Our Issue Areas

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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

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

Climate Change Series
Climate Change

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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United States Building Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Market Sizing and Financing Models

United States Building Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Market Sizing and Financing Models

Sizing the market opportunity in the US energy efficiency retrofit market and the related job and climate impacts.

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Strengthening Social Security

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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