The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 2011 president’s letter. 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. Much of our work at The Rockefeller Foundation focuses on innovating to meet these 21st century challenges. As we present our 2011 Annual Report, it is worth pausing to consider a question fundamental to Rockefeller’s mission: why innovation?

Sometimes, it seems a word without weight. Last year, “innovative” had the dubious distinction of being the second-most overused term in LinkedIn’s 85-million user profiles. (In my local grocery store, I’ve even seen the word applied to thin-crust frozen pizza.) But at Rockefeller, innovation is much more than a buzz- word—it is our byword, the past and future of our foundation. We have always understood that in a world of ever-increasing complexity, success goes to the non-linear, the aggregator, the connector. Solutions flow from the innovator.

Innovation—what John D. Rockefeller called “scientific philanthropy”—has defined our mission for nearly a century, as Rockefeller researchers and resources created the field of public health, or launched a Green Revolution in agriculture credited with saving a billion lives. None of these advances were straightforward or predictable. They required reframing problems and recombining insights. Pioneering Rockefeller scientists, for instance, saw food security not just as a problem of agricultural science, but of economics, sociology, and psychology as well. As one of Rockefeller’s grantees once observed, “You cannot solve a problem at the same level of consciousness that created it. You must look at the world anew.” That grantee was Albert Einstein, and he was right; to solve problems, we must look at the world anew.

Today, at first glance, we see a world in which food insecurity is exacerbated by shifting weather patterns, the search for alternative energy solutions, and rapidly shifting global market dynamics. We see city infra- structure overwhelmed by unprecedented urban migration, and mutating bacteria and viruses developing resistance to vaccines, as they race through populations around the world.

But then we tilt our heads slightly. We bring together experts and range broadly across disciplines. We see with new eyes. We innovate. Others pioneered microcredit, but Rockefeller is pairing that invention with weather-calibrated microinsurance for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The emerging sector of impact investment existed previously, but Rocke- feller realized that creating uniform standards would further unleash private capital to alleviate social ills.

Recognizing that the profound impact of innovations are compounded, multiplied, and reapplied, Rocke- feller is committed to strengthening the institutions and infrastructure of innovation—the processes of inno- vation. This year we have focused on six major issue areas: transportation, food security, urban climate resilience, health infrastructure, impact investing, and innovation itself. As you will see in this report, what unites all Rockefeller projects is a desire to harness networks, compile data, and build systems, with an eye toward catalyzing the next big breakthrough.

John D. Rockefeller said, “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” We have taken our founder’s words to heart. Without innovation—with- out striking out on new paths—our present tools will prove insufficient to overcome the challenges of our time. After all, innovation is not just a word; it is one of the world’s most powerful frameworks, because, in a way, it teaches us to reject frameworks. It allows us to size up and take on the 21st century’s most insur- mountable difficulties by being relentlessly creative.

Innovation is the triumph of the imagination. It’s what drives us at Rockefeller, and I urge you to take a moment to see the results.

Judith Rodin President The Rockefeller Foundation 2011 Annual Report

4 Strengthening Food Security

10 Promoting Equitable and Sustainable Transportation

14 Transforming Health Systems

18 Linking Global Disease Surveillance Networks

22 Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing

28 Harnessing Innovation to Accelerate Impact

34 Developing Climate Change Resilience: Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network

38 Developing Climate Change Resilience: Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation

42 2011 Financials

45 2011 Grants

65 2011 Trustees

66 2011 Staff Strengthening Food Security cursed crops. After years of poor maize harvests, Joseph Onyango was at his wit’s end, convinced that his clan had cast an evil spell on his farm in western Kenya. How else to explain the failure of his fields? Distressed, he sought advice from his friend, whose far-off fields were flour- ishing. Joseph’s friend had been in contact with researchers from the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, and his answer both surprised and relieved Joseph.

What was killing his crops, Joseph’s friend explained, was not sorcery, but acidity. Spreading a little lime on his fields would raise the soil pH and increase the availability of nutrients. This, in turn, would improve the yield of Joseph’s fields. Before long, maize production on Joseph’s half-hectare tripled.1

Sub-Saharan Africa’s nearly 600 million smallholder farmers are widely impacted not by witchcraft, but by harsh geography and sparse agricultural education. Some regions suffer from a shortfall of rainfall, while in others the soil washes away from heavy rain. Western Kenya can boast only about half a million arable acres, and even that land is relatively mar- ginal, with high levels of acidity and low levels of vital nutrients. Harvesting advice is often hearsay, meaning that many farmers have little idea of how to maximize their meager pro- duction. And Africa’s population is growing, even if its crops aren’t.

1—http://www.agra-alliance.org/AGRA/en/news-events/news/farmers-reap-big-from-soil-study.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 5 6 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report A Fruitful Start

Recognizing the need to address Africa’s agricultural challenges, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Gates Foundation joined together in 2006 to form the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. By bringing together government leaders and policymak- ers, agricultural experts, and smallholders across 13 countries, AGRA aims to create a secure, sustainable agricultural future for Africa’s small farmers. Our goal is to halve food insecurity in 20 African countries, while doubling the incomes of 20 million smallholders.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 7 Five years after co-founding AGRA, Rockefeller continues to support the organization as it matures, transitions to new leadership, and expands its partnerships with other key breadbasket countries. Whether improving mar- ket access and agricultural education, experimenting with hardier, higher- yield seeds, or replenishing degraded soils through methods like the ones Joseph and his friend have implemented, AGRA’s efforts have, quite literally, taken root and borne fruit.

Turning the Tide

When Norman Borlaug accepted the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, he declared his belief that “the Green Revolution has not yet been won.” Despite the astound- ing success of Borlaug and other Rockefeller scientists in revolutionizing agri- culture to save one billion lives, the “Father of the Green Revolution” believed that food insecurity would continue to plague our planet. He was right.

That is why The Rockefeller Foundation remains as committed to promoting food security today as we were half a century ago. And though the challenge is old, our methods and tools are new. If the rapidly escalating frequency and impact of extreme weather events is undermining our crops, we will work with farmers on the ground and researchers in the lab to engineer more resilient, adaptive seeds. If the rain fails to fall, we will work with policy- makers and leading NGOs to create targeted, innovative safety nets for stricken smallholders. With the relentless innovation and commitment to collaboration that has been our hallmark for nearly a century, we will, even- tually, turn the tide.

8 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 9 Promoting Equitable and Sustainable Transportation a sprawling problem. Wildfires. Earthquakes. Drought. These are just a few of the hazards that Southern California must contend with. Then again, one of the most destructive forces in the region is manmade: gridlock.

The average Los Angeles commuter spends more hours stuck in traffic than commuters in any other US city—a whopping 72 hours annually.1 The impacts are felt across society— and disproportionally amongst poor communities—from lost economic activity, to increased road and vehicle maintenance costs, to adverse health impacts. From auto emissions to lack of physical activity while sitting in traffic for hours on end, lengthy commutes mean an increased risk of disease—including asthma and obesity—and a higher instance of traffic fatalities, the leading cause of death among young Americans.

It’s not just LA. The consequences of unchecked development, of suburbs and exurbs extending mile after haphazard mile, threaten the wellbeing of every community in America and the health of our planet. Every year, the average American spends the equivalent of 55 eight-hour workdays in a car.2 Commuting also releases more than 1.7 billion metric tons of carbon released into the atmosphere,3 contributing to global climate change.

1—http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/24/cities-commute-fuel-forbeslife-cx_mw_0424realestate3_slide_3.html?thisSpeed=undefined; 2—http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/overview; 3—http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/Downloads/ghgemissions/US-GHG-Inventory-2012-ES.pdf.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 11 Implementing Innovation

In 2008, the California legislature passed S.B. 375, the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act, to reduce greenhouse gases by encouraging sustainable transportation and smart growth. The bill sets regional emissions targets, and then requires communities to develop innovative strategies to achieve them. As the state struggles with partisan- ship and severe budget shortfalls, however, implementing these sustainable growth policies has proven highly challenging.

To facilitate communities meeting their emissions targets, Rockefeller has sup- ported a number of advocacy organizations, including the Resources Legacy Fund, the American Lung Association, and MOVE LA. Together, these groups have launched an effective, coordinated campaign to persuade, educate and support communities executing their smart growth goals. Thanks to these efforts, even one of the most car dependent regions of California—home to nearly half of the state’s 37 million residents—voted to dramatically increase funding for public transit and more compact land-use. Rockefeller is helping to prove that if we can develop sustainable communities in the most populous and diverse state in the country, we can do it everywhere.

12 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report Growing Together

As The Rockefeller Foundation has grown over the past century, we watched the cities and suburbs around us grow as well. And we acted to ensure they would grow in a positive direction. With a single grant to an unknown young woman named Jane Jacobs, we helped establish the field of urban theory and design in the late 1950s. Later, we directed crucial seed money to community-based development organizations during and after the urban crisis of the 1960s and 70s; and opened new doors to affordable and sup- portive housing through the 1980s and 90s. In 2011, our work on smart growth drew on a half century’s experience of thinking about and working in urban planning, particularly critical as the interconnected and accelerating forces of globalization and urbanization mobilize a worldwide demographic revolution. Our commitment has not wavered, even as we innovate and experiment with new solutions.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 13 Transforming Health Systems a helping hand, miles away. A pregnant woman walks into a health clinic in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, a sprawl- ing metropolis home to more than 16 million people. The woman is experiencing abdominal pain, and she’s desperate for help, fearing for the health of her unborn child, and for her own.

But this makeshift clinic is located in the impoverished slum where the woman lives. It is under-resourced and understaffed. There is no doctor on hand, just an untrained, barely- literate health care worker. The clinic has only the most basic supplies and medicine. The closest hospital is miles away. The woman’s chances of getting the help she needs seems just as remote.

The health care worker takes out her cellphone. Through an SMS texting service, the worker contacts the main hospital, where a neonatal physician helps to diagnose the woman’s condition—gestational hypertension—and prescribe a course of treatment. Despite her pain, the pregnant woman is overcome by relief. She understands her condition, and she’s been given the basic yet critical medicine and information needed to protect herself and her baby from further complications.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 15 Re-Imagining Health Care Delivery

In a makeshift clinic, in an impoverished slum, and in less than three minutes, the pregnant woman described above received medical treatment with better technology and faster service than what is available in many parts of the developed world. This is the vision of the BRAC Manoshi maternal and neonatal care service in Bangladesh. BRAC is a leading Bangladeshi NGO and, through its work with a number of partners, a pioneer of mobile-health solutions in the developing world. The Rockefeller Foundation is helping BRAC test and deploy mobile health services that address maternal and child health issues for slum dwellers.

This is a critical issue in Bangladesh, where maternal and neonatal mortality are critical concerns. Bangladesh ranks seventh among the 42 countries that account for 90 percent of all childhood deaths worldwide.1 A major contributing factor to this terrible statistic is the simple lack of risk assessment, timely intervention, and prioritized treatment for pregnant women.

1—Note: This fact and language taken directly from the BRAC grant memo.

