Solving Global Challenges with Lasting Impact
Our Mission
We improve lives and the planet, and unleash human potential, through innovation. We are dedicated to the principle that all men and women – dignified and resilient as they are – have the right to health, food, power and economic mobility. We seek to advance those goals with a better use of science and data and through collaboration with partners and grantees. By identifying and accelerating breakthrough solutions, ideas and conversations, The Rockefeller Foundation works to improve the well-being of people everywhere.
Our Commitments
For more consequential outcomes, we channel our resources and expertise into a finite set of endeavors to assure measurable and meaningful impact. Our work is focused on improving access to electricity, food, healthcare and economic opportunity. We do that through creative partnerships and innovative investments to extract more value from data and private capital.
The way I suffered, depending on other people, I won’t let that happen to anyone else. I believe—and I teach—that a girl can do any business with electricity.
Savitri DeviSeamstress in Uttar Pradesh, empowered by access to reliable electricity from our grantee Smart Power IndiaData is a powerful tool that can help us make life-saving decisions and prevent epidemics before they happen.
Ms. Henrietta ForeExecutive Director Of UNICEFWe are proud to bring energy to millions of people and we look forward to empowering communities across India by creating micro enterprises and opportunities for all people.
Praveer SinhaCEO, Tata PowerIt is about a level playing field. It is about giving folks the tools that they need to not just stay above water, but to actually build something for the long term for themselves and the next generation.
Pedro MorillasState Campaigns Director, Economic Security ProjectWe are now sure that if we adopt these new [food loss-preventing] technologies, we will be able to protect the tomato and be able to sell.
Talatu IchissNigerian tomato farmer
Recent Updates
A Conversation on BU’s Campus: Illuminating the Racial Pandemic Within the Viral One
The Rockefeller Foundation’s Otis Rolley, Senior Vice President, U.S. Equity and Economic Opportunity Initiative, met with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Founder of the Center for Antiracist Research. The two discussed the goals and urgency of the Foundation’s $1.5 million grant to Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research Center.
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