Apr 14 2016
Perspective
India, Indonesia, and Vietnam alone are home to over 950 million impoverished individuals—a number that amounts to more than half of their cumulative population. Such a reality stands in stark contrast …
Apr 06 2016
Perspective
Recently, The Rockefeller Foundation and OMC Power closed a $4.5 million deal to finance OMC Power's construction and retrofitting of 100 solar power plants in rural Uttar Pradesh, India to …
Apr 04 2016
Perspective
Located in rural Uttar Pradesh, Shivpura is a village where clean drinking water has been scarce. When TARA Urja, an Energy Service Company (ESCO), started operating a 30-KW solar power …
Mar 08 2016
Press Releases
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES/DELHI, INDIA—The Rockefeller Foundation and OMC Power have reached a US$4.5 million deal to finance OMC Power’s construction and retrofitting of 100 solar power plants with mini-grids, …
Mar 03 2016
Perspective
A version of this post originally appeared in the Nikkei Asian Review. After tense negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris in December, the world finally has a deal …
Feb 08 2016
Perspective
The following post is part of a series based on research conducted around the health of urban working poor. We all know that money isn't everything. But when it comes to …
Jan 29 2016
Perspective
For the first time in history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities—a figure that is expected to reach 65 percent by 2045. According to UN-Habitat, approximately …
Dec 16 2015
Perspective
For the past few years, I’ve been traveling to India to help with our work on energy access. Last April, we formally launched Smart Power for Rural Development, a $75 …
Aug 27 2015
Perspective
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 …
Aug 25 2015
Press Releases
ZURICH—Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) joins efforts with the Global Resilience Partnership to launch the Global Resilience Challenge Water Window. The Water Window is a grant-based competition focused on building resilience …