Grantee: 2018 NOLA Foundation
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Amount: $2,892,750
Purpose: In collaboration with the City of New Orleans in support of a strategic communications campaign to highlight New Orleans’ recovery and promote the city as a global model for resilience in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Grantee: A3 Foundation
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Amount: $400,146
Purpose: In support of an Information Technology Essentials program designed to train high potential but disadvantaged youth in Nigeria for placement in the digital economy
Grantee: ACCESS Health International
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $529,000
Purpose: For use by its Joint Learning Network for Universal Healthcare in support of the Joint Learning Fund in order to broaden engagement and technical learning outcomes within member countries, institutionalize country core groups, and strengthen its profile through support for country-level efforts
Grantee: Accenture Foundation (South Africa)
Location: Woodmead, South Africa
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of its Skills to Succeed program to train, mentor and place disadvantaged South African youth in software development and other computer programing jobs
Grantee: Action on Disability and Development
Location: Frome, United Kingdom
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: In support of a collaborative project with the Institute of Development Studies and the Coady International Institute to examine how market-based solutions can improve the lives of poor and vulnerable people in developing countries, with a focus on Uganda
Grantee: Acumen Fund, Inc.
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: In support of market research to better understand the gaps in the off-grid energy sector value chain and common barriers to scaling energy access encountered by private sector companies, in order to create a fund for investing in energy access for rural communities in Kenya and Rwanda
Grantee: Adeso
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of establishing a global network of southern NGOs working on humanitarian response, recovery and resilience building
Grantee: Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice
Location: Woodside, New York
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: In support of strengthening its approach and capacity to measure resilience and inclusivity in its work, and to better determine the impact its work is having on the Nepali-speaking community in New York and beyond
Grantee: Africa Centre
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Amount: $57,740
Purpose: In support of conducting outreach and selecting African artists as candidates for one-month residencies at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy
Grantee: Africa GreenCo
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $549,600
Purpose: In support of developing a feasibility
assessment for a new public-private partnership that catalyzes private sector investment in African energy projects
Grantee: African Media Initiative
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: In support of two components of its flagship event, the African Media Leadership Forum, a “Resilience Reporting” media training to build capacity on producing issue-driven stories in Africa, and the “ZIMEO” recognition for journalism excellence in “Agriculture and Food Security” and “Youth Demographic Challenge”
Grantee: African Risk Capacity Specialized Agency of the African Union
Location: Rome, Italy
Amount: $1,001,017
Purpose: In support of the design and development of an Extreme Climate Facility to aid its participating nations with climate change adaptation
Grantee: African Risk Capacity Specialized Agency of the African Union
Location: Rome, Italy
Amount: $1,613,860
Purpose: Toward the costs of planning and designing a new sovereign risk pool to insure participating nations in the event of disease outbreaks and epidemics
Grantee: Ag Innovations Network
Location: Sebastopol, California
Amount: $252,700
Purpose: For use by its Sustainable Food Laboratory to develop and test metrics that promote cross-sector engagement to reduce post-harvest food loss and improve the lives of smallholder farmers and other vulnerable people
Grantee: Alliance for Rural Electrification
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: In support of research to map donor activity in the Clean Energy Mini-Grid Sector in order to facilitate the transparency and coordination of its development
Grantee: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Amount: $1,495,772
Purpose: In support of testing an integrated post-harvest loss intervention model that incorporates financing, technology, aggregating farmers, and connecting them to alternative markets in an effort to reduce post-harvest loss in the Tanzanian maize value chain
Grantee: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Amount: $749,121
Purpose: In support of building and improving its internal program management capabilities in order to execute a coordinated and integrated post-harvest loss intervention on Tanzania’s maize value chain
Grantee: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Location: Nairobi, Africa
Amount: $3,000,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of transitioning to a new organizational structure and developing a set of capabilities best placed to execute the new strategy
Grantee: APCO Worldwide Inc.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $600,000
Purpose: In support of a project to provide communication and stakeholder engagement support to Smart Power India
Grantee: Armillaria, LLC
Location: Portland, Oregon
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of establishing a new hybrid social enterprise to continue the development and deployment of the Resilience Exchange platform
Grantee: Armillaria, LLC
Location: Portland, Oregon
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of establishing a new hybrid social enterprise to continue the development and deployment of the Resilience Exchange platform
Grantee: Ashoka
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to support social entrepreneurs who are leading and collaborating with change makers, in a team of teams model that addresses the fluidity of a rapidly evolving society
Grantee: Asia Foundation
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $450,000
Purpose: In support of a project to adapt, test and apply The Rockefeller Foundation-Arup City Resilience Framework and Index in 25 cities in Vietnam, for eventual application across additional cities nationally and globally
Grantee: Asia Society
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $335,000
Purpose: In support of its “Rockefeller in Asia: Asia Society 60th Anniversary,” a year-long global series of exhibitions, programs and events exploring 60 years of John D. Rockefeller III’s legacy and what it means in Asia, for U.S.-Asia relationships and globally
Grantee: Asian Coalition for Housing Rights
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Amount: $89,000
Purpose: In a support of a study to evaluate and reflect on the state of community finance in Asia in order to identify and frame strategic opportunities to strengthen community finance opportunities
Grantee: Aspen Institute
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of its Spotlight Health convening to be held in Aspen, Colorado, June 2015
Grantee: Aspen Institute
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: For use by its Aspen Forum for Community Solutions toward the costs of the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, an employer-led coalition committed to creating employment pathways for young people in the U.S.
