oct 17 2016
Perspective
As urban leaders meet in Quito this week for Habitat III, the gathering marks the 20-year anniversary of the second Habitat conference, and the 40-year anniversary of the first. In …
Oct 12 2016
Press Releases
Beyond The Grid Solar Fund will deploy debt finance for solar in African and Asia. WASHINGTON, D.C.--SunFunder today announced the first close of its new $50 million “Beyond The Grid Solar …
Oct 05 2016
Perspective
In January, Duke Medicine changed its name to Duke Health. Those of us in medicine know just how monumental it was to replace that one word “medicine” with “health.” This …
Sep 30 2016
Press Releases
First-Ever Global Recipients – Medals to be Presented at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador New York, NY—The Rockefeller Foundation President Dr. Judith Rodin announced the first-ever global recipients of the 2016 …