Rockefeller Annual Report

The Rockefeller
Foundation. Annual
Report 2010.
president’s letter.
The poet William Blake urged his readers to see the world in a grain of sand. At the
Rockefeller Foundation, we see the world in the lives of every individual impacted
by our work.
This 2010 Annual Report tells the stories of eight such individuals. They come from different backgrounds
and different continents, but their personal struggles and life experiences bring into stark relief some of the
most pressing global challenges we face. From food insecurity in Africa to economic insecurity in America,
from cities grappling with the impact of climate change and the need for sustainable transportation, the
stories in this report will give you our perspective on how critical global issues impact individual lives.
Of course, these stories also illustrate solutions the Rockefeller Foundation brought to bear—and in many
cases pioneered—in 2010. Here, you will read about weather-indexed crop insurance and mobile health
kiosks in Africa, interactive online tools and pilot infrastructure projects in Asian cities. From public edu-
cation campaigns and policymaking advice at the state and federal levels in the U.S., to path-breaking
methods of harnessing private capital for social gain, the breadth of our work in 2010 was matched only
by the scope of the challenges the world faced.
At the beginning of the second decade of the new millennium, the ground is shifting beneath us. The
impacts of climate change are accelerating. The global population is growing rapidly and restlessly, and
many are moving into cities, accelerating the pace of urbanization. Against this backdrop, the work of
the Rockefeller Foundation is urgent, exciting, and continues apace. A full listing of the Foundation’s 2010
grants, organized by issue area and initiative, is provided at the end of this report.
Thank you for your interest in our ever-evolving efforts to build more equitable, adaptive, and resilient
societies around the world.
Judith Rodin
President
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2010 Annual Report
4 Sowing the Seeds of Africa’s Green Revolution
10 Driving Sustainable and Equitable Transportation Policy

14 Building Strong Systems for Healthy Communities
20 Detecting Disease Through Integration
24 Working for a Stronger Safety Net
28 Innovating Within and Across Institutions
32 Building Climate Change Resilience
38 2010 Trustees
39 2010 Staff
42 2010 Grants
62 2010 Financials
64 References
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Sowing the Seeds of
Africa’s Green Revolution

seeds of renewal.
Mityana means “40 trees” in Swahili, and for years, the rural Ugandan village boasted little
other greenery. Trained agronomists were scarce and many miles away, leaving local farm-
ers like Sebulega John Bosco uninformed about agricultural best practices. For a long
time, Sebulega recalls, he neglected to fertilize his bean fields at all.
That was before Annet. Supported by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA),
“agro dealer” Annet Mubiru has become one of Mityana’s most precious resources, as
prized as the rain. The shelves of her modest shop carry an assortment of quality seeds,
fertilizers, and pesticides. But Annet herself may be the most valuable asset, a trained
agricultural adviser offering guidance to the community’s smallholders. Thanks to Annet’s
suggestions and supplies, Sebulega increased his crop yield 150 percent, to 2.5 tons per
acre. Mityana’s 40 trees now shelter a healthier, heartier harvest.1

A Growing Problem
Unfortunately, the vast majority of sub-Saharan Africa’s 570 million small

farmers2 have not been as successful as Sebulega. Where Sebulega and
the rest of Mityana have ready access to agricultural advice and customized
supplies, millions of others must trek many kilometers to the nearest agro
dealer. Once there, they frequently find industrial-sized packages of seeds
and other supplies too costly and heavy to bring home. Their fields lie
fallow, failing.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s rapidly increasing population has outgrown traditional

farming systems, threatening the income and food security of millions. Two-
thirds of the region3 consists of isolated agricultural communities, consigned
to lives of extreme hardship and low-yield subsistence farming. Roughly one
in three sub-Saharan Africans is undernourished,4 and the only thing grow-
ing reliably is the number of people in poverty.

A Foundation for Farming Reform
In 2006, the Rockefeller Foundation partnered with The

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the Alliance for
a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an Africa-based
and African-led organization committed to sustainably
increasing the productivity and profitability of small-scale
farms across Africa. Chaired by former United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan and working in 13 coun-
tries,5 AGRA’s concerted, system-wide approach has
led to tremendous gains in the quantity and quality of
crops by producing new seed varieties, new systems of
water management and enhanced soil fertility, and more
recently a Market Access Program enabling smallholders
to better market what they produce. By building new
storage and processing facilities, and giving farmers the
tools to compete in the regional and global marketplace,
AGRA’s market program is projected to result in a 50 per-
cent increase in income and a 50 percent decrease in
food insecurity for farming families.6
In the next decade, AGRA aims to cut food insecurity in

half in 20 African countries, and double the incomes of
20 million small farmers.7

Reviving the Revolution
It was the genius of field agricultural scientists like Norman Borlaug—

funded by Rockefeller Foundation investments—that unleashed the Green
Revolution in Central America and Asia, credited with saving a billion
lives.8 Simply shrinking a stalk of wheat dramatically grew crop yields and
incomes. Over half a century later, the Rockefeller Foundation remains just
as dedicated to the belief that productivity growth is a powerful driver of
poverty reduction.
Innovative, integrated initiatives like AGRA reach across all sectors of

society, leveraging the power of individuals—whether farmers, agricultural
researchers, or government officials—to make smarter use of global
resources. As Mityana flourishes, as the world works to address the
disparities of the 21st century, the Rockefeller Foundation will continue
to focus on food security, and AGRA will be part of the answer.

Driving Sustainable and
Equitable Transportation Policy

the cost of a commute.
In 2006, buying an SUV and moving to the San Francisco suburbs made sense for Darren.
Then he lost his full-time job as a security guard and took two part-time jobs, driving fur-
ther, seven days a week, for a smaller salary. Public transit cannot get Darren to where he
needs to go. The roads and bridges he travels are among the most structurally deficient in
the nation,1 causing delays and costing additional fuel. Every month Darren spends $500
for gas, $515 for car payments, $80 for insurance, and $180 for tolls—over half his salary
just commuting to work—and gas prices could rise precipitously at any time.2
A driver with a story like Darren’s sits in many of the cars around him on his frustrating
morning commute. Each year, traffic takes a toll beyond the tollbooth, costing Americans
4.2 billion hours and $87 billion in productivity and wasted fuel.3 Middle-class households
spend more on their cars and gas than on taxes and healthcare.4 It is the second highest
expense for American families, and the highest for lower income households, who spend
a staggering 30 percent of their income on transportation.5
The aging transportation infrastructure in the United States fails to service areas where it
is desperately needed, lagging woefully behind other countries at great cost to American
competitiveness. One out of every nine U.S. bridges needs serious structural repair.6
Meanwhile over the last decade, China has invested $3.3 trillion in cutting-edge infrastruc-
ture,7 much of it in public transportation that is fuel-efficient and gets people to where the
jobs are. But instead of meeting these challenges—ensuring that U.S. transportation policy
is thoughtful, sustainable, and equitable—Congress is as gridlocked as the roads. When
it comes to the systems that help us get where we’re going, the U.S. has no focused,
financed plan for where it’s headed—and, like Darren and millions of commuters, we’re
going nowhere fast.

Promoting Direction and Drive
The Rockefeller Foundation is working to provide the direction and drive needed to build a 21st century
transportation system. In 2010, Rockefeller’s Transportation Initiative funded a scenario-planning exercise
for key stakeholders to map creative paths toward federal legislative reform in transportation policy.
Rockefeller is working closely with policymakers at the state and local level, where significant transportation
investments are made. And in September 2010, a Rockefeller-supported campaign to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions from cars through expanded public transit achieved a major milestone when the California
Air Resources Board approved aggressive standards for the state.
Rockefeller is also committed to increasing the American public’s awareness of our transportation crisis.
Through a Rockefeller grant, PBS produced and aired a 90-minute documentary, “Beyond the Motor City,”
which outlined the decline of the transportation infrastructure and the vital importance of rebuilding it.
Another Rockefeller-funded initiative, the interactive “Energy Trap” website, highlights stories—including
Darren’s—to illustrate America’s harmful gasoline dependency. To translate awareness into action,
Rockefeller also helped launch Transit Score, a free online tool that rates homes in 140 U.S. cities based
on their proximity to public transportation. The wheels of reform turn slowly, but Rockefeller is increasing
the torque through these and other transportation innovations.

Rebuilding a Path to the American Dream
When John D. Rockefeller established the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913, the U.S. was rapidly industrializ-
ing. As Rockefeller grew, the foundation directed part of its energies toward the thoughtful planning of this
fantastic growth, especially as it impacted cities. When a self-taught urban theorist named Jane Jacobs
applied for a grant in 1958, Rockefeller recognized her passion and vision, leading to the creation of the
field of urban design.
Among Jane Jacobs’ many insights was the belief that, as she put it, “trade in ideas, services, skills and
personnel, and certainly in goods, demands efficient, fluid transportation and communication.”8 That belief
guides Rockefeller’s commitment to smart transportation policy today. Transportation infrastructure does
not just move people from one place to another; it is a path to the middle class dream in countries around
the world.

Building Strong Systems
for Healthy Communities

on the ground innovation.
India is home to countless global call centers, but residents of the state of Bihar could not
easily call an ambulance in emergencies. A sick child or injured worker had to contact a
specific hospital, or even dial the ambulance driver’s mobile phone—information that was
very difficult to obtain. Five years ago, the municipal government and a local computer
company created a 24-hour call center integrating existing ambulances into a single net-
work. Now, 102 Ambulance Call Centre puts life-saving transportation just three digits away.1
On a different continent, Dr. Sam Gwer wrestled with a related obstacle. Health services
were few and far between in rural Kenya, where even a simple check-up often meant
traveling long distances and forfeiting a day’s pay. How, then, to provide adequate medical
care to communities unable to sustain full clinics? Dr. Gwer’s solution: a set of locally-run
health kiosks, M-Afya Kiosks, dispensing basic health services and serving as a first line
of defense for ailing Kenyans.2

There are countless stories like these in the developing
world—stories of limited access to health care, and
new innovations that can dramatically improve health
care outcomes. But even as global health spending
has increased dramatically, access to healthcare remains
a distant dream for millions in the developing world.
Achieving healthy communities will largely depend on
strengthening health systems—the networks of people,
organizations, and governments committed to promoting
physical wellbeing—yet global health efforts have prima-
rily targeted specific populations and diseases. These
medical advances are vitally important, but it is equally
imperative to improve countries’ capacities to reach all
their citizens for health care.

Because of inadequate coverage and patchwork health systems, the cost of
illness is compounded. Travel to doctors and the cost of medicine—on top
of work lost due to ill health—take its toll. The world’s poorest people pay
the highest percentage of their income for health, yet end up with neither.
Each year, catastrophic health expenditures force 25 million households into
poverty,3 while nearly 10 million children and half a million women die from
treatable causes.4 We are failing to cover the costs of care at the cost of
human life and prosperity.

Strengthening Systems
Only 40 percent of the global population benefits from

some form of health coverage. That’s why Rockefeller
Foundation’s Transforming Health Systems (THS) initiative
is committed to broadening access to affordable health
services in developing countries, with the ultimate goal of
doubling by 2020 the number of people achieving close
to universal coverage. Throughout 2010, Rockefeller
made more than $17.5 million in grants to engage local
entrepreneurs, public and private organizations, and
global health experts to focus on strengthening or chang-
ing approaches in critical but neglected areas: health
systems stewardship, e- and mobile health approaches,
and private sector integration.
Both the 102 Ambulance Call Centre and Dr. Gwer’s

M-Afya Kiosks are part of the Rockefeller-funded Center
for Health Market Innovations, which consolidates and
disseminates information about creative new approaches
to health systems. Along with the World Health Organ-
ization, the Public Health Foundation of India, and the
William A. Haseltine Foundation, Rockefeller is collecting,
analyzing, and implementing these innovations, which
are being promoted at high-level symposia and on the
ground throughout the developing world.

A Public Health Dynamo
From the beginning, Rockefeller has been committed to creative, holistic

thinking in the field of public health. Rockefeller researchers at the world’s
first schools of public health—established by Rockefeller—were dogged in
fighting malaria, polio, and countless other public health threats. Today, a
century later, Rockefeller continues to devote its resources and energy to
strengthening the systems through which life-saving treatments flow, and
making access more available and affordable.

Detecting Disease
Through Integration

symptoms unknown.
A few miles outside Phnom Penh, a young boy lies in bed, his illness unknown and his
parents fearful. Their village has never seen anything like it. Within a week, dozens of people
are hospitalized with similar symptoms. Halfway around the world, a group of doctors go
about their business, knowing how to treat this disease, but not knowing about its spread
in Cambodia. With no network to transfer critical infectious disease information, without
open lines of communication, thousands more fall sick. The “new” disease becomes an
unchecked pandemic. By the time the right expertise is brought to bear on the problem,
it’s too late—the disease has spread around the globe.
In a world of global trade and travel, what’s traded fastest and travels furthest are the
microbes in every handshake. Southeast Asia, with its 600 million people and large poultry
trade, has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a global hotspot for emerg-
ing infectious diseases.1 When Hong Kong suffered a nine-month outbreak of SARS—
severe acute respiratory syndrome—in 2002, it killed nearly 1,000 of the roughly 8,500
infected.2 Outbreaks such as avian influenza in Southeast Asia, and Rift Valley Fever in East
Africa, can cost countries 2–5% of GDP, in addition to the price paid in human lives.3
The potential pandemics of the past few decades have severely tested the world’s ability
to work across human borders. Detection remains weak in many parts of the world. The
public health response has frequently been slow and fragmented. The looming threat of
infectious disease presents humanity with a new challenge: to communicate and collabo-
rate swifter and with greater efficiency than ever before.

Integration Across Regions and Countries
The Rockefeller Foundation has invested $22 million in its Disease Surveillance Networks Initiative to help
contain the spread of infectious diseases and pandemics by strengthening national, regional and global
disease surveillance and response systems. Two key Rockefeller programs—the Mekong Basin Disease
Surveillance Network and the East African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network—have connected and
empowered health care workers, epidemiologists and public health officials throughout the region, leading
to a six-fold increase in cross-border disease surveillance sites over the last three years alone. In 2010,
Rockefeller expanded on the successful, trans-disciplinary One Health campaign, which USAID and the
Asia Development Bank have adopted as models. One Health refers to the integration of medical and vet-
erinary science to tackle these new varieties of zoonotic diseases that move and mutate rapidly from ani-
mals to humans. These collaborations have created and strengthened a critical public health regional
network, while the lessons learned have been exported across disciplines and countries.
In addition to improving global public health ties, Rockefeller has helped raise the level of expertise and train-
ing on the ground. The Field Epidemiology Training Program places graduates in the top levels of government
in Laos and Vietnam, while Rockefeller grants have transformed the tools available to doctors, allowing them
to harness the power of the Internet to communicate and monitor events, understand local contexts, and
analyze new problems. At last, we are applying 21st century tools to combat 21st century health challenges.

A Legacy of Building Bridges
The Rockefeller Foundation is dedi-

cated to harnessing globalization’s
power to spread expertise and fos-
ter collaboration across the globe.
With barriers falling, and products,
people, and ideas moving faster
than ever, Rockefeller has worked
to connect health care practitioners,
policy makers, and veterinarians in
every region. As illustrated by the
emerging pandemics of this new
century—SARS, avian flu, and
swine flu—if we don’t move quickly,
viruses will. By continuing our drive
to invest in systems that coordinate
efforts and share information, the
Rockefeller Foundation is working
to ensure that we have the ability to
meet the health challenges of an
interconnected world.

Working for a
Stronger Safety Net

lifesaving savings.
Like millions of American workers, Teresa struggles to make ends meet. She enjoys her
job as an aide in the children’s unit of a psychiatric facility, and she works hard. Teresa’s
daughter dreams of going to college, and Teresa dreams of sending her there. But for
Teresa, living paycheck-to-paycheck means that financial security—let alone college for
her daughter—remains a distant dream.1
A new income tax innovation is helping people like Teresa. In 2010, the IRS began to allow
taxpayers to check a box on their returns to automatically set aside a portion of their
refund for long-term savings. Developed by the Rockefeller-supported Doorway to Dreams
Fund, the checkbox savings initiative incentivizes “impulse saving” at the moment low-
income workers receive their refunds. Portable, transferable savings bonds offer stability
and high interest rates to families struggling to save, and they are just one way in which
Doorway to Dreams is enabling families to achieve newfound economic security. Teresa
has begun putting away $50 each month—savings that one day may help finance her
daughter’s education.
Teresa’s precarious situation highlights the breakdown of the American social contract at
a time of growing economic dislocation. Competition in the global economy has led to the
erosion of employer-based benefits, threatening family stability and retirement security.
As long-term unemployment persists—the highest since the Depression2—unemployment
insurance is running out. Economic shocks require resilience, but today’s workers save
only a third of what their parents did,3 and have little to fall back on as a result.
These problems are compounded by a surprising shortage of robust, reliable data on the
economic insecurity of American workers. As policymakers engage in heated battles over
the future of unemployment benefits, Social Security, and health insurance, no index exists
to gauge the most important factors determining the economic security of the average
American worker. We are flying blind in economic storm clouds that will not clear for the
foreseeable future.

