Mar 19 2020Smart Power for Rural Development Initiative launches, bringing access to reliable energy from green sources to 1 million Indians in 1,000 villages in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to promote economic development in rural areas.
Mar 19 2020The Rockefeller Foundation partners with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to create the Hamilton Education Initiative, based on the Broadway musical Hamilton. By 2019, the five-year partnership allowed 250,000 underprivileged high school students to participate in educational programs that integrate the arts with American history and to attend a performance of Hamilton.
Mar 18 2020Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, former Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) joins The Rockefeller Foundation as its thirteenth president.
Mar 18 2020The Rockefeller Foundation proudly joins the universal health coverage coalition and signs the Global Compact at the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva, formalizing its support for UHC2030, which lays the groundwork for achieving health for all.
Mar 18 2020The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation commit $5 million to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria and to work with Puerto Rico’s philanthropic, business, government, and NGO sectors to rebuild as a stronger, more resilient island on a path to a sound future.
Mar 18 2020Leading philanthropists, including Richard Chandler, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jeff Skoll, Romesh and Kathy Wadhwani, and The Rockefeller Foundation announce Co-Impact, a global collaborative for systems change, with $500 million in planned initial funding for multi-year investments in health, education, and economic opportunity.
Mar 18 2020The Rockefeller Foundation announces the inaugural class of a new Fellowship, designed to support work on a range of projects across the fields of health, power, innovative finance, governance, economic opportunity, and the life sciences.
Mar 18 2020From Missoula to San Juan, 10 organizations receive $1 million each to expand their community-led approaches to improve economic opportunity in their neighborhoods and beyond.
Mar 18 2020MacArthur Foundation commits $150 million to help address critical social challenges, joining The Rockefeller Foundation and Omidyar Network in the new Catalytic Capital Consortium and calls for more flexible impact investments and collaboration.
Mar 18 2020The Rockefeller Foundation announces the Opportunity Zones Initiative, an effort to help U.S. cities attract responsible private investment in economically-distressed communities and ensure delivery of sustainable benefits for more than 30 million low-income Americans living in designated Opportunity Zones.
