The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency Program offers academics, artists, policymakers, and practitioners an opportunity to unlock their creativity and advance groundbreaking work through the completion of a specific project in a residential group setting during 4 weeks of focused time. While in residence, these innovators, trailblazers, and luminaries work on books, white papers, strategic plans, films, works of art, and other projects that enhance our understanding of pressing global and social issues and inspire transformative change.. Alumni include remarkable leaders from around the world—luminaries of the past century like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Maya Angelou, and Dikgang Moseneke, and trailblazers such as Nikole Hannah-Jones, Akin Omotoso, and Ilwad Elman. The Bellagio Center Network spans six decades and includes more than 4,000 alumni, reflecting The Rockefeller Foundation’s longstanding commitment to support groundbreaking people and ideas that improve well-being and make opportunity universal and sustainable.
The application for the 2024 Bellagio Center Residency Program is complete. Applications for the 2025 Bellagio Center Residency Program will take place in March 2025. For more information about the residency themes available for application, please visit our Bellagio Center Residency Program page.