Grantee: Atlantic Monthly Group, Inc.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of organizing a summit to examine resilience across the United States’ Gulf of Mexico region, 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, to be held in New Orleans, August 2015
Grantee: B Team
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of influencing the transition to an inclusive and resilient economy through its “100% Human at Work,” “Net-Zero by 2050,” and “Strategic Influencing” initiatives
Grantee: Berkeley Lab Foundation
Location: Oakland, California
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: For use by its Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in support of identifying high-potential technology innovations for reducing the cost of solar electricity, and developing affordable energy-efficient appliances
Grantee: Big Future Group
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $125,000
Purpose: For use by Atema Architecture toward the costs of research and development for its project Street Creeks, an innovative, hybrid storm-water management system aimed at reducing flooding and combined sewage overflows
Grantee: Blue State Digital
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: In support of developing a digital strategy and prototype to connect and scale The Rockefeller Foundation’s resilience portfolio and community to support the goal of building a field of resilience
Grantee: BRAC USA
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: In support of providing subsidized financial services to poor and informally employed communities in Sierra Leone and Liberia in an effort to build resilience to the Ebola epidemic, and to strengthen internal capacity to deliver services in periods of crisis
Grantee: Bridgespan Group
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: In support of a project to build the innovation capacity of Social Innovation Labs in the Global South and enable the labs to accelerate the development of innovative solutions to problems faced by poor and vulnerable people
Grantee: Bridgespan Group
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of creating a collaborative network to develop tools and approaches to address the challenge of reaching transformative scale in the social sector
Grantee: Brookings Institution
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: In support of providing research staff and convening capacity for its new Centennial Scholar to facilitate new modes of interdisciplinary learning
Grantee: Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: In support of organizational capacity building for the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay to generate necessary knowledge to inform decision making around the revitalization of Jamaica Bay
Grantee: BSR
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $450,000
Purpose: In support of generating and developing collaborative ideas to promote inclusive economic growth, resilience and other sustainable development efforts, including support for its annual conference and a resilience-focused side event
Grantee: BSR
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $157,000
Purpose: In support of a convening to be held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, September 2015, leading to a set of recommendations on the structure and scope of an impact sourcing corporate network that supports companies to adopt and scale impact sourcing
Grantee: Burness Communications
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Amount: $75,000
Purpose: In support of enhancing the reach, influence and quality of communications related to The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center’s Resident Fellows’ projects and the work taking place at the Center more collectively so as to extend the benefits of knowledge generated there to wider audiences
Grantee: BusinessMinds BV
Location: Leiden, Netherlands
Amount: $350,400
Purpose: In support of developing tools that will assist projects working toward global resilience solutions to deliver and measure positive impacts for people in communities affected by acute shocks and chronic stresses
Grantee: California Environmental Associates
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $669,900
Purpose: In support of developing strategies for alleviating multi-sector competition for fresh water in order to secure water for ecosystems and for the poor and vulnerable people who depend on clean reliable flows of fresh water
Grantee: Cape Town Call Centre Development Association
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of consolidating its position as a national industry association and associated projects to expand understanding, engagement and adoption of Impact Sourcing among its members and the broader Business Process Outsourcing community in South Africa, in order to expand opportunities for Impact Sourcing jobs for disadvantaged youth
Grantee: Center for American Progress
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $900,000
Purpose: In support of developing new analytics and concrete policy proposals to ensure that economic inclusion is at the center of the U.S. public policy debate
Grantee: Center for Disaster Philanthropy
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: In support of developing philanthropic partnerships for jurisdictions participating in the National Disaster Resilience Competition
Grantee: Center for Effective Philanthropy
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess and improve their effectiveness and impact
Grantee: Center for Effective Philanthropy
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess and improve their effectiveness and impact
Grantee: Center for Global Development
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of a project to conduct a non-partisan analysis, propose policy reforms and convene leaders, policymakers, investors, researchers, and other actors to boost energy generation and access in Sub-Saharan Africa
Grantee: Center for Global Development
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $700,997
Purpose: In support of research and planning activities necessary to establish the Forest Foundation Fund, a performance-based deforestation incentive
Grantee: Center for Global Enterprise
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $450,000
Purpose: In support of advancing management resilience and employment in African “Platform” businesses by providing business and management learning opportunities
Grantee: Ceres
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: In support of developing guidance for investors on how to integrate water risks into their decision-making practices in an effort to encourage the stewardship of water resources by large companies
Grantee: Cities of Service
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,300,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of piloting Resilience AmeriCorps, a program to address social and environmental resilience challenges in Ten U.S. Cities
Grantee: Citiscope
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of developing editorial coverage of the run-up to the Habitat III conference, with a focus on how cities are innovating to build resilience
Organization: Climate Bonds Initiative
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $510,000
Purpose: In support of developing demonstration projects to promote the use of financial aggregation solutions for green projects in developing countries
Grantee: Climate Bonds Initiative
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of developing definitions and standards that verify the green credentials of a bond and encourage investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation
Grantee: Climate Policy Initiative, Inc.
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $350,324
Purpose: For use by its Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance in support of implementing a new climate resilience work stream to leverage innovative sources of capital that benefit poor and vulnerable populations
Grantee: Climate Policy Initiative, Inc.
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $499,809
Purpose: In support of the analysis, development, and deployment of a new investment vehicle to provide low-cost capital for renewable energy projects
Grantee: Climate Policy Initiative, Inc.
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $499,809
Purpose: In support of the analysis, development, and deployment of a new investment vehicle to provide low-cost capital for renewable energy projects
Grantee: Clinton Global Initiative
Location: New York, NY
Amount: $550,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of its 2015 Clinton Global Initiative Annual meeting, to catalyze global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to global challenges
Grantee: Community Voices Heard
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of expanding participatory budgeting across 27 districts in New York City for the 2015-2016 budgeting cycle
Grantee: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance
Location: Lyon, France
Amount: $2,502,476
Purpose: In support of planning activities to establish a West African Disease Surveillance Network in the wake of the Ebola crisis
Grantee: Council on Foreign Relations
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $99,245
Purpose: In support of producing a series of policy briefing papers and roundtable discussions on Universal Health Coverage and on how and where it fits within the post-2015 development agenda
Grantee: Council on Foundations
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Amount: $165,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to provide the opportunity, leadership and tools needed by philanthropic organizations to expand, enhance and sustain their ability to advance the common good
Grantee: Curatio International Foundation
Location: Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: For use as the Health Systems Global secretariat toward the costs of organizing the Fourth Health Systems Symposium and consolidating the sustainability of Health Systems Global
Grantee: Dalberg Consulting – U.S., LLC
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $496,000
Purpose: For use by its Design Impact Group in support of research and rapid prototyping of innovative livelihood interventions that address human behavioral incentives driving overfishing in Chile and Indonesia
Grantee: Dalberg Consulting – U.S., LLC
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $572,675
Purpose: In support of a project to accelerate rural energy access in East Africa, including developing a strategy and operational plan and partnerships between key donors, government and other public and private sector agencies
Grantee: Dalberg Consulting – U.S., LLC
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $598,000
Purpose: In support of a research and landscape assessment that identifies potential opportunities for the field of planetary health to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable people
Grantee: Dalberg Consulting – U.S., LLC
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $298,000
Purpose: In support of conducting research to identify global problems and opportunities, and assess their urgency, degree of dynamism and potential for innovative intervention
Grantee: Dalberg Development Advisors Private Limited
Location: Mumbai, India
Amount: $517,382
Purpose: In support of a project to provide
monitoring and knowledge integration services on progress towards outcomes and impacts of the Foundation’s Smart Power for Rural Development Initiative, to foster learning, accountability and performance improvements in the initiative, among its grantees, and in the fields of rural electrification, market-based solutions for development, philanthropy and evaluation
Grantee: Dalberg Global Development Advisors Kenya Ltd.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: In support of a pre-summit conference in preparation for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in order to broaden participation, including a workshop on lessening food waste and spoilage, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, July 2015
Grantee: Dalberg Research
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: In support of producing early-stage research products that will enhance the strategic knowledge base of the international development community on emerging and changing problems affecting the poor and vulnerable
Grantee: DataKind
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $280,000
Purpose: In support of providing a detailed understanding of how data can most effectively be leveraged for Global Resilience Partnership objectives, and working with Global Resilience Challenge team winners to identify their highest impact data analytics solutions
Grantee: Deloitte Consulting
Location: Los Angeles, California
Amount: $738,000
Purpose: In support of conducting and disseminating research and analysis of several prototype approaches to determining if and how the health of poor or vulnerable people who work in the informal sector could be positively impacted at scale
Grantee: Deloitte Consulting
Location: Los Angeles, California
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: In support of developing a resource for social sector leaders and grant makers on how to meaningfully engage the private sector as a key stakeholder in a network of actors working to address complex social challenges
Grantee: Deloitte Consulting (Pty) Ltd
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Amount: $746,570
Purpose: In support of developing strategies and implementation plans for reducing post-harvest food loss in sub-Saharan Africa
Grantee: Deloitte Consulting (Pty) Ltd
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Amount: $530,290
Purpose: In support of developing strategies to connect disadvantaged and unemployed youth to jobs across several high-potential geographies and business sectors within Africa
Grantee: Duke University
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Amount: $56,126
Purpose: For use by its Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions toward the costs of developing a policy blueprint outlining the series of sequential reforms needed to transition two water basins in central Nevada to a water rights system designed to resolve competition for fresh water
Grantee: Duke University
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Amount: $399,985
Purpose: For use by its Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions toward the costs of developing a global blueprint for allocating and managing water sustainably
Grantee: Edelman
Location: New York, NY
Amount: $350,000
Purpose: In support of raising awareness about impact sourcing and developing a coalition of companies committed to this inclusive business practice that employs high potential but disadvantaged youth, impacting them, their families and communities
Grantee: Elevate Consulting & Communications, LLC
Location: Portland, Oregon
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: In support of establishing the Northeast Infrastructure Accelerator and designing an infrastructure investment model for states and regions to understand the savings associated with adopting a resilient water infrastructure
Grantee: Elton John AIDS Foundation, Inc.