Strengthening Worker Wellbeing
To repair the fraying edges of our social safety net, the Rockefeller Foundation
has focused on developing quality data and utilizing it to promote evidence-
based policy discussions. Supporting researchers at Yale University has led to
the development of the Economic Security Index (ESI), which will help address
the lack of uniform measurement and understanding of economic security.
Another Rockefeller project created a survey seeking to better gauge attitudes
towards Social Security and ways to strengthen it for vulnerable populations.
Building on this knowledge base, Rockefeller has established collaborative

partnerships for policy reform across a spectrum of worker issues. In addition
to the Doorway to Dreams Fund that’s helping Teresa, Rockefeller has worked
closely with groups advocating expanded access to retirement savings,
green jobs for low-income workers, and benefits for independent workers.

Begun in 2009, Rockefeller and the National Employment Law Project have
partnered to provide the critical support and technical expertise in 2010 that
is needed to keep our gravely threatened unemployment insurance solvent
and available for workers. Through these initiatives, Rockefeller intends to
help safeguard and strengthen the wellbeing of our workers.
An Opportunity to Make a Living
Our founder, John D. Rockefeller, once stated his belief that “the world owes
no man a living,” but “it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”4
In many ways, that has been our guiding principle as we fight to restore and
revitalize our nation’s compact with its workers. For the 21st century American,
the opportunity to make a living calls for building personal savings, improving
retirement security, ensuring secure and portable healthcare coverage, and
protecting vulnerable workers from economic shocks. The work of millions
of Americans undergirds the success of our country, and we believe it is
essential to ensure their dignity and livelihood.

Innovating Within and
Across Institutions

finding innovative solutions.
Convicted British criminals are sent to the Peterborough Prison, 75 miles north of London,
and after serving their time, they are released. Within one year, six in ten find themselves
behind bars again.1 Other British prisons see similar—staggeringly high—recidivism rates.
Instead of rehabilitation, felons experience an endless cycle of incarceration.
Now, a UK-based nonprofit, Social Finance Ltd., is trying to break that cycle. With contri-
butions from the Rockefeller Foundation and other investors,2 Social Finance is brokering
funding from retail investors for social programs that studies show is helping former pris-
oners find employment and rebuild their lives and thus reduce recidivism. Social Finance
has struck a deal with the British government; if the private social programs funded by
investors can measurably reduce recidivism, the government will repay Social Finance’s
investors back with interest. If these private programs fail to meet certain benchmarks, the
government pays nothing. It’s an intriguing new compact between the private and public
sectors—a “social impact bond”—and it could go a long way toward tackling social ills.3
Even when we know problems are being adequately addressed, changing is challenging.
Recently, the Obama administration successfully implemented a federal home nursing
program—33 years after studies demonstrated its effectiveness.4 Some of the most cre-
ative, well validated and potentially ground-breaking approaches to intractable societal
issues languish in think tanks or Congress, lacking support or political will. Money is tight,
especially in these times, and new solutions mean diverting funds from existing programs
with no guarantee of success. It’s tough to innovate on the taxpayer’s dime.

Paying for Success
By transferring risk from the taxpayer to the

investor, social impact bonds hold the promise of
implementing innovative, results oriented, and cost
effective solutions.
The social sector innovates and tests, and the gov-

ernment rewards measurable gains. These are “pay
for success” bonds, and their widespread applica-
tion could lead to tremendous improvements, from
increasing kindergarten readiness to decreasing
hospital readmissions for the chronically ill.
Understanding the potential of social impact bonds,

Rockefeller was a cornerstone investor in Social
Finance for their Peterborough Prison pilot.5 The
Foundation has since committed to promoting social
impact bonds in the U.S., funding the Nonprofit
Finance Fund to create an online information-sharing
platform.6 These efforts have created a great deal of
publicity and interest; the governments of Minnesota
and Massachusetts are exploring social impact
bonds, and President Obama has proposed setting
aside $100 million for seven pilot programs.7

A Century of Innovation
The Rockefeller Foundation has always devoted itself to the pursuit of

paradigm-changing approaches to societal challenges. Some of Rockefeller’s
most successful and gratifying initiatives have taken place by moving freely
between the social, private and public sectors, seeding capital, ideas, and
solutions. Social impact bonds are just another means to harness the
respective advantages of each sector. They formalize and catalyze the
bonds between all of us, stakeholders in a new century.

Building Climate
Change Resilience

from country to city.
The sun beats down on Suranga and her five children, as they trudge toward the speck
of city in the distance. It’s hot—much hotter than in previous years—and the children are
wilting like the grain the family grew until recently. The great monsoons, called “India’s
finance minister” for their critical role in determining crop yields and global commodities
prices, come more erratically now, starving some villages and flooding others.1 Abandoning
the family’s ancestral community was hard, but not as hard as survival had become. In the
city, the mother wants to believe, all will be secure and successful.
That urban utopia never materializes. Swallowed up by the city, the family finds itself facing
new challenges, a different kind of precarious existence. Their fellow migrants throng the
thoroughfares, competing for food, water, and jobs. Open sewage carries disease among
the densely-packed people. When the next flood comes, chaos will ensue. Despairing, the
mother sees that the consequences of the changing climate loom as large in the city as in
the country. The right response, she realizes, is not relocation, but becoming more resilient.

An Inescapable Dilemma
As global temperatures rise, sea levels, the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and agricultural
upheaval will rise as well. Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa are projected to fall 10–20 percent by 2050,2 at
a time when the region’s population will surpass even India’s explosive growth.3 By mid-century, the U.N.
estimates that climate change will have displaced more than 150 million environmental refugees—including
23 million in the U.S. alone.
They will seek salvation in cities. Already in the developing world, 1 million people are moving to urban
centers every five days.4 The fastest-growing metropolis in the world—the Chinese coastal city of Beihai—
is set to double its population of 1.3 million within just seven years.5 By 2050, nine out of ten Americans will
live in urban areas.6 There, the same climate impacts that drove people into cities will wreak havoc on
these dense pockets of humanity. We cannot outrun the problem.
Across the developing world, the pressure on cities to build new industrial, commercial, residential and trans-
port infrastructure has often relegated social and environmental risks and vulnerabilities to the background.
While ignoring these perils may have been politically expedient or economically justifiable in the past, the
onset of rapid urbanization and climate change compel us to adopt a radically different approach for the future.

Reinforcing Resilience
The Rockefeller Foundation has devoted a significant portion of its work to ensuring that as the effects of
climate change are increasingly felt, rural and urban settings alike have implemented strategies to with-
stand and surmount adverse impacts. Through partnerships with nonprofits and policy experts across the
world, Rockefeller is reinforcing resilience.
In sub-Saharan Africa, Rockefeller and its partners are advocating and testing climate adaptation strate-
gies, implementing a weather-indexed crop insurance program, analyzing aid effectiveness, and funding
agricultural resilience research. In Asia—where the population is simultaneously the most vulnerable to
climate change and the most rapidly urbanizing—Rockefeller has created the Asian Cities Climate Change
Resilience Network (ACCCRN) to build robust response mechanisms into infrastructure, water delivery, and
healthcare systems. Expanding on successful pilot programs in 10 cities across India, Vietnam, Indonesia,
and Thailand, Rockefeller is partnering with donors as well as organizations like Mercy Corps to identify
additional cities in which to pioneer replicable models of environmental resilience. In the U.S., Rockefeller
and the Resource Innovation Group have launched the Climate Preparedness Learning and Adaptation
Network to synthesize resilience models into coherent, executable policy.

The Urban Imperative
When it comes to building the social capital necessary

for true resilience, perhaps the most critical lesson to
emerge from ACCCRN is that it will take a massive shift
in mindset in three respects: first, we need to move from
a deeply siloed system of urban management to one in
which integration and interdependencies are central to
decision-making and coordination; second, we must
shift from a culture of planning based on the need for
certainty to one in which there is a dynamic capacity to
absorb new and changing information on a continuous
basis; and third, we need to invest in the understanding
that building truly resilient cities in the 21st century
requires the resolve to take a series of small steps and
solutions—generated through dialogue across and
between sectors and actors—to address a broad range
of challenges.

Situated for a century at the heart of one of the world’s great cities, the
Rockefeller Foundation has always made a profound and enduring commit-
ment to enhancing the wellbeing of the urban environment and its people.
The effects of a changing climate have only heightened the urgency of these
efforts, as it is the urban areas of the world where poverty and climate
threats meet and run rampant. Knowing that climate consequences are
coming, we have a responsibility to prepare and protect the world’s most
at-risk populations.

2010 trustees
This list includes any Trustee who Thomas J. Healey Surin Pitsuwan
served between January 1 and Partner Secretary-General
December 31, 2010. Healey Development LLC ASEAN (the Association of
Morristown, New Jersey Southeast Asian Nations)
James F. Orr III, Board Chair Jakarta, Indonesia
(until 12/13/2010) Alice Huang
President and CEO Senior Faculty Associate in Biology Richard D. Parsons
LandingPoint Capital California Institute of Technology Chairman of the Board
Boston, Massachusetts Pasadena, California Citigroup Inc.
New York, New York
David Rockefeller, Jr., Board Chair Strive Masiyiwa
(effective 12/13/2010) Executive Chairman Judith Rodin
Director and Former Chair Econet Group President
Rockefeller & Co., Inc. Johannesburg, South Africa The Rockefeller Foundation
New York, New York New York, New York
Diana Natalicio
Ann Fudge President John W. Rowe
Retired Chairman and CEO The University of Texas at El Paso Professor
Young & Rubicam Brands El Paso, Texas Columbia University
New York, New York New York, New York
Sandra Day O’Connor
Helene D. Gayle Associate Justice, Retired Vo-Tong Xuan
President and CEO Supreme Court of the United States Rector Emeritus
CARE USA Washington, D.C. An Giang University
Atlanta, Georgia Long Xuyen City,
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala An Giang, Vietnam
Rajat K. Gupta Managing Director
Senior Partner Emeritus The World Bank
McKinsey & Company Washington, D.C.
Stamford, Connecticut

2010 staff
Office of the President Brinda Ganguly
Associate Director
Judith Rodin
President Robyn Gibbons
Executive Assistant
Aissata Camara
Administrative Assistant Thomas Helmick
Administrative Assistant
Theodore Grant, Jr.
Special Assistant to the President Amira Ibrahim
Research Associate
Daphne Jean
Administrative Assistant Justina Lai
Research Associate
Louise Lopez
Executive Assistant to the President Robert Marten Operations
Research Associate
Andrea Snyder Peter Madonia
Operations and Project Coordinator Kathryn Maughan Chief Operating Officer
Melvin Galloway
Foundation Initiatives
Stefan Nachuk Associate Director
Heather Grady Associate Director
Vice President Janet O'Connell
Veronica Olazabal Executive Assistant
Janice Nittoli Research Associate
Associate Vice President and Centennial Programming
Managing Director Ariel Pablos-Mendez
Managing Director John Myers
Maria Blair Senior Policy Officer and Director
Managing Director Andrea Porter of Centennial Programming
Margot Brandenburg Sheetal Matani
Associate Director Donald Roeseke-Dupree, Jr. Research and Project Manager
Karl Brown
Associate Director Cristina Rumbaitis Del Rio Communications Office
Associate Director Diane Fusilli
Robert Buckley
Director
Advisor Amanda Sevareid
Research Associate Nichole Acosta
Antony Bugg-Levine
Term Communication Associate
Managing Director Michael Shroff
Administrative Assistant Rachel Christmas Derrick
Charlanne Burke
Senior Writer
Senior Research Associate Terence Strong
Project Coordinator Katherine Gomez
Julie Carandang
Executive Assistant
Administrative Assistant Suman Sureshbabu
Research Associate Laura Gordon
Abigail Carlton
Press Officer
Research Associate Michele Tall
Administrative Assistant Jonas Kieffer
Veneka Chagwedera
Speech Writer/Senior Writer
Project 55 Fellow Gary Toenniessen
Managing Director Susan Seliger
Lillian Chege
Term Web Content and
Research Associate Edwin Torres
Online Community Manager
Director
Benjamin De La Pena
Stephanie Valera
Associate Director Sarah Troup
Web Content and
Program Operations Associate
Lilly Dorment Online Community Manager
Research Associate Maria Trujillo
Teresa Wells
Executive Assistant
Katherine Fallon Chief Media Strategist
Project 55 Fellow Nicholas Turner
Managing Director

2010 staff
Masika Henson Office of the General Counsel
Investment Assistant
Shari Patrick
Lauren Jacobson General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Senior Investment Analyst
Laura Abel
Chun Lai Associate Counsel
Deputy Chief Investment Officer
Sheila Smith
Andrew Nicholas Executive Assistant
Investment Assistant
Office of Financial Resources
Michelle Pak
Managing Director Ellen Taus
Chief Financial Officer
Evaluation Cindy Shiung
Nancy MacPherson Financial Associate Alexander Danik
Managing Director Investment Accountant
Christopher Van Buren
Laura Fishler Managing Director Irena DiMario
Evaluation Coordinator Manager of Financial Accounting
Phyllis Vena
Juanita Frazier-Martin Investment Analyst Amanda Fairchild
Administrative Assistant Payroll and Accounts Payable Manager
Victoria Vysotina
Penelope Hawkins Managing Director George Hall
Senior Evaluation Officer Accountant
Anwen Wang
Investment Analyst Dominick Impemba
Office of Human Resources Controller
Samantha Gilbert Facilities and Administrative Services Mi Lo
Chief Human Resources Officer
Hilary Castillo Accountant
Rita Boscaino Director
Manisha Nayi
Manager, Compensation and Benefits
David Hall Executive Assistant
Juan Brito Receptionist
Marcia Noureldin
Associate Director,
Gilbert Martinez Accountant, Accounts Payable
Staffing and Employee Relations
Facilities Assistant
David DeCooman Office of Grants Management
Esma Myers-Thomas
Executive Assistant Pamela Foster
Administrative/Purchasing Assistant
Christopher Grygo Managing Director,
James Partington Assistant General Counsel
Learning and Development Officer
Facilities Manager
Lillian Johnson Andrea Ace
Assistant Information Technology Project Manager
Alma Leathers Scott Ceniza-Levine Jason Boone

Administrative Assistant Chief Technology Officer Executive Assistant
Diane Samuels Marc D'Alessandro Jennifer Cooper

Generalist Network Engineer Grants Specialist
Jill Hannon Peter Helm

Treasurer's Office IT Project Coordinator Manager, Grants Administration
Donna Dean
John Lee Susan Moore
Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer
Senior Programmer/Analyst Grants Assistant
Ronald Chen
Vito Romano Nissa Puffer
Managing Director
Help Desk Administrator Grants Specialist
Douglass Coyle
Carolyn Wendrowski Bonnie Rivers
Managing Director
Project Manager Grants Specialist
Diane Eckerle
Executive Assistant

2010 staff
Paul Szeto Enrica Gilardoni Zuhura Masiga
Associate Director Manager, Administration and Finance Administrative Assistant
Elena Ongania Katherine Namuddu

Research
Receptionist/Residents Assistant Associate Director
Claudia Juech
Managing Director Laura Podio Nancy Njoki
Conference Coordinator Manager Resources
Bethany Martin-Breen
Information Specialist Melkzadeck Okwemba
Facility Staff
Office Assistant/Driver
Louise Masarof Antonio Billai
Information Specialist Paolo Bipo Mary Wangugi
Dina Caola Finance and Administration
Evan Michelson Assistant/Accountant
Claudio D'Onghia
Associate Director
Luisa Fumagalli
Albino Gandola Asia Regional Office, Thailand
Laura Yousef
Administrative Assistant Michele Gandola Ashvin Dayal
Silvana Gandola Managing Director
Umbertina Gilardoni
Records Management
Marina Gilardoni Chalempol Attasara
Robert Bykofsky Simona Gilardoni Office Assistant/Driver
Records Manager Silvano Gilardoni
Anna Brown
Andrea Gilardoni
David Montes Associate Director
Vittorio Gilardoni
Records Analyst
Diana Maria Gonzalez Paksupa Chanarporn
Elizabeth Pena Francesco Manera Executive Assistant
Records Analyst Laura Maranesi
Mauro Mazzucchi Thitikarn Chayrusmeekul
Victoria Monsalve Administrative and Front Desk Assistant
Strategy and Evaluation
Paolo Negroni A. Mushtaque Chowdhury
Zia Khan Luca Ravasio
Vice President Associate Director
Beppino Salvadori
Caitlyn Fox Nicoletta Sancassani Pimpavadee Phaholyothin
Strategy Associate Giacomo Sancassani Program Associate
Arianna Sancassani
Jessica Joseph Kitima Praphandha
Rupasena Sembapperuma
Associate Director Executive Assistant
Attilio Stolfi
Hassnae Tovali Somkiat Rongchitprapus
Joselito Manasan
Antonello Vaccani Senior Accountant
Executive Assistant
Marco Wenk
Rosa Zambetti Natakorn Satienchayakorn
Bellagio Study and Administrative and Front Desk Assistant
Conference Center, New York
Africa Regional Office, Kenya Busaba Tejagupta
Charles Garris Office and Grant Administrator
James Nyoro
Managing Director
Managing Director
Praerung Uennatornwaranggoon
Linda Marston-Reid Research and Communication Associate
Wiebe Boer
Bellagio Center Coordinator
Associate Director
Bellagio Study and Susan Kagondu

Conference Center, Italy Research Associate
Pilar Palacia Regina Karanja
Managing Director Administrative Assistant
Paola Bianchi Betty Kibaara
Executive Assistant/Finance Clerk Research Associate
Nadia Gilardoni Mwihaki Kimura Muraguri
Conference Coordinator Associate Director