16 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report While high-tech hospitals are out of the reach for many people in the developing world, cell phones are widely available. According to the International Telecommunications Union, 79 percent of those living in developing countries have cell phones.2 BRAC is helping to change the health care equation in Bangladesh by leveraging increasingly ubiquitous mobile technology to deliver basic health care services wherever and whenever they are needed.

Universal Access Through the Innovation Process

New technologies and demographic, epidemiologic, and economic shifts are transforming health systems around the world. At The Rockefeller Foundation, we believe there is a window of opportunity to promote strategies that steer this transformation toward better health outcomes. That’s why we focus on “trans- forming health systems” by brokering new partnerships, searching for sustainable solutions, and—most importantly—fostering innovation through pioneering grantees like BRAC. Today, while universal access to health care remains a distant dream, each new innovation brings us one step closer to the realization of care for all those in need, no matter their economic status or the place they call home.

2—http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/297822/how-the-mobile-phone-is-evolving-in-developing-countries.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 17 Linking Global Disease Surveillance Networks containing the contagion. When doctors at a hospital in Laos attempted to diagnose a young girl suffering from flu- like symptoms, they came up with more questions than answers. They quickly exhausted their testing and treatment capabilities with no successful diagnosis. Instead of simply administering basic care and attempting to provide the girl some comfort, the doctors contacted a network of colleagues and officials throughout Laos and Thailand. The girl was sent to a hospital in Thailand, where she was ultimately diagnosed with Avian Flu. Multina- tional health teams were immediately activated and visited 20 separate villages in regions close to the sick girl’s home. They interviewed 8,000 families and identified 150 people with flu symptoms. Their quick response helped stem the spread of a dangerous contagion.

Unfortunately, this level of response to an emerging pandemic is the exception, not the rule. In 2009, the H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic spread from Mexico and killed an estimated 300,000-500,000 people.1 As global hotbeds for infectious diseases, Southeast Asia and Africa were particularly hard-hit. Yet in lives lost and economies disrupted, disease pandemics are threats that know no borders. They can come from anywhere—and be everywhere—in the blink of a microbial eye. Our response must be equally swift.

1—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22738893?dopt=Abstract.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 19 Detecting and Defeating Disease

Today, our global resources are nowhere near sufficient to monitor and respond to these public health crises. Experts in human, animal, and environmental health frequently remain dangerously uninformed of their col- leagues’ work, exacerbating the spread of diseases passed from animals to humans. Patchwork public health organizations often lacked strong relationships and open lines of communication. Detecting a deadly disease and deciding upon a course of action can take weeks—and those are weeks we don’t have.

That’s why The Rockefeller Foundation catalyzed the creation of the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network (MBDSN) in Asia. The network links together six countries—Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Yunnan Province of China—to form new collaborations that can help slow the spread of disease. MBDSN countries collaborate on improving health outcomes, empowering and educating health workers, and slowing the spread of disease by working together to exchange information, training, response efforts, and disaster preparedness.

In addition to financial support, The Rockefeller Foundation has assisted MBDSN by supporting the creation of sophisticated technology tracking of outbreak patterns; regular cross-border information exchange; joint investigation and response; training of health personnel; and disaster preparedness response.

20 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report Ending “the Supreme Ill in Human Life”

At The Rockefeller Foundation’s very first board meeting, it was argued that since “disease is the supreme ill in human life,” curtailing it should be one of the Foundation’s primary goals. Rockefeller researchers, with brilliant interdisciplinary insights and relentless efforts, answered the call. They struck down hookworm in the American South and chased malaria out of the western hemisphere. In 1937, the year John D. Rockefeller died, Rockefeller scientists developed a vaccine for yellow fever, a disease so deadly that people stopped shaking hands for fear of transmission. Along the way, the Foundation seeded preeminent schools of public health and international health organizations.

Our task in this 21st century is to carry on The Rockefeller Foundation’s legacy of leadership in public health, recognizing that in a fast-paced, globalized world we must build flexible, coordinated systems that can move as quickly as a virus on a 747 airplane. In pursuing this vision, we draw on a rich history. We know from experience that the world can stop the spread of disease when we have ensured the spread of knowledge.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 21 Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing a sweet investment. For the beekeepers of Bee Natural Uganda Ltd., it was rejection that stung the most. Despite producing high-quality honey and candles for East Africa, when the small honey business wanted to purchase a processing plant and secure working capital, investors turned away. Microfinance organizations said Bee Natural was too big and established. Commercial banks considered them too small and risky. The workers of this environmentally conscious enter- prise—70 percent of whom are women—were slipping through capitalism’s cracks.

Enter the African Agricultural Capital Fund. Capitalized by Rockefeller and other founda- tions, and guaranteed in part by USAID, the $25 million fund seeks out agribusinesses with the potential to grow the income and productivity of a quarter million East African house- holds. AACF invested in Bee Natural early, allowing the Ugandan business to improve its processing, employment and training capabilities. Increased yields could quadruple each small farmer’s honey income and offer the fund’s investors a sweet payoff, as well.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 23 The Missing Middle

The mathematics of social welfare is stark. We have trillions in social needs and only billions—combining all foreign aid and philanthropic donations— with which to address them. For-profit capital markets, though, hold over $100 trillion globally, giving rise to an emerging industry directing a portion of that capital into alleviating climate change, food insecurity, inadequate income, and poor health.

24 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report As a largely untested industry, impact investing faces challenges ranging from the need for shared infrastructure to a set of standards and metrics that can help generate the greatest possible social impact. Crucially, the field lacks strong mechanisms linking investors to businesses on the demand side—the small and emerging enterprises (SME’s) like Bee Natural. These businesses account for more than half the GDP and employment of developed countries, but less than a fifth of GDP and employment in the developing world. We can’t lift the bottom billion, without first filling in the “missing middle.”

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 25 In addition to our ongoing efforts to standardize and institutionalize impact investing infrastructure, The Rockefeller Foundation is pioneering new equity vehicles for SME investment and development. This unique AACF consor- tium—managed by Kampala-based Pearl Capital Partners and supported by the Rockefeller, BMGF, and Gatsby foundations, USAID, and J.P. Morgan— is directing long-term risk capital to scale agribusinesses that create jobs, contribute to food security and deliver financial returns.

Along with its Bee Natural investment, AACF has, quite literally, provided seed capital to two East African seed companies. Each employs roughly 200 people, and AACF’s investments have enabled them to provide greater and more varied maize, soy, sorghum, and rice seeds, while pushing for improved agricultural technology and local infrastructure. The AACF is a prime example of how government, civil society, and the private sector can work together to provide employment opportunities for the poor through impact investments, and it represents the first stage of a potential pooled equity Partnership for African Agriculture.

26 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report A Second Philanthropic Revolution

When John D. Rockefeller established The Rockefeller Foundation a century ago, he created the field of global philanthropy and revolutionized global giving. For the first time, private capital was directed toward public needs. It was $183 million of Rockefeller’s own money, wisely distributed, that directly led to a yellow fever vaccine and lifesaving agricultural innovations. His was the original impact investment.

Today, Rockefeller’s foundation is pioneering a second philanthropic revolution, once again unlocking the vast resources of private capital for the good of the globe. Impact investing offers us the chance to honor and update Rockefeller’s original investment so it can have the greatest possible impact in the coming century.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 27 Harnessing Innovation to Accelerate Impact planning for the worst. Rioting in a dozen cities around the world as millions take to the streets to protest an increase in food prices. The Nile slowing to a trickle, causing food shortages and the spread of epidemics throughout Cairo’s poor neighborhoods. The bankruptcy of a major American city, precipitated by the closing of its once thriving port. These were the fabri- cated—yet very possible—scenarios presented to the participants of The Rockefeller Foundation’s inaugural Innovation Forum in 2011.

Highlighted by the presentation of The Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Award to Dr. Sania Nishtar of Pakistan, Jane Weru of Kenya, the global organization Kiva Kids and President Bill Clinton, the annual Innovation Forum was launched in 2011 to gather some of the most cre- ative and inventive minds from the worlds of business, government, civil society and journal- ism to bring innovation to bear on urgent challenges facing poor or vulnerable people around the world. Convening in New York on July 27, we focused our efforts on three key issues— urbanization, water security and food security.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 29 Reframing Problems

Participants gathered in breakout sessions and viewed vivid mock news- casts outlining the future problems that could result if we do not adequately address these key issues. The conversations in the breakout sessions revolved around reframing these problems—and through the reframing of them—the unearthing of new solutions.

After pouring through the transcripts of the breakouts, we created thirty- four areas for big ideas across a full range of development topics. Then, we recruited even more outside voices to reframe and combine some of these ideas into six core areas of opportunity:

n Urban Blueprinting—replicating environments that fuel entrepreneurship and foster innovative culture in emerging cities, and restructuring incentives to inspire creative responses and revitalize urban spaces;

30 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report n Anchoring Regions—enabling cities to use existing anchors more effectively and realize new ones, and allocating services and expertise to overcome political obstacles that hamper regional cooperation;

n Civic Pioneering—empowering municipal leaders with new models for learning and breaking with short-term thinking to build a practice around long-term vision setting;

n Irrigating Efficiency—ensuring the adoption of micro- irrigation technologies;

n Farming Now—recreating a renewed belief and deep sense of purpose among farming communities and creating peri-urban farming areas that draw young people; and

n Decoding Data—focusing on the data that is most useful and actionable.

Issuing Challenges

Of these six areas, the first three are being tackled through our own grant-making and the latter three were presented to the world in an open invitation to problem solving through our 2012 Rockefeller Foundation Innova- tion Challenge. The Innovation Challenge engaged a vari- ety of audiences in a number of ways—including a Twitter Conference—to discover the best solutions to these chal- lenges. Eventually we received almost 2,000 responses, with entries coming from all corners of the globe. From these 2,000, eight were chosen as the most promising, giving each winner the opportunity to apply for a $100,000 grant from the Foundation to help further develop their ideas.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 31 A Signature Approach

For almost 100 years, The Rockefeller Foundation has enabled innovations that have resulted in huge improvements to the well-being of humanity. From funding an unknown scholar named Albert Einstein in 1913 to founding the field of public health and supporting the work of Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, The Rockefeller Foundation has always been committed to identifying innovations, scaling them and applying them to the most pressing challenges facing humankind.

32 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report The annual Rockefeller Founda- tion Innovation Forum and its Challenge Grants demonstrate our abiding commitment to bringing our signature innovative approach to bear on the increas- ingly complex problems facing humanity in the 21st century.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 33 Developing Climate Change Resilience: Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network shelter from the storm. Do Thi Phuong Thao lives with her two children in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang, in the Son Tra District. She sells sticky rice on the streets of the city, which is cradled between the ocean, rivers, and mountains. This geography makes Da Nang particularly beautiful, but also vulnerable to natural disasters, such as typhoons and floods. Thao knows the dangers all too well. The rainy season often brings floodwater to her neighbor- hood and damage to her home. Storm winds have torn off her roof in the past. With destructive weather increasing in frequency and ferocity, she fears for her livelihood and the safety and security of her family.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 35 From Climate Uncertainty to Long-Term Security

Countless families in large cities and small villages across Southeast Asia are confronting the same frighten- ing scenario faced by Thao and her children. It’s easy to imagine the feeling of helplessness. Extreme weather events are hard to predict and impossible to control. And how can families struggling to make ends meet possibly invest in the infrastructure of their modest homes to protect against destructive storms?

