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Last summer, the Rockefeller Foundation announced a partnership with Rebuild by Design, an initiative of President Obama's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. Rebuild by Design (RBD) is an innovative process aimed …

Boulder, Colorado, is no stranger to environmental shocks and stresses. Devastating flash floods have hit the city — in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains — half a dozen times since …

This work was originally detailed in The Rockefeller Foundation 2012 Annual Report. At The Rockefeller Foundation, we talk a lot about the critical importance of unlocking private capital to solve the …

Rockefeller Foundation president Judith Rodin appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to talk about our goal to tackle youth unemployment through our Digital Jobs Africa initiative. "In most countries in the world, youth …

  York City's new mayor needs to make resilience a top priority. “Part of the formula for improving the lives of the most vulnerable among us is to build these resilient capacities for …

"Resilience is the ability of people, communities and institutions to prepare for, withstand, and bounce back more rapidly from acute shocks and chronic stresses." When senior leaders at a large, global …

Participants in the Informal City Dialogues innovation workshop in Lima explored ways to make their city more resilient and inclusive. One early challenge was clearly explaining the concept of resilience …

As the global development community grapples with an ambitious, but indisputably necessary goal—feeding 9 billion people by the year 2050—the need for an integrated approach to agriculture development has never …

With so many inspiring stories illustrating the incredible impact of our grantees' work, choosing just the right one for our annual report was a daunting task. But when we saw …

“Not every disruption has to become a disaster. By building resilience, cities can shift the paradigm from one of disaster response and relief to one of prevention and returns.” - …