2010 grants
Alliance for a Green Revolution BlueGreen Alliance Foundation, retirement security of low- and moderate-
in Africa (AGRA)—General Minneapolis, MN, United States: $250,000 income American workers.
for use by its Green Manufacturing Center
Meridian Institute, Dillon, CO, United States: toward the costs of providing information Freedman Consulting, LLC, Washington,
$100,000 toward the costs of launching an and services to businesses, government DC, United States: $175,000 in support of
Initiative on Food and Agriculture Policy agencies, and policymakers in order to providing technical assistance to select
(IFAP), an effort to develop a donor coalition expand green manufacturing and to retool grantees of the Rockefeller Foundation’s
to examine opportunities where U.S. farm, existing manufacturing capacity for the clean Campaign for American Workers initiative,
food and climate change policy reforms could energy economy. focusing on positioning of policy proposals to
help break cycles of hunger in developing be noticed by and useful to policymakers and
countries. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, other stakeholders.
United States: $354,700 in support of
Pamoja Media East Africa Limited, Nairobi, research to measure the impact on overall Grantmakers In Health, Washington, DC,
Kenya: $89,950 in support of an online and income distribution of the major elements United States: $50,000 toward the costs of
mobile social networking platform to build of the Patient Protection and Affordable an initiative, in collaboration with the Center
agricultural capacity among a new generation Health Care Act, which will be used to inform for American Progress, to help track and
of farmers in Kenya. debates on the Act’s implementation and coordinate efforts among national- and state-
how it will affect the financial well-being of level health care consumer groups, policy
Regional Universities Forum for Capacity low- and middle-income American families. experts and funders around the implementa-
Building in Agriculture, Limited, Kampala, tion of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Uganda: $99,000: in support of an event to Center for American Progress, Washington, Care Act.
build capacity for African tertiary institutions DC, United States: $245,900 in support of
to utilize foresight methods and techniques developing a prototype for Social Security Labor and Employment Relations
to plan for training Africa’s agriculture sector Cares, a proposal to expand the Social Association, Champaign, IL, United States:
in the near- and long-term, to be held at the Security system to include administering $150,900 in support of its newly-established
Ministerial Conference on Higher Education paid family and medical leave. Employment Policy Research Network, a
in Africa, Uganda, November 2010. network of labor and employment scholars
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, dedicated to creating a central clearinghouse
AGRA—Output Markets Washington, DC, United States: $3,000,000 for employment policy research and fostering
in general support of its mission to improve greater dialogue between the labor and
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, federal and state policies affecting low- and employment research community and
Nairobi, Kenya: $8,000,000: toward the moderate-income families and individuals. policymakers.
costs of its Market Access Program to direct
investments and resources to improve the Community Catalyst, Inc., Boston, MA, National Council of La Raza, Washington,
market infrastructure for the core food staples United States: $200,000 in support of the DC, United States: $500,000 for use by
of selected countries in Africa, leading to Affordable Care Act Implementation Fund, its Office of Research, Advocacy, and
increased incomes for smallholder farmers. which seeks to ensure effective and equitable Legislation’s Health Policy Project toward the
implementation of health care reform for poor costs of research and education activities to
American Workers and vulnerable populations in the U.S. help to ensure effective and equitable imple-
mentation of health care reform among Latino
AARP, Washington, DC, United States: D2D Fund, Inc., Roxbury, MA, United populations in the United States.
$190,000 for use by its Office of Social States: $425,000 toward the costs of its
Impact in support of public opinion research, efforts to expand savings options for low- National Employment Law Project, Inc.,
outreach to news media and grassroots and moderate-income American workers by New York, NY, United States: $500,000
public education efforts to strengthen Social promoting savings bonds through a strategy toward the costs of continuing and expand-
Security with an emphasis on improving of demonstration, research, education and ing its “Unemployment Insurance Safety Net
adequacy of benefits, not just solvency. communication. Project,” which uses education, outreach and
communications to raise awareness about
Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC, Earned Asset Resource Network, Inc., the need to improve the federal unemploy-
United States: $450,000 for use by its San Francisco, CA, United States: $300,000 ment insurance program to better respond to
Initiative on Financial Security in support of its toward the costs of research and policy the challenges of the 21st century workforce.
“Securing the Safety of Retirement Savings” design focused on maximizing the potential
project, an effort to design a new investment of the Saver’s Tax Credit to provide additional National Partnership for Women and
option that would help low- to moderate- retirement savings to low-income American Families, Inc., Washington, DC, United
income American workers build adequate workers. States: $300,000 toward the costs of its Paid
retirement savings, and its “Lifelong Security Family Leave Initiative, an effort to promote
Project,” an examination of how annuity Economic Policy Institute, Washington, paid family leave policies at the state and fed-
products and policies will affect low- to DC, United States: $500,000 in support of eral levels through research, policy, advocacy
moderate-income families. research, analysis and outreach on retirement and public education.
policy with a focus on improving the

2010 grants
National Women’s Law Center, Washington, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United Poverty, Environment and Climate Change
DC, United States: $500,000 toward the States: $272,200 for use by its Institution for Network to develop and implement a sustain-
costs of its “Promoting the Economic Social and Policy Studies in support of devel- able agriculture and land management car-
Security of Women” initiative to advance oping a communications strategy for the initial bon project in western Kenya.
policies that address the economic security launch and ongoing rollout of the Rockefeller
needs of low-income women and families. Economic Security Index, which identifies Forest Trends Association, Washington, DC,
and measures key indicators of whether U.S. United States: $600,000 in support of launch-
New America Foundation, Washington, DC, workers have adequate protection to with- ing an African Agriculture Climate Finance
United States: $1,135,000 in support of its stand hardship-causing economic loss. Facility (AACFF) in two countries in an effort
“Next Social Contract Initiative,” an integrated to innovate, test and document a new set of
program of research, meetings, and publica- Yale University, New Haven, CT, United transaction models that can be used to
tions designed to address the economic States: $621,856, for use by its Institution for access carbon and climate finance sources
insecurity of American workers and promote Social and Policy Studies in support of addi- for smallholder farmer-driven agricultural
broad-based sustainable economic recovery tional installments of the Economic Security climate mitigation and adaptation projects.
through changing public policy, and a national Index, which identifies and measures key
study on the impact of transportation costs indicators of whether U.S. workers have Meridian Institute, Dillon, CO, United States:
on low- and moderate-income Americans. adequate protection to withstand hardship- $193,600 toward the costs of its Global
causing economic loss. Dialogue on Agriculture and Climate Change,
New America Foundation, Washington, an initiative that seeks to include agriculture
DC, United States: $293,000 toward the Bellagio as a major mitigation and adaptation strategy
costs of continued testing and expansion of in international climate negotiations, including
“AutoSave,” an automatic payroll deduction Berenice Josephine Bickle De Basto, a convening of key stakeholders at the
savings program, in collaboration with MDRC; Polana, Mozambique: $29,900 as a Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy,
and additional research and analysis of the Creative Artist Fellowship, to enable the artist May 2011.
“SaveNYC” program, an initiative designed to to spend three months at the Rockefeller
help low-income families build savings, in Foundation Bellagio Center, in recognition of William J. Clinton Foundation, Little Rock,
collaboration with the City of New York. her past accomplishments as a visual artist, AR, United States: $3,000,000 for use by
and to enable her to enhance her art. its Clinton Climate Initiative’s Carbon and
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Poverty Reduction Program in support of
Cambridge, MA, United States: $684,500 Institute of International Education, Inc., efforts to develop, deploy and demonstrate
for use by its Ash Center for Democratic New York, NY, United States: $91,900 for the carbon measurement and accounting sys-
Governance and Innovation at the John F. costs of administering the selection process tems that enable poor people in rural areas
Kennedy School of Government in support for the 2011 Bellagio Creative Arts Fellows of developing countries to participate in and
of the Urban Policy Advisory Group, a non- program and producing a brochure of the benefit from global climate markets.
partisan effort to encourage the sharing of work created by the 2009 fellowship recipi-
policy insights and best practices among ents while in residency at the Rockefeller Centennial Fund
local government officials in the U.S., focus- Foundation Bellagio Center.
ing on emerging issues in urban governance Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow,
and economic security. Institute of International Education, Inc., NY, United States: $543,600 in support of a
New York, NY, United States: $1,217,000 for project, in connection with the Rockefeller
The Partnership for Working Families, the costs of administering several activities Foundation’s centennial in 2013, to develop
Washington, DC, United States: $200,000 related to the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio a web-based multimedia history of the
toward the costs of its Construction Careers Center, Italy: the semi-annual competitions Foundation, and make its primary documents
program, an initiative designed to improve for creative arts and scholarly residencies, and historic materials more broadly accessi-
the quality of jobs in the construction industry the Bellagio Travel and Learning Fund, and ble to the diverse communities of researchers
and develop new recruitment and training support for outreach activities. and educators interested in 20th century
standards to help workers of color and history.
women gain access to construction careers. Zbigniew Libera, Praha, Czech Republic:
$29,900 as a Bellagio Creative Artist Cities and Information
Trustees of Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Fellowship, to enable the artist to spend
MA, United States: $88,000 for use by its three months at the Rockefeller Foundation CEOs for Cities, NFP, Chicago, IL, United
Center for Financial Literacy in support of Bellagio Center, in recognition of his past States: $90,000 in support of research inter-
its Withholding-to-Debt-Reduction Pilot accomplishments as a visual artist, and to views with the chief information officers in
Program, which will develop and test a tool enable him to enhance his art. U.S. city governments on the potential of
to automatically redirect the excess tax with- technology as a tool for citizen engagement,
holdings of a target group of low-income, Carbon and Poverty Reduction and a meeting on “The Future of the
debt-burdened individuals to pay down credit Crowdsourced City,” to be held at the
card debt. Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY,
Everywhere (CARE USA), Atlanta, GA, December 2010.
United States: $494,000 for use by its

2010 grants
Code for America Labs, Inc., Oakland, CA, farmers and pastoralists in Kenya to ade- Development in Africa,” to be held in Addis
United States: $200,000 in support of a proj- quately adapt to climate change as part of an Ababa, Ethiopia, October 2010.
ect to explore and document the enablers and effort to lead a regional climate change adap-
barriers to adoption by municipal governments tation movement. University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam,
of Web 2.0 applications as platforms for trans- Tanzania: $340,600 for use by its Institute of
parency, efficiency and citizen participation. Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya: Resource Assessment in support of design-
$297,500 for use by its Tegemeo Institute of ing and delivering training on climate change
Columbia University, New York, NY, United Agricultural Policy and Development in sup- adaptation to researchers at Tanzania’s seven
States: $50,000 for use by its Graduate port of building institutional capacity in climate autonomous zonal agriculture research cen-
School of Architecture, Planning and change research and analysis by conducting ters and to staff seven other East African
Preservation’s Spatial Information Design Lab a socio-economic study on the effects of cli- research and development institutions.
to conduct research on the potential impact mate change on rural communities in Kenya
of information and communications technol- and identifying adaptation responses. University of Reading, Reading, England:
ogy on large scale data visualization in urban $599,400 for use by its Walker Institute for
policy and planning and the uses of self- Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Climate System Research in collaboration
volunteered information, focusing on impacts Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: $420,000 in support with its Statistical Services Centre, in support
for poor and vulnerable people in cities. of the mainstreaming of climate change of providing capacity building assistance to
adaptation into food security and sustainable the climate change units of seven agriculture
Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, CA, United development in Ethiopia. research and development institutions in East
States: $94,200 in support of a project to and Central Africa.
conduct research and create a forecast map Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du
on cities, information systems and citizen Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda: $440,000 in sup- World Food Programme, Rome, Italy:
engagement that focuses on emerging tech- port of strengthening climate change adapta- $1,000,000 for use by its Climate and
nologies and the poor and vulnerable in the tion research to create demand-driven, Disaster Risk Solutions (CDRS) unit in sup-
developed and the developing world. market-responsive practices that improve port of partnering with the African Union
food security for smallholder farmers in Commission to establish the African Risk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rwanda. Capacity project, an optimized global risk
Cambridge, MA, United States: $65,000 for management system for providing natural
use by its Department of Urban Studies and Pamoja Media East Africa Limited, Nairobi, disaster assistance to African countries.
Planning’s SENSEable City Lab in support Kenya: $81,200 in support of developing an
of a conference to begin mapping a plan to online knowledge sharing and management Climate: Asian Cities
establish a new international research net- system for research and development work
work or center focused on cultivating a vision on climate change resilience for African Asian Disaster Preparedness Center,
of the future city and, in particular, the agriculture. Bangkok, Thailand: $96,440 in support of
impacts of technology on cities. developing and implementing a training
Regional Universities Forum for Capacity course on climate and disaster risk manage-
McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States, Building in Agriculture, Limited, Kampala, ment and providing technical assistance to
New York, NY, United States: $100,000 in Uganda: $84,600 in support of its work to Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience
support of a landscape analysis of current strengthen the resilience of African agriculture Network (ACCCRN) partners.
and nascent technologies that cities and their to climate change by helping 25 east, south-
residents in the U.S. and globally can use to ern, and central African universities in its con- Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group,
collect and analyze city-level information and sortium to access climate change adaptation Gorakhpur, India: $479,150 in support of
of the key drivers, trends and leverage points funds and training opportunities. developing a model for ward-level climate
related to the application of such technolo- change resilience planning that can be inte-
gies to cities. Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, grated into the overall development planning
Tanzania: $359,600 for use by its Department process in Gorakhpur, India, as part of the
National Building Museum, Washington, DC, of Agricultural Engineering and Land Planning Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience
United States: $250,000 in support of facili- to support capacity building on climate Network.
tating a dialogue among thought leaders, pol- change adaptation in the agricultural sector in
icymakers, and practitioners on the potential Tanzania. Institute for Social and Environmental
opportunities to create thriving and sustain- Transition, Boulder, CO, United States:
able cities by utilizing new information tech- United Nations Economic Commission for $781,790 in support of assisting three cities
nologies, including convening an “Intelligent Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: $250,900 in in Vietnam—Can Tho, Da Nang and Quy
Cities Forum,” to be held in Washington, DC support of funding participants and speakers Nhon—to plan and implement climate
spring 2011. to strengthen the sessions on climate change resilience projects, provide project manage-
mitigation and adaptation at the Seventh ment and financial oversight for resilience
Climate: African Agriculture African Development Forum, a high-level projects, map key climate change policies
bi-annual event focused on key African devel- and networks and identify new sources of
Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya: opment issues, under the 2010 theme of funding, as part of the Asian Cities Climate
$483,900 in support of an initiative to help “Acting on Climate Change for Sustainable Change Resilience Network.

2010 grants
Institute for Social and Environmental and processes for engaging new cities in and local governments to initiate reforms that
Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: India in understanding the challenges and support urban climate resilience in India,
$1,300,000 in support of collecting and ana- opportunities for addressing urban climate and document methodologies and lessons
lyzing evidence documenting the effective- change resilience, in order to disseminate the learned as part of the Asian Cities Climate
ness of the Asian Cities Climate Change lessons from and begin to replicate the suc- Change Resilience Network.
Resilience Network (ACCCRN) methodolo- cesses of the Asian Cities Climate Change
gies and interventions for replication, and Resilience Network. Taru Leading Edge Private Limited,
including the dissemination of lessons and Gurgaon, India: $509,900 in support of mod-
tools for adoption by other local, national and International Institute for Environment and eling an end-to-end early warning system
international actors through a variety of peer- Development, London, England: $175,000 that will help improve the management of
reviewed products and publications. in support of research on urban adaptation to reservoir releases and reduce the intensity
climate change for incorporation into the Fifth of floods and resultant damage in the city
Institute for Social and Environmental Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel of Surat, India, as part of the Asian Cities
Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: on Climate Change. Climate Change Resilience Network.
$1,582,240 in support of establishing city
climate change coordination offices in three Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, United States: Taru Leading Edge Private Limited,
Vietnamese cities (Can Tho, Da Nang and $785,780 in support of assisting two cities in Gurgaon, India: $239,850 in support of devel-
Quy Nhon) that will enable local government Indonesia (Semerang and Bandar Lampung) oping and demonstrating a range of models
planning, decision making and policy imple- to plan and implement climate resilience proj- for cost effective, reliable, decentralized urban
mentation for climate change resilience and ects, map key climate change policies and water management that are driven by differen-
adaptation that is consistent with the require- networks and identify new sources of fund- tiated end-use demands in Indore City, India,
ments of the Vietnam National Target Program ing, as part of the Asian Cities Climate as part of Asian Cities Climate Change
for Climate Change, as part of the Asian Cities Change Resilience Network. Resilience Network.
Climate Change Resilience Network.
Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, United States: Climate: Policy & Replication
Institute for Social and Environmental $189,520 in support of a pre-feasibility study
Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: of the potential for rainwater harvest to be an Federal Emergency Management Agency,
$69,920 in support of a feasibility study of available and effective alternative source of Washington, DC, United States: $1,000,000
ways to provide livelihood skills, technologies (domestic and drinking) water in Semarang in support of its Community Resilience
and storm resistant building techniques to city, Indonesia, as part of the Asian Cities Innovations program, an initiative that will pro-
poor female-headed households in Da Nang Climate Change Resilience Network. vide Community Resilience Innovation
City, Vietnam. Challenge Awards to encourage innovative
Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, United States: efforts to build community resilience to cli-
Institute for Social and Environmental $233,530 in support of incorporating climate mate change and natural disasters, and
Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: change and urban growth considerations establish a new structural mechanism for
$337,800 in support of an impact assess- into the development of an Integrated Solid engaging with local communities to build
ment of flooding and inundation scenarios on Waste Management master plan, as well as resilience on a sustained basis.
planned urban development in Nhon Binh an assessment of solid waste management
Ward in the city of Quy Nhon, Vietnam, in the technology, in Bandar Lampung city, National Religious Partnership for the
context of potential climate change impact Indonesia, as part of the Asian Cities Climate Environment, Amherst, MA, United States:
and recent extreme storm events, in connec- Change Resilience Network. $80,100 in support of the “Conference on
tion with the Asian Cities Climate Change International Adaptation” to highlight the need
Resilience Network. Ove Arup & Partners International Limited, for greater policy support and financing for
London, England: $1,649,960 in support of international climate change adaptation efforts,
Institute for Social and Environmental providing strategic planning, program man- to be held in Washington, D.C. in early 2011.
Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: agement support and technical assistance to
$367,160 in support of a project, in collabo- ensure program credibility, knowledge man- Resource Innovation Group, Inc., Eugene,
ration with the Da Nang University and city agement support, and knowledge dissemina- OR, United States: $74,700 for use by its
agencies in Da Nang, Vietnam, to build, test tion and replication support to the Asian Climate Leadership Initiative in support of
and share the data from two hydrological Cities Climate Change Resilience Network developing the Climate Preparedness
models to understand impacts of urban program and its partners. Learning and Adaptation Network (CPLAN),
development and climate change in the city, a collaboration to advance the policy and
a partial participant in the Asian Cities Climate Taru Leading Edge Private Limited, practice of climate change adaptation within
Change Resilience Network. Gurgaon, India: $825,420 in support of the United States.
assisting three cities in India (Surat, Indore,
International Council for Local and Gorakhpur) to plan and implement cli-
Environmental Initiatives—Australia/New mate resilience projects, by building the
Zealand Limited, Melbourne, Australia: capacity of city partners and other actors in
$180,000 toward the costs of developing those cities to undertake urban climate
and testing a set of calibrated tools, materials resilience work, partner with national, state,