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to beat HIV/AIDS through grant-making, advocacy, and communications programs
Grantee: Environmental Defense Fund
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $396,390
Purpose: In support of developing a mechanism that leverages supply chain demand for more efficient freshwater allocation, use and transfer across multiple sectors and users, especially poor or vulnerable populations in Mexico and the United States
Grantee: Environmental Grantmakers Association
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $35,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to work with members and partners to promote effective environmental philanthropy by sharing knowledge, fostering debate, cultivating leadership, facilitating collaboration, and catalyzing action
Grantee: Femmes Africa Solidarite
Location: Geneva 11, Switzerland
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: In support of an advocacy action plan to foster the implementation of the African Union’s gender commitments for the 2015 Year of the Woman initiative
Grantee: Food and Agriculture Organization
Location: Rome, Italy
Amount: $649,298
Purpose: In support of providing technical assistance to the African Union in the development of policies and strategies for country-specific plans to reduce post-harvest food loss
Grantee: Foundation Center
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of the Foundation Center 2020 Investment Plan, an effort to build the future of philanthropy by undertaking a series of enterprise level data and technology projects while creating a new generation of products and services for the field
Grantee: Foundation Center
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to strengthen the social sector by advancing knowledge about philanthropy in the U.S. and around the world
Grantee: Foundation for Louisiana
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Amount: $315,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of a project to ensure the sustainability of the Louisiana Delta by applying the Resilience by Design methodology to a collaborative planning process with coastal communities
Grantee: Freshwater Trust
Location: Portland, Oregon
Amount: $350,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of developing a water use budget and allocation mechanism that informs recommendations on how to guide equitable resource allocations of freshwater across multiple sectors of demand, especially poor or vulnerable populations in California
Grantee: Friends of the British Council
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: In support of a project by the British Council to train and place high potential but disadvantaged youth in the Business Processing Outsourcing sector in Ghana, in particular the Accra BPO Center
Grantee: FSG
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of its Shared Value Initiative, including creating two case studies based on the Foundation’s work that exemplify shared value and the impact that can be achieved through cross-sectoral partnerships
Grantee: FSG
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Amount: $600,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, an employer-led coalition committed to creating employment pathways for young people in the U.S.
Grantee: FSG
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: In support of conducting a study to identify which demand driven training models have the strongest potential for scale and the best outcomes for connecting high potential but disadvantaged youth to digital jobs
Grantee: Fund for the City of New York
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $244,000
Purpose: For use by its project, Zakti, toward the costs of implementing a prize that will yield solutions for the Foundation’s Smart Power for Rural Development initiative, and to conduct research and produce a public report about the effectiveness of applying open innovation and prize challenge methodologies to large-scale problems, such as energy poverty and nutrition, experienced by poor and vulnerable people
Grantee: Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo
Location: Ecatepec, Mexico
Amount: $63,200
Purpose: In support of conducting outreach and selecting Latin American artists as candidates for one-month residencies at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy
Grantee: Fuzu
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of scaling up a job matching platform to connect high potential but disadvantaged youth in Kenya to digital jobs
Grantee: Georgetown University
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: For use by its Georgetown Climate Center in support of legal and policy assistance for the National Disaster Resilience Competition based in part on lessons learned from Rebuild by Design
Grantee: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,461,000
Purpose: In support of an initiative to provide subsidized tickets to the Broadway show “Hamilton” for underprivileged high school students from New York City public schools and to create and distribute accompanying educational materials that integrate theatrical performance and the study of American history
Grantee: The Global Development Incubator
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $220,000
Purpose: For use by its Initiative for Smallholder Finance in support of exploring the feasibility of an alternative, technology-driven financing mechanism to provide low-cost supply chain financing as an incentive for meeting environmental, labor and safety standards
Grantee: Global Feedback Limited
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $501,040
Purpose: Toward the costs of organizing city-based events to raise awareness about the problem of food waste and to present supply chain research, promising solutions, and best practices in food waste reduction
Grantee: Global Health Strategies
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $399,611
Purpose: In support of conducting communications and influence activities to advance Universal Health Coverage globally
Grantee: Global Health Strategies
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $84,996
Purpose: In support of conducting communications and influence activities to advance Universal Health Coverage globally
Grantee: Global Knowledge Initiative
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $150,048
Purpose: In support of testing, refining, and launching the Assessing Innovation Potential Toolkit for use in the social sector
Grantee: Global Knowledge Initiative
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $279,992
Purpose: In support of promoting the use of scanning insights to strengthen social sector decision making
Grantee: Global Minimum
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to foster a generation of young innovators and leaders who tackle challenges affecting their communities through critical thinking and hands on learning
Grantee: Global Partnerships
Location: Seattle, Washington
Amount: $3,000,000
Purpose: As a Program-Related Investment to support the expansion of social enterprises, microfinance institutions and other non-bank finance institutions lending to social enterprises and cooperatives that work with base of the pyramid populations in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
Grantee: Global Strategy Group, LLC
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: In support of conducting an education and advocacy campaign around Bus Rapid Transit in Chicago and New York City
Grantee: GlobalAgRisk, Inc.
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Amount: $700,000
Purpose: In support of designing a Financial Disaster Risk Management solution to support disaster recovery lending via Microfinance Investment Vehicles and Microfinance Networks
Grantee: Guardian News and Media Ltd
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $151,850
Purpose: In support of generating and sharing insights from diverse, global journalists and editors around social and environmental themes and issues that may impact poor and vulnerable people in years that lie ahead
Grantee: GuideStar USA, Inc.