That’s why the Da Nang Women’s Union has developed an innovative program that offers low-interest loans to families throughout Da Nang. The loans enable families to reinforce their homes and make them more resistant to storms. The program also disseminates storm-resistant design and construction tech- niques through the training of local households to monitor construction and through the development of technical construction guidelines.

In 2011, thanks to the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN), Thao was able to apply for a loan to protect her home from extreme weather and to secure her family’s long-term safety. The Da Nang Women’s Union aims to support 320 households with home improvement loans by 2014. Ultimately, project managers hope this approach will be replicated in provinces throughout Vietnam.

36 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report Resilience Through Innovation

The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to helping at-risk communities strengthen their ability to prepare for and absorb adverse climate impacts. ACCCRN is the centerpiece of this effort in Southeast Asia, and a landmark climate change mitigation coalition in the developing world. ACCCRN works in 10 pilot cities in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India, to build the capacity, knowledge sharing, and scalability needed to help their citizens to adjust to a warming world. The Rockefeller Foundation has committed $60 million to ACCCRN to develop innovative approaches for cities to build physical and structural resilience to withstand and recover from the impacts of climate change and sharing lessons learned with other cities and coun- tries. With Rockefeller support, ACCCRN is developing approaches that will enable its interventions to be adopted at scale.

One million people are moving to cities in the developing world every five days. And over the next 30 years, 60 percent of the world’s population increase will occur in Asian cities alone. These cities are the epicenter of risk when it comes to global climate change. Mitigating this risk requires building resilience in the face of a changing climate. And building resilience requires innovating in the face of new challenges. That’s where The Rockefeller Foundation comes in—leveraging its century-long history of developing and deploying new innovations to help the world overcome unprecedented challenges.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 37 Developing Climate Change Resilience: Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation watching and waiting. Medhin Reda watches for rain. When she isn’t farming or looking after her family, Medhin looks up at the sky apprehensively, fretting about the increasingly irregular rainfall in her rocky corner of northern Ethiopia. Not long ago, the rains came six weeks late to Tigray, and the teff crop that is her livelihood suffered. So Medhin watches and waits, the uncer- tainty hanging in the dry air.1

It’s a vicious cycle that keeps millions mired in subsistence-level conditions. Many of the world’s poorest farmers live on marginal land, eking out an existence tilling poor soils on steep hillsides, praying for rain. Climate change threatens their already precarious living, with African crop yields projected to drop 10-20 percent by 2050. Yet these smallholders often have nowhere to turn, and no way to plan for the impending upheaval. Most microfinance institutions are wary of lending to such poor credit risks. So when drought or disaster strikes, the farmers sell off what little they have and hope the next season will be better. Their chil- dren—forced to abandon the classroom to work the family fields—will also watch and wait.

1—http://www.oxfamamerica.org/articles/medhin-reda-looks-to-weather-insurance-to-solve-problems/?searchterm=medhin reda.

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 39 Micro Insurance, Macro Impact

In response to these critical climate challenges, The Rockefeller Foundation— in partnership with Oxfam, the Swiss Re insurance company and local farm- ers—has helped develop an innovative, weather-indexed microinsurance system that compensates farmers in the event of insufficient rainfall. In 2011, the success of this Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) model led us to join with the United Nations World Food Programme to scale HARITA into a four-country Rural Resilience Initiative.

Now, 13,000 Ethiopian smallholders like Medhin Reda pay their insurance premiums by working on critical projects for their communities —building irrigation systems, fertilizing fields, and re-vegetating the hillsides. Now when drought hits, Medhin’s insurance payout allows her to feed her family, and even send her youngest daughter to school. And the community labor she and others do is making their region of northern Ethiopia more resilient to the harsh impacts of a changing climate. Recently, 1,800 Ethiopian farmers successfully received their payouts, and soon, thousands more will have the chance to see their incomes, their children, and their communities grow, even when their crops don’t.

A Matter of Survival

In the United States and other Western nations, climate change is the sub- ject of debate—its cause, its effect, and the policy implications of a warming world. In the developing world, however, climate change is a matter of sur- vival. Climate change has caused weather patterns to shift, droughts and floods to ravage local communities, crops to fail and economies to falter. It is against the backdrop of climate change that today, across the globe, more than a billion people are chronically hungry. Over the next decade, one hun- dred million more will go to bed with empty stomachs.2 The implications of climate change—from agriculture to economics to urbanization—are just beginning to be felt. That’s why The Rockefeller Foundation’s Climate Change Resilience Initiative supports strategies and services that help com- munities cope with the impacts of imminent and worsening global climate disruption.

2—HARITA Proposal, March 18, 2011.

40 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 41 2011 financials

Fiscal Stewardship The Rockefeller Foundation Condensed Financial Statements for 2011

Statement of Financial Position as of December 31. Amounts in millions. Numbers are rounded.

ASSETS 2011 2010

Cash, cash equivalents and other current assets 13 9

Investments 3,449 3,528

Other long term assets 45 56

Total assets 3,507 3,593

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Accounts payable and accrued expenses 78

Grants payable 55 45

Debt outstanding 20 20

Other liabilities 27 28

Total liabilities 109 101

Unrestricted net assets 3,398 3,492

Total liabilities and net assets 3,507 3,593

42 | The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report 2011 financials

Statement of Activities as of December 31. Amounts in millions. Numbers are rounded.

REALIZED INCOME 2011 2010

Realized investment income 207 198

Investment expense (11) (11)

Net realized investment income 196 187

EXPENSES

Grants and direct charitable activities 142 141

Program costs 19 18

Operations 19 18

Taxes 23

Total expenses 182 180

Net realized investment income over expenses 14 7

Unrealized (depreciation) appreciation on investments (96) 257

Pension and post-retirement benefit adjustments (12) 8

Change in net assets (94) 272

The Rockefeller Foundation | 2011 Annual Report | 43 2011 Grants, Trustees and Staff 2011 grants

Africa Regional Fund American Workers Aspen Institute, Washington, DC, United States: $306,800 toward the costs of its Africa Health and Development Interna- Mujeres Unidas y Activas, San Francisco, Agent Orange in Vietnam Fund, to expand tional, Nairobi, Kenya: $120,000 in support CA, United States: $200,000 for use by its the “Hope System of Care for Children and of a documentary that highlights the diversity National Domestic Workers Alliance toward Disabilities” program into the Cam Le district of African cultures, identity and values in the costs of the Caring Across Generations of Da Nang, Vietnam. Kenya and examines links between culture Campaign, an effort to improve workplace and environmental preservation. standards for U.S. domestic and direct care Cambodia Development Resource Institute, workers and the quality of care for the aging Phnom Penh, Cambodia: $200,000 toward African Technology Policy Studies Network, and disabled. the costs of a project, in collaboration with Nairobi, Kenya: $50,000 toward the costs the International Development Research of "Strengthening Linkage between Policy National Employment Law Project, Inc., Centre and other partners, to strengthen the Research and the Policymaking for African New York, NY, United States: $500,000 governance, coordination and research man- Development," a workshop on bridging the toward the costs of developing a federal pol- agement capacity of the Greater Mekong gap between policy research institutions icy framework to increase the availability of Sub-region Development Analysis Network in and implementation by developing a con- quality jobs for middle-class Americans and order to build its long-term sustainability and sortium of policy research institutions, policy- enhance the enforcement of robust work- generate collaborative research on promoting making government units and practitioners, place standards in the U.S. inclusive growth within the Greater Mekong to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Novem- Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Inc., Sub-region. ber 2011. Bronx, NY, United States: $300,000 toward Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thai- Kenya Diabetes Management and Informa- the costs of its “Raise the Floor and Build land: $20,000 for use by its Institute of Asian tion Center, Nairobi, Kenya: $100,000 toward Ladders” strategy to improve job quality and Studies, in collaboration with the Embassy of the costs of a new community screening, provide advancement opportunities for India in Bangkok, in support of strengthening education, and awareness center for the direct-care workers by providing research, relations between Thailand and India through management of diabetes and hypertension in policy guidance, public education and techni- an exhibition and seminar celebrating the central Kenya. cal assistance to federal and state govern- 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath ments and key stakeholders in the health- Nelson Mandela Childrens Hospital, Johan- Tagore, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, care industry. nesburg, South Africa: $130,000 toward the summer 2011. costs of implementing an innovative public Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, New private partnership model to support a state- New York, NY, United States: $300,000 Delhi, India: $60,000 in support of the San- of-the-art specialist pediatric academic and toward the costs of its “Promoting the High Kranti Student Challenge, a six month national tertiary hospital that will provide child-cen- Road” project, an effort to improve working campaign to document the perceptions of tered quality medical services to children in conditions in the restaurant industry through Indian youth on the challenges of urbanization Southern Africa. surveys and research, engaging restaurant and encourage emerging leaders to engage in employers, and developing policy and strate- Society for International Development, East solutions to these challenges through partici- gic communications materials related to the Africa, Nairobi, Kenya: $109,634 in support pation in a competition and a national confer- minimum wage and paid sick leave. of an “African Dialogue Speaker Series” to ence in Mysore, November 2011. enhance shared learning aimed at defining Urban Institute, Washington, DC, United International Health Policy Program, new and innovative approaches for Africa to States: $500,000 toward the costs of its Thailand, Nonthaburi, Thailand: $30,000 achieve its potential. Unemployment and Recovery initiative, an toward the costs of a conference, “From integrated program of research and analysis Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, the Global Alcohol Strategy to National and to address the critical unemployment policy United States: $170,000 for use by its Animal Local Action,” to be held in Thailand, Febru- challenges facing the U.S. & Human Health for the Environment and ary 2012. Development project to promote one health Asia Regional Fund IPS Asia-Pacific Center Foundation Inc, leadership and facilitate linkages among Quezon City, Philippines: $130,000 toward human, animal, and wildlife activities in Asia Society, New York, NY, United States: the costs of activities to address the need for Southern Africa. $100,000 in support of a research collabora- critical reporting on development from within tion with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Asia, looking closely at the issues of climate AGRA-General Policy at the National University of Singapore change and official development assistance on how and where women have made the (ODA) as specific sectors linked to the Asian Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, most progress within their work sectors development story. Nairobi, Kenya: $5,000,000 toward the costs across the public, private and not-for-profit of specific activities to support its mission to Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, communities in the Asia-Pacific countries. improve the productivity and incomes of Thailand: $38,500 for use by its Institute for small-scale farmers in Africa, including facili- Asian Migrant Centre, Hong Kong, China: Population and Social Research in support of tating a leadership transition and integration $89,960 in support of research on the impact its annual conferences to be held in Bangkok, of its programs with those of partners in the of climate change on livelihoods and potential Thailand, summer 2011 and 2012. breadbasket regions of key countries. for migration of populations in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region.

