Latest Grantee Impact Stories

Two viewpoints collided: should the Foundation use grants to rush electricity to villagers, or wait to develop sustainable business models for investors?

In those first months, Vermani confronted a challenge that would shape SPI's path forward.

Lessons learned from India's solar mini-grid trailblazers.

Seven decades of close ties between the World Health Organization and The Rockefeller Foundation have helped shaped global public health on issues ranging from pollution and poverty to pandemics and vaccines.

The Media Science Cafés debuted in their sixth African country this summer, building trust between journalists and researchers while bringing critical information to a potential audience of 230 million people.

One Sunday in June 1882, at a Baptist church in Cleveland, Ohio, John D. Rockefeller, his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller, and a visionary educator began a collaboration that would reach through the generations.

On Longhaul Farm in Garrison, New York, Jason Angell and Jocelyn Apicello believe countering global warming is urgent—but also not enough. They are at the forefront of a movement to promote community-owned solar power.

Hawa Jalloh’s family survived Sierra Leone’s civil war. But they couldn’t outlast Ebola, which killed her husband and four of her children. Now a flagship project unites gender empowerment with climate justice to help her care for her family.

A driver-owned cooperative gives essential gig workers access to statistics through an app that help them maximize their earnings--putting the power of data directly in their hands.

Spurred by the changing climate, livestock-raising pastoralists are slowly embracing commercial fishing, with the help of a Rockefeller Foundation grantee.