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The Rockefeller Foundation for the 21st Century

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     Globalization is the major trend of our time, the foremost driver of change in the world today, with consequences both beneficial and burdensome.
     The Rockefeller Foundation attempts to harness the creative forces of globalization, supporting breakthrough solutions to 21st century challenges. This is smart globalization: ensuring that the opportunities unleashed by globalization are accessible to more people, more fully, in more places — and that poor and vulnerable people are equipped to seize them.
     We broker partnerships, helping people and institutions with diverse perspectives unite in meaningful, collaborative alliances.
     We nurture innovation, ideas that change the way we approach problems and resolutions.
     We develop and support fresh policy ideas, new products and services, and better research data to help inform and influence public discourse.
     And in everything the Rockefeller Foundation does, we maintain a singular focus on impact — enabling individuals, institutions, and communities to build better lives and futures. Learn more

Rockefeller Foundation Activities

Q & A: Judith Rodin
Innovation--Not Just a Product, a Process
Summer 2009; Stanford Social Innovation Review
Rodin has taken a different tack by funding organizations that are creating new innovation processes-—like crowdsourcing and collaborative competitions—-which can be applied to solving all types of social problems.

Eliminating Gender Disparities in Africa
With the support of the Foundation, FAWE was launched in 1992.
Philanthropy New York; by Rachel Christmas Derrick

Golden Rice: Effective Source of Vitamin A
May 14, 2009; ScienceDaily
Next steps include incorporating this technology into the rice grains found in various regions. Rwanda: On the Leading Edge of mHealth
May 13, 2009; ZDNet.co.uk; by Claire Thwaites
The country also has been especially successful in using mobile phones to improve public health.
mHealth Alliance

When the Markets Thaw
May 12, 2009; Beyond Profit by Antony Bugg-Levine
Impact investing is emerging at a time when financial markets worldwide are in turmoil. Impact Investing

Promoting Trans-national Collaboration in Disease Surveillance and Control
April 10, 2009; remarks by Kate Bond
No better time to launch Connecting Health Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance.

Next Urban Crisis: Poverty & Climate Change
April 8, 2009; Judith Rodin's blog; worldbank.org
Accelerating, unplanned global urbanization concentrates low-income people in high risk areas.

Transforming America's Housing Policy
February 13, 2009 Transcript: Judith Rodin's remarks

Asian Cities to Prepare for Climate Change
Press release; ACCCRN home; speech transcript