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Amount: $90,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice by providing information that advances transparency in the philanthropic sector, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving
Grantee: Milumbe Haimbe
Location: Kabulonga, Zambia
Amount: $30,000
Purpose: In support of a Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship, to pursue a new, in-depth visual arts project and build connections with a global interdisciplinary community of residents in a two-month stay at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy and to receive post-residency publicity through the creation and dissemination of an artist publication
Grantee: Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Amount: $3,000,000
Purpose: In support of scaling a demand-driven model for training high potential but disadvantaged youth, and placing them in digital jobs in the retail, business process outsourcing and financial services sectors in South Africa
Grantee: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amount: $125,000
Purpose: For use by its Global Health Institute in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in support of holding a convening and producing a report to examine weaknesses in the global health system exposed by the Ebola epidemic in an effort to improve global responses to future health crises
Grantee: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amount: $299,297
Purpose: For use by its School of Public Health in support of developing, testing and deepening the conceptualization of Resilient Health Systems in West Africa in the wake of the Ebola crisis
Grantee: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amount: $3,911,050
Purpose: For use by its Center for the Environment in support of activities to launch a new field of “Planetary Health” in order to yield better solutions to health challenges in the 21st century
Grantee: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amount: $3,911,050
Purpose: For use by its Center for the Environment in support of activities to launch a new field of “Planetary Health” in order to yield better solutions to health challenges in the 21st century
Grantee: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: For use by its Ministerial Leadership in Health initiative, within the School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government, in support of highlighting Universal Health Coverage as a central focus of the 2016 annual Ministerial Roundtable meetings
Grantee: Hattaway Communications, Inc.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $350,000
Purpose: In support of developing and implementing a communications strategy to catalyze innovation and innovation capacity building in the social sector to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable people around the world
Grantee: HR&A Advisors
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $2,350,000
Purpose: In support of developing a curriculum and providing technical assistance to build the capacity of eligible applicants to develop resilience projects and programs as part of the National Disaster Resilience Competition
Grantee: HR&A Advisors
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $469,000
Purpose: In support of Resilience Academies for the Resilience AmeriCorps VISTAs program, as well as the development of an updated online curriculum for The Resilience Age website
Grantee: IDEO LP
Location: Palo Alto, California
Amount: $819,100
Purpose: In support of creating and running a “Bootcamp” to help city leaders apply design thinking in order to transform once dormant civic spaces into thriving neighborhood assets that benefit local communities, especially poor and vulnerable people
Grantee: IDEO.org
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $1,005,931
Purpose: In support of the fourth iteration of the Amplify Challenge – an ideas competition that will solicit innovative approaches for building resilience to climate change in urban slum communities across the Sahel and Southeast Asia
Grantee: IDEO.org
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $640,000
Purpose: In support of developing and prototyping a strategy to build innovation capacity in organizations that serve poor and vulnerable populations, including Rockefeller Foundation grantees and partners
Grantee: Ideas42
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: In support of executing a “behavior change” themed month at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, July 2016 and collecting and disseminating resulting knowledge assets
Grantee: Ideas42
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $170,000
Purpose: In support of identifying behaviorally-informed, innovative interventions and contextual risks to improve strategy development and adaptive planning for maximum social impact
Grantee: Impact Investment Shujog Limited
Location: Singapore
Amount: $350,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of the development and launch of the Women’s Livelihood Bond, a replicable social mission bond designed to raise capital to promote economic inclusion and resilience for poor and vulnerable women in South and Southeast Asia
Grantee: impactXdesign, LLC
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $170,000
Purpose: In support of a comprehensive study on the role of personal health technologies in advancing health for the urban working poor
Grantee: impactXdesign, LLC
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $170,000
Purpose: In support of using crowd intelligence to test hypotheses, surface innovations, and engage diverse voices in order to generate solutions for social impact networks
Grantee: Incandescent, LLC
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $3,988,000
Purpose: In support of developing strategies to test impact hiring solutions that improve and create employment opportunities for disadvantaged youth in the United States
Grantee: Independent Sector
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $75,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to advance the common good by leading, strengthening and mobilizing the nonprofit community
Grantee: Indian Grameen Services
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Amount: $32,234
Purpose: Toward the costs of launching two pilot mini-grids to serve households and businesses in rural Bihar using direct current-based technology
Grantee: Indiana University
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Amount: $53,965
Purpose: For use by its Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health in support of documenting the Ministry of Health, Rwanda’s Universal Health Coverage reforms
Grantee: Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
Location: Roxbury, Massachusetts
Amount: $175,000
Purpose: In support of surfacing new learnings on urban food resilience in order to identify best practices in food system efficiency and resilience, and develop a set of recommendations for city leaders
Grantee: Innovate-Educate
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: In support of its 2015 Close It Summit and #YouthHire initiative, which seeks to connect disadvantaged youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico to employment and training opportunities
Grantee: Innovative Finance Foundation
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Amount: $550,000
Purpose: In support of the creation and launch of UNITLIFE, a new global innovative financing mechanism to fight chronic malnutrition using revenue from micro-levies on natural resources, with an initial focus on Africa
Grantee: Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-International
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Amount: $249,728
Purpose: In support of implementing innovative rebuilding approaches in areas most devastated by the Gorkha earthquake by using key levers such as remittance flows to enable communities to realize a lasting resilience dividend
Grantee: The Institute for Transformative Technologies, Inc.
Location: Oakland, California
Amount: $3,000,000
Purpose: In support of developing and deploying a pipeline of high-potential technology innovations to address social and environmental problems facing poor and vulnerable people in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
Grantee: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: 75,000
Purpose: For use by its project, the Natural Capital Coalition, in support of strengthening the natural capital community by standardizing a framework for businesses to measure and value their direct and indirect impacts and dependencies on natural resources
Grantee: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $700,000
Purpose: For use by its project, the Natural Capital Coalition, in support of strengthening the natural capital community by standardizing a framework for businesses to measure and value their direct and indirect impacts and dependencies on natural resources
Grantee: Institute of International Education
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,653,691
Purpose: In support of administering several activities and programs at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy: the semi-annual competitions for Bellagio residents, the Bellagio Travel and Learning Fund, and outreach activities
Grantee: Intellecap Advisory Services Private Limited
Location: Andhra Pradesh, India
Amount: $160,000
Purpose: In support of producing research products that will enhance the strategic knowledge base of the international development community on topics related to poverty reduction in the Global South
Grantee: InterAction
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $75,210
Purpose: In support of outreach activities to enable global social sector leaders and their organizations to make effective use of the Residency and Conference programs at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, thereby developing social sector leadership and catalyzing more effective action towards social impact
Grantee: International Civil Society Centre
Location: Berlin, Germany
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of launching an inaugural global horizon scanning network of international NGOs
Grantee: International Institute for Environment and Development
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of organizing the “Tenth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation: Enhancing Urban Community Resilience,” to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 2016
Grantee: International Union for Conservation of Nature – United States
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $394,272
Purpose: In support of developing a business model for a mechanism to foster investment in watershed services, in order to reduce competition for freshwater and benefit local people and landscapes in Africa.
Grantee: Emily Jacir
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Amount: $30,000
Purpose: In support of a Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship, to pursue a new, in-depth visual arts project and build connections with a global interdisciplinary community of residents in a two-month stay at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy and to receive post-residency publicity through the creation and dissemination of an artist publication
Grantee: Jazz at Lincoln Center
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of expanding its “Jazz for Young People: The Resilient Cities Tour” in New York City and scaling the program to additional cities globally in an effort to inform students about jazz and its musical, historical and cultural impact on building resilient communities
Grantee: Khoj International Artists Association
Location: New Delhi, India
Amount: $62,495
Purpose: In support of conducting outreach and selecting Asian artists for one-month residencies at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy
Grantee: Knack.it Corp.