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Mirror Foundation, Chiangrai, Thailand: contribute to multi-disciplinary dialogues and Sue Williamson, Cape Town, South Africa: $50,000 in support of recovery efforts for promote innovation and creativity for the indi- $29,900 in support of a Bellagio Creative Arts five flood-affected districts in Thailand and vidual artists and the broader community. Fellowship, to pursue a new project in depth to enhance the resilience of poor and and build connections with a global interdisci- Dara Birnbaum, New York, NY, United vulnerable communities against recurring plinary community of residents in a three- States: $4,000 in support of art materials and disasters through effective planning and month stay at The Rockefeller Foundation shipping in conjunction with a creative artist response mechanisms. Bellagio Center, and receive post-residency residency at The Rockefeller Foundation publicity through creation and dissemination Oxfam, Oxford OS4 2JY, United Kingdom: Bellagio Center. of an artist’s publication. $399,900 for use by its Asia office in support Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, of creating a regional learning platform to Wong Hoy Cheong, Subang Jaya, Selangor, England: $345,075 in support of developing promote multi-disciplinary analysis and learn- Malaysia: $29,900 in support of a Bellagio and executing a social media strategy for the ing among key stakeholders in Asia regarding Creative Arts Fellowship, to pursue a new Future of Philanthropy and Development to a limited set of priority topics that will have project in depth and build connections with facilitate an ongoing online dialogue that medium- to long-term implications for a global interdisciplinary community of resi- deepens and sustains relationships between growth, equity, and resilience in the region. dents in a three-month stay at The Rocke- thought-leaders in the development and feller Foundation Bellagio Center, and receive Pattanarak Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand: philanthropic communities, in connection post-residency publicity through creation and $58,600 in support of research and training with a conference series to be held at The dissemination of an artist’s publication. on small-scale food production for displaced Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, populations in Thailand along the Thai- November 2011. Myanmar border in order to improve liveli- Carbon and Poverty Reduction Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, hoods and social cohesion among residents England: $1,448,631 in support of "The Agricultural Transformation Agency, Addis and migrant populations. Bellagio Series on the Future of International Ababa, Ethiopia: $500,000 in support of Taru Leading Edge Private Limited, Development and the Role of the Philan- integrating climate-smart rural development Gurgaon, Haryana, India: $67,750 in support thropic Sector: Promoting Human Well-being across Ethiopia's agricultural sector through of an exploratory study to assess existing in a Challenging Global Context," a series of a set of programmatic activities related to conditions of wet markets in urban areas of activities to explore the future relationships capacity building, networking and research. Indore and Surat cities in India, and provide between philanthropy and international devel- Common Market for Eastern and Southern recommendations on procedures for creating opment including a convening to be held at Africa Secretariat, Lusaka, Zambia: $600,000 safe wet markets in the context of accelerat- The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, in support of policy engagement, research, ing urbanization and climate change. November 2011. and analysis work that will strengthen Africa’s United Nations Economic and Social Institute of International Education, New position on agriculture in international climate Commission for Asia and the Pacific, York, NY, United States: $1,364,000 for the change negotiations and will help national gov- Bangkok, Thailand: $50,000 for use by its costs of administering several activities ernments develop climate smart agricultural Capacity Development Trust Fund in support related to The Rockefeller Foundation Bella- policies and action plans. of the Fifth Asia Pacific Urban Forum, to be gio Center, Italy: the semi-annual competi- Ecoagriculture International, Inc., Washing- held in Bangkok, June 2011, to enable partic- tions for creative arts and scholarly ton, DC, United States: $200,000 in support ipants from developing countries to take part residencies, the Bellagio Travel and Learning of evaluating program models for climate in the forum, to support a series of film Fund, and support for outreach activities. finance in agriculture and for the Second screenings, and to enable webcast links to Pablo Cardoso, Cuenca, Ecuador: $29,900 International EcoAgriculture Conference and the Forum from other parts of Asia. in support of a Bellagio Creative Arts Fellow- Knowledge Exchange, to be held in Nairobi, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Vietnamese ship, to pursue a new project in depth and Kenya in 2012. Academy for Social Sciences, Hanoi, build connections with a global interdiscipli- Farm Input Promotions Africa, Nairobi, Vietnam: $46,500 toward the costs of a nary community of residents in a three-month Kenya: $450,000 in support of building conference on how cultural heritage muse- stay at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio climate change resilience through the dis- ums in the Mekong River Basin can raise Center, and receive post-residency publicity semination of adaptive technologies among awareness of the challenges associated through creation and dissemination of an 65,000 smallholder farmers in semi-arid areas with climate change, to be held in Hanoi, artist’s publication. of Kenya and Tanzania. winter 2011. Resource Alliance Limited, London, England: Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Pol- $649,881 in support of "The Bellagio Series on Bellagio icy Analysis Network, Pretoria, South Africa: the Future of International Development and $402,011 in support of a project to strengthen Alliance of Artists' Communities, Providence, the Role of the Philanthropic Sector: Promot- advocacy capacity for Climate Smart Agricul- RI, United States: $75,000 in support of a ing Human Well-being in a Challenging Global ture, including producing policy papers and a convening to be held at The Rockefeller Foun- Context," a series of activities to explore the knowledge bank, training and equipping practi- dation Bellagio Center, spring 2012, to explore future relationships between philanthropy and tioners with advocacy messages, training residency programs at the Bellagio Center and international development including a conven- African journalists on climate change and agri- elsewhere, including whether and how they ing to be held at The Rockefeller Foundation culture issues, and participating in key policy Bellagio Center, November 2011. dialogues and climate change negotiations.

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Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia: Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Foundation's centennial in 2013, to build $399,000 for use by its Institute of Geo- Building in Agriculture, Kampala, Uganda: capacity, create new coalitions, strengthen Information and Earth Observation Sciences $300,000 in support of strengthening training existing networks, and advance public policy in support of collaborative research and on agrometeorology and using peer-reviewed by convening gatherings and providing multi- knowledge exchange to strengthen capacity publications and other methods to improve media tools and resources for identifying to demonstrate and transfer adaptation the quality and visibility of climate change challenges and proposing tangible solutions knowledge and technologies to Ethiopian and research in East Africa. to global problems. Ugandan farmers and extension agents. Rwanda Agriculture Board, Kigali, Rwanda: Meridian Institute, Dillon, CO, United States: $288,600 in support of a collaborative project Climate: African Agriculture $299,770 in support of developing a robust with the Rwanda Meteorological Service African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, agriculture work program within the context and the Walker Institute of the University of Ethiopia: $200,000 in support of strengthen- of the United Nations Framework Convention Reading to improve the climate risk modeling ing its internal capacity to design and imple- on Climate Change through facilitated dia- capacity of Rwandan agricultural scientists, ment the Africa Risk Capacity Project, a logue with key negotiators and other stake- produce a national climate change risk map, disaster risk pool that would provide holders and policy analysis papers on climate and evaluate adaptation strategies that could resources to African nations in the event of change and agriculture issues. improve the resilience of smallholder farmers a severe weather shock. in Rwanda to climate change. National Agricultural Research Organisa- Center for International Forestry Research, tion, Entebbe, Uganda: $200,000 for use by Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Bogar, Indonesia: $600,000 in support of its National Fisheries Resources Research Tanzania: $249,700 in support of collabora- developing national policies for adaptation Institute in support of incorporating climate tive research on the application of conserva- to climate change among farmers living adja- change science into its research and devel- tion agriculture practices as coping strategies cent to forests in Kenya and Uganda. opment programs to test and evaluate for smallholder farmers to adapt to climate approaches for helping small-scale fishers variability and change in Tanzania. Forest Trends, Washington, DC, United and riparian communities in Uganda and States: $250,740 in support of developing cli- University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Kenya to cope more effectively with the mate-agricultural finance models that can be Tanzania: $300,000 in support of research on impact of climate variability and change. used to access carbon and climate finance agronomic approaches that build the sources for agricultural climate mitigation and National Agricultural Research Organisa- resilience of smallholder farmers in Tanzania adaptation projects in an effort to reduce tion, Entebbe, Uganda: $300,000 in support and Malawi, and for the training of graduate poverty and decrease vulnerability for small- of collaborative research and demonstrations students and various stakeholders on climate holder farmers in Africa. aimed at developing and delivering to farmers change adaptation in the agriculture sector in improved banana varieties and new banana East Africa. IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications cropping systems that mitigate the negative Centre, Nairobi, Kenya: $300,000 in support impacts of climate change on banana farming Centennial Fund of strengthening its institutional capacity in in Uganda. agrometeorology and in climate prediction Akiba Mashinani Trust, Nairobi, Kenya: and its ability to provide greater and more National Agricultural Research Organisa- $100,000 in general support of its mission to effective dissemination of climate information tion, Entebbe, Uganda: $500,539 in support provide access to sustainable and affordable to the agriculture sector and farmers in of a project to enhance the adaptive capacity shelter, infrastructure, and innovative financial East Africa. of smallholder farmers in Uganda to the and technical housing solutions to urban and ITAD Limited, Hove, United Kingdom: effects of climate change through technologi- rural poor populations in Kenya through $375,000 in support of an evaluation of cal, institutional and policy interventions. community led-processes. the African Agriculture component of the Nature Conservation Research Centre, Heartfile, Islamabad, Pakistan: $100,000 in Foundation’s Climate Change initiative and Accra, Ghana: $240,175 in support of build- general support of its mission to develop the Foundation's Carbon for Poverty Reduc- ing capacity in African countries for carbon innovations in the health sector, contribute to tion initiative in development, to foster mapping and developing nested carbon knowledge in the areas of health policy and learning, accountability and performance accounting systems through training and the public health planning, and catalyze change improvements in the Foundation and among exchange of best practices between east and within health systems and broader systems of its grantees. west Africa. governance. NetHope, Fairfax, VA, United States: $50,000 PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited (Kenya), Kiva Microfunds, San Francisco, CA, United toward the costs of developing a business Nairobi, Kenya: $750,000 in support of States: $50,000 in general support of its mis- model and plan for Weather INformation for developing a measurement, reporting and sion to connect people through lending for Development (WIND), a project to deliver verification (MRV) methodology and a fund the sake of alleviating poverty by leveraging timely and reliable weather and climate infor- disbursement mechanism that will enable the internet and a worldwide network of mation to smallholder farmers in Kenya. smallholder farmers to take advantage of microfinance institutions. climate finance such as carbon credits in NetHope, Fairfax, VA, United States: $50,000 exchange for adopting farming practices that Teneo Strategy Consulting, New York, NY, toward the costs of developing a business reduce greenhouse gases. United States: $3,447,150 in support of a model and plan for Weather INformation for project, in connection with The Rockefeller Development (WIND), a project to deliver

