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It's been a decade since Hurricane Katrina caused one of the greatest humanitarian disasters known to American soil. Hurricane Katrina brought heavy rains, monumental surges, and unprecedented floods that upended …

The Taste of Summer With only a week of summer left, many of us will load up our beach chairs and don our flip flops for a final excursion to the …

Partnership is an essential feature of our work at The Rockefeller Foundation. Building resilience often requires bringing together unlikely people and organizations from across sectors to collaborate on bold and innovative …

"If a solution like African Outbreak and Epidemic Insurance had been in place, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia would have had funds available when they were needed most to execute …

Two years ago, I sat across a café table from WEConnect International President Elizabeth Vazquez, both of us envisioning an opportunity to increase the number of women-owned businesses in Africa …

"Have you heard of 'X' organization? They're doing interesting work that you should know about. You might even want to work together." Words like these abound between individuals at conferences, at …

A version of this post originally appeared on iRevolutions. The Humanitarian UAV Network (UAViators) recently organized a three-day Policy Forum on Humanitarian UAVs. The mission of UAViators is to promote the …

For cities, it's no longer "if" they'll be hit by a disruption, but when—and how long it will take for the city to get back on course. But as I've said …

The consensus in the scientific community is stark: our planet, and its ability to sustain human life, is in imminent danger. And humanity bears a great share of the blame for …