Grantee Impact Stories
Insights into how our grantees are revolutionizing the world
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A Clean Energy Convening Changes a Life
Sep 19 2024After an inspiring convening hosted by The Rockefeller Foundation, Cassie Rowlands quit her job the following week, driven to make bigger changes and work more closely with communities to fund the green energy transition.
- Sep 19 2024Grantee Impact StoryA Meeting of the Minds at Bellagio Spurs a Convening and a Movement
A chance meeting at the Bellagio Center develops into a partnership and the launch of an organization dedicated to creating a just and inclusive economy that enables health and dignity for all people. - Sep 19 2024Grantee Impact StoryFood Security Leader Calls for Women's Voices in Convenings For the last five decades, CGIAR has been one of the world’s most successful research and development organizations contributing to food, nutrition, sustainability, and poverty reduction.
- Sep 19 2024Grantee Impact StoryConvenings Drive Critical Research Through the Mercury Project The Mercury Project's research will enhance future communications as public health officials wrestle with climate change challenges ranging from emerging diseases to the effects of more frequent and severe extreme weather events.
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Shaking Up Systems with Big Bets
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The Magic of Convenings
This quarter's Matter of Impact dives deep into why convenings matter, and why we need to make time for them to achieve impact.
- Grantee Impact StoryA Convening Builds a Climate Warrior The Food Systems Game Changers Lab helped launch young Ledama Masidza of Kenya on a path to secure his community's food security in the face of climate change.
- Grantee Impact StoryGEAPP Leadership Council Unites World Leaders To Drive Green Energy Access Founded in 2022 to galvanize critical climate action and drive down the cost of green energy in low- and medium-income countries, the GLC works with great urgency.
- Grantee Impact StoryA Powerful New Roadmap for Tackling Climate Change’s Financial Risks The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, has launched a powerful new playbook aimed at helping financial institutions estimate and prepare for infrastructure risks triggered by climate change.
Perspectives Blog
- PerspectiveWhy Convenings Matter The Rockefeller Foundation uses convenings to supercharge solutions to the world's most challenging problems.
- PerspectiveThe Long Road to Consensus - Tim Evans on How Convenings Can Surface Divisions and Build Common Ground Dr. Tim Evans reveals how a convening stalemate led to the birth of a worldwide vaccine alliance and a new era of major health investments.
- PerspectiveMany Paths to One Mountaintop - Antony Bugg-Levine on Building Movements That Shift Systems The GIIN co-founder Antony Bugg-Levine discusses how a Bellagio Center convening helped galvanize the worldwide impact investing movement.