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timely and reliable weather and climate infor- Institute for Social and Environmental Intellectual Capital Advisory Services mation to smallholder farmers in Kenya. Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: Private Limited, Hyderabad, India: $29,500 $518,720 toward the costs of a project, in in support of a convening of donors, Oxfam America, Boston, MA, United States: collaboration with the Can Tho Climate researchers, investors and businesses to $498,000 toward the costs of the further Change Coordination Office, the Can Tho assess opportunities for catalyzing private expansion of its Horn of Africa Risk Transfer Department of Health and the Can Tho sector activity in enterprises that build urban for Adaptation (HARITA) project, a commu- Preventive Health Center, to improve early climate change resilience in Asian City nity-based adaptation and crop insurance detection techniques for dengue fever and Climate Change Resilience Network cities. program aimed at building the resilience of strengthen the capacity of the Can Tho health Ethiopian farmers to climate change and International Council for Local Environ- system, including health care practitioners, climate variability. mental Initiatives—Australia/New Zealand to be able to respond to abnormal outbreaks Limited, Melbourne, Australia: $18,250 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United of dengue fever, as part of the Asian City toward the costs of delegates from the Asian States: $150,000 in support of research Climate Change Resilience Network. Cities Climate Change Resilience Network’s that will integrate climate change resilience Institute for Social and Environmental partners to attend the International Council models, crop models and food security Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) data in sub-Saharan Africa to inform the $521,410 in support of a project, in collabo- Resilient Cities Congress to be held in Bonn, prioritization of investments in agricultural ration with the Can Tho Climate Change Germany, June 2011. development and aid in the identification of Coordination Office, the Department of potentially adaptive crop research and crop International Institute for Environment and Natural Resources and Environment, the shifting strategies. Development, London, United Kingdom: Department of Agriculture and Rural Develop- $1,991,160 in support of launching the ment and local research institutes, to develop International Centre for Climate Change and Climate: Asian Cities and implement a real-time salinity monitoring Development to develop and implement a system, determine threshold salinity concen- Challenge to Change, Kent CT5 3EW, series of urban climate change resilience- trations, and identify and implement response United Kingdom: $149,820 in support of building short courses and a related Masters mechanisms to increase urban climate an Asia Youth Initiatives Program to identify of Science module and to undertake insti- change resilience in Can Tho city, Vietnam, and back urban climate change resilience tutional strengthening and organizational as part of the Asian City Climate Change building efforts in three Vietnamese cities development. Resilience Network. (Can Tho, Da Nang, Quy Nhon) through a International Institute for Environment and call for proposals directed at local youth. Institute for Social and Environmental Development, London, United Kingdom: Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group, $2,000,000 in support of research and the $548,280 toward the costs of a project, in Gorakhpur, India: $616,420 in support of production of knowledge products, including collaboration with the Binh Dinh Climate efforts to strengthen its institutional capacity briefing and synthesis papers, published arti- Change Coordination Office and the Depart- to build urban climate change resilience in cles, and multi-media products, which draw ment of Agriculture and Rural Development, Eastern India by expanding its activities to upon the experience of the Asian Cities Cli- to restore the ecosystem of a mangrove for- three new cities, as part of the Asian Cities mate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) est in an urban lagoon of Quy Nhon, Vietnam, Climate Change Resilience Network. and other urban climate change resilience using co-management practices to enable building efforts in Asia. Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group, positive community benefits and successful Gorakhpur, India: $631, 240 in support of a forest regeneration, as part of the Asian Cities Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, United States: project to enhance the climate change Climate Change Resilience Network. $47,140 in support of a project to develop resilience of Gorakhpur city through research and lead a process to evaluate a short train- Institute for Social and Environmental and advocacy on the contribution of peri- ing course on urban climate change adapta- Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: urban agriculture to mitigating long-term tion run by the International Centre for $639,820 in support of a project, in collabo- changing patterns of flood risk, and the Climate Change and Development, to be held ration with the Da Nang Women's Union, expansion of agriculture farm models and in Bangladesh. to build resilience to the impacts of climate extension services, as part of the Asian Cities change through funding the development of Climate Change Resilience Network. Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, United States: storm resistant housing and providing capac- $343,430 for use by its Indonesia Office in Institute for Social and Environmental ity building support to and raising awareness support of coordinating activities of the Asian Transition, Boulder, CO, United States: among vulnerable communities in Da Nang, Cities Climate Change Resilience Network $335,830 toward the costs of a project, in Vietnam, as part of the Asian City Climate (ACCCRN) in Indonesia, including providing collaboration with the Department of Educa- Change Resilience Network. additional capacity for engagement with the tion and Training of Da Nang City, the Da cities of Semarang and Bandar Lampung, Integrated Research and Action for Devel- Nang Climate Change Coordination Office, strengthening documentation of processes, opment, New Delhi, India: $95,300 in sup- and the Ministry of Education and Training, tools, and methods generated through ACC- port of producing a report analyzing climate to develop, test, and implement an integrated CRN projects, and increasing outreach to vulnerability in 35 cities in India and develop- urban climate change resilience education national stakeholders in order to replicate and ing policy recommendations on how to incor- curriculum for three education levels in scale up urban climate change resilience. porate climate resilience planning into urban Danang, Vietnam. development programs in India.

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Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, United States: Thailand Environment Institute Foundation, The Mary Robinson Foundation, Dublin, $450,000 for use by its Indonesia Office in Nonthaburi, Thailand: $196,750 in support of Ireland: $315,789 in support of policy analy- support of developing and implementing an activities, in collaboration with the Songkla sis and advocacy work that will encourage urban climate change resilience curriculum Community Foundation, to build capacity for the incorporation of a gender lens in efforts and teacher training program in Bandar flood preparedness and response, and a to build women's leadership in the area of Lampung, Indonesia and conducting out- model for partnership and collaboration international climate justice. reach activities to generate interest for repli- between local communities and local govern- cation nationally, as part of the Asian Cities ment agencies in Hat Yai city responsible for Day of Service Climate Change Resilience Network. delivery of basic services including sanitation, welfare and health, as part of the Asian Cities Rockefeller Foundation Day of Service Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, United States: Climate Change Resilience Network. Donations, United States: $35,000 for $495,860 for use by its Indonesia Office to donations to organizations participating in develop and implement a wide-spread instal- Thailand Environment Institute Foundation, the Foundation's Day of Service, an opportu- lation of biopores in Bandar Lampung, Nonthaburi, Thailand: $250,000 in support nity for staff to spend a day volunteering with Indonesia to increase ground water recharge of a feasibility study and implementation plan local organizations. and assist in the management of flooding, as for ecological restoration of the inner channel part of the Asian Cities Climate Change of the Kok River in Chiang Rai, Thailand, Disease Surveillance Networks Resilience Network. including restoration of a section of the chan- nel, as a model for building urban resilience, African Medical and Research Foundation, Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, United States: as part of the Asian Cities Climate Change Nairobi, Kenya: $230,000 in support of a $552,230 for use by its Indonesia Office in Resilience Network. project to strengthen community-based support of developing and implementing a disease surveillance systems in Kenya, flood forecasting and warning system and Thailand Environment Institute Foundation, Uganda and Tanzania to monitor and control flood risk preparedness in Semarang, Indone- Nonthaburi, Thailand: $783,960 in support of priority diseases and enhance awareness sia to strengthen resilience to climate change carrying out Phase III activities of the Asian of neglected diseases. impacts, as part of the Asian Cities Climate Cities Climate Change Resilience Network Change Resilience Network. related to building climate change resilience East, Central and Southern African Health in Chiang Rai and Hat Yai, Thailand; to Community, Arusha, Tanzania: $548,270 Ove Arup & Partners International Limited, support other cities in Thailand to expand in continued support of its initiative to London, England: $1,200,000 in support of a their understanding of urban climate change strengthen leadership and increase capacity project to facilitate the creation and deepen- resilience knowledge and practice; and to and strategic information resources at the ing of a learning and policy network including map and engage key national stakeholders to Ministries of Health in East, Central and current Asian Cities Climate Change increase resources and attention to urban cli- Southern African countries in order to maxi- Resilience Network (ACCCRN) partners and mate change resilience in Thailand. mize benefits from future negotiations related other key Asian institutions engaged in pro- to global health diplomacy. moting climate change resilience, and to facil- The Energy and Resources Institute, New itate and manage ACCCRN’s new Strategy Delhi, India: $135,400 in support of a study International Livestock Research Institute, and Alignment Group. assessing current urban planning policies in Nairobi, Kenya: $220,000 for use by its Par- India, with a focus on two Indian cities, and ticipatory Epidemiology Network for Animal Rosie Sjögren, Berkshire, United Kingdom: identifying policy and regulatory changes at and Public Health in support of consolidating $76,170 in support of donor engagement the national, state and city levels that if imple- the core network and empowering local and efforts for the Asian Cities Climate Change mented would enhance climate change regional organizations to drive the uptake of Resilience Network. resilience in India. participatory approaches to epidemiology in Society for Participatory Research in Asia, Eastern Africa. New Delhi, India: $300,000 toward the costs Climate: Policy & Replication Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda: of its work, in collaboration with the Society $205,920 for use by its School of Public for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres, eThekwini Municipality, Durban, 4000, Health in support of a final evaluation and to facilitate a process to strengthen civil soci- South Africa: $200,000 towards the costs documentation of activities of the Health ety engagement with urban policy by promot- of a climate change communication and Emergencies Management Program’s efforts ing capacity building policy dialogue and advocacy campaign in Durban, South Africa to build disease outbreak response and conducting thematic research in India. leading up to the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change emergency management capacity in district Taru Leading Edge Private Limited, Gurgaon, (COP 17) that will highlight Durban as a health teams in Eastern Africa. Haryana, India: $183,080 in support of pioneer city in addressing climate change Ministry of Health, Lao P.D.R., Vientiane, enhancing the climate change resilience of the challenges. Lao PDR: $20,000 in support of technical city of Indore, India through the establishment assistance for the institutionalization of the of an integrated vector- and water-borne dis- Oxfam America, Boston, MA, United States: Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network. ease surveillance and response system to help $450,000 toward the costs of the Rural Resilience Initiative (R4), a community-based cope with projected increases in vector dis- Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, climate adaptation program aimed at improv- eases due to increasing temperatures and Nonthaburi, Thailand: $50,000 toward contin- ing the long-term food and income security more intense precipitation, as part of the Asian ued support of the Mekong Basin Disease Cities Climate Change Resilience Network. of Ethiopian and Senegalese farmers.