2010 grants
Day of Service Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, & Human Health for the Environment and
Thailand: $175,000 for use by its Institute Development (AHEAD) project to engage a
Rockefeller Foundation Day of Service for Population and Social Research to program officer who will support one health
Donations, New York, NY, United States: strengthen the emerging Global Health activities that link human, animal, wildlife
$30,000 for donations to organizations Diplomacy Network by supporting the activities in the Southern African region.
participating in the Foundation’s Day of expansion of its work into Southeast Asia,
Service, an opportunity for staff to spend a and organize a meeting to enhance local Wildlife Trust Inc., New York, NY, United
day volunteering with local organizations. capacity to be held at the Rockefeller States: $216,200 in support of developing a
Foundation Bellagio Center, 2011. feasibility plan for launching a new disease
Disease Surveillance Networks surveillance network, “One Health Alliance
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda: of South Asia” (OHASA), in conjunction with
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada: $150,000 for use by its School of Public stakeholders in Bangladesh, India and
$218,950 for use by its Centre for Trade Health’s Leadership Initiative for Public Pakistan.
Policy and Law toward the costs of a project Health in East Africa in support of the Health
to strengthen the emerging Global Health Emergency Management Program’s efforts to Enabling Environment: Innovation
Diplomacy Network by creating and maintain- build disease outbreak response and emer-
ing a website for collecting and disseminating gency management capacity in district health Bellwether Education Partners, Inc.,
key information about current global health teams in Eastern Africa. Wellesley, MA, United States: $686,930 in
diplomacy negotiations and other issues. support of research on market involvement in
Nuclear Threat Initiative, Inc., Washington, the U.S. public sector to identify how to use
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada: DC, United States: $275,000 for use by its new and more effective ways of addressing
$160,500 for use by its Centre for Trade Global Health and Security Initiative toward intractable social problems.
Policy and Law toward the costs of an Interim the costs of a project to promote global
Secretariat to support the activities of the collaboration in disease surveillance across Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City,
Global Health Diplomacy Network. existing and emerging regional disease sur- New York, NY, United States: $225,000 in
veillance networks by building capacity and collaboration with the Office of the Deputy
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: improving communication and collaboration. Mayor for Operations, New York City, toward
$45,130 for use by its Faculty of Veterinary the costs of the Networked Governance
Medicine in support of convening an interna- Regents of the University of Minnesota, project, which seeks to implement a Digital
tional training course on One Health Leader- Minneapolis, MN, United States: $265,870 in Analytics Center and a set of community
ship to be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, May support of activities related to assessing the collaborations designed to transform the
2010. state of the global One Health movement and way New York City government accesses,
a related high-level meeting at the Rockefeller provides and uses information and expertise
East, Central and Southern African Health Foundation Bellagio Center, summer 2011. for problem solving.
Community, Arusha, Tanzania: $238,120 in
support of its initiative to strengthen leader- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Nonprofit Finance Fund, New York, NY,
ship and increase capacity and strategic Basel, Switzerland: $234,440 in support of United States: $400,000 in support of a feasi-
information resources at the Ministries of an evaluation of the Foundation’s Disease bility study of implementing the Social Impact
Health in East, Central and Southern African Surveillance Networks initiative work in Africa, Bond instrument in the U.S., in an effort to
countries in order to maximize benefits from in collaboration with the Africa Population provide innovative financing solutions to
future negotiations related to global health and Health Research Center, to capture and persistent social problems facing poor and
diplomacy. share lessons learned about the ability of vulnerable communities.
complex networks to achieve improved dis-
Graduate Institute of International and ease surveillance and response, and to foster Partnership for Public Service Inc.,
Development Studies, Geneva , Switzerland: learning, accountability and performance Washington, DC, United States: $140,000
$205,000 in support of two meetings—a improvements in the Foundation and among in support of “A Blueprint for Innovation:
conference for authors contributing to a text- its grantees. Increasing Government’s Capacity to Deliver
book on Global Health Diplomacy and a train- Results,” a one-day forum on innovative
ing of trainer’s workshop—both to be held at The Royal Institution for the Advancement problem-solving and subsequent training for
the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, of Learning (McGill University), Montreal, senior government officials to foster greater
Italy, 2010. Canada: $161,000 for use by its McGill innovation in the U.S. federal government.
World Platform for Health and Economic
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Convergence to convene a meeting on the Public Allies, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, United
Medicine, University of London, London, intersections of the business sector and the States: $109,552, in support of its Piloting
England: $253,170 in support of a project global health diplomacy field, to be held at Community Innovation project, an initiative
to strengthen the evidence base related to the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, that seeks to stimulate demand for and
global health diplomacy and to plan for Italy, winter 2011. engagement in public sector innovation
further research that supports the goals of among local networks of citizens, govern-
the Global Health Diplomacy Network. Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, ment leaders and community-based organi-
United States: $360,030 for use by its Animal zations in the U.S.

2010 grants
Evaluation phase of the project “BetterEvaluation,” an adherence to social and environmental per-
international Web 2.0 evaluation resource formance standards and educating con-
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, aimed at assisting the Foundation, its sumers, investors, and entrepreneurs.
CA, United States: $350,000 for use by its grantees and partners to better choose tools
School of Behavioral and Organizational and use them to articulate, measure, and Bridges Ventures Limited, London, United
Sciences to provide grantees and partners, report on their results and strategies in order Kingdom: $10,000 toward the costs of dis-
particularly those in Africa and Asia, with better to achieve impact. seminating a collection of case studies of
tools to design strategies and evaluation prac- impact investments across asset classes that
tices around the kind of complex outcomes The Center for Effective Philanthropy, Inc., will inform the impact investing community
that are common to the Foundation’s Initiatives. Cambridge, MA, United States: $59,400 in about opportunities to increase the flow of
support of completing a Grantee Perception capital to address pressing social challenges
GlobalGiving Foundation, Inc., Washington, Report for the Rockefeller Foundation, as part faced by poor and vulnerable people.
DC, United States: $150,000 in support of of an industry-wide project designed to pro-
the second phase of a project that will make vide feedback on the perceptions of grantees Calvert Social Investment Foundation, Inc.,
use of stories and short narratives to develop about the performance of foundations, and to Bethesda, MD, United States: $124,500 for
an evaluation tool to improve its monitoring provide benchmarking performance data to use by the Enterprise Innovation Fund in sup-
and evaluation capability, increase its participating foundations and the broader port of a symposium to enlist support, feed-
accountability to donors, recognize social philanthropic community. back and expertise from key leaders from
change and impact that have resulted from multiple sectors in establishing a public-pri-
projects in Africa supported through its mar- University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, vate partnership that will strengthen and cat-
ketplace, improve organizational perform- South Africa: $400,000 for use by its alyze impact investing in social enterprises
ance, and share the methodology and Directorate for Research Development, in that seek to solve social and environmental
lessons learned with the broader not-for-profit support of a collaboration with EvalNet, to problems that address the needs of poor and
community. engage development evaluation leaders to vulnerable people.
provide practical assistance to Rockefeller
Interaction: American Council for Voluntary Foundation Initiative teams, key grantees and Calvert Social Investment Foundation, Inc.,
International Action, Inc., Washington, DC, partners, to better articulate, monitor, evalu- Bethesda, MD, United States: $268,200 in
United States: $171,200 for use by its Evalu- ate and report on their results and strategies support of research with actionable insights on
ation and Program Effectiveness Working in order to achieve impact. current and potential impact investment vehi-
Group to improve the capacity of non-gov- cles that could be offered to non-accredited
ernmental organizations globally to conduct Impact Investing investors, in order to inform efforts to increase
impact evaluations, through the production of significantly the flow of capital to benefit poor
guidance notes and a webinar series. Agora Partnerships, Washington, DC, United and vulnerable communities globally.
States: $200,000 toward the costs of its
International Bank for Reconstruction and Accelerator initiative, which seeks to leverage Ceres, Inc., Boston, MA, United States:
Development, Washington, DC, United impact investing to support small and grow- $400,000 toward the costs of improving
States: $500,000 for use by its Independent ing businesses that, through their operations, the stewardship of water resources by large
Evaluation Group toward the costs of the generate social, environmental and economic companies operating in water-stressed
Centers for Learning on Evaluation and impact for poor and vulnerable populations in regions throughout the world and encourag-
Results, to support the development and El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, and to ing best practices by companies on a broad
implementation of four Centers—in Africa, encourage the adoption of the Global Impact range of sustainability issues worldwide.
East Asia, and South Asia—to strengthen the Investment Rating System in Central America
monitoring and evaluation and results based and Mexico. Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, OH,
management capacity of public and private United States: $400,000 toward the costs of
development institutions working in the Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC, its Evergreen Cooperative Initiative, an effort
Global South. United States: $500,000 for use by its to create a new form of community develop-
Philanthropy and Social Innovation program ment program focused on creating living
Pact Institute, Washington, DC, United toward the costs of designing and imple- wage jobs and asset accumulation opportu-
States: $400,000 in support of its South-east menting a new initiative on social enterprise nities for low-income communities in
Asia Change Project (SEA Change) to estab- and the impact economy to create a more Cleveland that could serve as a model for
lish a Southeast Asia Community of Practice robust enabling environment for market- other communities in the U.S.
of monitoring and evaluation of adaptive based models and private sector mecha-
responses to climate change, to facilitate nisms that address social challenges and Dalberg Consulting CC, Johannesburg,
learning, and to capture and disseminate advance social goals. South Africa: $122,350 in support of a scop-
promising monitoring and evaluation practices. ing study in West Africa to identify current
B Lab Company, Berwyn, PA, United States: impact investing activities, key players,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, $1,000,000 in general support of its mission successes, failures, lessons learned, policy
Melbourne, Australia: $223,350 for use by its to support “B Corporations,” for-profit com- issues, and steps required to grow the sector
School of Global Studies, Social Science and panies that deliver significant and measurable for the benefit of poor and vulnerable popula-
Planning toward the costs of the second social impact, by setting and monitoring tions in the region.

2010 grants
Duke University, Durham, NC, United Growth Philanthropy Network, Inc., New development and poverty alleviation for poor
States: $84,500 for use by its Center for the York, NY, United States: $300,000 toward the and vulnerable populations in Africa.
Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at its costs of its Social Impact Exchange initiative to
Fuqua School of Business in support of plan- develop practices for studying, implementing Pacific Community Ventures, Inc., San
ning a potential multi-year effort to research and funding large-scale expansions of top-per- Francisco, CA, United States: $139,700 for
trends and lessons for the field of impact forming social purpose organizations that seek use by its program, InSight, in collaboration
investing from data gathered by two impact to solve social and environmental problems with the Institute for Responsible Investment
rating systems, B Lab’s “B Corporations” and that affect poor and vulnerable people. in support of an in-depth study of the global
the Global Impact Investing Ratings System. impact investing policy landscape to inform a
IGNIA Partners, LLC, San Pedro Garza global audience about how to better utilize
E&Co., Inc., Bloomfield, NJ, United States: García, N.L., Mexico: $1,000,000 as a advantageous policies to advance the field
$300,000 toward the costs of transitioning to Program-Related Investment to support the and its impact on poor and vulnerable people.
a new organizational model that will promote development of intermediation capacity for
the aggregation of capital to scale new clean impact investment in a new social impact Pacific Community Ventures, Inc., San
energy enterprises serving poor, environmen- sub-sector by capitalizing a private equity Francisco, CA, United States: $398,060 for
tally vulnerable people in Africa, Asia and fund investing in small- to medium-sized use by its program, InSight, in collaboration
Latin America. social enterprises serving extremely poor, with the Initiative for Responsible Investment
“Base of the Pyramid” populations in Latin in support of identifying, designing, and advo-
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., America. cating for discrete impact investing policies
Columbia, MD, United States: $300,000 and conducting in-depth policy research in
toward the costs of creating innovative Intellecap Inc., Palo Alto, CA, United States: the U.S. to demonstrate the potential of scal-
approaches to mobilize private-sector capital $500,000 toward the costs of organizing the ing up impact investing efforts.
for community development efforts in lower- 2010 and 2011 “Sankalp Social Enterprise
income communities of the United States. and Investment Forum,” to bring together Pennsylvania Treasury Department,
stakeholders in Asia to share information on Harrisburg, PA, United States: $441,800 in
Financial Times Limited, London, England: how market-based mechanisms can provide support of developing financing vehicles for
$69,600 for use by its “This is Africa” publica- efficient and innovative solutions that address impact investments in energy-efficiency retro-
tion in support of baseline research, a publi- the needs of poor and vulnerable people. fit programs, including energy efficiency loans
cation and supplemental articles about and audits of the energy efficiency of colleges
impact investing in Africa that will enhance Keystone Accountability, London, United and universities, in order to reduce energy
the profile of the industry and deepen the Kingdom: $50,000 toward the costs of devel- costs, lower greenhouse gas emissions and
understanding of how impact investment in oping and implementing an impact investing create or preserve jobs for low-income and
Africa can benefit the poor and vulnerable. survey that will enable social enterprises to vulnerable workers in the U.S.
increase performance measurement and
Goldmark Productions, Inc., New York, NY, effectiveness. Pennsylvania Treasury Department,
United States: $70,354, in support of radio Harrisburg, PA, United States: $65,000
and online segments covering important Lion’s Head Global Partners LLP, London, toward the costs of developing a financing
trends in impact investing to be aired as part United Kingdom: $450,000 in support of vehicle to scale impact investments in
of American Public Media’s “Marketplace” developing and syndicating guiding principles energy-efficiency retrofit programs to reduce
programming, in order to educate the public and a framework for impact investing in energy costs, lower greenhouse gas emis-
about the opportunities for social benefit and African agriculture as a means to ensure that sions and create or preserve jobs for low-
financial return from impact investing. socially- and environmentally-oriented capital income and vulnerable workers in the U.S.
is deployed to improve African food security
Grameen Foundation USA, Washington, DC, and increase incomes for the poor and Philanthropy Northwest, Seattle, WA,
United States: $252,486, in support of a vulnerable. United States: $50,000 toward the costs
demonstration project, in collaboration with of its Program Related Investment Makers
BASIX in India, to test a sustainable business Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc., Network, which provides networking, pro-
model for providing financial and livelihood Washington, DC, United States: $187,600 in fessional development, collaboration and
development services to the poorest popula- support of collaborating with the Global outreach support to grantmakers who use
tions in a way that benefits the poor and the Impact Investing Network to develop a data- program-related and other investments to
institution providing the services. sharing platform that will enable the accomplish their philanthropic goals.
exchange of performance data on microfi-
Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Cincinnati, nance and the broader field of impact invest- Registered Trustees of the Financial Sector
OH, United States: $135,000 toward the ing to lead to better outcomes for poor and Deepening Trust, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania:
costs of developing an impact investing vulnerable populations. $250,000 toward the costs of a study of
donor advised fund product to increase agriculture finance in Tanzania that aims to
resources available for U.S. community and Monitor Company Group LP, Cambridge, MA, encourage increased lending and investment
economic development. United States: $300,000 toward the costs of in the agricultural sector to improve the
research to identify and document new busi- livelihoods and incomes of local smallholder
ness models and market-based solutions for farmers.