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: In support of a project to demonstrate innovative job-matching technology and connect disadvantaged youth to jobs in the United States, South Africa, and India
Grantee: Kounkuey Design Initiative
Location: Los Angeles, California
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to use participatory planning and design to help impoverished communities envision and implement lasting change
Grantee: KPMG East Africa
Location: Port Louis, Mauritius
Amount: $18,765,000
Purpose: In support of mobilizing global and regional operational functions for the Global Resilience Partnership in order to achieve its objectives of surfacing locally driven, high-impact innovative solutions to empower people in the Sahel, Horn of Africa, South and Southeast Asia to increase their resilience
Grantee: Kyne Communications
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: In support of a convening on public health communication in the 21st Century to be held at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, October 2015
Grantee: Suzanne Lacy
Location Marina del Rey, California
Amount: $30,000
Purpose: In support of a Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship, to pursue a new, in-depth visual arts project and build connections with a global interdisciplinary community of residents in a two-month stay at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy and to receive post-residency publicity through the creation and dissemination of an artist publication
Grantee: Last Mile Health
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Amount: $904,876
Purpose: Toward the costs of collaborating with the Liberian government to develop a national strategic plan for a community health workforce as an integral part of their efforts to build resilience within the country’s health system
Grantee: LeadersUp
Location: Seattle, Washington
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of its “The Future at Work: Building a Competitive Economy” initiative, an effort to expand employer talent pipelines in Los Angeles and Chicago to include more disadvantaged young people
Grantee: Livity Africa
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Amount: $350,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of scaling up its Digify training program and launching “Digify Bytes” to train high potential but disadvantaged youth in South Africa in digital publishing and marketing skills and link them to jobs in the growing digital publishing sector in South Africa
Grantee: London School of Economics and Political Science
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $893,348
Purpose: For use by its International Growth Centre toward the costs of collaborating with the government of Sierra Leone to develop a national strategic plan for a community health workforce as an integral part of their efforts to build resilience within the country’s health system in the wake of the Ebola crisis
Grantee: Management Sciences for Health
Location: Medford, Massachusetts
Amount: $149,218
Purpose: In support of establishing an international collaborative to promote the institutionalization of Universal Health Coverage within the global health agenda in the post-2015 development agenda
Grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: For use by its Sloan School of Management’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, in support of running an Inclusive Innovation Competition, designed to uncover innovations that can improve economic opportunities for low-income workers
Grantee: Mathematica Policy Research
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: For use by its Center for International Policy and Program Evaluation in support of producing two case studies and conducting a final evaluation of the Foundation’s Transforming Health Systems initiative
Grantee: Matter Solutions Ltd.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $373,908
Purpose: In support of convening a high-profile workshop in order to accelerate the ability of the social sector to utilize innovative tools that strengthen social impact
Grantee: Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,200,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of planning and evaluating the City of New York’s “Health Access for All” program, a demonstration project to test the provision of health care access to low-income adults who are ineligible for public health insurance
Grantee: McKinsey and Company Africa (Pty) Ltd
Location: Sandton, South Africa
Amount: $550,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of designing the Financial Inclusion Funding Facility, an effort to spur financial inclusion across Africa, by coordinating investments and technical assistance by commercial institutions, philanthropic organizations, governments and development aid agencies
Grantee: Mercy Corps
Location: Portland, Oregon
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: For use by its Indonesia office toward the costs of organizing a final learning event in 2016 that will enable partners to collectively reflect on learnings from the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) initiative, strengthen the network, and celebrate its achievements while highlighting new directions for the Foundation’s resilience work.
Grantee: Miami City Ballet
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of producing a newly reimagined production of “George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as the cornerstone production of its 30th Anniversary Season
Grantee: Millennial Trains Project
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of integrating themes of resilience and inclusive economies into its 2016 cross-country, rail journeys through the use of storytelling, mentorship, site visits and roundtable discussions
Grantee: Mission Hub
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $30,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of developing and delivering programming for the Social Capital Markets Conference 2015, specifically around the conference’s theme of “Financial Inclusion”
Grantee: Municipal Art Society of New York
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of awarding its 2015 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal
Grantee: Municipal Art Society of New York
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $650,000
Purpose: In support of coordinating the award competition for The Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored 2016 Jane Jacobs Medal to be presented at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador and other complementary public programs
Grantee: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Amount: $101,550
Purpose: In support of bringing arts programming to Brooklyn’s public housing communities through its Public Exchange Series
Grantee: National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc
Location: Oakland, California
Amount: $232,000
Purpose: In support of launching HatchLabs, a series of workshops to activate and support issue-focused cohorts of cross-sector organizations and artists to build storytelling capacity among groups of high-performing nonprofit organizations
Grantee: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to promote philanthropy that serves the public good, is responsive to people and communities with the least wealth and opportunity, and is held accountable to the highest standards of integrity and openness
Grantee: Nature Conservancy
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Amount: $399,460
Purpose: In support of developing a mechanism to enable the reallocation of water rights for the benefit of freshwater ecosystems and river-dependent communities in the Americas
Grantee: Nature Conservancy
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: In support of developing the Community Water Trust concept for the benefit of freshwater ecosystems and river-dependent communities in Texas and Chile
Grantee: Nesta
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of developing an online learning program in partnership with The Open University, which will serve to build the skills of development practitioners to innovate solutions that address the needs of poor and vulnerable people
Grantee: The New School
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: In support of producing an online publication of the proceedings of the symposium on “The École Libre and its Legacy” to be held in Paris, France, October 2016
Grantee: New Venture Fund
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: For use by its R3ADY Asia-Pacific project toward the costs of an effort to help the tourism economy in Phuket, Thailand respond to disasters and build resilience
Grantee: New Venture Fund
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: For use by its Colorado River Sustainability Campaign toward the costs of developing three coordinated projects to advance sustainable water management in the Lower Colorado River Basin
Grantee: New World Symphony
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of continuing its “New World Connect” program, a sustainable, virtual music education community for middle and high school students
Grantee: New York City Ballet
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $65,000
Purpose: In support of its free IDNYC membership program that provides New Yorkers of diverse backgrounds with access to the full range of New York City Ballet’s programming
Grantee: New York Public Radio
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of radio programming and complementary online materials focused on resilience, both in the greater New York area and nationally, and providing ongoing training to other public radio stations on how to report stories with a resilience framework
Grantee: New York Times Company
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of its 2nd annual “Food for Tomorrow” conference, to be held October 2015
Grantee: New York Times Company
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of its annual Cities of Tomorrow conference series, in order to elevate the discussion regarding the crucial need for resilient and inclusive cities
Grantee: New York University
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,400,000
Purpose: For use by the Institute of Knowledge in support of its Resilient Cities by Design project, which will partner with members of the 100 Resilient Cities network to orchestrate processes and competitions based on the Rebuild by Design model
Grantee: Nonprofit Finance Fund
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: In support of a collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to publish and disseminate a book exploring outcomes-based funding as a way of maximizing limited resources to promote a more inclusive and resilient society
Grantee: Overseas Development Institute
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: In support of producing research products that will enhance the knowledge base related to resilience thought and action for a global audience
Grantee: Pamiga Finance
Location: Paris, France
Amount: $1,500,000
Purpose: As a Program-Related Investment to support the general expansion of microfinance institutions and other non-bank finance institutions lending to base of the pyramid populations in rural Africa, by facilitating microloans financing access to solar energy and water as well as female entrepreneurs in rural Africa
Grantee: Pennsylvania State University
Location: University Park, Pennsylvania
Amount: $167,676
Purpose: For use by its Department of Anthropology and Center for Human Evolution and Diversity in support of providing technological support to students participating in the “Finding Your Roots: Using Personalized Genetics and Genealogy Approach to Foster Interest and Participation in the Health Sciences in Middle School-aged Youth” summer camps
Grantee: PolicyLink
Location: Oakland, California
Amount: $75,000
Purpose: In support of the 2015 Equity Summit that will bring together over 2,500 leaders, advocates and young people from across the U.S. to strengthen, expand and diversify the equity movement, to be held in Los Angeles, October 2015
Grantee: Practical Action
Location: Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Amount: $225,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of a collaborative research project with Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing to identify key barriers and opportunities for poor or vulnerable workers to use technology innovations for greater economic inclusion
Grantee: Premise Data Corporation
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: In support of generating data-driven
insights that assist in rapidly testing hypotheses and/or intervention components and surfacing real-time, targeted emerging opportunities and risks in the external context that can be factored into strategic planning for greater social impact.