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Surveillance Network’s Coordinating Office’s and a workshop of key stakeholders in The PopTech Institute, Camden, ME, efforts to strengthen its coordination, analysis, an effort to enhance collaboration across United States: $250,000 toward the costs policy and information and communication these platforms. of “PopTech Lab: Climate Resilience and technology functions while registering as an Vulnerable Populations” a convening to be Nonprofit Finance Fund, New York, NY, independent entity for sustainable governance. held in Nairobi, Kenya, February 2012, and United States: $350,000 in support of other initiatives that catalyze innovation to Real Useful Travel and Marketing, Nairobi, continuing and expanding its networking address the needs of poor and vulnerable Kenya: $137, 610 in support of a convening and knowledge platform for the Social Impact communities around the world. of Rockefeller Foundation Disease Surveil- Bond instrument to reach its potential to lance Networks grantees to be held in Kenya, provide innovation financing solutions to University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Nairobi, May 2011. persistent social problems facing poor and Africa: $100,000 for use by its African Centre vulnerable communities in the U.S. for Cities to support its mission to facilitate Royal Institute of International Affairs, urban research and develop policy dis- London, England: $198,570 for use by its Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, courses for the promotion of vibrant, demo- Centre on Global Health Security in support New York, NY, United States: $100,000 in cratic and sustainable urban development in of hosting the first annual meeting of the general support of its mission to improve the global South from an African perspective. Global Health Diplomacy Network, to be wages and working conditions for the low- held in London, June 2011. wage restaurant workforce in the U.S. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada: $445,471 for use by its Waterloo Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, SeaChange Capital Partners, Inc., New Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience Tanzania: $300,850 for use by its Southern York, NY, United States: $175,000 for use in support of designing and initiating an Inno- African Centre in support of efforts to by Third Sector Capital Partners toward the vation for Resilience fellowship program that strengthen its capacity as both a forum and costs of developing and conducting due dili- will train fellows to find innovative responses research platform for One Health approaches gence and disseminating information about to persistent social problems facing poor and to the study of infectious diseases, both the Social Impact Bond instrument, in an vulnerable communities around the world. nationally and in Southern and East Africa. effort to provide innovative financing solutions to persistent social problems facing poor Winrock International Institute for Agricul- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, and vulnerable communities in the U.S. tural Development, Little Rock, AR, United United States: $200,000 in continued sup- States: $100,000 in general support of its port of activities related to the launch and uni- Social Finance, Inc., Boston, MA, United mission to empower the disadvantaged, fication of the global One Health movement, States: $500,000 toward the costs of devel- increase economic opportunity, and sustain including the recruitment and consolidation of oping, conducting due diligence on and natural resources. leadership, strategy and communications. disseminating information about the Social Impact Bond instrument—an effort to provide Young Foundation, London, United King- Enabling Environment: Innovation innovative financing solutions to persistent dom: $409,100 in support of a project to social problems facing poor and vulnerable identify and research high potential innovation Center for American Progress, Washington, communities in the U.S. methods that will help to provide solutions to DC, United States: $150,000 in support of a persistent social problems facing poor and Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United series of issue briefs, articles, opinion pieces vulnerable communities around the world. and continued leadership to facilitate a bipar- States: $400,000 for use by its Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society tisan dialogue with federal policymakers to Equity in Food Systems advance the concept of Social Impact Bonds toward the costs of a project to generate as a method to scale solutions to social prob- a research agenda and support a subset Applied Research Center, New York, NY, lems facing poor and vulnerable communities of research projects to yield a better and United States: $200,000 in support of in the U.S. expanded knowledge base of organizational research to landscape policy and advocacy innovation in the social sector. initiatives designed to improve equity in the Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United U.S. food system. States: $350,000 for use by its John F. Teachers College, Columbia University, New Kennedy School of Government in support York, NY, United States: $205,780 in support BlueGreen Alliance Foundation, Minneapo- of a technical assistance facility to address of developing an educational toolkit that lis, MN, United States: $150,008 in support resource and technical barriers facing state enables leaders of non-governmental organi- of research to identify the potential for certifi- and local governments in developing the zations to access and take up methods of cation systems and indices to increase social social impact bond to scale solutions to innovation in addressing the needs of poor and economic equity across the food system social problems facing poor and vulnerable and vulnerable people. in the United States. communities in the U.S. The Children's Aid Society, New York, NY, Natural Resources Defense Council, New New York Academy of Sciences, New York, United States: $125,000 in support of a York, NY, United States: $222,860 in support NY, United States: $87, 000 for use by its Sci- detailed planning process to pursue a Social of research to develop sustainable food pur- entists Without Borders program in support Impact Bond-financed pilot program to keep chasing criteria that can be used to guide of research on the proliferation of tools and juveniles in New York State out of incarcera- and evaluate purchasing by retailers, food web platforms that facilitate open innovation tion through community-based programs service providers and government agencies to address social and development issues, based on its successful Lasting Investments and potentially influence job standards and in Neighborhood Connections (LINC) model. worker rights in the food system.

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RSF Social Finance, San Francisco, CA, the impact enterprises sector and analyze the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, United States: $100,000 in support of business models that have the potential to Zeitst, Netherlands: $200,000 toward the research on financing models for local food produce the greatest benefit to poor and cost of market research and a proof-of-con- systems with a focus on funding opportuni- vulnerable populations in the United States. cept analysis to test the viability of improving ties to support job creation, food access and the ability of values-based banks to provide Impact Enterprises, William Davidson health and wellness. needed financial services to poor and vulner- Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, United States: able people. Tellus Institute, Inc., Boston, MA, United $250,000 in support of a research project to States: $100,000 in support of research to landscape the sectors and business models Godeke Consulting, New York, NY, United identify and assess the potential impact of that have the potential to produce the great- States: $195,000 in support of researching initiatives to improve outcomes for workers est impact and to analyze enabling conditions the landscape of potential impact investors to and/or equitable access to healthy food for impact enterprises to benefit poor and build a more robust market for social impact among the 100 largest food corporations. vulnerable populations globally. bonds in order to scale solutions to social problems facing poor and vulnerable commu- Evaluation Impact Investing nities in the United States. Maxtudio, Rome, Italy: $350,000 in support Aspen Institute, Washington, DC, United GreaterCapital, Cape Town, South Africa: of developing knowledge products based States: $400,000 for use by its Aspen $90,000 in support of in-depth research to on evaluations of the Foundation's initiatives Network of Development Entrepreneurs examine how changes in the regulations gov- in order to support learning practice and toward the costs of starting an internal erning pension fund investment practices in thought leadership at the Foundation and research capacity to actively aggregate, South Africa could facilitate a change in the among its grantees and partners in develop- create and distribute information on the field investment strategies of asset managers to ment and philanthropy. of entrepreneurial development, in particular catalyze supply of impact investment capital by addressing questions about the impact for enterprises serving poor and vulnerable Pact Institute, Washington, DC, United of small and growing businesses on poverty populations. States: $375,000 in support of a project to alleviation in emerging market countries. advance new innovative methods and prac- IC Foundation, San Francisco, CA, United tice in impact evaluation, monitoring and Calvert Foundation, Bethesda, MD, United States: $200,000 in general support of its learning, and to provide support to Rocke- States: $515,000 in support of a strategic mission to inform the public about the impor- feller Foundation initiative teams, regional planning and rebranding project to realize its tance of infusing socially responsible busi- offices, grantees and partners in results plan- potential to intermediate capital at a signifi- ness and investment practices into global ning, theories of change, improved measure- cantly greater scale. business and capital markets. ment and reporting of results. Duke University, Durham, NC, United IntelleVentures LLC DBA cKinetics Consult- University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, States: $300,000 for use by its Center for the ing Services, Palo Alto, CA, United States: South Africa: $375,000 for use by its Direc- Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship in $271,220 in support of in-depth research of torate for Research Development, in contin- support of a research project analyzing the the policy and regulatory frameworks neces- ued support of a collaboration with EvalNet, sustainability and impact of impact enterprises sary to operationalize distributed rural electri- to engage development evaluation leaders on poor and vulnerable populations globally. fication projects, and issues related to driving to provide practical assistance to Rockefeller the adoption of formal social and environ- Edward T. Jackson and Associates Ltd., Foundation initiative teams, key grantees and mental reporting which can catalyze demand Ottawa, ON, Canada: $450,000 in support of partners, to better articulate, monitor, evalu- for and supply of impact investment capital a strategic assessment of the field of impact ate and report on their results and strategies for enterprises serving poor and vulnerable investing and an evaluation of the work of in order to achieve impact. populations in India. The Rockefeller Foundation's initiative, Har- World Bank, Washington, DC, United States: nessing the Power of Impact Investing. MaRS Discovery District, Toronto, ON, $500,000 for use by its Independent Evalua- Canada: $325,000 toward the costs of Fundacao Interuniversitaria de Estudos e tion Group toward the continued support of launching its Centre for Impact Investing, a Pesquisas sobre o Trabalho, Sao Paulo, the Centers for Learning on Evaluation and national resource center and solutions lab SP, Brazil: $140,000 in support of in-depth Results, to support the development and that will increase the impact of social finance research to explore policy and incentives for implementation of four Centers—in Africa, for the benefit of poor and vulnerable popula- developing and connecting impact invest- East Asia, and South Asia—to strengthen the tions in Canada. ment to the solidarity economy thus promot- monitoring and evaluation and results based ing equitable and sustainable development New Venture Fund, Washington, DC, United management capacity of public and private in Brazil. States: $150,000 in support of its Toniic development institutions working in the Institute, which seeks to inspire, aggregate Global South. GIIRS, Berwyn, PA, United States: and disseminate the best practices and $1,000,000 in general support of its mission research of global impact investors and Impact Enterprises to create a social and environmental rating investments, attracting more capital and system for impact investors that represents increasing the collective positive impacts Sustainable Jobs Development Corpora- a critical piece of industry infrastructure these investments can have on global social tion, Durham, NC, United States: $150,000 designed to facilitate greater flows of capital and environmental challenges. in support of a research project to landscape into the impact investing marketplace.

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, New ties for multiple-use approaches to water strengthening its position as a regional hub York, NY, United States: $2,000,000 for service delivery in the Global South. for innovative urban research, teaching and use by the Global Impact Investing Network practice and to work in partnership with Winrock International Institute for toward the costs of two of its programs: the Slum Dwellers International to promote more Agricultural Development, Little Rock, AR, Impact Reporting and Investment Standards equitable urban planning and management United States: $352,723 for use by its Water (IRIS) taxonomy, which enables quantification in East Africa. Innovation Program in support of research to of social impact and comparability amongst develop and scope conceptual multiple-use investments, and outreach to support the water systems models, identify promising New Mobility organization’s communications efforts. areas for implementation, and convene inter- Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Service Employees International Union, ested Rockefeller Foundation grantees to Philippines: $325,000 for use by its School of Washington, DC, United States: $350,000 share lessons learned and develop strategic Government in support of research, mapping, toward the costs of planning for the creation recommendations for accelerating develop- convenings and study tours to landscape the of a new Healthcare Development Financial ment of water resources for poor and vulner- impact of public transportation systems on Institution dedicated to building the capacity able people. poor and vulnerable people in Metro Manila of healthcare service providers in low-income and to investigate transportation-related communities while emphasizing the creation Networks for Urban Innovation entrepreneurial and livelihood solutions within of good jobs and improved care. that system that could benefit poor and vul- Akiba Mashinani Trust, Nairobi, Kenya: nerable residents. Innovation $150,000 toward the costs of developing the financial instruments and community capacity University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ETC Foundation, Leusden, Netherlands: necessary to upgrade slums situated on United States: $300,000 for use by its $200,000 for use by its Prolinnova network privately-owned lands in Nairobi, Kenya. Transportation Research Institute in support to transition the Farmer Access to Innovation of research to identify existing and emerging Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Resources pilot programs to farmer-managed New Mobility business models and innovative Bangkok, Thailand: $574,000 in support of institutions in Africa and Asia. transportation approaches that benefit the its Asian Coalition for Community Action to urban poor; to identify and convene the social Tides Center, San Francisco, CA, United train and provide project support to commu- entrepreneurs advancing these new models States: $350,000 in support of an evaluation nity architects and media practitioners, build along with key stakeholders; and of the Foundation’s Accelerating Innovation partnerships with policymakers, and generate to explore possible paths for scaling up for Development initiative, to foster learning, knowledge products that focus on commu- those models. accountability and performance improve- nity-driven urban revitalization. ments in the Foundation and among its World Resources Institute, Washington, Gujarat Mahila Housing SEWA Trust, grantees. DC, United States: $364,972 for use by its Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India: EMBARQ India in support of advancing $250,090 in collaboration with SEWA Bank equity improvements for the auto rickshaw Multiple Use Water Services and the Affordable Housing Institute, in sup- sector and developing a policy and market port of start-up costs associated with Sewa International Water Management Institute, framework for public shared bicycle systems Grih Rin, creating a housing finance facility Columbo, Sri Lanka: $143,494 for use by its in cities in India; and for research on existing dedicated exclusively to poor households Southern Africa Office to conduct country models for privately operated public transit in India. specific research on the barriers that limit the in cities in the developing world. scaling of a multiple use services approach to Networks for Urban Innovation, Muungano water management, the comparative impor- wa Wanavijiji Support Trust, Nairobi, Kenya: NYC Opportunities Fund tance of those barriers, and possibilities for $212,000 in support of documenting, analyz- overcoming these challenges for poor and ing and strengthening a federation of slum Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, vulnerable people in South Asia and Africa. dwellers in nine Kenyan municipalities, in United States: $150,000 as a recipient of a New York City Cultural Innovation Fund Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, which the local stakeholders seek to give a award, toward the costs of the development United States: $60,000 for use by its Global voice to the urban poor in the development of innovative programming for the Richard B. Water Program in support of a convening of the slum areas they occupy. Fisher Building to demonstrate how a large, to discuss a systems approach to water University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South global institution can have a local impact. management using people-centered problem Africa: $856,640 for use by its African Centre solving models for more effective manage- for Cities, in partnership with Slum/Shack Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education, ment of shared water resources, at the Dwellers International and the Association of Bronx, NY, United States: $210,000 as a “Accelerating Multiple Water Services for African Planning Schools, toward the costs recipient of a New York City Cultural Innova- the Poor” conference, to be held at The of revitalizing urban planning education in tion Fund award, in partnership with com- Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, Africa and scaling up urban-related applied pany-in-residence Dancing in the Streets August 2011. research and practice on the continent. toward the costs of developing long-term public art projects that engage communities Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA, United States: University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya: in investigating and expressing the cultural $219,451 in support of research and a con- $451,030 for use by its Centre for Urban heritage of the South Bronx. vening exploring potential scaling opportuni- Research and Innovation in support of

