CURRENT INITIATIVE
Creating wealth in underserved communities
U.S. Economic Opportunity U.S. & the Americas
Nov 01 2023
Press Releases
NEW YORK | November 1, 2023 ― Today, bolstered by a $2.5 million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation, data.org announces a partnership with the World Health Organization Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic …
Oct 25 2023
Press Releases
$3 billion goal for deposits to CDFIs and MDIs
Calls on Companies to Strengthen Domestic Supply Chains and Build Wealth for Underserved
Washington, D.C. | October 24, 2023 ― During today’s 2023 Freedman’s Bank …
Aug 02 2023
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The rights of women and girls around the world are rolled back by widespread democratic recession and rising autocracy, the existential threat of climate change, and failing international frameworks.
Jul 28 2023
Press Releases
Announced on the one-year anniversary of the White House’s launch of the Economic Opportunity Coalition NEW YORK | July 28, 2023 ― The Rockefeller Foundation announced today the hiring of Christopher Weaver …
Jul 21 2023
Press Releases
NEW YORK | July 19, 2023 ― The Rockefeller Foundation released its annual Zero Gap Fund: 2022 State of the Portfolio report capturing the crucial role that catalytic capital plays …
Jun 30 2023
Statements
The following is a statement by funders and philanthropic organizations in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions …
Jun 29 2023
One Sunday in June 1882, at a Baptist church in Cleveland, Ohio, John D. Rockefeller, his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller, and a visionary educator began a collaboration that would reach through the generations.
Jun 26 2023
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, Black businesses shut down at twice the rate of white businesses, further widening the racial wealth gap. To help bridge this gap, we launched the Rockefeller Opportunity Collective to invest in partners and policies to economically mobilize Black and Latinx small business owners.
Jun 22 2023
Impact Report 2020-2022
Opportunity Overview
While building alliances to fight the pandemic, the Foundation moved with equal dispatch to increase economic opportunity as Covid-19 was strangling economies around the world.