2010 grants
Root Capital Inc., Cambridge, MA, United Maker Faire Africa Foundation, Amsterdam, support of its Cities of Service Leadership
States: $500,000 toward the costs of Netherlands: $150,000 toward the costs of Grants to accelerate and strengthen the serv-
transitioning to a multiple loan fund model Maker Faire 2011 and 2012, an annual event ice expansion initiatives of ten cities partici-
that will expand and accelerate positive that convenes innovators from around Africa pating in the Cities of Service Coalition,
impact on small and growing businesses and links them with mentors who can help formed to increase civic engagement and the
operating in poor, environmentally vulnerable bring their innovations to scale, to help spur amount and impact of local service efforts.
regions of Africa and Latin America. entrepreneurship and manufacturing as a
poverty reduction vehicle for the African Low Income Investment Fund, San
Shared Interest, Inc., New York, NY, United continent. Francisco, CA, United States: $100,000 in
States: $120,000 in support of engaging support of a collaborative project with
the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s Sustainable NetHope, Inc., Fairfax, VA, United States: Reconnecting America on the inclusion of
Enhancement Grant model to refine its capital $430,000 in support of collaborating with low-income communities in transit-oriented
raising and business plan for using partial Accenture Development Partnerships to development projects and identifying a role
loan guarantees to encourage commercial develop a plan to build and launch an for Community Develop-ment Financial
banks to lend to businesses in low-income Innovation for Development Office, which Institutions to bring transit-oriented develop-
townships and rural communities in South will seek to incubate, partner and scale the ment financing to scale.
Africa. most recent successful information and com-
munications strategies, to improve the opera- National Housing & Community
Small Enterprise Education and Promotion tional capacity of global international Development Law Project, Oakland, CA,
Network, Washington, DC, United States: development organizations. United States: $150,800 toward the costs of
$75,000 toward the costs of its Social its “Dialogues for Change” project, to design
Performance Working Group for Micro- The Young Foundation, London, United and implement a strategy to assist the resi-
finance Associations, a global platform for Kingdom: $212,000 in support of the costs dents of government supported rental hous-
enhancing peer learning among microfinance of research to assess the need and demand ing to actively engage in a series of national
organizations and encouraging the develop- for an “innovation academy” and of its Social consultation activities which will inform the
ment and use of social metrics in an effort to Innovation eXchange, a global community future of public housing and voucher pro-
ensure that impact investments succeed in of social entrepreneurs, businesses, govern- grams in the U.S.
producing better outcomes for poor and ments and charities committed to building a
vulnerable populations. broader knowledge base about how to apply Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United
innovation to social problems. States: $231,400 in support of a research
Social Investment Forum Foundation, Inc., project to develop a theory and application
Washington, DC, United States: $50,000 Innovations for a Metro Nation for understanding the structure, dynamics
toward the costs of producing and dissemi- and organization of cities, and a related
nating the 2009/2010 edition of its “Report Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, meeting to be held at the Rockefeller
on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in United States: $100,000 for use by its Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, July 2010.
the United States,” to inform the public about Metropolitan Policy Program toward the
responsible and impactful alternative invest- costs of research to develop a functional The Next American City, Inc., Philadelphia,
ment practices. definition of walkable urban places and PA, United States: $162,500 in support of its
establish performance metrics that will pro- new Urban Leaders Fellows project, to
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa: vide a roadmap for how to encourage their engage exemplary bloggers to create weekly
$366,300 for use by its China-Africa Network creation and growth. web content on federal urban policy, urban
at the Gordon Institute for Business Science informatics and transportation advocacy; and
in support of educating Chinese stakeholders Center for Land Reform, Inc. (dba Center its second annual conference on urban advo-
about opportunities for socially and environ- for Community Progress), Flint, MI, United cacy and the role of the internet as a tool to
mentally responsible investing in Africa. States: $56,000 in support of completing and build partnerships that can inform urban pol-
disseminating “The State of Vacant Properties icy entitled, “Open Cities: New Media’s Role
Innovation in the U.S.,” the first national comprehensive in Shaping Urban Policy,” to be held fall 2010.
assessment of the current state of affairs and
Ashoka, Arlington, VA, United States: future trends in vacant property reclamation. Urban Institute, Washington, DC, United
$510,000 for use by its Changemakers initia- States: $80,000 for use by its Metropolitan
tive, in collaboration with member govern- CEOs for Cities, NFP, Chicago, IL, United Housing and Communities Policy Center in
ments of the Group of 20 in support of the States: $250,000 toward the costs of its continued support of the “Chicago Family
design and launch of an inclusive global com- “U.S. Cam-paign,” to collaborate with urban Case Management Demonstration” project, a
petition to identify innovative ideas for invest- leaders and activists to develop knowledge multi-year research effort of U.S. government
ing in small- and medium-scale businesses and innovative local organizing strategies that programs that seek to provide families facing
whose growth can promote pro-poor devel- will build and sustain the next generation of multiple barriers to successful relocation
opment either through job- and income-gen- American cities. achieve better housing outcomes, and dis-
eration or the provision of services at semination activities for the book “Moving to
affordable prices. Fund for Cities of Service, Inc., New York, Opportunity: The Story of An American
NY, United States: $1,000,000 in continued Experiment to End Ghetto Poverty”.

2010 grants
Networks for Urban Innovation monitoring and evaluating unintended conse- programs are scalable and responsive to
quences of low-income housing projects local community needs.
American Planning Association, for urban poor in India, and developing
Washington, DC, United States: $25,000 in approaches to address the negative conse- NYC Opportunities Fund
support of travel scholarships for delegates quences of them and propagate strategies
from Latin America to attend a conference for improving them. 3-Legged Dog, Inc., New York, NY, United
launching the Ashoka Changemakers’ States: $175,000 as a recipient of a New
“Sustainable and Inclusive Housing and Operation California, Inc. (dba Operation York City Cultural Innovation Fund award,
Livable Cities Challenge,” to be held in São USA), Culver City, CA, United States: $21,200 toward the costs of building a two-part
Paulo, Brazil, October 2010. in support of a workshop bringing together sponsorship fund and distribution platform
international experts on refugee housing, for developing and distributing new works of
Ashoka, Arlington, VA, United States: including practitioners, academics and experimental performing art.
$499,000 for use by its Changemakers advocates, to address issues around the
initiative in support of the “Sustainable design and functionality of refugee camps, Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd., New York,
and Inclusive Housing and Livable Cities many of which eventually become permanent NY, United States: $175,000 as a recipient of
Challenge,” a collaborative competition for settlements. the New York City Cultural Innovation Fund,
innovations in sustainable housing design toward the costs of “A White Wing Brushing
for Latin America and the Caribbean and a Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and the Building: Poetry and Community,” a multi-
“Sustainable Housing Solutions Guide” for Research, Mumbai, India: $431,107, in sup- faceted, community-based presentation of
innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and port of a multifaceted research study, in col- poetry from 16 diverse New York City neigh-
consumers addressing urban housing issues. laboration with Harvard University’s School borhoods, utilizing new media technologies.
of Public Health and New York University,
CEOs for Cities, NFP, Chicago, IL, United on the physical and social determinants of Center for New York City Neighborhoods,
States: $59,900 in support of addressing health in disadvantaged urban settings in Inc., New York, NY, United States: $500,000
urban poverty and the sustainability and Mumbai, India in an effort to identify replicable in general support of its mission to help dis-
resilience of cities by convening international solutions for improving health among urban tressed homeowners retain and preserve
urban and governance experts to develop the populations. New York City neighborhoods by limiting the
parameters of the roles and responsibilities of negative impacts of foreclosure, property flip-
cities and city-wide actors and to identify indi- Regents of the University of California ping and abandonment.
viduals or institutions that can further define at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States:
these roles. $250,326, for use by its Department of City CEOs for Cities, NFP, Chicago, IL, United
and Regional Planning’s Institute of Urban States: $100,000 toward the costs of “One
Habitat for Humanity International, Inc., and Regional Development in support of a Minute for Your City,” a communications
Atlanta, GA, United States: $165,000 in sup- collaborative project to ensure that recently campaign designed to solicit ideas from resi-
port of facilitating and administering activities launched infrastructure development pro- dents on how to improve New York City.
at the World Urban Forum 2010 a conference grams in Kenya are scalable and responsive
to address rapid urbanization and its impact to local community needs. City Futures, Inc., New York, NY, United
on communities, cities, economies, climate States: $50,000 for use by its Center for an
change and policies, to be held in Rio de Shack Dwellers International, Urban Future in support of convening New
Janeiro, Brazil, March 2010. Johannesburg, South Africa: $4,000,002, York City’s real estate and art communities
toward the costs of developing more inclusive to consider mutually beneficial real estate
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India: shelter strategies for cities in the developing arrangements for artists impacted by the
$250,000 for use by its Center for Emerging world by increasing engagement and building current economic climate, based on propos-
Market Solutions toward the costs of re- partnerships between the urban poor and als in its “Time To Be Creative” report.
search, analysis, and convenings focused on local governments.
urbanization and affordable housing in India. City Futures, Inc., New York, NY, United
The New York Academy of Medicine, New States: $160,000 for use by its Center for an
International Housing Coalition, Inc., York, NY, United States: $120,000 for use by Urban Future in support of commissioning
Washington, DC, United States: $152,600 in its International Society for Urban Health in thought papers and organizing three conven-
support of developing educational activities support of travel and other associated costs ings focused on the challenges faced by New
and resources, including issue-oriented advo- for participants from developing countries to York City and possible opportunities for inno-
cacy campaigns, topical seminars and a attend the 9th International Conference on vative solutions to them.
web-based platform, to disseminate research Urban Health, to be held in New York City,
on the importance and impact of housing October 2010. City Parks Alliance, Inc., Washington, DC,
and urban issues to policy makers, develop- United States: $100,000 toward the costs of
ment practitioners and leaders in developing University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya: the “International Urban Parks Conference:
countries. $245,150 for use by its Department of Urban Leveraging the Power of Parks,” to address
and Regional Planning in support of a collab- the role parks can play in solving challenges
Monitor Company Group LP, Cambridge, orative project in Kenya to ensure that faced by cities, to be held in New York City,
MA, United States: $354,000 in support of recently launched infrastructure development July 2012.

2010 grants
Columbia University, New York, NY, United Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community Competition,” in collaboration with the New
States: $16,100 for use by its School of College Foundation, Bronx, NY, United York City Departments of Cultural Affairs and
International and Public Affairs toward the States: $150,000 for use by its Hostos Buildings, for artists and designers proposing
costs of the 13th Dinkins Leadership and Center for the Arts and Culture as a recipient public works of art to cover temporary con-
Public Policy Forum on the topic of urban of a New York City Cultural Innovation Fund struction fences, scaffolds and sidewalk
economic growth and recovery in New award, toward the costs of “The Young Roots sheds throughout New York City.
Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, held in Series: Innovation Out of Tradition,” a curated
New York City, February 2010. series of performances showcasing young Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City,
masters of Afro-Caribbean music who add New York, NY, United States: $500,000 in
Creative Time, Inc., New York, NY, United elements of jazz, hip-hop, rock and reggae- collaboration with the New York City Center
States: $175,000 as a recipient of a New York ton in collaborations that eschew national for Economic Opportunity toward the costs of
City Cultural Innovation Award toward the distinctions. developing networks of non-profits across
costs of launching “Artists on the News,” a eight urban areas in the U.S. to collaborate
biweekly feature on the Huffington Post web- Exit Art/The First World, Inc., New York, NY, on program improvements and to share best
site as well as a regular public radio segment United States: $175,000 as a recipient of a practices regarding the replication and scal-
that includes artists to encourage broader New York City Cultural Innovation Fund ing of five anti-poverty programs—Jobs-Plus,
thinking on current events and promote artists award, toward the costs of establishing Family Rewards, SaveUSA, Young Adult
as active participants in public life. “DigiMovies,” a theater exclusively devoted to Internship Program and WorkAdvance—as
the presentation of digitally-produced inde- well as a sixth program to encourage innova-
Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc., New York, pendent cinema, and a new grassroots infra- tion by local governments.
NY, United States: $175,000 as a recipient of structure for digital film distribution.
a New York City Cultural Innovation Fund Municipal Art Society of New York, New
award, toward the costs of a series of six- Foundry Theatre, New York, NY, United York, NY, United States: $409,600 in support
week in-person and online explorations into States: $175,000 as a recipient of a New of coordinating the fourth award competition
the creation of new dance works in order to York City Cultural Innovation Fund award, for the Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored
build audiences and provide new repertoire. toward the costs of creating five artistic Jane Jacobs Medal, which honors Jacobs’
works exploring life in New York City through groundbreaking work in urban design, and of
Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action, collaborations between artists and commu- organizing other public programs related to
Ltd., New York, NY, United States: $175,000 nity-based and social justice organizations. the principles embodied in her work.
as a recipient of a New York City Cultural
Innovation Fund award, for use by its Institute Hip-Hop Theater Festival, Inc., Brooklyn, Municipal Art Society of New York, New
for Culture in the Service of Community NY, United States: $75,000 toward the costs York, NY, United States: $150,000 toward the
Sustainability toward the costs of collecting of the 10th annual Hip-Hop Theater Festival, costs of a survey on the livability of New York
and disseminating new data and field research an artistic celebration of contemporary lan- City and a “Summit for New York City,” to
to quantify and qualify how arts and culture guage and culture addressing the socio- form the basis for a comprehensive public
enhance the cultural, environmental and com- political issues relevant to young, urban com- education and advocacy effort to enhance
munity sustainability of urban communities. munities, to be held at the Westbeth Arts the City’s livability even as its populations
Center in New York City, October 2010. grow over the long term.
El Barrio’s Operation Fightback, Inc., New
York, NY, United States: $100,000 toward the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY,
costs of the pre-development phase of Museum, Long Island City, NY, United States: United States: $75,000 toward the costs of
acquiring and developing a former public $100,000 toward the costs of “Studies in the organization and presentation of “The
school in the East Harlem area of New York Space, Art and Civic Action: A Vision for Long Global Africa Project,” an exhibition focusing
City to provide affordable live/work housing Island City,” a project in which teams of archi- on aspects of contemporary design, craft and
for artists and their families and office and tects, artists, landscape architects and urban- art by individuals working in Africa, Asia, the
programmatic space for arts, social service ists will propose a future vision for the design Caribbean, Europe and the United States
and community organizations. and development of northwestern Queens. whose work exemplifies the creativity coming
out of or inspired by Africa.
EmcArts Inc., New York, NY, United States: Island Press—Center for Resource
$200,000 as a recipient of a New York City Economics, Washington, DC, United States: Museum of Contemporary African
Cultural Innovation Fund award, toward the $58,800 in support of a new introduction to Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY, United States:
costs of “New York/New Pathways,” an inno- and reprinting of “Ideas That Matter: The $175,000 as a recipient of a New York City
vation training and immersion program Worlds of Jane Jacobs,” to share the ideas, Cultural Innovation Fund award, toward the
including three community convenings for vision and philosophies of Jane Jacobs with costs of “Soul of Brooklyn,” a consortium of
up to 40 organizations from the New York- urban planners working to transform public 22 African Diaspora Arts Organizations work-
area arts community, and an in-depth inter- spaces, buildings and neighborhoods. ing to brand Brooklyn as the destination for a
vention around innovation to develop and test unique and authentic African diasporan cul-
breakthrough strategies for three selected Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, tural experience.
organizations. New York, NY, United States: $65,000 in sup-
port of the “UrbanCanvas Design