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CEC Artslink, New York, NY, United States: award, in support of a partnership with Tendu events and a web portal commemorating $75,000 as a recipient of a New York City TV to produce, market and distribute HD/3D the 10th anniversary of the September 11th Cultural Innovation Fund award, toward the films of New York City dance companies’ terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. costs of a series of partnerships between productions. Make the Road New York, Brooklyn, NY, international artists, local artists and New York El Puente, Brooklyn, NY, United States: United States: $210,000 in support of an City’s international diasporic communities to $150,000 as a recipient of a New York City initiative to educate workers, employers, collaboratively develop new works of art. Cultural Innovation Fund award, toward the and service providers about the impact of Center for American Progress, Washington, costs of a cultural needs assessment of New York State’s Wage Theft Prevention DC, United States: $250,000 in support South Williamsburg including efforts to Act and to document the campaign under- of developing and disseminating policy solu- document its social infrastructure and map taken to draft, pass and implement the Act in tions to the fundamental problems of eco- cultural assets that support creative, health order to inform future replication efforts in nomic inequality, lack of opportunity and and community development. other states. hurdles to mobility that expand upon and EmcArts, New York, NY, United States: Misnomer Dance Theater, Brooklyn, NY, amplify the Occupy Wall Street calls for fair- $364,500 in support of activities to capture United States: $175,000 as a recipient of ness and equity. and share lessons learned by grantees of a New York City Cultural Innovation Fund Center for Urban Pedagogy, Brooklyn, NY, the Foundation's New York City Cultural award, in partnership with the specialist United States: $160,000 as a recipient of Innovation Fund. strategy and marketing firm Orcasci Limited, a New York City Cultural Innovation Fund toward the costs of creating an innovative Fund for the City of New York, New York, NY, award, toward the costs of developing a stakeholder-engagement program utilizing United States: $250,000 toward the costs of social justice design clinic that helps commu- behavioral science, for use by small- to mid- developing a plan for Jamaica Bay Parks in nity organizations demystify and visualize size arts organizations. New York City as a site for research and complex urban issues. experimentation on climate resilience as well Municipal Art Society of New York, New Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., New York, as community engagement and education. York, NY, United States: $200,000 toward the NY, United States: $150,000 as a recipient costs of developing and presenting the sec- Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design of a New York City Cultural Innovation Fund ond annual survey on livability in New York Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States: award, for use by its Digital Diaspora Family City and the second annual MAS Summit for $175,000 as a recipient of a New York City Reunion, toward the costs of an interactive New York City. Cultural Innovation Fund award, for use by visual history of New York City developed its Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts Work- Municipal Art Society of New York, New from New Yorkers’ personal family archives ing Group toward the costs of a city-wide York, NY, United States: $900,000 in support and stories. network of cultural and community organiza- of coordinating the fifth, sixth and seventh City Futures, New York, NY, United States: tions dedicated to supporting award competitions for The Rockefeller Foun- $75,000 for use by its Center for an Urban cultural and economic diversity as integral dation-sponsored Jane Jacobs Medal, which Future in support of "Designing New York's to sustainable communities. honors Jacobs' groundbreaking work in Innovation Economy," a comprehensive study urban design, and of organizing other public Groundswell Community Mural Project, of how New York City's design schools have programs related to the principles embodied Brooklyn, NY, United States: $200,000 as a become catalysts for innovation, entrepre- in her work. recipient of a New York City Cultural Innova- neurship and economic growth. tion Fund award, in partnership with The Museum for African Art, Long Island City, Common Ground Communities, New York, Majora Carter Group toward the costs of NY, United States: $200,000 for use by its NY, United States: $250,000 toward the identifying transportation related concerns in Nelson Mandela Center toward the costs costs of documenting a systems approach the South Bronx and recommending design, of developing public educational programs to community development and implement- signage and other solutions. on social and political history that highlight ing a new system for data-collection and Africa’s contributions to ongoing global Heart of Brooklyn Cultural Institutions, performance-management among the dialogue. Brooklyn, NY, United States: $250,000 Brownsville Partnership, a consortium of toward the costs of developing a process- National Association of Latino Independent twelve community partner organizations and mapping rubric and model and a capacity- Producers, Brooklyn, NY, United States: agencies that coordinate efforts to prevent building curriculum for collaborative $100,000 as a recipient of a New York City family homelessness. engagement among cultural institutions, Cultural Innovation Fund award, toward the Creative Time, New York, NY, United States: community partners and the local public. costs of providing professional mentoring $75,000 toward the costs of launching through its Latino Artist Mentoring Project to HERE Arts Center, New York, NY, United “Artists on the News,” a website featuring New York Latino/Latina and Native writers, States: $250,000 toward the costs of “Made artists to encourage broader thinking on producers and directors to create and Here,” an interactive video, blog and podcast current events and promote artists as active advance new films. series that examines critical issues facing participants in public life. performing artists in New York City. Natural Resources Defense Council, New Dance Films Association, New York, NY, York, NY, United States: $736,290 for use Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New United States: $250,000 as a recipient of a by its Center for Market Innovation toward York, NY, United States: $100,000 toward the New York City Cultural Innovation Fund the costs of a model demonstration and costs of developing and presenting cultural

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financing energy efficient retrofit program Nonprofit Finance Fund, New York, NY, Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY, that encourages both tenants and property United States: $217,500 for the costs of a United States: $225,000 toward the costs owners to retrofit commercial spaces. project to enhance the financial capacity of of designing and conducting a study of select New York City Cultural Innovation the impact of formal and informal interaction Natural Resources Defense Council, New Fund applicants and grantees. between New York City police, adolescent York, NY, United States: $750,000 for use and young adults, and their families with a by the New York City Energy Efficiency Cor- Nonprofit Finance Fund, New York, NY, focus on “stop, question and frisk” practices. poration in support of building administrative United States: $1,500,000 toward the costs capacity to provide financing products to of the ArtPlace initiative, a collaboration with What Would Jane Do LLC, New York, NY, spur the growth of the green retrofit market the National Endowment for the Arts and a United States: $1,000,000 toward the costs in order to create “green” jobs and reduce number of philanthropic institutions to con- of “What Would Jane Do?”—a documentary greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. duct research on, advocate for and support film focusing on the life and continued global projects on the role of arts and culture in relevance of Jane Jacobs and her work. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New building livable, sustainable communities York, NY, United States: $200,000 toward the Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, across the nation. costs of an innovative new artist residency United States: $250,000 as a recipient of program model designed to promote deep Performance Zone, New York, NY, United a New York City Cultural Innovation Fund and sustained audience engagement. States: $100,000 as a recipient of a New award, toward the costs of an online forum York City Cultural Innovation Fund award, for that allows the public to develop and share New York City Environmental Justice use by OurGoods, toward the costs of devel- climate-resilient designs for Manhattan. Alliance, Brooklyn, NY, United States: oping an online barter network for artists. $175,000 in partnership with the Pratt Insti- tute, toward the costs of researching, analyz- Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, United States: Philanthropic Sector ing and developing reform recommendations $100,000 for use by its Pratt Center for Center for Effective Philanthropy, Cam- for New York City’s Significant Maritime Community Development toward the costs bridge, MA, United States: $100,000 in gen- Industrial Area policies in order to increase of conducting an analysis of the economic eral support of its mission to provide data the environmental and economic resilience impact of the Brooklyn Navy Yard that high- and create insight so philanthropic funders of the residents and businesses in and near lights best policy and operating practices for can better define, assess and improve their these areas. transforming the manufacturing sector in the effectiveness and impact. United States and identifies potential sites for New York Community Trust, New York, NY, replication both locally and nationally. Clinton Global Initiative, New York, NY, United States: $200,000 for use by its New United States: $350,000 toward the costs of York City Workforce Development Fund Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, United States: its 2011 annual conference, designed to cat- toward the costs of an initiative to engage $110,000 for use by its Pratt Center for Com- alyze a community of global leaders to devise health care employers in the Bronx in the munity Development in support of a collabo- and implement innovative solutions to global analyses of current and future labor force ration with the New York City Deputy Mayor challenges such as energy and climate needs and to connect these providers to of Operations to increase the local economic change, poverty alleviation, global health, workforce training organizations. impact of upgrading New York City’s public and education. schools through local government purchasing New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, and sourcing. Council on Foundations, Arlington, VA, NY, United States: $200,000 as a recipient United States: $55,000 in general support of of a New York City Cultural Innovation Fund Rockefeller Foundation Jane Jacobs Medal its mission to provide the opportunity, leader- award, for use by Mary Miss Studio toward Awards, New York, NY, United States: ship and tools needed by philanthropic organ- the costs of a series of public art installations $200,000 to provide cash prizes to the reci- izations to expand, enhance and sustain their along Broadway that will highlight environ- pients of The Rockefeller Foundation Jane ability to advance the common good. mental sustainability in New York City. Jacobs Medal or to organizations designated by the awardees. Environmental Grantmakers Association, New York Live Arts, New York, NY, United New York, NY, United States: $35,000 in States: $175,000 as a recipient of a New Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation, general support of its mission to promote York City Cultural Innovation Fund award, New York, NY, United States: $350,000 effective environmental philanthropy by toward the costs of the merger of Dance toward the costs of “Global Migration,” the sharing knowledge, fostering debate, cultivat- Theater Workshop and Bill T. Jones/Arnie interactive component of the Peopling of ing leadership, facilitating collaboration, and Zane Dance Company to create a new model America Center, an addition to Ellis Island catalyzing action. for presenting and producing dance. that will introduce visitors to the epic history of migration to the United States throughout Foundation Center, New York, NY, United New York University, New York, NY, United the nation’s history. States: $100,000 in general support of its mis- States: $250,000 as a recipient of a New sion to strengthen the nonprofit sector by York City Cultural Innovation Fund award, for Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY, United advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy. use by its Hemispheric Institute of Perform- States: $100,000 in support of documenting ance and Politics in support of fostering per- Common Justice, a demonstration project in Foundation for Thailand Rural Reconstruc- formance-based emerging artists whose which survivors and perpetrators of violent tion Movement Under Royal Patronage, work functions as a vehicle for social change. crime are brought together in a highly-struc- Bangkok, Thailand: $29,600 for use by its tured mediation and service-provision program. Change Fusion Institute in support of a land- scape mapping of key stakeholders and the

