Our Issue Areas

 

The Rockefeller Foundation focuses its resources and energies on five interconnected issue areas, selected because they are critical global challenges that the Foundation is distinctively positioned to address:

Basic Survival Safeguards 

Basic Survival Safeguards

Secure food, water, housing and infrastructure


Global Health

Accessible, affordable and equitable health services and systems


Globalization 

Climate & Environment

Sustainable growth and resilience to climate change


Urbanization

Solutions for fast-growing cities


Social & Economic Security

Stronger safety nets, reinvigorated citizenship, re-imagined policy frameworks

Rockefeller Foundation Funds Landmark Climate Change Documentary

Hot Cities, an eight-part series airing on BBC World News, explores the impact of climate change on urban areas, covering issues ranging from health and water management to food security and migration. 

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Investing for Social & Environmental Impact

A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry, from the Monitor Institute.

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Strengthening Social Security for Vulnerable Groups

 

“Without Social Security, nearly one in two seniors would be poor; with Social Security less than one senior in ten is poor.”

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