Last week was the World Health Assembly, an annual gathering where the world’s health leaders take stock of progress to improve health and wellbeing, and set the global health agenda …
Climate change efforts have progressively evolved from top-down policy initiatives to bottom-up civil society participation and private sector implementation. Public and private institutional investors have both the capacity and appetite …
“Philanthropy is risk capital.”
If you work in philanthropy, you’ve likely heard that phrase many times. But a survey conducted by Open Road Alliance in 2015 clearly showed that as a …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=yWKVliih5VM As delivered at The Fairmont Hotel, Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Thank you, Jane. That was excessively kind – I wish I could just stay back there and keep …
As we approached The Rockefeller Foundation’s Centennial in 2013, we asked the question—what must we do for the next 100 years to fulfill our enduring mission of improving the well-being …
When Earth Day launched 47 years ago, its founder Gaylord Nelson had an ambitious vision of building a new relationship between society and nature based on respect and stewardship. Even …
In the course of our noble duty to improve lives make the world a better place, we development practitioners and NGO workers are notorious for using strange terminologies and acronyms …
Among the many views held of the financial industry, a reputation for fostering gender diversity is unfortunately not one of them. While there are steadily more women entering the sector, …
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 – …