Grantee: PRI Association
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $399,840
Purpose: Toward the costs of promoting the systematic and transparent incorporation of environmental, social and governance factors into credit ratings in order to develop a more economically efficient and socially sustainable system
Grantee: ProjectArt
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: In support of expanding its free after-school arts programming to at-risk inner city youth in four New York City public library branches for the 2015-2016 school year
Grantee: Public Health Foundation of India
Location: Haryana, India
Amount: $100,796
Purpose: In support of mobilizing thought leadership in India on the development and finalization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for health
Grantee: Publisez, Inc.
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Amount: $447,500
Purpose: In support of communications efforts for the financing mechanisms supported by The Rockefeller Foundation’s innovative finance “Zero Gap” portfolio to increase the likelihood of market adoption by raising awareness among key stakeholders about how innovative finance can be harnessed to drive private sector capital toward achieving critical social and environmental outcomes
Grantee: Purpose Global LLC
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $222,500
Purpose: In support of research and the creation of research tools that enable the identification of opportunities to benefit poor and vulnerable people via the mobilization of public and private enterprises
Grantee: PYXERA Global Inc.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $6,000,000
Purpose: In support of reducing post-harvest food loss and improving the lives of smallholder farmers and other vulnerable people in the Nigerian tomato value chain
Grantee: Redstone Strategy Group
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Amount: $297,040
Purpose: In support of producing a signature publication and supplementary materials that document and communicate key lessons from The Rockefeller Foundation’s influence management and monitoring approach with additional influence research to inform and benefit the field of philanthropy
Grantee: re: focus partners, LLC
Location: La Jolla, California
Amount: $800,000
Purpose: In support of developing a new financial instrument to raise capital for resilient infrastructure projects in vulnerable communities in the U.S.
Grantee: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
Location: Vienna, Austria
Amount: $392,894
Purpose: In support of a project to produce a series of knowledge publications and facilitate related roundtables to disseminate best practices and insights based on Smart Power Rural Development’s work in India on implementing mini-grids in rural communities and using the mini-grid model to spur global economic development through energy access
Grantee: Research Foundation of the City University of New York
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $3,500,000
Purpose: For use by its Institute for State and Local Governance in support of continuing its Equality Indicators project in New York City with additional focus on improving disparities in health and justice, and of expanding the framework to five other cities across the country through either technical or implementation assistance
Grantee: Research Foundation of the City University of New York
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: For use by its Institute for State and Local Governance toward the costs of refining and disseminating a series of indicators measuring equality in New York City
Grantee: Resolve
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $230,000
Purpose: For use by its Water Funder Initiative toward the costs of developing four to five priority initiatives that are part of a broader solution set for water crises impacting communities and freshwater ecosystems across the U.S. West
Grantee: Results for Development
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $399,775
Purpose: In support of a research and landscape assessment that synthesizes forward-looking knowledge on pressing problems and dynamic opportunities in the lives of poor or vulnerable populations
Grantee: RF Binder Partners
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of a series of in-person and online discussions featuring leaders in business, the arts, politics, sciences, humanities, and philanthropy centered on sharing world-changing ideas, raising challenging issues and inspiring thought to action across the globe
Grantee: Right Management Inc.
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Amount: $310,000
Purpose: In support of a project to test the potential of a staffing agency model for providing employment to disadvantaged young people in the U.S.
Grantee: Rockefeller Foundation Donations
Location: United States
Amount: $1,700,000
Purpose: To facilitate Rockefeller Foundation donations to charitable organizations through its Matching Gift Program and other similar programs, as well as membership contributions to philanthropic sector organizations
Grantee: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: For use by its USArtPartners toward the costs of its mission to build social cohesion and address community challenges by way of art
Grantee: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $300,000
Purpose: For use by its Fund for Shared Insight toward the costs of its efforts to improve philanthropy by increasing openness in foundations and capturing and sharing cross-cutting learning across foundations, grantees and their beneficiaries
Grantee: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: For use by its Infrastructure to Support Inclusive Hiring toward the costs of an effort to work collaboratively with human resource practitioners and local, state and national partners to advance inclusive hiring practices in the U.S. for those facing the greatest barriers to employment
Organization: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $35,000,000
Purpose: For use by 100 Resilient Cities toward the costs of its global mission to build cities’ capacity to maintain and recover critical functions in the face of shocks and stresses
Grantee: Royal Institute of International Affairs
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: For use by its Centre on Global Health Security in support of planning activities to establish a West African Disease Surveillance Network in the wake of the Ebola crisis
Grantee: Royal Institute of International Affairs
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $360,070
Purpose: For use by its Centre on Global Health Security in support of the planning process for the development of a West African Disease Surveillance Network
Grantee: Royal Institute of International Affairs
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $150,469
Purpose: For use by its newly created Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Policy Forum toward the costs of providing strategic political advocacy advice on UHC and positioning UHC within the post-2015 development agenda
Grantee: RTI International
Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Amount: $350,000
Purpose: In support of monitoring and learning activities related to the Foundation’s YieldWise initiative and its grantees and partners, in order to benefit the field of agriculture at large and more specifically small-holder farmer households
Grantee: Sal Forest Co. Ltd.
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Amount: $80,000
Purpose: In support of research to develop a case study for promoting financial incentives to encourage organic farming in Thailand in order to improve the livelihoods and economic returns of smallholder farmers
Grantee: Sambodhi Research and Communications Private Limited
Location: Uttar Pradesh, India
Amount: $460,000
Purpose: In support of a project to conduct an impact evaluation of the Foundation’s Smart Power for Rural Development (SPRD) initiative in India and assess the extent to which the initiative is positively impacting the lives of people and spurring economic growth in rural communities in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Grantee: Samhita Social Ventures Private Limited
Location: Mumbai, India
Amount: $253,058
Purpose: In support of a project to develop guidelines for implementing India’s new Corporate Social Responsibility Mandate through building collaborative platforms to address strategic social and development challenges and testing the feasibility for such platforms in the energy access and rural enterprise promotion sector
Grantee: Shack/Slum Dwellers International
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: In support of a project to further advance its learning, monitoring and evaluation system and to present and promote work that demonstrates inclusive economies and resilience in an urban context at Habitat III, the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, to be held in Quito, Ecuador, October 2016
Grantee: Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
Location: New Delhi, India
Amount: $1,047,013
Purpose: in support of informing strong policy outcomes and providing policy, regulatory and utility planning solutions to accelerate energy access through the Smart Power model, which creates decentralized renewable energy power plants in India and provides accelerated energy access for both home lighting and productive uses to rural consumers who currently do not have access to an effective national grid
Grantee: Shellcatch, Inc.
