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Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financial tool to help state and local governments facing tough budget decisions fund critical social programs. In 2013, states face $85 Billion in federal …

The City Resilience Framework provides a lens through which the complexity of cities and the drivers that contribute to a city’s resilience can be understood. The 12 capacities in the 100RC …

Emerging Opportunities: Monitoring and Evaluation in a Tech-Enabled World, a discussion paper written by Linda Raftree and Michael Bamberger under a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to Itad, provides an …

A leading call center in South Africa overcomes its talent shortage by setting up a training organization to provide skilled labor from an alternative talent pool.

Hot, humid days and nights contribute to heat stress, heat-related deaths, reduced labor productivity and can exacerbate poverty. While everyone can be negatively impacted by extreme heat, certain people such as …

As the recent National Climate Assessment made clear, extreme weather events—including heat waves, drought, tropical storms, high winds, storm surges, and heavy downpours—are becoming more severe. In many places these …

Impact sourcing is a business process service delivery model that provides quality and cost at parity with traditional business process outsourcing (BPO) services, but with optimized enhancements, such as: A …

For many African countries, a significant part of GDP is derived from the natural resource extraction industry, giving great potential for that industry to catalyze economic development in many low-to-middle …

The Global Resilience Partnership, spearheaded by The Rockefeller Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), aims to help millions of …

Four of the organizations in The Rockefeller Foundation Searchlight Network—the Centre for Democracy and Development in West Africa, FORO Nacional Internacional in Peru, Noviscape in Thailand, and the South African …