Rockefeller Foundation — Global Impact Grants

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We Make Opportunity Universal and Sustainable We’re a pioneering philanthropy that promotes the well-being of humanity by finding new solutions, building unlikely partnerships, and taking a business-like approach to deliver results for Americans and people around the world. In a school in Kenya, kids now carry books instead of firewood to class. Why? The Rockefeller Foundation and our partners built a solar-powered kitchen for a MrBeast school in Kenya. Take a look at the work — over just two weeks — that went into ensuring school children have access to a healthy, nutritious school lunch. Building a Global Movement: How Food is Medicine Is Transforming Healthcare Worldwide A global convening at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center united leaders to establish shared principles and accelerate collaboration in scaling Food is Medicine solutions worldwide to address diet-related disease and transform healthcare systems. How an AI-Based App Is Bridging the Information Gap for India’s Farmers An AI-powered tool called FarmerChat is transforming how smallholder farmers access timely, hyperlocal advice — helping them make critical decisions, protect their livelihoods, and build resilience in the face of climate and resource challenges. A Food System for the Future: From School Meals to Food is Medicine A look at how Regenerative School Meals and Food is Medicine can reshape food systems to improve health, support farmers, and strengthen communities. At The Rockefeller Foundation, we work with anyone to ensure everyone has good jobs, good food, good health, and more at a time when climate change’s effects are taking lives and undermining livelihoods. Committed Grants Explore our current and past funding priorities aimed at fostering and enhancing human potential. Focus Areas From energy, food, health, and innovation, investigate our current efforts. Reports We believe in metrics, not only to celebrate successes, but to find ways to do better. From our initial grant to the American Red Cross a century ago, The Rockefeller Foundation’s history is marked by bold initiatives, breakthroughs, and unique partnerships, driving transformative change toward a more equitable and resilient world. Reimagining Global Health for a Changing World From funding the Nobel Prize-winning yellow fever vaccine to scaling Covid-19 testing during the pandemic, The Rockefeller Foundation has helped shape public health’s principles and institutions. As traditional funding sources recede, institutional power shifts, and long-standing systems falter, we are accelerating the thinking of global health architecture fit for tomorrow. Growing Good Food To fight food insecurity, The Rockefeller Foundation helped boost crop yields in Asia, Africa, and beyond through modernizing agriculture practices. Today, we are championing regenerative agriculture and helping Americans access nutritious, affordable, and sustainably-grown foods. Connecting People to Energy Nearly half the world's population lacks sufficient access to the energy that offers opportunity, health, and stability in the 21st century. The Rockefeller Foundation has advanced solar mini-grid prototypes in India, helped create the U.S. Energy Foundation, and co-leads the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, whose mission is to reach one billion people with reliable renewable power. Leveraging Innovation From the earliest days of nuclear physics to the cutting-edge of AI, The Rockefeller Foundation has worked across sectors and political lines to develop technologies and scale them for efficiency and impact. Too few enjoy the benefits of innovation, which is why our mission is to ensure scientific progress advances good jobs, good food, good health, and safe communities. Rockefeller Foundation Calls for Urgent, Coordinated Response to Record Decline in Global Aid, per New OECD Data Mission 300 Launches Private Sector Council to Boost Electricity Access and Job Creation in Africa Rockefeller Foundation, Global Energy Alliance Invest More Than US$100 Million To Expand Electricity in Africa Our mission, promoting the well-being of humanity throughout the world, remains unchanged since 1913. Today, that mission requires us to work with partners across sectors and political lines to deliver results for Americans and people across the world. In 1913, John D. Rockefeller established a foundation to use science and technology to solve humanity’s toughest problems at their roots, rather than alleviate their symptoms with charity. More than a century later, we come to work each day with the same ambitious mindset: we can solve today’s big problems like climate change, not just settle for small improvements. Today, we are data-driven experts willing to take risks and the long view on the big bets and partnerships needed to scale revolutionary solutions. We remain optimistic about the future — even at a pessimistic, divisive time — because we have seen it’s possible for individuals, parties, and institutions to work, learn, and transform the world together. 1. We believe that many of the greatest challenges of our time are solvable. Rather than shying away from tough problems, we remain optimistic. Therefore, we set audacious goals to have transformational impact at a global scale. We look for innovations that can be a catalyst or accelerator of progress. We are undeterred by failure; while our approaches may evolve as we take risks and learn, our commitment to the impacts we seek remains unwavering. 2. We believe that connectivity powers change. Rather than pursuing our goals alone or only with existing allies, we seek out, convene and collaborate with unlikely partners to meet common goals. Therefore, we develop a strong bench of convening capabilities and offer it to our partners and peers to shape ideas and solutions. We actively work to build alliances across public, private, philanthropic, and community spaces. 3. We believe our history is our greatest resource. Rather than avoiding the limelight, we use our brand to accelerate progress. Therefore, we wield the power of our voice to bring the world’s attention to the issues we’re tackling. And we offer our communications expertise, along with our brand recognition, to our partners so they can more easily garner the support they need to succeed. 4. We believe that impact is more achievable when our team engages actively alongside grantees and partners. Rather than joining the trust-based philanthropy movement, we choose to be an active collaborator. Therefore, we roll up our sleeves alongside our grantees and partners, co-creating goals and strategies, convening actors, building alliances, mobilizing capital, and using our voice to inspire action. 5. We believe we should leverage all of our assets for good. Rather than restricting ourselves to a narrow view of philanthropy, we use our full balance sheet to unlock our own and others’ capital. Therefore, in addition to our grantmaking, we leverage our operations, endowment, and investing capabilities to drive progress toward shared goals. We try to lead by example by making net zero commitments for our operations and endowment. And we use different funding mechanisms — whether a grant, contract, PRI, or even a bond — based on what’s best suited to get the work done. 6. We believe in the power of data and evidence to inform what we do, and how we do it. Rather than wait for the full picture, we reflect on results early and often. Therefore, we ask partners to provide both numbers and stories that help us understand their work, and the extent to which the hypotheses we’re testing are holding true. We aim to learn from our and our partners’ successes and challenges along the way, and transparently share our insights and impact, even when the results are not what we hoped. And we are continuing to develop intentional ways to improve the use of data and evidence in strategy development and implementation. 7. We believe that timing is everything. Rather than remain steadfast to the same priorities for a set amount of time, we recognize that needs and conditions change. Therefore, when a window of opportunity opens, we mobilize with our partners to seize it. We might go down one road and then circle back. We understand that strategies are roadmaps that we are open to reconsidering in order to achieve our goals. 8. We believe that our work should reduce disparities. Rather than assuming we have the answers, we are learning how to work in a way that meaningfully improves the lives of those most affected by social injustice. Therefore, we are exploring what this means for us, and how we can do this more systematically, recognizing that we will always be able to improve. The World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, and The Rockefeller Foundation launched a new Mission 300 Private Sector Council to mobilize the billions in private investment needed to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030 — while unlocking job creation across the continent. Mission 300 is an initiative by the World Bank and African Development Bank, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, and Sustainable Energy for All to connect 300 million people in Africa to electricity by 2030 — while helping create more jobs. Nearly 600 million people in Africa lack access to electricity. Closing the gap will require unprecedented scale, speed, and investment — with increased engagement from the private sector. IFC and MIGA, members of the World Bank Group, have committed $5 billion in support of private sector investment under Mission 300 by 2030. The Rockefeller Foundation’s public charity, RF Catalytic Capital (RFCC), will host the secretariat for the council, which will meet quarterly. Half of Mission 300 electricity connections are going to come from off-grid solutions. Private sector investment is critical to building out off-grid energy