2010 grants
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Performance Zone, Inc., New York, NY, Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy,
United States: $67,000 in support of publish- United States: $150,000 toward the costs Inc., New York, NY, United States: $175,000
ing a catalogue for its exhibition “Rising of expanding Economic Revitalization for as a recipient of a New York City Cultural
Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront,” Performing Artists—a program that helps Innovation Fund award, toward the costs of
outlining and evaluating the process by which New York performing artists learn actionable the first two seasons of dance presentations
five interdisciplinary teams proposed options strategies to increase their income and long- in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, a perma-
to redesign New York’s shoreline in response term stability—to include replication activities nent, grand-scale, non-proscenium dance
to climate change projections. and technical assistance grants. space in New York City.
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, United Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New
New York, NY, United States: $500,000 States: $250,000 for use by its Center for York, NY, United States: $200,000 toward the
toward the costs of education and outreach Community Development as a recipient of costs of a series of six walking tours of “still
for its “Sustainable Transit Campaign” to a New York City Cultural Innovation Fund spots” in New York City’s five boroughs,
establish equitable, sustainable, and eco- award, toward the costs of integrating the exploring the concept of stillness in a restless
nomically and environmentally-friendly traffic arts into its Sustainable Neighborhoods urban landscape.
pricing in the New York metropolitan region. Initiative in order to reach more people, create
new ways to communicate with residents, Sweet Jane Productions Inc., Brooklyn, NY,
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New reinforce sustainable practice and deepen its United States: $50,000 as a recipient of a New
York, NY, United States: $200,000 toward the programs’ impacts. York City Cultural Innovation Fund award,
costs of the “Festival of Ideas for a New City,” toward the costs of “Reconstruction,” an inter-
a multi-institutional partnership that seeks to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, United active drama exploring theater as an educa-
provide a platform for new thinking, adopting States: $200,000 as a recipient of a New tional and immersive experience that trains the
sustainable solutions and promoting the value York City Cultural Innovation Fund award, audience in carpentry, construction and green
of creative capital to improve everyday life in toward the costs of collaborating with technology to incrementally retrofit a multi-use
New York City. Queens College City University of New York arts space over the course of the play’s run.
to develop a Social Practice Masters of Fine
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc., Arts program and to launch “Corona Studio,” The Asia Society, New York, NY, United
Brooklyn, NY, United States: $175,000 as a professional artists’ residency program States: $100,000 toward the costs of “Nine
a recipient of a New York City Cultural embedding two artists in Corona, Queens, Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern
Innovation Fund award, toward the costs for year-long residencies in partnership with India,” readings and performances based on
of the first multi-disciplinary festival of community organizers and community-based William Dalrymple’s book, which examines
Cambodian arts to be produced in the United organizations. the way social changes have affected the
States and the first of its scale to take place great Indian traditions of mysticism, monasti-
outside Cambodia. Randall’s Island Sports Foundation, New cism, music and dance.
York, NY, United States: $175,000 as a
New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY, recipient of a New York City Cultural The New School, New York, NY, United
United States: $150,000 as a recipient of a Innovation Fund award, toward the costs of States: $50,000 for use by Milano the New
New York City Cultural Innovation Fund “Environmental Sculpture and Music,” an School for Management and Urban Policy in
award, toward the costs of “ReGeneration: environmental art installation and musical support of research for a comparative case
Art, Technology and Science Biennial,” a six- event to be held on the waterfront pathways study examining the role and impact of arts
week exhibition engaging nine artists to work of Randall’s Island Park. and culture in New York City and Toronto.
with the local community to create work that
explores the connections among immigration, Research Foundation of the City University Urban Word NYC, Inc., New York, NY, United
urbanization, cultural vitality and sustainability. of New York, New York, NY, United States: States: $100,000 toward the costs of the
$100,000 for use by the Institute of New York City Youth Poet Laureate Project,
New York Landmarks Conservancy, New Sustainable Cities at Hunter College, City a city-wide community outreach program
York, NY, United States: $50,000 in support University of New York, as a recipient of a that engages the voice of local youth while
of its technical services program, which pro- New York City Cultural Innovation Fund promoting civic engagement, volunteerism,
vides guidance and technical expertise on award, in support of an online crowdsourcing youth leadership, voter awareness and artistic
historic buildings and landmarks to home- tool and physical installation that will facilitate excellence.
owners, government agencies and nonprofits dialogue among climate scientists, urban
in New York City. planners and the public about sustainability Wildcat Service Corporation, New York,
and climate change. NY, United States: $200,000 toward the
Nonprofit Finance Fund, New York, NY, costs of its “Neighborhood Improvement
United States: $72,500 for the costs of a Rockefeller Foundation Jane Jacobs Medal Project,” providing job training and placement
project to enhance the financial capacity of Awards, New York, NY, United States: support to public assistance recipients to
select New York City Cultural Innovation Fund $200,000 to provide cash prizes to the recipi- work in at-risk neighborhoods in low-income,
applicants and grantees. ents of the Rockefeller Foundation Jane minority communities suffering from high
Jacobs Medal or to organizations designated foreclosure rates.
by the awardees.

2010 grants
Philanthropic Sector Kenya Community Development President’s Discretionary
Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya: $103,000 for
Council on Foundations, Arlington, VA, use by the African Grantmakers Network Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford
United States: $55,000 in general support toward the costs of its inaugural Pan African Junior University, Stanford, CA, United
of its mission to provide the opportunity, Assembly, which aims to strengthen the net- States: $250,000 for use by its Center on
leadership and tools needed by philanthropic work of African grantmaking organizations Philanthropy and Civil Society in support of
organizations to expand, enhance and and create a common strategy for advocacy acquiring and operating the “Stanford Social
sustain their ability to advance the common of philanthropy within Africa, to be held in Innovation Review,” a publication focused on
good. Nairobi, Kenya, November 2010. critical issues related to philanthropy, social
innovation and civic engagement.
East Africa Association of Grantmakers, Philanthropy New York, Inc., New York,
Nairobi, Kenya: $125,000 in support of NY, United States: $250,000 for use by its California Institute of Technology,
research to study the state and nature of phi- Diversity in Philanthropy Project toward the Pasadena, CA, United States: $50,000 for
lanthropy in East Africa in an effort to develop costs of the D5 Initiative, a collaborative effort use by its Caltech Optical Observatories in
evidence-based programs for informing and to strengthen the philanthropic sector’s effec- support of the “Palomar Observatory Book
promoting philanthropy in the region. tiveness through increased diversity and Project” celebrating the 60th anniversary of
inclusive practice. the Palomar Observatory.
The Foundation Center, New York, NY,
United States: $55,000 in general support Philanthropy New York, Inc., New York, NY, Carnegie Endowment for International
of its mission to strengthen the nonprofit United States: $30,000 in general support of Peace, Washington, DC, United States:
sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. its mission to strengthen philanthropy by $150,000 in support of costs associated with
philanthropy. offering programs and resources that support organizing four conferences and meetings to
effective, strategic grantmaking, facilitating advance its vision of pioneering a global think
The Foundation Center, New York, NY, collaboration and knowledge sharing, and tank committed to collaborative international
United States: $100,000 toward the costs of communicating the value of the philanthropic research, analysis and policy work, to be held
building a global data platform for philan- sector in our society. at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
thropy that will enhance the accessibility of in 2010.
information on philanthropic activity around Population and Community Development
the world. Association, Bangkok, Thailand: $50,990 in Center for National Policy, Washington, DC,
support of piloting a philanthropy workshop United States: $499,241, in support of the
Grantmakers in the Arts, Seattle, WA, United for young Thai business executives and high “Global Summit on Resilience,” to mark the
States: $15,000 in general support of its mis- net worth individuals to raise awareness of 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist
sion to strengthen the field of private-sector philanthropy and encourage further philan- attacks, showcase ongoing, new and planned
arts and culture grantmaking. thropic activities. resilience efforts including initiatives on climate
adaptation and global economic develop-
GuideStar International Ltd., London, United Thai Fund Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand: ment, and offer templates for successful
Kingdom: $77,000 in support of continuing $35,240 in support of developing an accred- resilience building activities that can be pur-
development of GuideStar India, a searchable ited program to train fundraisers at non- sued on a national and international scale.
online database that provides the philan- profit organizations in Thailand in order to
thropic sector in India with better access to strengthen their capacity to mobilize Center for the Advancement of Women,
information on credible non-government resources and ensure sustainability. Inc., New York, NY, United States: $50,000
organizations. in general support of its mission to promote
The Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC, and protect women’s rights and opportuni-
GuideStar USA, Inc., Williamsburg, VA, United States: $100,000 toward the costs ties, worldwide, by conducting national opin-
United States: $25,000 in general support of its Program on Philanthropy and Social ion research among women to measure
of its mission to revolutionize philanthropy Innovation’s Aspen Philanthropy Group work- experiences in their daily lives in order to
and nonprofit practice by providing informa- shops, a series of meetings focused on present a profile of women that is used to
tion that advances transparency in the ensuring high-quality and accessible statisti- educate opinion leaders, policymakers and
philanthropic sector, enables users to make cal data on social sector activity in an effort the general public.
better decisions, and encourages charitable to enhance the efficacy of philanthropists and
giving. those they support. Cherie Blair Foundation for Women,
London, United Kingdom: $120,000 toward
Independent Sector, Washington, DC, World Affairs Council of Northern California, the costs of hiring a program manager for
United States: $25,000 in general support San Francisco, CA, United States: $75,000 its “Women Entrepreneurs and Mobile
of its mission to advance the common good toward the costs of its Global Philanthropy Technology Program,” which seeks to provide
by leading, strengthening and mobilizing Forum, which brings together foundation women with improved access to mobile
the nonprofit community. leaders, individual donors, social investors, phones as a way to develop and improve
and agents of change to learn more about their entrepreneurial ventures in the Middle
opportunities for international philanthropy. East, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

2010 grants
Duke University, Durham, NC, United States: National Women’s Law Center, Washington, governance and to make recommendations
$57,500 for use by its Center for Strategic DC, United States: $100,000 toward the on board practice.
Philanthropy and Civil Society to help philan- costs of collaborating with the American Civil
thropy achieve broader and deeper impact in Liberties Union, Citizens for Global Solutions, University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia:
solving problems that face the social sector the Communications Consortium Media $364,000 for use by its College of Agriculture
and the wider civic community. Center, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Forestry to revitalize its capacity and
Rights Education Fund and the YWCA-USA initiate research and begin the multiplication
Florida International University, Miami, to educate thought leaders, media, policy- and distribution of improved rice varieties to
FL, United States: $115,000 for use by its makers and the public on the benefits of the enhance Liberia’s national food security.
Wolfsonian Museum in support of “Four UN Convention on the Elimination of All
Freedoms: Teen Thoughts on Democracy Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Women’s Campaign International,
Online,” web-based educational materials Philadelphia, PA, United States: $100,000
designed to engage youth on the ideas of Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA, toward the costs of its First Ladies’ Legacy
freedom and democracy as represented in United States: $250,000 toward the costs of Project, to provide training on strategic plan-
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” posters. a study to advance understanding of the role ning and capacity building to a group of
sectoral strategies can play in improving African First Ladies to enable them to create
Greater Washington, DC Educational employment outcomes for young adults. and sustain their respective legacy plans to
Telecommunications Association, Inc., work toward social improvement and devel-
Arlington, VA, United States: $100,000 Research Foundation of State University of opment, to be held during the African Union
toward the costs of the “Women 2.0 Media New York, Albany, NY, United States: $25,000 summit, Ethiopia, January 2011.
Project Digital Oral History” website, which for use by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute
will contain oral histories and other materials of Government at the State University of New Program Related Investment
on women integral to the women’s rights York toward the costs of developing a four- Fund (PRI)
movement in the United States. year fiscal plan for the state of New York.
Social Impact Partnership LP, London,
Greater Washington, DC Educational The Synergos Institute, Inc., New York, NY, United Kingdom: $500,000 as a Program-
Telecommunications Association, Inc., United States: $50,000 in general support of Related Investment to support an innovative
Arlington, VA, United States: $250,000 toward its mission to mobilize resources and bridge approach to impact investing intermediation
the costs of producing “The Dust Bowl,” a social and economic divides to reduce with potential broad application in solving
two-part, four-hour film reviewing the causes, poverty and increase equity around the world. social problems, to reduce recidivism among
effects and responses to the worst man- an estimated 3,000 male prisoners with
made ecological disaster in U.S. history. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, short-term sentences in an economically
Philadelphia, PA, United States: $27,100 for depressed area of the U.K.
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc., New York, NY, use by its Institute for Strategic Threat
United States: $50,000 toward the costs of Analysis and Response in support of a wel- Poverty Reduction through
its orchestra’s week-long residency in Cuba come reception for the “International Study of Information & Digital Employment
and related programs exploring the musical Radicalization and Political Violence Peace (PRIDE)
connections among Havana, New Orleans and Security Summit” to be held in New York
and New York City. City, summer 2010 which will provide leading Childline Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya: $403,800
international policymakers, experts and other in support of professionalizing and increasing
Mary Robinson Foundation, Dublin, Ireland: stakeholders opportunities to engage in out- the efficiency of its toll-free child abuse hotline
$149,500 in support of building women’s come driven discussions about potential to ensure better response and support to
leadership in the area of climate justice and in threats to peace and security. vulnerable children in Kenya.
particular, including a gender and climate per-
spective in negotiations at the 16th United Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Digital Divide Data, New York, NY, United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Philadelphia, PA, United States: $50,000 for States: $895,000 in support of establishing
Change. use by its Museum of Archeology and Anthro- a program in Kenya to operate local impact
pology in support of “Museum Educational outsourcing centers employing disadvan-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials for the 21st Century,” a community taged youth, host a management training
Cambridge, MA, United States: $30,000 for outreach project that includes activities for institute to build the capacity of impact out-
use by its Innovations journal in support of schoolchildren and teachers to enhance their sourcing managers, and conduct market
producing an issue entitled “Urban Innovation: appreciation of the museum and complement research to understand the emerging sector.
New Orleans Five Years After Katrina” focus- their social studies and world history curricula.
ing on innovative approaches in the region to Monitor Company Group LP, Cambridge,
sustainable urban development, social entre- University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United MA, United States: $585,000 in support of
preneurship, public education, health care, job States: $138,000 in support of forming a a research project exploring the potential of
creation and economic development. nonpartisan group of economic and legal outsourcing employment opportunities for
experts, established corporate directors and providing jobs and economic growth to very
corporate secretaries, and investors to study poor populations in emerging economies in
the role of boards of directors in corporate India and Kenya.

2010 grants
Samasource, Inc., San Francisco, CA, United achievements made toward Africa’s develop- Research
States: $799,200 in support of further refining ment at the mid-point between the comple-
and executing its business model, which uti- tion of the “Africa Commission Report” in African Center for Economic
lizes innovative technology platforms to train, 2005 and the 2015 target date for achieve- Transformation, Washington, DC, United
manage and outsource distributed digital ment of the Millennium Development Goals. States: $85,000 in support of a project to
work to small impact outsourcing providers in conduct trend monitoring and horizon scan-
urban and rural Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda Re-launch Fund: Asia ning on issues relevant to poverty and human
and create jobs for very poor populations. development, focused on West Africa.
Arsom Silp Institute of the Arts, Bangkok,
World Vision, Inc., Washington, DC, United Thailand: $85,000 in support of developing Bertelsmann Foundation, North America,
States: $600,000 toward the costs of design- preservation and restoration activities and Inc., Washington, DC, United States:
ing and implementing a field-based shared guidelines in two historic Thai neighbor- $308,200 toward the costs of “Megatrends in
service center in Nairobi, Kenya to enhance hoods—one in Bangkok and one in the Global Interaction: Creative Dissemination
the delivery of information and communication province of Chanthaburi—by making use of and New Media Strategy," a project to
technology services and support field opera- a multi-stakeholder participatory process. develop an accessible on-line platform with
tions across Africa; and conducting a design global trend resources to assist researchers
study and pilot implementation of business BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh: and policymakers identify future global chal-
process outsourcing centers in rural and $29,850 for use by its BRAC Development lenges and enrich long-term planning efforts.
semi-rural Tanzania and Ghana to generate Institute toward the costs of a conference on
income and economic empowerment for poor “Transcending Binaries: The Politics of Islam Brookings Institution, Washington, DC,
and vulnerable people in those communities. in South Asia” to be held in Dhaka, United States: $307,300 for use by its African
Bangladesh, December 2010. Growth Initiative in support of raising visibility
Re-launch Fund: Africa among African policymakers and international
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: researchers of Africa-based researchers
African Technology Policy Studies Network, $43,890 for use by its Department of Urban doing policy relevant work on African growth
Nairobi, Kenya: $75,952, in support of the and Regional Planning to explore approaches and structural transformation by convening its
workshop “Strengthening Linkages between for arts to serve as a tool for community revital- inaugural annual growth forum, to be held in
Policy Research and Policymaking for African ization in two Bangkok neighborhoods and to Washington, DC, winter 2011.
Development,” to be held in Mombasa, share lessons learned to inform policymaking.
Kenya, February 2011. Centre for Democracy and Development,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: Abuja, Nigeria: $85,900 in continued support
Farm Concern International, Nairobi, Kenya: $45,360 for use by its Department of Urban of a project to conduct trend monitoring and
$75,000 in support of a project to design, and Regional Planning in support of a lecture horizon scanning on issues relevant to
test and implement pilot projects in order to series on inequality and injustice in access to poverty and human development, focused on
develop a business model for expanding resources and basic services in Thailand. West Africa.
youth participation in agricultural systems in
Kenya as a means to address anticipated National Institute of Development Admini- FORO Nacional Internacional, Lima, Peru:
future youth unemployment and low agricul- stration, Bangkok, Thailand: $19,000 for $159,400 in continued support of a project to
tural productivity. use by its Center for Philanthropy and Civil conduct trend monitoring and horizon scan-
Society toward the costs of travel support for ning research on issues relevant to poverty
GSMA Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United representatives from Thai non-governmental and human development, focused on South
States: $50,000 for use by its GSMA organizations to attend the International Anti- America.
Development Fund, toward the costs of a Corruption Conference, to be held in
book that chronicles the innovative develop- Bangkok, November 2010. Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, CA, United
ment of the mobile-phone based money States: $298,500 in support of a project to
transfer platform mPesa, and its transforma- Oxfam, Oxford, United Kingdom: $50,000 synthesize and visualize trend and horizon
tive impact on poor and vulnerable people toward the costs of a project to promote scanning information on issues relevant to
in Kenya. climate change justice and a sustainable res- poverty and human development through a
olution of land ownership conflicts in Thailand signals database, a web-based map, and an
National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, through the deployment of appropriate strate- interactive game platform.
Kenya: $50,000 in support of constructing gies that take into consideration the commu-
a canopy for its open-air amphitheatre that nity rights of local indigenous populations and Intellecap Inc., Palo Alto, CA, United States:
will optimize use of the space for visitors to to promote sustainable livelihood and natural $345,800 toward the costs of a project to
the museum including audiences attending resources management. conduct trend monitoring and horizon scan-
educational and cultural events. ning research on issues relevant to poverty
Thai Breastfeeding Center Foundation, and human development, focused on India,
Wilton Park Executive Agency, West Bangkok, Thailand: $25,000 toward the Bangladesh and Pakistan, and a meeting of
Sussex, United Kingdom: $100,000 costs of disseminating the “Thai Breast- Searchlight grantees to be held in Mumbai,
toward the costs of “Africa 2010: The Key feeding Atlas” in Thailand, and developing a India, spring 2011.
Challenges,” a conference to review the plan for possible replication in Vietnam.

