How We Work

 

The Rockefeller Foundation concentrates on results and impact—the difference we make in lives, communities, and the world.

  • We foster innovation in markets, organizations, products and processes. 
  • We influence and inform public policy with cutting-edge ideas and research.
  • We connect partnerships and networks, bringing people and institutions with diverse perspectives together across disciplines and sectors.
  • We find and fund interventions that exploit current or coming tipping points and break bottlenecks clogging prospects for progress. 
  • We build capacity, equipping groups and governments with talent, technology and training. 
  • We test pilot projects, spin them off, or join others to help implement successful demonstrations on a wider scale. 
  • We develop and demand leverage—ensuring more than a dollar’s return on each dollar we invest.

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