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $75,000
Purpose: In support of scaling a system for tracing the authenticity of seafood origins and species in order to improve the commercial viability of small-scale fishers in Chile and Mexico
Grantee: Small Business Majority Foundation, Inc.
Location: Sausalito, California
Amount: $30,000
Purpose: In support of the Opportunity Youth and Business Champions project, designed to engage Chicago’s small business community to create greater employment opportunities for poor or vulnerable youth
Grantee: Smart Power for Rural Development India Foundation
Location: New Delhi, India
Amount: $2,502,750
Purpose: In support of establishing the Smart Power for Rural Development India Foundation, to launch decentralized renewable energy power plants in India and provide accelerated energy access for both home lighting and productive uses to rural consumers who currently do not have access to an effective national grid
Grantee: Social Progress Imperative, Inc.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: In support of bringing together local, cross-sector leaders to develop a framework for measuring and advancing social progress in five U.S. cities
Grantee: Social Science Research Council
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of bringing to scale its Scholarly Borderlands initiative in order to shape the ways in which social science is conducted so that it has long-term effects on the generation, public dissemination, and value of research
Grantee: Solutions Journalism Network
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: In support of creating a platform for aggregating social-impact driven reporting on social and environmental challenges and making it accessible to university professors and students, the philanthropic and social sectors, and the general public
Grantee: Spark Program
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to provide life changing apprenticeships to underserved communities nationwide in order to increase the likelihood that low-income middle school students will succeed in high school and beyond
Organization: Stanford University
Location: Stanford, California
Amount: $400,000
Purpose: For use by its Natural Capital Project in support of developing a global science and technology platform to mainstream accounting for natural capital into policies and markets affecting human wellbeing
Organization: Stanford University
Location: Stanford, California
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: For use by the Stanford Social Innovation Review toward the costs of organizing the 10th Annual Nonprofit Management Institute conference, to be held at Stanford University, September 2015
Grantee: StoryCorps
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Amount: $50,000
Purpose: In support of “The Great Thanksgiving Listen,” a project and supporting toolkit that will enable students of all backgrounds to record and preserve an interview with a grandparent or elder on the weekend after Thanksgiving
Grantee: Sun Valley Institute for Resilience
Location: Ketchum, Idaho
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: For use by the Sun Valley Institute for Resilience in general support of its mission
Grantee: Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $1,000,000
Purpose: In support of developing and disseminating accounting standards focused on the social, environmental and governance performance of public companies in the United States in an effort to help investors compare performance and drive capital to improved sustainability outcomes
Grantee: Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of a project to determine the viability of a new Fisheries Improvement Project model for benefitting small-scale fisheries in Indonesia and globally
Grantee: Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Amount: $2,200,000
Purpose: in support of activities designed to transition the Asian blue swimming crab fisheries toward sustainable, responsible production by scaling the Fisheries Improvement Project model for benefitting small-scale fisheries in Indonesia and globally
Grantee: SustainBiz
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: In support of synthesizing knowledge of institutions and actions currently undertaken and envisioned to quantify and internalize the value of ecosystems in public and private investment practice
Grantee: Synergos Institute
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to mobilize resources and bridge social and economic divides to reduce poverty and increase equity around the world
Grantee: Taedoki B.V.
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amount: $233,131
Purpose: In support of the research and analysis of green infrastructure value chains which may impact the resilience value of projects
Grantee: Taru Leading Edge Private Limited
Location: Ahmedabad, India
Amount: $163,570
Purpose: In support of a project to develop a framework for assessing levels of risk associated with launching smart power mini-grids in rural India and identifying mitigation measures for monitoring their installation
Grantee: Technology and Action for Rural Advancement
Location: New Delhi, India
Amount: $866,964
Purpose: in support of a project to provide community engagement and other preparation services to launch decentralized renewable energy power plants in India and provide accelerated energy access for both home lighting and productive uses to rural consumers who currently do not have access to an effective national grid
Grantee: Technology and Action for Rural Advancement
Location: New Delhi, India
Amount: $588,500
Purpose: In support of a project to launch decentralized renewable energy power plants in India and provide accelerated energy access for both home lighting and productive uses to rural consumers who currently do not have access to an effective national grid
Grantee: TechnoServe
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $1,483,266
Purpose: In support of a project to reduce post-harvest food loss and improve the lives of smallholder farmers and other vulnerable people in the mango value chain in Kenya
Grantee: TechSoup Global
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $450,000
Purpose: For use by NGOsource in support of ongoing operations and a project to add to the repository of equivalency determinations conducted in the past by several leading foundations
Grantee: Thammasat University
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Amount: $149,991
Purpose: for use by its Social Innovation Lab at the School of Global Studies in support of a series of roundtables and workshops culminating in a high-level event that will seek to advance the conversation around strategic philanthropy while celebrating The Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 years in Thailand
Grantee: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Location: London, United Kingdom
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of a implementing and disseminating a poll ranking the best and worst places for women to work across the G20 countries.