2010 grants
New York University, New York, NY, United University of Sussex, Brighton, United missions and achieving impact in a dynamic
States: $51,500 for use by its Institute for Kingdom: $63,100 for use by its Science and and evolving ecosystem.
International Law and Justice toward the Technology Policy Research Department, in
costs of a study to analyze the usefulness of support of a collaboration with the Social, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United
indicators in designing interventions tackling Technological and Environmental Pathways to States: $100,000 for use by its School of
complex problems that affect poor and vul- Sustainability (STEPS) Centre to conduct Architecture toward the costs of the five book
nerable populations. research on the application of new models for series “New City Books,” which will explore
technology assessment in the Global South aspects of architecture and planning at the
SA Node of the Millennium Project, and their potential to foster development in intersection of public and private economic
Johannesburg, South Africa: $150,900 in health, climate change and agriculture. redevelopment strategies.
continued support of building and maintaining
an Internet-based information repository and Search The Energy and Resources Institute, New
networking platform for pro-poor foresight— Delhi, India: $100,000 toward the costs of
forward looking analysis that focuses on poor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring the 2010 Delhi Sustainable Development
and vulnerable people by way of anticipating Harbor, NY, United States: $50,000 toward Summit, an international forum for analysis
long-term trends through the use of various the costs of a meeting and publication to and debate on climate change mitigation and
research methodologies. commemorate the 75th anniversary of the adaptation, to be held in New Delhi, India,
Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on February 2010.
Strategic Foresight Group, Mumbai, India: Quantitative Biology.
$302,400 toward the costs of a project to The Greater Washington Educational
conduct trend monitoring and horizon scan- Columbia University, New York, NY, United Telecommunications Association, Inc.,
ning research on issues relevant to poverty States: $250,000 for use by its Earth Arlington, VA, United States: $300,000
and human development, focused on India, Institute’s Tropical Agriculture and Rural toward the costs of a public media initiative
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Environment Program in support of “Meeting “The Latino Americans,” in collaboration
and Middle East countries. the Challenge of 2050: Intelligent Agriculture with Latino Public Broadcasting, that will
and Food Systems to Feed the Global tell the story of Latino immigration to and
The Millennium Project Corporation, Population,” a program to continue the devel- culture within the United States over the
Washington, DC, United States: $124,700 in opment of sustainable food and agriculture past 200 years through film, radio, public
support of 1) a project to assist in improving systems and launch a university-wide Center engagement, education and communications
the capacity of developing countries to con- for Agriculture and Food Systems. campaigns.
duct futures research by providing targeted
travel support for participants from develop- Forum for African Women Educationalists, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA,
ing countries to attend the Millennium Project Nairobi, Kenya: $100,000 in general support United States: $350,000 for use by its Social
Planning Committee Meeting, to be held in of its mission to promote gender equity and Entrepreneurship Initiatives program in
Boston, July 2010 and 2) a long-term finan- equality in education in Africa by fostering support of “New Orleans as the Model City
cial sustainability and feasibility plan for the positive policies, practices and attitudes for the 21st Century: New Concepts on
organization. towards girls’ education. Urban Innovation,” a one-day symposium
to be held in New Orleans, October 2010
Trustees of Boston University, Boston, Jumo International, Inc., New York, NY, and an urban innovation fellowship
MA, United States: $98,000 for use by its United States: $250,000 in general support competition.
Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of of its mission to develop a social network to
the Longer-Range Future in support of a proj- connect individuals with non-profit organiza- William J. Clinton Foundation, Little Rock,
ect to synthesize and visualize trend and hori- tions, thereby channeling necessary AR, United States: $350,000 toward the
zon scanning information on issues relevant resources to the non-profit organizations costs of its 2010 Clinton Global Initiative,
to poverty and human development through enabling them to fulfill their missions. designed to catalyze a community of global
multiple methodological approaches and leaders to devise and implement innovative
information quality assurance. Meridian Institute, Dillon, CO, United States: solutions to global challenges such as energy
$150,000 in support of a series of conven- and climate change, poverty alleviation,
University of Manchester, Manchester, ings to engage systems experts in an effort to global health, and education.
United Kingdom: $39,740 for use by its explore the role of systems thinking in solving
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research complex global problems. World Wide Web Foundation, Boston, MA,
in support of a project to synthesize and visu- United States: $396,000 in support of
alize trend and horizon scanning information President and Fellows of Harvard College, conducting a study of users’ experiences
on issues relevant to poverty and human Cambridge, MA, United States: $590,000 accessing the Internet in the developing
development including the publication of a for use by its Hauser Center for Nonprofit world and a pilot experiment on the use of
special issue of the journal “Foresight”. Organizations in support of developing and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems
testing a thought-model that illuminates the by poor and vulnerable communities.
role brand can play in the philanthropic and
non-profit sectors for realizing institutional

2010 grants
Second Century Grants Institute for Sustainable Communities, ance by supporting capacity, expertise and
Montpelier, VT, United States: $500,000 leadership development within ministries
Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, toward the costs of expanding its climate of health.
United States: $10,000,000 for use by its leadership academies to provide officials
Metropolitan Policy Program toward the costs from U.S. cities with training and technical Asia Foundation, San Francisco, CA, United
of the Brookings-Rockefeller Project on State assistance regarding building the energy effi- States: $164,750 in support of a project, as a
and Metropolitan Policy Innovation, an initiative ciency of transportation systems and creating member organization within the Center for
which seeks to catalyze innovative state and green jobs. Health Market Innovations, to identify, map,
metropolitan reform in support of a produc- track and analyze innovative private sector
tive, sustainable and inclusive economy. Lehigh Carbon Community College, health organizations and programs in
Schnecksville, PA, United States: $150,000 Pakistan, to foster linkages among key stake-
Living Cities, Inc.: The National Community toward the costs of its Green Energy Training holders, and to cultivate additional future sup-
Development Initiative, Washington, DC, Center, a resource, education and training port for this sector.
United States: $2,250,000 in general support academy for individuals, businesses and con-
of its mission to increase the vitality of U.S. tractors currently or potentially involved in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical
cities and urban neighborhoods and improve energy efficiency and renewable energy. University, Dhaka, Bangladesh: $400,420 in
the lives of people who live there. support of a project to launch a new depart-
Progressive America Fund, New York, NY, ment of public health and informatics in
Research Foundation of State University United States: $325,000 for use by its Center Bangladesh.
of New York, Albany, NY, United States: for Working Families toward the costs of
$969,375, for use by the Nelson A. implementing Green Jobs/Green New York, a Bangladesh Enterprise Institute, Dhaka,
Rockefeller Institute of Government at the collaborative project with the New York State Bangladesh: $204,000 in support of develop-
State University of New York in support of an Energy and Research Development Authority ing a scenario planning workshop for the
effort to improve the efficiency and effective- that seeks to use a green infrastructure future of eHealth in Bangladesh, organizing
ness of state government operations, through investment program to create jobs in New an mHealth innovators student competition
a study of best practices and lessons learned York State, reduce energy use and climate and drafting of a national strategy for eHealth
across states that will form the basis of a impacts, lower energy bills, and serve as a in Bangladesh.
resource for all states, with a pilot effort in model for other state initiatives around the
New York State. country. Bloodlink Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya:
$76,100 in support of the launch and imple-
United States Department of Housing and Transforming Health Systems mentation of a FrontlineSMS mobile-phone-
Urban Development, Washington, DC, based feedback and reminder system to
United States: $2,500,000 toward the Access Health International, Inc., track and manage blood donors in Kenya,
costs of its “Cities in Transition Fellowship Washington, DC, United States: $153,100 increasing the regular donation rate needed
Placement Program” to provide distressed in support of a project, as a member organi- for a safe, steady supply of blood in its
cities with a core network of professionals zation of the Center for Health Market healthcare system.
to help those cities rebuild their economies. Innovations, to identify, map, track, and ana-
lyze innovative private sector health organiza- BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh: $200,000 for use
Sustainable Employment in a tions and programs in Brazil and Bangladesh, by its Manoshi maternal and neonatal care
Green US Economy (SEGUE) foster linkages among key stakeholders, and service delivery program, in collaboration with
cultivate future support for this sector. ClickDiagnostics Inc., toward the costs of
Green For All, Oakland, CA, United States: scaling up an mHealth application for com-
$450,000 toward the costs of its Retrofit African Center for Economic munity health workers.
America’s Cities and Green Jobs CRA pro- Transformation, Washington, DC, United
grams, which seek to build the capacity of States: $30,500 in support of a study to Cedar Associates, LLC, Menlo Park, CA,
government, business and community organ- map efforts related to strengthening health United States: $169,100 in support of a
izations to participate in the green-collar systems in Ghana, and more broadly in sub- study to document and verify the scope of
economy and to expand private capital Saharan Africa, and to identify the research benefits available within the national health
investment in the energy efficiency retrofit needed for a knowledge base capable of coverage programs in low- and middle-
market to create quality jobs for low-income serving as a resource for informed national income countries, including the identification
and vulnerable Americans. policy choices that will improve access to of factors that influenced those coverage
universal health coverage for poor and vulner- decisions, and publishing the results in order
Innovation Network for Communities, Inc., able people. to provide an evidence-based resource for
Beaver Island, MI, United States: $100,000 developing strategies to strengthen health
toward the costs of developing a system for African Centre for Global Health and Social systems and increase access to care.
U.S. cities to engage in the joint development Transformation, Limited, Kampala, Uganda:
of operating systems for building energy $613,800 toward the costs of a secretariat to
efficiency retrofits. coordinate the African Network for Health
Systems Governance, a regional effort to
improve health and health systems perform-

2010 grants
Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Health Informatics to launch a Masters of $70,000 in support of two site visits to India
Population, Hanoi, Vietnam: $160,160 in sup- Science curriculum on health informatics. and Thailand to study their respective national
port of a project, as a member organization health insurance schemes, and a post-visit
within the Center for Health Market Innova- Freedom From Hunger, Davis, CA, United workshop to integrate lessons learned for
tions, to identify, map, track, and analyze inno- States: $248,600 in support of a project, as a achieving universal health coverage.
vative private sector health organizations and member organization of the Center for Health
programs in Vietnam and Cambodia, to foster Market Innovations, to identify, map, track, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease
linkages among key stakeholders, and to culti- and analyze innovative private sector health Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh:
vate additional future support for this sector. organizations and programs in the Andes $95,000 toward the costs of publication and
region of Latin America, and foster linkages dissemination of a special issue of Lancet
Centre for Health and Social Services, among key stakeholders to cultivate addi- focusing on various aspects of health in
Accra, Ghana: $69,445, toward the costs of tional future support for this sector. Bangladesh.
engaging Accenture Development Partner-
ships to develop a strategic plan for the Global Healthcare Information Network, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease
organization and outline a growth strategy to Ltd., Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: $50,000 Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh:
promote and strengthen its capacity to con- in support of a project to develop a monitor- $2,283,000 in support of launching, in collab-
duct research, develop evidence and provide ing and evaluation framework and process oration with BRAC University, a “Centre of
policy analysis that supports the strengthen- for the “Health Information for All by 2015” Excellence on Universal Health Coverage” at
ing of health systems in Africa. (HIFA2015) online network, which is commit- the James P. Grant School of Public Health in
ted to promoting access to reliable health- Bangladesh.
Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc., care information for healthcare providers in
Boston, MA, United States: $311,300 for use developing countries. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease
by its Kenya office, toward the costs of a col- Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh:
laboration with Kenya’s Ministries of Medical Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam: $307,270 in support of a project to develop
Services and Public Health and Sanitation to $301,640 towards the costs of establishing and implement a pilot health insurance
develop and launch an open standard auto- a Center for Health System Research to pro- scheme in Bangladesh.
mated system for annual operational planning mote the implementation of evidence-based
activities facilitating faster, informed-response health policies in Vietnam. International Health Policy Program,
capacity by its health system at local and Nonthaburi, Thailand: $25,000 in support of
national levels. Hanoi School of Public Health, Hanoi, the attendance of 12-15 Asian participants at
Vietnam: $500,000 in support of a project to the 5th Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human
Columbia University, New York, NY, United develop and implement a Bachelor’s degree Resources for Health conference to be held
States: $500,000 for use by its Mailman program in public health informatics in in Bali, Indonesia, October 2010.
School of Public Health in support of three Vietnam.
projects designed to strengthen health sys- Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, United States:
tems and related activities: 1) a conference Hanoi School of Public Health, Hanoi, $249,180 in support of a project, as a mem-
on scaling up HIV/AIDS services in sub- Vietnam: $285,000 in support of building its ber organization within the Center for Health
Saharan Africa to be held at the Rockefeller capacity to foster Universal Health Coverage Market Innovations, to identify, map, track
Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, fall 2010; 2) with an emphasis on health economics and and analyze innovative private sector health
an effort to identify new funders of health sys- health financing through staff training and cur- organizations and programs in Indonesia,
tems and universal health coverage; and 3) a riculum development. to foster linkages among key stakeholders,
conference on the “Changing Landscape of and to cultivate additional future support for
Global Public Health,” to be held in New York Heartfile, Islamabad, Pakistan: $25,000 in this sector.
City, June 2010. support of a two-day meeting to conduct
peer reviews of four papers for possible publi- Ministry of Health, Ghana, Accra, Ghana:
Crown Agents for Oversea Governments cation in the Lancet focused on health sys- $257,900 for use by its Private Sector Unit to
and Administrations Limited, Sutton, United tems in Pakistan. incubate the Private Health Sector Alliance of
Kingdom: $500,000 for use by its Crown Ghana and support the further development
Agents Legal division, toward the costs of Institute of Health Policy, Management and of appropriate private sector policy to coordi-
launching a secretariat to coordinate the Har- Research, Nairobi, Kenya: $196,160 in sup- nate and leverage the public and private sec-
nessing Non-State Actors for Better Health port of a project, as a member organization tors’ collective capacities to improve national
for the Poor (HANSHEP) project, a partner- of the Center for Health Market Innovations, health care services and accessibility.
ship to enable pooled donor funds and to identify, map, track, and analyze innovative
expertise to support innovative private sector private sector health organizations and pro- National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle,
health programs and approaches globally. grams in east Africa, foster linkages among WA, United States: $50,000 in support of a
key stakeholders, and cultivate future support workshop on current efforts to implement
Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, for this sector. universal health coverage through the lens of
Dhaka, Bangladesh: $450,000 for use by its maternal and newborn health at the 2010
Bangladesh Institute of Sciences toward the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Pacific Health Summit to be held in London,
costs of establishing the Department of Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh: June 2010.

2010 grants
National University of Rwanda, Butare, in the Philippines, to foster linkages among key related research priorities to further
Rwanda: $964,340 for use by its School of stakeholders, and to cultivate additional future strengthen health systems in developing
Public Health in support of launching a support for this sector. countries.
Centre of Excellence in Health Systems
Strengthening to benefit health professionals President and Fellows of Harvard College, United Nations Foundation, Inc.,
and practitioners in East and Central Africa. Cambridge, MA, United States: $250,000 for Washington, DC, United States: $1,000,000
use by its School of Public Health in support toward the costs of developing its collabora-
Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation, Dhaka, of a planning process to determine the need tive mHealth Alliance, a multi-stakeholder
Bangladesh: $105,000 in support of conduct- for and design of a new initiative to translate partnership devoted to establishing scalable,
ing study tours of the national health insur- global health research evidence into policy open standards-based health solutions by
ance schemes of India, the Philippines, and recommendations for country-level health sys- leveraging the power of mobile networks
Thailand in order to inform the implementation tems strengthening implementation efforts. and devices.
of micro-health insurance in Bangladesh.
Public Health Foundation of India, New Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago,
Partners In Health A Nonprofit Corporation, Delhi, India: $354,450 in support of establish- Chile: $171,800 for use by its Center for
Boston, MA, United States: $296,900 in ing a technical and administrative secretariat Epidemiology and Public Health Policy,
support of a collaboration with Inshuti Mu for assisting the government of India to toward the costs of a study to assess the
Buzima and the Ministry of Health, Rwanda develop a framework for universal healthcare equity of health coverage for pre-natal care
to expand the core OpenMRS electronic in India. and hypertension in Chile and to develop
medical record platform to include primary methodological tools for evaluating health
health care, as part of a national effort to Results for Development Institute, Inc., coverage that will be effective under a variety
deliver more effective care to populations liv- Washington, DC, United States: $3,508,000 of conditions and in different countries.
ing in rural areas. in support of efforts to create more aware-
ness and analytical understanding of the pos- University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana:
PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology sibilities for, and direct facilitation of $167,700 for use by its School of Public
in Health), Seattle, WA, United States: country-level efforts to expand and deepen, Health in support of continuing to enhance its
$1,000,000 in support of a project to begin universal health coverage, including through health informatics curriculum, and establish-
the development of a global health enterprise the creation of a Joint Learning Network ing a Health Informatics Society that will pro-
architecture for national health insurance among implementing countries. mote the development of health informatics
information systems with the aim of strength- capacities that leverage eHealth to improve
ening health systems in the Global South South African Health Informatics access to health services in Ghana.
through improved access to and use of Association, Greyville, South Africa:
health information. $120,000 toward the costs of supporting the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville,
“13th World Congress on Medical and Health South Africa: $600,000 for use by its Faculty
Pathfinder International, Watertown, MA, Informatics: Partnerships for Effective eHealth of Science and Agriculture toward the
United States: $120,000 in support of a proj- Solutions” to be held September 2010 Cape costs of establishing a Health Enterprise
ect to develop an mHealth information-educa- Town, South Africa, including support for the Architecture Lab, a research laboratory
tion-communication system by using mobile participation of health informatics researchers focused on the application of enterprise
phones to disseminate culturally and linguisti- and practitioners from developing countries, architecture and health informatics to low-
cally relevant healthcare information to under- and coordination of the eHealth Innovators resource settings.
served populations in the Central Highlands Awards.
and Northern Mountains of Vietnam. World Federation of Public Health
The African Health Economics and Policy Associations, Geneva, Switzerland: $28,868,
PharmAccess Foundation, Amsterdam, Association Limited, Surrey, United in support of the costs of presenters and
Netherlands: $190,000 for use by its Ghana Kingdom: $69,500 in support of engaging developing country practitioners at the 12th
office in support of a project to develop a Accenture Development Partnerships to World Congress of Public Health Associ-
Ghana Health Certification and Accreditation develop a plan to promote and strengthen its ations, held in Istanbul, Turkey, April 2009.
Board and launch a Capacity Building and capacity to conduct health economics and
Quality Improvement Program that will policy analysis in order to improve health out- World Health Organization, Geneva,
improve quality and increase access to health comes in African countries. Switzerland: $120,000 for use by its Global
services in Ghana. Observatory for eHealth toward the costs of
The University of California, San Francisco, analyzing the results of its recent survey of
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, San Francisco, CA, United States: $104,000 eHealth activities in 115 countries, and the
Makati City, Philippines: $249,890 in support for use by its Global Health Group in support development of a series of monographs for
of a project, as a member organization within of establishing a secretariat to organize a publication, which will inform the decisions of
the Center for Health Market Innovations, to symposium to be held in Toronto, Canada, countries planning to incorporate information
identify, map, track, and analyze innovative pri- July 2011, as part of a continuing effort to technology into their healthcare systems.
vate sector health organizations and programs map what is known about the role of the
private sector in health care and to identify

