News & Announcements

  I'm thrilled to be back at SOCAP. I last spoke here in 2012, when The Rockefeller Foundation was just preparing to celebrate our Centennial year. Now, we're still recovering from our …

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Rockefeller Foundation announced today a $100 million Global Resilience Partnership that lays out a bold new vision for building resilience to …

Thank you, Administrator Shah. Your leadership has not only put resilience front and center in USAID's development efforts—it's paved the way for resilience to take hold at the forefront of the …

NEW YORK—Today 100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation— announced that the 2014 application process of its 100 Resilient Cities Challenge has officially opened. The Challenge invites applications from cities worldwide …

NEW YORK—The Rockefeller Foundation, now in its second century of advancing the well-being of humanity, today announced the appointment of Ravi Venkatesan to its Board of Trustees. Mr. Venkatesan is …

Good morning, everyone. We're so delighted you could join us for this breakfast discussion on a topic close to the heart of our work at the Rockefeller Foundation: impact investing …

Good afternoon, and thank you. I am so pleased to be here to celebrate the Aspen Idea's Festival 10 years of thought-provoking and world-changing discussions. Had the initial participants been asked to …

Lagos—The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a grant of $500,000 to Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) for the expansion of PIN's Ajegunle.org project. Since 2007, the project has worked from Ajegunle, an underserved community …

Johannesburg—The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a $1 million grant to EOH to spur job creation in the ICT sector for South Africa's disadvantaged youth. The grant comes to support EOH's Youth …

Washington, D.C.—U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced today that six design proposals have been selected as winners of HUD’s Rebuild by Design competition. Secretary …