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Rockefeller Foundation President Dr. Judith Rodin recently sat down with MetroFocus host Rafael Pi Roman to talk about Bus Rapid Transit and why Mayor Bill de Blasio should consider it as …

A version of this post also appeared on LinkedIn. The best piece of advice I’ve ever received was also my first. I was in the first grade, and my mother and …

A murmuration of starlings dances in waves across the screen at the front of the auditorium. In a dazzling display, thousands of the birds come together in chromatic choreography. The …

Chailerd Thungkham can still remember when, as a little boy, he would float a small decorative boat down the Mae Kok Noi (Inner Kok) river as part of the Thai …

The world's oceans cover 70 percent of our planet and provide countless benefits to people and societies—food, jobs, recreation, shipping, tourism, natural resources, and climate regulation in addition to their …

In September, we announced the launch of the Innovations in Accelerating Impact Enterprises challenge, which aims to scale impact enterprises as a promising, sustainable means of addressing social issues affecting the …

The newly released Rockefeller Foundation and Economist Intelligence Unit report, "Revaluing Ecosystems: A Vision of Better Future" presents insights that confront and reimagine the urgent, timeless question of how we …

Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America by lending capital, delivering financial training, and strengthening …

Getting from here to there in the United States today can feel a lot closer to an episode of The Flintstones than The Jetsons. Every day we deal with problems …

In his State of the Union Address this week, President Obama called on businesses to stop discriminating against job applicants who have been out of work for extended periods of …