Mar 19 2020Bellagio Center convenes 40 global investors to discuss what it would take for the newly emerging impact investing industry to solve more social and environmental challenges with greater efficiency. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) launches and organizes behind multiple initiatives.
Mar 19 2020The Rockefeller Foundation commits $3 million for housing and economic redevelopment in response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The Foundation commits to more than $23 million in grants through 2017 to support resilience, redevelopment, and recovery.
Jan 01 2009The Foundation launches its Impact Investing initiative to help accelerate the growth of the field. Impact investing is investments intended to generate both a social or environmental impact, as well as a financial return for investors.
Jan 01 2009Nobel Peace Laureate, and "father of the Green Revolution" Norman Borlaug dies after a lifetime of contributions to the productivity of global agriculture and food security.
Jan 01 2009The Foundation’s Transforming Health Systems initiative is launched in Nairobi, Kenya, to expand health coverage and provide new health and financial protections for people in low-income countries.
Jan 01 2009The Rockefeller Foundation announces the formation of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network initiative to create robust models and methodologies for assessing and addressing climate change risks.
Jan 01 2009U.S. President Barack Obama announces initiatives that emerged from recommendations made by Rockefeller Foundation-supported grantees for developing tools for American workers to save more and better weather periods of economic uncertainty.
Jan 01 2009The Impact Investing initiative supports the launch of the Global Impacting Investing Network (GIIN), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of impact investing.
Jan 01 2008The Foundation launches the Campaign for American Workers to create tools and policies to strengthen the social and economic security of Americans.
Jan 01 2008Following the Foundation’s Global Urban Summit, the Foundation publishes "Century of the City," a book that shares the diverse perspectives, creative approaches, and urgent agenda for harnessing the vast opportunities of urbanization for a better world.
