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Areas of Expertise

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The Rockefeller Foundation for the 21st Century focuses its resources and energies on five interconnected issue areas, selected both because they are critical global challenges and because the Foundation is distinctively positioned to address them effectively and with measurable results.

› Repairing weak, outmoded health systems
› Building resilience to environmental degradation and climate change
› Addressing the risks of accelerating urbanization
› Reweaving frayed social contracts
› Easing basic survival insecurities

In addition, the Foundation
› is an active New York citizen; and
› nurtures an enabling environment

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Our Work

Repairing weak, outmoded health systems-–making modern health systems stronger, more affordable, and more accessible in poor and vulnerable communities.
› Disease Surveillance Networks
› Climate Change Resilience

Building resilience to environmental degradation and climate change-–developing plans and products to protect those with the fewest means from an imperiled environment and warming global climate.
› Climate Change Resilience
› Rebuilding New Orleans

Addressing the risks of accelerating urbanization–shaping efforts in planning, finance, infrastructure, and governance to manage a world in which, for the first time in history, more people live in urban communities than rural ones.
› Transportation
› Impact Investing
› Climate Change Resilience
› Rebuilding New Orleans

Reweaving frayed social contracts-–reinforcing American workers’ social and economic security, reimagining the regulatory framework that governs our economy, and reinvigorating the notion of citizenship.
› Campaign for American Workers
› Transportation
› Impact Investing
› Rebuilding New Orleans

Easing basic survival insecurities-–supporting sustainable efforts to provide nutrition, water, health care, and shelter, the basic building blocks of increased labor and land productivity and economic growth.
› Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
› Disease Surveillance Networks
› Accelerating Innovation for Development
› Climate Change Resilience

The Rockefeller Foundation: A New York Citizen
While the Foundation may fix its eyes and lend its hands globally, we also exercise an unwavering commitment to civic responsibility in our hometown.
› Opportunity New York City
› The Jane Jacobs Medal
› NYC Cultural Innovation Fund





Nurtures an Enabling Environment for Philanthropic Work
To generate enduring, self-perpetuating impact, the Rockefeller Foundation for the 21st Century is committed to nurturing the preconditions that enable its work — and others’ work — to take hold and flourish.
› Nurtures an Enabling Environment for Philanthropic Work
› Impact Investing

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