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 …
In July, The Rockefeller Foundation wrapped up their second round of Resilience Academies for the National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC) in Denver and Chicago with all 40 remaining jurisdictions in …
Much of what I know about farming was learned growing up on a small Iowa farm. My parents devoted considerable attention to producing our crops and livestock. However, considerable attention …
A version of this post also appeared in the Huffington Post. If you read the New York Times, you have probably been inundated by trend articles about Ivy league graduates who …
A version of this post originally appeared on Pacific Standard's The Future of Work series, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation. Nearly 75 years ago, Joseph Schumpeter popularized the term "creative destruction" …
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 …
As part of The Rockefeller Foundation's Workshift: #GoodJobsForAll campaign, we've spent the past two weeks exploring the question: what is a good job? In New York City and Des Moines, we've hosted …
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina was unprecedented in its destruction—awakening cities around the globe to a new reality. Today, crisis is the new normal, but not every disruption has to become …
Last Friday, The Rockefeller Foundation, together with our grantee Purpose, launched a campaign called "Workshift," with the goal of changing the way we think about, define, and build good jobs …