Rockefeller Foundation

Overview

Seeking and shaping innovative solutions at the intersections of four issue areas, The Rockefeller Foundation maintains a portfolio of interconnected initiatives. Each initiative addresses two, three, or more of our focus areas – often in overlapping geographic regions. Each incorporates rigorous monitoring while work progresses.

They seek to achieve our vision through work aimed at meeting four equally important goals:

• Revalue Ecosystems;
• Advance Health;
• Secure Livelihoods; and
• Transform Cities

To achieve our goal of the well-being of humanity through smart globalization, the Rockefeller Foundation funds a portfolio of initiatives that link and interlink to achieve meaningful and measurable impact.

All our initiatives draw on the Foundation’s commitment to nurture innovation, pioneer new fields, expand access to and distribution of resources, empower beneficiaries to cultivate and spread progress in their countries, and, ultimately, generate sustainable impact on individuals, institutions, and communities.

Revalue Ecosystems

• Developing Climate Change Resilience: Catalyze attention, funding and action to promote resilience to climate change in Asian urban environments, African agriculture, and U.S. policy.
• Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing: Accelerate the development of an industry that can efficiently place for-profit impact investments to improve a wide range of social and/or environmental condition.
• Sustainable Employment in a Green US Economy (SEGUE): Maximize the “green” growth areas of the economy, such as opportunities presented by the demand for home-energy retrofits, while benefiting low- and moderate-income workers.
• Smart Power for Environmentally-Sound Economic Development (SPEED): Determine if the rapidly-growing infrastructure of cell phone towers in India and East Africa can be harnessed to provide clean energy and electricity access in poor communities

Secure Livelihoods

• Strengthening Food Security (AGRA): Sustainably increase the productivity and profitability of small-scale farms throughout Africa.
• Promoting Equitable Sustainable Transportation: Push the U.S. over the tipping point toward transportation planning and infrastructure policy that serves the needs of 21st century America.
• Program Related Investment (PRI): Provide access to needed capital by tailoring investment tools to have a social impact and also provide financial returns.
• Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing: Accelerate the development of an industry that can efficiently place for-profit impact investments to improve a wide range of social and/or environmental condition.
• Smart Power for Environmentally-Sound Economic Development (SPEED): Determine if the rapidly-growing infrastructure of cell phone towers in India and East Africa can be harnessed to provide clean energy and electricity access in poor communities.
• Poverty Reduction through Information and Digital Employment (PRIDE): Foster a critical new arm of the outsourcing industry that employs people at the base of the pyramid as principal workers.
• Sustainable Employment in a Green US Economy (SEGUE): Maximize the “green” growth areas of the economy, such as opportunities presented by the demand for home-energy retrofits, while benefiting low- and moderate-income workers.

Transform Cities

• Developing Climate Change Resilience: Catalyze attention, funding and action to promote resilience to climate change in Asian urban environments, African agriculture, and U.S. policy.
• Promoting Equitable Sustainable Transportation: Push the U.S. over the tipping point toward transportation planning and infrastructure policy that serves the needs of 21st century America.
• Informal City Dialogues: Engage a diverse group of citizens in a conversation that identifies, builds or proposes an innovation that will help their city achieve a more inclusive and resilient future.
• New York City: Contribute to the city in which we were founded and where we have our headquarters by working across all focus areas and initiatives to promote resilience and equitable growth and support cultural innovation.
• Smart Power for Environmentally-Sound Economic Development (SPEED): Determine if the rapidly-growing infrastructure of cell phone towers in India and East Africa can be harnessed to provide clean energy and electricity access in poor communities.
• The Brookings-Rockefeller Project on State and Metropolitan Innovation: Develop fiscally-responsible state policies and practical metropolitan-led solutions that leaders can use to move toward the next economy.

Advance Health

• Transforming Health Systems: Improve health systems performance and expand universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries.
• Strengthening Food Security (AGRA): Sustainably increase the productivity and profitability of small-scale farms throughout Africa.
• Linking Global Disease Surveillance Networks: Mitigate the impact of disease outbreaks by establishing transnational detection, monitoring, and communications systems.
• Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing: Accelerate the development of an industry that can efficiently place for-profit impact investments to improve a wide range of social and/or environmental condition.