The Rockefeller Foundation focuses its resources on five related issue areas and funds a portfolio of initiatives that work across these areas, linking and interlinking, to achieve meaningful and measurable impact.
Each initiative is designed to accomplish specific goals within projected time frames, usually three to five years. We monitor and assess our grantees’ effectiveness regularly. These requirements enable the Foundation to shift tactics when necessary, seize unanticipated opportunities, and recalibrate our approach when a problem demands shorter- or longer-term investment.
All our initiatives draw on the Foundation’s commitment to nurture innovation, pioneer new fields, expand access to and distribution of resources, and, ultimately, generate sustainable impact on individuals, institutions, and communities.
Developing Climate Change Resilience
Helping communities cope with imminent consequences of climate change
See INITIATIVE
Strengthening Food Security:
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Increasing smallholder agricultural productivity with better seeds, soils, and markets
Protecting American Workers’ Economic Security: Campaign for American Workers
Shaping plans, products, and policies to provide a modern economic safety net
see INITIATIVE
Promoting Equitable, Sustainable Transportation
Advocating for investment in affordable, environmentally responsible transit
see INITIATIVE
Linking Global Disease Surveillance Networks
Establishing transnational detection, monitoring, and communication systems to strengthen response and prevention
see INITIATIVE
Transforming Health Systems
Harnessing the transformation of health systems towards better health and financial protection
see INITIATIVE
Advancing Innovation Processes to Solve Social Problems
Building models to expand the use of cutting-edge innovation methods to achieve social impact
see INITIATIVE
Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing
Expanding and increasing the effectiveness of investments that solve social and environmental problems and generate a profit
see INITIATIVE
