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Meeting the rising expectations of digital citizens Driven by fast-paced technological innovations, an exponential growth of smartphones, and a daily stream of big data, the “digital revolution” is changing the …

How collaborative ideation fueled a search for food waste solutions. If food waste were a nation, it would rank third in the world for harmful emissions. Along with the environmental damage, …

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 …

The first few months of 2017 have shown encouraging signs that last year’s momentum on food waste continues to grow. Voluntary guidelines to clarify date labels have been launched by …

In my role as executive director of Cities of Service, I have had the opportunity to travel to many of our more than 225 member cities to see individuals, communities, …

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.8 calls for Member states to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030. Realizing this ambitious goal will require both political will from national …

A couple of weeks ago, influential employers - including T-Mobile, Gap Inc., and McDonalds* - came to New Orleans for an unprecedented gathering on jobs in the United States. Each …

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 …

Crisis is the new normal. In a world increasingly under pressure from different shocks - the effects of trade and labour movement in today's globalized world, repercussions from climate change, …