Sep 08 2014
Perspective
Last week, The Rockefeller Foundation honored three small businesses for their innovations in youth hiring strategies—LiveWatch Security in St. Marys, Kansas; Precision Body & Paint in Beaverton, Oregon; and Sharp …
Sep 05 2014
Perspective
When E. H. Harriman, the President of the Southern Pacific Railroad, heard the news about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he led the first train west to assess how the …
Sep 04 2014
Perspective
The Urban Institute and The Rockefeller Foundation recently released an evaluation that explores how the Rebuild by Design competition, an initiative of President Obama's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, was designed, …
Sep 04 2014
Press Releases
NEW YORK—The Rockefeller Foundation announced today the honorees of the Innovations in Youth Hiring: Small Business Program, which aims to recognize small businesses throughout the United States that have adopted …
Sep 03 2014
Perspective
Flooding is not the only water-related climate change impact facing Can Tho. About two thirds of all homes in the city, most of whom are poor and vulnerable, do not …
Sep 03 2014
Speeches
I'm thrilled to be back at SOCAP. I last spoke here in 2012, when The Rockefeller Foundation was just preparing to celebrate our Centennial year. Now, we're still recovering from our …
Sep 01 2014
Impact sourcing is a business process service delivery model that provides quality and cost at parity with traditional business process outsourcing (BPO) services, but with optimized enhancements, such as: A …
U.S. Economic Opportunity
Aug 29 2014
Perspective
Earlier this month, The Rockefeller Foundation announced the $100 million Global Resilience Partnershipwith the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)—a bold new vision for building resilience to disasters, food …
Aug 28 2014
Perspective
Abnormal and unforeseen events happen regularly around the world. This year, floods in New York, the wettest spring since 1797 in England, and the hottest summer in Scandinavia in 150 …
Aug 21 2014
Perspective
A version of this post originally appeared on Medium.com. Ten years ago, who would have predicted the rise of the sharing economy, the omnipresence of social media, or that selfies would …