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Dec 19 2017 Blog Post Talking About This Generation In the summer of 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center brought together a group of residents around the theme of “Youth as Agents of Transformative Change.” Participants hailed from eight different countries, representing academia, the private sector, civil society, activist organizations, and the arts including novelists, composers, and musicians. And while the focus of the […]
Jul 25 2017 Blog Post Building a Generation of Change Agents When Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, he was twenty-six years old. At twenty-four years old, Gandhi began his movement against racist pass laws in South Africa. Jane Adams started Hull House at the age of twenty-eight. The Dalai Lama led his people out of occupied Tibet into India before he was […]
Jan 10 2017 Blog Post An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Behavior: Learning from the First Bellagio Center Thematic Residency We’ve all been there. Do we choose the apple or the cookie? The gym or the couch? The new shoes or the savings account? We often know what we should do to be on our “best behavior,” but sometimes cravings take over. This frequent conflict between our actions and our best intentions can make […]
Dec 07 2016 Blog Post Inviting Constructive Controversy One of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers, Marcel Duchamp, once said, “I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” The value of getting out of our own heads and challenging our preconceived notions has been part of the ethos and modus operandi of The Rockefeller Foundation […]