Grantee: TransFair USA
Location: Oakland, California
Amount: $2,200,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of activities designed to develop a market for responsible seafood by scaling fair trade principles to other seafood commodities
Grantee: Treatment Action Campaign
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Amount: $150,100
Purpose: In support of generating policy briefs and analyses in order to implement Universal Health Coverage in South Africa as part of the country’s efforts to shape the post-2015 development agenda
Grantee: Trust for Conservation Innovation
Location: Oakland, California
Amount: $450,000
Purpose: For use by its project, Private Capital for Public Good, toward the costs of researching and developing a replicable, multi-stakeholder Wildfire Resilience Impact Bond designed to fund forest restoration in the western United States
Grantee: Tusk Strategies
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,352,500
Purpose: In support of documenting the Foundation’s approach to strategy development to share with the philanthropic field, along with a synthesis of lessons from both this work as well as the experiences of the Foundation’s partners, grantees and peers
Grantee: Tusk Strategies
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $1,500,000
Purpose: In support of developing and executing a high-influence, high-impact convening of global leaders on the theme of resilience at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy
Grantee: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Location: Bonn, Germany
Amount: $440,000
Purpose: For use by its Global Mechanism in support of developing and operationalizing the Impact Investment Fund for Land Degradation Neutrality, an effort to promote the restoration and sustainable and productive use of degraded land around the world
Grantee: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Amount: $250,860
Purpose: Toward the costs of implementing policy support for building inclusive economies in Africa using the African Social Development Index (ASDI) in ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Grantee: United Nations Environment Programme
Location: Paris, France
Amount: $135,608
Purpose: For use by its Division of Technology, Industry and Economics in support of creating a background paper on “Urban Ecology and Resilience” for the Habitat III global convening to be held in Quito, Ecuador, October 2016
Grantee: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Amount: $175,000
Purpose: For use by the UN Habitat City Resilience Profiling Programme in support of strengthening advocacy and raising awareness around resilience, urban crises, and cities most at risk, and to support the launch of the Global Alliance for Urban Crises in the run-up to the World Humanitarian Summit to be held in Istanbul, May 2016
Grantee: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: in support of preparations by its “Urban Ecology and Resilience” policy unit for the 2016 Habitat III convening to be held in Quito, Ecuador, October 2016
Grantee: United States Artists
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount: $117,070
Purpose: In support of organizing two annual Artists Assemblies and identifying potential artists for the residential fellowship program at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
Grantee: United States Conference of Mayors
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: In support of its Cities of Opportunity Task Force, to work with U.S. mayors and other influential leaders to address equity and economic opportunity in American cities
Grantee: United States Fund for UNICEF
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $220,415
Purpose: In support of developing resilience thinking for rebuilding health systems in West Africa and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa in the wake of the Ebola crisis
Organization: Unitus Impact Partners
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $2,000,000
Purpose: As a Program-Related Investment to support improving the livelihoods of the working poor by capitalizing a venture capital fund that invests in small- to medium-sized social enterprises in Southeast Asia and India, focusing on supply chain, distribution, general business services and other industries that reduce waste and catalyze increased income levels and job creation amongst the working poor
Grantee: University of California, Santa Cruz
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Amount: $74,999
Purpose: In support of developing measurement approaches and indicators for inclusive economies that are holistic and additive to the field
Organization: University of Colorado, Denver
Location: Aurora, Colorado
Amount: $250,000
Purpose: For use by its Buechner Institute for Governance to establish an Intermountain Infrastructure Exchange through a collaborative effort of the intermountain state governors from Arizona Colorado, and Utah
Grantee: University of Illinois
Location: Champaign, Illinois
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of the First International Congress for Postharvest Loss Prevention to be held in Rome, Italy, October 2015
Grantee: University of Oxford
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Amount: $244,876
Purpose: For use by its Oxford Internet Institute in support of researching the viability of a micro-levy on data to fund solutions to critical social challenges
Grantee: University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Amount: $257,902
Purpose: For use by its Wharton School’s Social
Impact Initiative toward the costs of a convening of high-level leaders from international finance, development, philanthropy and academia on the topic of catalyzing innovation in finance to address the world’s most critical problems, to be held at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, April 2015
Grantee: University of Rwanda
Location: Kicukiro, Rwanda
Amount: $78,144
Purpose: for use by its College of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Public Health in support of the Center of Excellence for Health System Strengthening’s activities to promote long-term sustainability and support of Rwanda’s progress towards Universal Health Coverage
Organization: University of Toronto
Location: Toronto, Canada
Amount: $125,000
Purpose: For use by its Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management toward the costs of advancing the reach and application of its Global Solution Networks program and of conducting new research on the role of philanthropy in orchestrating resilient networks
Organization: Urban Institute
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $450,000
Purpose: In support of a research and landscape assessment that synthesizes forward-looking knowledge on pressing problems and dynamic opportunities in the lives of poor or vulnerable populations
Grantee: Urban Institute
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: In support of conducting a baseline assessment and evaluation of progress toward impact of the U.S. Department of Housing and Development’s National Disaster Resilience Competition and the Foundation’s Resilience Academies
Grantee: Vibrant Data
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: In support of identifying early signals of dynamism and emerging patterns around social impact issues
Grantee: The Virgin Foundation
Location: United Kingdom
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of launching the Universal Access to Renewable Energy initiative in Rwanda and Kenya to work with a range of partners to scale decentralized renewable energy solutions to accelerate energy access
Grantee: West Coast Infrastructure Exchange
Location: Portland, Oregon
Amount: $100,000
Purpose: In support of training a cadre of public sector decision makers in California, Oregon, and Washington on the benefits of aggregating water infrastructure projects and the use of public-private partnerships in addressing water infrastructure needs
Grantee: WETA
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: For use by its PBS NewsHour in support of broadcast and web reporting focused on sudden shocks and what it takes to recover from them as a more cohesive, resilient community, and in general support of its mission to produce and broadcast programs of intellectual integrity and cultural merit that recognize viewers’ and listeners’ intelligence, curiosity and interest in the world around them
Grantee: Wildlife Conservation Society
Location: Bronx, New York
Amount: $800,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of activities to launch a new field of “Planetary Health” in order to yield better solutions to health challenges in the 21st century
Grantee: Wildlife Conservation Society
Location: Bronx, New York
Amount: $1,177,000
Purpose: In support of activities to support a new field of “Planetary Health” in order to yield better solutions to health challenges in the 21st century
Grantee: Windward Fund
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $800,000
Purpose: In support of its project, Resilience Measurement Community of Practice, to bring together leading resilience measurement experts and M&E practitioners to advance the practice of resilience measurement and build the evidence base for investments in resilience
Grantee: Women in the World Media
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $200,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of curating and executing the inaugural India Women in the World Summit to be held in New Delhi, November 2015
Organization: Workforce Development Corporation
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $29,970
Purpose: In support of the Employer Ambassador for Youth Program, in partnership with the New York City Department of Small Business Services, designed to engage New York City’s small business community to create greater employment opportunities for poor or vulnerable youth
Organization: Work Life Partnership
Location: Denver, Colorado
Amount: $75,000
Purpose: In support of providing a comprehensive suite of post-employment support services to newly-hired, young workers in the U.S. facing barriers to retention and performance
Grantee: World Affairs Council of Northern California
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of its Global Philanthropy Forum, which brings together foundation leaders, individual donors, social investors, and agents of change to learn more about opportunities for international philanthropy
Grantee: World Affairs Council of Northern California
Location: San Francisco, California
Amount: $152,138
Purpose: For use by its project, the Global Philanthropy Forum, in support of building its capacity to advance strategic philanthropy in Africa
Grantee: World Bank
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $530,000
Purpose: In support of exploring preliminary options for the institutional, financial, and operational design of a regional risk financing facility in South and Southeast Asia
Grantee: World Economic Forum
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Amount: $1,125,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of bringing the benefit of innovative solutions to today’s most pressing global challenges through its Long Term Investing, Infrastructure and Development, Employment, Skills and Human Capital, and Food Security and Agriculture programs
Grantee: World Food Programme
Location: Rome, Italy
Amount: $804,030
Purpose: in support of scaling its Agricultural Market Access + Zero Food Loss initiative to Tanzania and to align post-harvest training and technologies with existing value chains
Grantee: World Resources Institute
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $392,200
Purpose: In support of developing a sustainable and equitable approach to a water rights allocation and trading scheme in order to reduce freshwater competition among agricultural, municipal, industrial and energy users in China
Grantee: World Resources Institute
Location: Washington, D.C.
Amount: $399,751
Purpose: In support of developing a sustainable and equitable approach to a water rights allocation and trading scheme in order to reduce freshwater competition among agricultural, municipal, industrial and energy users in Ningxia, China
Grantee: Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support, Inc.
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Amount: $160,000
Purpose: In general support of its mission to nurture information exchange about strategic philanthropy between philanthropic actors in the global south
Grantee: Young Women’s Leadership Network Inc.
Location: New York, New York
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Toward the costs of the 2015-2016 school year activities of The Young Women’s Leadership Schools, a network of all-girls public secondary schools serving underserved girls and their families in New York City