2010 grants
Transportation Economic Policy Institute, Washington, the case for national transportation reform
DC, United States: $350,000 in support of around mobility choice, energy security and
American Ideas Institute, Palo Alto, CA, research and policy analysis on a range of government accountability.
United States: $150,000 in support of creat- economic security issues for working families,
ing its American Conservative Center for with a focus on the correlation between fed- Institute for Transportation and Develop-
Public Transportation as a vehicle to build eral infrastructure investments and job growth ment Policy, New York, NY, United States:
public support for public transportation. and economic development. $168,800 in support of a project to study
Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New the status of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects
Aspen Institute, Inc., Washington, DC, York, NY, United States: $750,000 in support in the U.S. and to develop a strategy to
United States: $250,000 for use by its of “Blueprint America: A Livable Future,” a advance BRT, including plans for the possible
Congressional Program toward the costs of a multi-platform public broadcasting effort that implementation of a world-class BRT project
nonpartisan project to educate members of will explore the concept of livability by focus- in the U.S.
the U.S. Congress on the confluence of ing on local, state and federal efforts to use
forces, including transportation, that impact transportation and transportation policy to Monitor Company Group LP, Cambridge,
energy security and climate change. create more equitable, affordable, accessible, MA, United States: $151,500 for us by its
greener and healthier communities. Global Business Network in support of a sce-
Building America’s Future Educational nario building exercise directed at the devel-
Fund, Washington, DC, United States: Environmental Law and Policy Center of opment of anticipatory approaches in
$750,000 toward the costs of activities to the Midwest, Chicago, IL, United States: reaction to potential shifts in the political
revitalize investment in, and raise awareness $300,000 toward the costs of its Transpor- process surrounding the passage of federal
about, transportation and infrastructure chal- tation Reform Project, a multi-pronged effort transportation legislation.
lenges facing cities in the United States with that aims to inform the national transportation
the goal of advancing a national vision that reauthorization debate, advocate for high- Mosaic Films, Inc., New York, NY, United
will lead to policies of social equity, environ- speed rail, and promote rural transportation States: $59,600 in support of planning, coordi-
mental sustainability, and economic growth. and other state policy reform efforts in the nating and producing a screening tour of the
Midwest region of the United States. PBS documentary “Beyond the Motor City” in
Carnegie Endowment for International Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and select aging industrial cities across the U.S. to
Peace, Washington, DC, United States: Livable Communities Inc., Coral Gables, FL, foster real-time community debate and discus-
$175,000 toward the costs of producing a United States: $200,000 toward the costs of sion about transportation reform in America.
research report to make the case for new rev- a project to increase philanthropic engage-
enue sources that can fund sustainable trans- ment in efforts to improve transportation poli- National Housing Conference, Inc.,
portation, reduce carbon emissions and help cies and practices in California and at the Washington, DC, United States: $20,000
to reduce the national deficit. federal level, in order to advance environmen- toward the costs of the conference, “Partners
tal sustainability, social equity and public in Innovation: Including Affordable and
Center for Clean Air Policy, Washington, DC, health in metropolitan areas. Workforce Housing within Transit-Oriented
United States: $300,000 toward the costs of Development,” to be held in Denver,
research, policy papers and workshops that Gamaliel Foundation, Chicago, IL, United Colorado, September 2010.
will highlight best practices and federal, state States: $325,000 for use by its Transpor-
and local policy options to advance sustain- tation Equity Network toward the costs of a Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.,
able transportation in the U.S. campaign to encourage equity, job creation New York, NY, United States: $400,000
for low- and middle-income Americans and toward the costs of a range of efforts to help
CEOs for Cities, NFP, Chicago, IL, United environmental sustainability in the transporta- broaden the national movement for trans-
States: $75,000 in support of developing and tion policy debate. portation reform to include security-minded
publicizing a rigorous critique of the Texas conservatives and the business sector, and to
Georgetown University, Washington, DC,
Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility help build the capacity of policymakers at the
United States: $75,000 for use by its
Report, in an effort to advocate for measure- federal, regional, state and local levels by
Georgetown Climate Center toward the costs
ment systems that better reflect the critical broadly disseminating cutting-edge research,
of a meeting of the Regional Greenhouse Gas
role played by density and land use patterns policy analysis and models that have proven
Initiative that will bring together state environ-
in determining the cost, effectiveness and effective for reducing greenhouse gas emis-
mental, energy and transportation agency
impacts of transportation systems and sions and oil usage.
executives to develop a strategy and work
investments.
plan for reducing emissions from the trans-
New York Community Trust, New York, NY,
portation sector by addressing vehicle miles
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States: United States: $100,000 toward the costs of
traveled and efficiency.
$100,000 for use by its Global Labor Institute the One Region Funders’ Group, a joint
in support of launching the Transportation Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, grantmaking effort of funders in the Tri-State
Policy Working Group to encourage dialogues Inc., Potomac, MD, United States: $275,000 metropolitan region of Connecticut, New York
between high-level representatives from labor in support of its Mobility Choice project, and New Jersey to support state- and
unions in transport-related sectors and organ- which seeks to build a coalition of con- regional-level policy and planning initiatives
izations working toward equitable and sus- stituents from across the political spectrum that link housing, economic opportunity,
tainable transportation systems in the U.S. and from all parts of the country to advance transportation, and land use issues.

2010 grants
New York Public Radio, New York, NY, Smart Growth America, Washington, DC, growth and job creation in the public transit
United States: $450,000 toward the costs of United States: $392,500 in support of advo- manufacturing sector in the U.S.
expanding and deepening “Transportation cating for state-level transportation reform
Nation,” a radio broadcast and online by analyzing the fiscal situation of several Tides Center, San Francisco, CA, United
editorial collaboration that provides nationally- state Departments of Transportation, and States: $150,000 toward the costs of its
distributed news coverage on transportation studying national finance and tax policy to Empire State Future project, a state-wide
and infrastructure policies and practice. identify new policy proposals to reduce urban coalition of environmental, economic devel-
sprawl and encourage transit-orientated opment and community organizations work-
Reconnecting America, Inc., Oakland, development. ing to advance the revitalization of New York’s
CA, United States: $275,000 in support of older industrial cities through sustainable
developing a coordinated rural strategy for Smart Growth America, Washington, DC, land-use policies and economic development
national transportation reform as part of the United States: $2,300,000 toward the costs strategies.
Transportation for America (T4A) campaign. of an advocacy campaign, Transportation for
America (T4 America), that seeks to advance University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison,
Reconnecting America, Inc., Oakland, CA, more sustainable and equitable national WI, United States: $1,500,000 for use by its
United States: $50,000 in support of a report transportation policies to improve the lives of Center on Wisconsin Strategy toward the
on planned transit corridors across the United low-income and vulnerable people. costs of launching the Smart State
States in an effort to identify projects that are Transportation Initiative, a project to improve
ripe for philanthropic intervention and have Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn, and support states’ capacity to implement
the potential to catalyze regional, statewide NY, United States: $175,000 for use by its climate-friendly and equitable transportation
or national support for expansion of transit Center on Law and Public Finance in support policies and practices.
funding. of a series of publications to provide informa-
tion to public officials and policymakers about Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC,
Regional Plan Association, Inc., New York, best practices in innovative financing solutions United States: $250,000 toward the costs of
NY, United States: $350,000 toward the and public-private partnerships for infrastruc- a series of activities to explore the connection
costs of its America 2050 project, which ture projects that increase competitiveness between land use and transportation and
seeks to stimulate discussion about trans- and advance the public interest. educate its members on federal transporta-
portation and infrastructure challenges facing tion and infrastructure policy issues, in an
cities in the United States, with a focus on Southern Environmental Law Center, effort to build support for a national vision
research, public outreach and education on Charlottesville, VA, United States: $225,000 that will advance transportation policies that
high-speed rail and other efforts that will lead toward the costs of advocacy efforts to lead to social equity, environmental sustain-
to policies of social equity, environmental advance sustainable transportation and land ability and economic growth.
sustainability and economic growth. use policies and projects in the Southeast
region of the United States, with a particular
Regional Plan Association, Inc., New York, focus on North Carolina and Georgia.
NY, United States: $300,000 toward the
costs of its America 2050 project’s efforts to The Open Planning Project, Inc., New York,
develop support for a high-speed rail system NY, United States: $79,800 toward the costs
nationally, implement an improved high- of two events that will bring together policy-
speed rail system in the Northeast Corridor, makers and advocates to discuss new
and leverage rail investments for improved advances in transportation technologies in an
environmental benefits, smart growth, and effort to increase the sustainability, equity and
urban infill development. effectiveness of U.S. transportation systems.
Resources Legacy Fund, Sacramento, CA, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia,
United States: $550,000 toward the costs of PA, United States: $250,000 for use by its
technical, communications and coalition Pew Center on the States toward the costs
building activities aimed at reducing green- of conducting a 50-state assessment that
house gas emissions, shifting development will analyze states’ progress toward select
patterns and increasing public transportation transportation goals, focusing on economic
funding in California. performance, financial sustainability and
public safety.
Second Nature, Inc., Boston, MA, United
States: $50,000 in support of a joint project Tides Center, San Francisco, CA, United
with Transportation for America to engage States: $400,000 toward the costs of its proj-
college and university presidents in an ect, the Apollo Alliance, for support of its
advocacy campaign to advance more Transportation-Manufacturing Action Plan
sustainable and equitable national transporta- (T-MAP), a research and advocacy effort to
tion policies. develop the economic case for green trans-
portation by assessing the potential for

2010 financials
Fiscal Stewardship
The Rockefeller Foundation Condensed Financial Statements for 2010
Statement of Financial Position as of December 31.

Amounts in millions. Numbers are rounded.
ASSETS 2010 2009
Cash, cash equivalents and other current assets 9 8
Investments 3,528 3,255
Other long term assets 56 54
Total assets 3,593 3,317
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Accounts payable and accrued expenses 8 9
Grants payable 45 43
Debt outstanding 20 20
Other liabilities 28 24
Total liabilities 101 96
Unrestricted net assets 3,492 3,221
Total liabilities and net assets 3,593 3,317

2010 financials
Statement of Activities as of December 31.

Amounts in millions. Numbers are rounded.
REALIZED INCOME 2010 2009
Realized investment income 198 32
Investment expense (11) (12)
Other income — 1
Net realized income 187 21
EXPENSES
Grants and direct charitable activities 141 136
Program costs 18 19
Operations 18 19
Taxes 3 (1)
Total expenses 180 173
Excess (Deficiency) of net realized income over expenses 7 (152)
UNREALIZED INCOME
Unrealized gain (loss) on investments 257 510
Pension and post-retirement benefit adjustments 8 8
Change in net assets 272 366

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Sowing the Seeds of Africa’s Green Revolution
1 “Good Seeds, Better Lives: Seeds, Supplies, and Advice for Rural Farmers” (note: courtesy of Gates Foundation),
http://www.agra-alliance.org/content/story/detail/1139.
2 Rockefeller Foundation, “Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa: Initiative Outline for Pre-Proposal Bundles,” p. 1.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 “About the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,” http://www.agra-alliance.org/section/about.
6 Rockefeller Foundation, “Grant Memo: AGRA Market Access,” p. 3.
7 “About the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,” http://www.agra-alliance.org/section/about.
8 Gregg Easterbrook, “Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity,” The Atlantic Jan 1997.
Driving Sustainable and Equitable Transportation Policy

1 http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_19145034.
2 http://stories.energytrap.org/.
3 Rockefeller Foundation, Transportation Initiative in Execution, p. 1.
4 http://stories.energytrap.org/.
5 Rockefeller Foundation, Transportation Initiative in Execution, p. 1.
6 “Danger Zones: 1 in 9 Bridges Called ‘Deficient,’ ” http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/what-we-do/current-work/promoting-equitable-sustainable.
7 Rockefeller Foundation, Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind, p. 25.
8 Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 340.
Building Strong Systems for Healthy Communities

1 http://healthmarketinnovations.org/program/102-ambulance-call-centre.
2 http://healthmarketinnovations.org/blog/2011/nov/22/healthcare-just-another-stop-your-morning-routine.
3 Rodin, “Changing Landscape of Global Public Health,” Oct 25, 2010, p. 4.
4 Rockefeller Foundation, Transforming Health Systems Initiative, p. 1.
Detecting Disease Through Integration

1 RF, Disease Surveillance Networks Initiative, p. 1
2 http://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/country2003_08_15.pdf.
3 http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/press-releases/promoting-trans-national-collaboration.
Working for a Stronger Safety Net

1 http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/what-we-do/current-work/protecting-american-workers-economic/grants-grantees/doorway-dreams.
2 RF, NELP Grant Memo, p. 1.
3 D2D Fund, “Yes We Can: Inclusive Saving at Tax Time,” p. 5, http://www.d2dfund.org/files/publications/
D2D_Yes%20We%20Can%20Report4_070809_FINALFINAL.pdf.
4 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_d_rockefeller.html#ixzz1jHRgQ9VI (also inscribed on Rockefeller Building).
Innovating Within and Across Institutions

1 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/business/economy/09leonhardt.html.
3 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/06/social-impact-bonds-intractable-societal-problems/print,
http://www.socialfinance.org.uk/sites/default/files/SF_Peterborough_SIB.pdf.
4 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/02/social_impact_bonds.html.
5 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703584804576144661629994864.html.
6 Rockefeller Foundation, “Nonprofit Finance Fund Grant Memo.”
Building Climate Change Resilience

1 http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/India/India-cheers-as-monsoon-arrives-hopes-of-better-farm-output-raised/Article1-551239.aspx.
2 RF Climate Change Resilience Initiative in Execution, p. 2, http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/
files/c2c7bee1-0127-4c60-91aa-893f038b240a-developing.pdf.
3 Joel E. Cohen, “Seven Billion,” NYT, Oct 23, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/opinion/seven-billion.html?pagewanted=all.
4 Joel E. Cohen, “Seven Billion,” NYT, Oct 23, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/opinion/seven-billion.html?pagewanted=all.
5 “The 7 Fastest-Growing Cities in the World,” Oct 26, 2011, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/26/worlds_fastest_growing_cities_?page=full.
6 http://www.usa.siemens.com/sustainable-cities/.

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4 Sowing the Seeds of Africa’s Green Revolution

10 Driving Sustainable and Equitable Transportation Policy

20 Detecting Disease Through Integration

24 Working for a Stronger Safety Net

28 Innovating Within and Across Institutions

32 Building Climate Change Resilience

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The Rockefeller Foundation | 2010 Annual Report | 5

Unfortunately, the vast majority of sub-Saharan Africa’s 570 million small

Sub-Saharan Africa’s rapidly increasing population has outgrown traditional

6 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2010 Annual Report

In 2006, the Rockefeller Foundation partnered with The

In the next decade, AGRA aims to cut food insecurity in

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2010 Annual Report | 7

It was the genius of field agricultural scientists like Norman Borlaug—

Innovative, integrated initiatives like AGRA reach across all sectors of

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Only 40 percent of the global population benefits from

Both the 102 Ambulance Call Centre and Dr. Gwer’s

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From the beginning, Rockefeller has been committed to creative, holistic

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The Rockefeller Foundation is dedi-

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Building on this knowledge base, Rockefeller has established collaborative

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An Opportunity to Make a Living

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By transferring risk from the taxpayer to the

The social sector innovates and tests, and the gov-

Understanding the potential of social impact bonds,

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When it comes to building the social capital necessary

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