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development of a partnership platform aimed Resource Alliance Limited, London, Eng- Carnegie Hall Society, New York, NY, United at fostering the emerging field of Social land: $245,100 in support of the Thailand States: $300,000 toward the costs of launch- Investment in Southeast Asia. NGO Awards, which aim to recognize and ing the National Youth Orchestra of the reward professionalism and excellence of United States of America a professional- Grantmakers in the Arts, Seattle, WA, United select Thai non-profit, non-governmental caliber training orchestra that will provide a States: $30,000 in general support of its mis- organizations, set standards for resource transformative musical experience to promis- sion to strengthen the field of private-sector mobilization and overall organizational man- ing young musicians. arts and culture grantmaking. agement and provide learning through shared Club of Madrid Foundation, Newton, MA, GuideStar USA, Inc., Williamsburg, VA, case studies. United States: $100,000 for use by the Club United States: $30,000 in general support of Synergos Institute, New York, NY, United de Madrid toward the costs of organizing its its mission to revolutionize philanthropy and States: $50,000 in general support of its mis- annual, international conference to discuss nonprofit practice by providing information sion to mobilize resources and bridge social the implications of digital technologies for that advances transparency in the philan- and economic divides to reduce poverty and democracy in the 21st century. thropic sector, enables users to make better increase equity around the world. decisions, and encourages charitable giving. Corporation for National and Community TechSoup Global, San Francisco, CA, United Service, Washington, DC, United States: Independent Sector, Washington, DC, States: $100,000 toward the costs of the $100,000 for use by its White House Council United States: $25,000 in general support of development, launch and initial operations of for Community Solutions’ effectiveness work- its mission to advance the common good by NGOsource, an equivalency determination ing group toward the costs of hiring a Senior leading, strengthening and mobilizing the repository that will streamline the grantmaking Analyst to support developing the framework nonprofit community. process and enhance the ability of U.S. foun- and toolkit for successful community youth Independent Sector, Washington, DC, dations to make grants to nonprofits around engagement programs. United States: $250,000 in support of devel- the world. Earth Island Institute, Berkeley, CA, United oping a new, sustainable business model that Urban Institute, Washington, DC, United States: $69,695 for use by its Climate Wise is replicable for the nonprofit membership States: $100,000 for use by its Center on Women project in support of a series of activ- organization sector, to generate revenue and Nonprofits and Philanthropy to develop out- ities leading up to the United Nations' Com- engage a broad and diverse constituency. come indicators and related content for the mission on the Status of Women and Rio + JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., Outcome and Effective Practices Portal, an 20, led by a group of international community Boston, MA, United States: $100,000 for use online resource to help donors and nonprofits activists who will share their stories related to by the Liberia Philanthropy Secretariat toward measure program performance. climate change, environmental justice and the costs of its efforts to coordinate philan- gender equality with local women leaders in World Affairs Council of Northern California, thropic activities in Liberia and leverage and an interactive format that forges connections San Francisco, CA, United States: $75,000 attract more resources into the country. among developed and developing countries. toward the costs of its Global Philanthropy Kenya Community Development Founda- Forum, which brings together foundation Habitat for Humanity International, Atlanta, tion, Nairobi, Kenya: $125,005 for use by the leaders, individual donors, social investors, GA, United States: $25,000 toward the costs African Grantmakers Network in support of and agents of change to learn more about of “Housing Cities after a Disaster,” a World two convenings and efforts to support the opportunities for international philanthropy. Habitat Day event to raise awareness and development of a platform for the engage- mobilize people to take action in response to ment of high net worth individuals in Africa Playbook for Cities the need for adequate shelter. and Africans in the diaspora to support the International Women's Media Foundation, growth of African philanthropy. Charter Cities, Palo Alto, CA, United States: $500,000 in support of convening panels of Washington, DC, United States: $25,000 National Committee for Responsive Philan- experts to formulate ideal policy frameworks toward the costs of the 2011 Courage in Jour- thropy, Washington, DC, United States: that encourage more sustainable, equitable nalism Awards, which recognize three female $100,000 in general support of its mission to and resilient cities. journalists who risk their livelihoods and often promote philanthropy that serves the public their lives to cover corruption, malfeasance, good, is responsive to people and communi- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United war, human rights violations, and murder. ties with the least wealth and opportunity, States: $500,000 in support of empirical and Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, United and is held accountable to the highest stan- quantitative research to promote a more States: $100,000 toward the costs of its dards of integrity and openness. comprehensive understanding of the struc- ture, dynamics and organization of cities in “Jazz and Popular Song Series” and the Philanthropy New York, New York, NY, order to provide a framework for solving the inaugural season of “The Blues Series”. United States: $30,000 in general support challenges of urbanization. Local Initiatives Support Corporation, New of its mission to strengthen philanthropy by York, NY, United States: $50,000 toward the offering programs and resources that support President’s Discretionary costs of its 30th anniversary gala and confer- effective, strategic grantmaking, facilitating ence to raise awareness of the importance of collaboration and knowledge sharing, and Brown University, Providence, RI, United community development “Investing in People communicating the value of the philanthropic States: $30,000 toward the costs of efforts & Places: Building Sustainable Communities,” sector in our society. to document and preserve the endangered to be held in Washington, DC, March 2011. indigenous African Igbo language.

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Miami City Ballet, Miami Beach, FL, United farmers, create jobs, and contribute to food Digital Employment (PRIDE) and to foster States: $200,000 toward the costs of making security in East Africa. learning, accountability and performance dance more accessible to individuals of all improvements in the Foundation and among Juhudi Kilimo Company Limited, Nairobi, backgrounds through the Miami-Dade pres- its grantees. Kenya: $750,000 as a Program-Related entation of Saint-Léon’s “Coppélia,” during Investment to support the development of Enablis Entrepreneurial Network East Africa the 2011-2012 season and the Ballet for intermediation capacity for impact investment Limited, Nairobi, Kenya, Kenya: $180,700 in Young People/Family Fest. in the underserved rural sub-sector in Kenya support of identifying, training and providing Oregon State Treasury, Salem, OR, United by providing capital for rural micro-asset development support to business process States: $250,000 in support of developing a financing loans to assist smallholder farmers outsourcing entrepreneurs in Nairobi and strategic plan for a West Coast Infrastructure in acquiring productive assets. Kisumu, as part of a broader demonstration Exchange, which would accelerate innovative to test whether a new field of “impact sourc- The Disability Fund, Albertson, NY, United efforts to finance infrastructure projects in ing” can yield better employment opportuni- States: $750,000 as a Program-Related Oregon, California and Washington and have ties for very poor populations. Investment to support the improvement in replicable learning value for other regions in and expansion of the system for addressing Ikhono Communications, Durban, South the United States. a historically underserved market by providing Africa: $226,000 in support of a convening Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, New capital for financing, technical services, and to address challenges and opportunities York, NY, United States: $500,000 for use policy advocacy to increase access to appro- facing the nascent field of "impact sourcing" by the Women in the World Foundation priate and affordable housing for people with and explore strategies for bringing the toward the costs of its efforts to engage disabilities throughout the United States. work to scale, to be held in South Africa, in and advance issues facing women and December 2011. girls globally including the creation of a Poverty Reduction through IT Enabled Services Secretariat, Accra, multi-use digital platform for sharing stories Information & Digital Employment Ghana: $882,177 in support of training poor and solutions. (PRIDE) and vulnerable youth and providing them Washington Area Women's Foundation, Accenture LLP, Chicago, IL, United States: with subsequent employment in business Washington, DC, United States: $150,000 $278,623 for use by its Accenture Develop- process outsourcing centers to digitize toward the costs of quantitative research, in ment Partnerships to develop a replicable government records aligned with Ghana’s collaboration with the Urban Institute, on value proposition, business case and pilot e-government strategy, as part of a broader how investing in direct services and advocacy design for outsourcing work to business demonstration to test whether the nascent can benefit the lives of women and girls in the process outsourcing companies employing field of “impact sourcing” can yield better United States. poor and vulnerable people, as part of a employment opportunities for poor and vulnerable populations. Washington DC Martin Luther King Jr broader demonstration to test whether the National Memorial Project Foundation, nascent field of “impact sourcing” can yield Kenya Information and Communications Washington, DC, United States: $200,000 better employment opportunities for poor Technology Board, Nairobi, Kenya: toward the costs of launching (and opera- and vulnerable populations. $400,000 in support of digitizing medical tionalizing) the Martin Luther King, Jr. Avasant, Manhattan Beach, CA, United records at Kenyatta National Hospital in Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, States: $294,475 in support of researching Kenya to improve efficiency and service DC to raise awareness and understanding the policies, incentives and global best delivery at the hospital, as part of a broader of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s place in history practices that encourage the growth of demonstration to test whether the nascent as well as his legacy of democracy, justice employment opportunities for people who field of “impact sourcing” can yield better and love. are historically and socio-economically employment opportunities for poor and vulnerable populations. Young Women's Leadership Network Inc., disadvantaged. New York, NY, United States: $25,000 Community and Individual Development Leaders' Quest, Ltd., Surrey, United King- toward the costs of 2011-2012 school year Association, Johannesburg, South Africa: dom: $160,040 in support of convening a activities of The Young Women’s Leadership $700,000 toward the costs of establishing an leadership learning program to facilitate rais- Schools, a network of all-girls public second- academy to train unemployed and disadvan- ing the profile of and building a more global ary schools serving underserved families in taged youth for various roles within the stakeholder community for the nascent field New York City. outsourcing industry, as part of a broader of Impact Sourcing, which seeks to create demonstration to test whether the nascent sustainable employment opportunities for Program Related Investment field of “impact sourcing” can yield better poor and vulnerable populations. Fund (PRI) employment opportunities for poor and Monitor Company Group LP, Cambridge, vulnerable populations. African Agricultural Capital Limited, Kam- MA, United States: $588,370 for use by its pala, Uganda: $2,000,000 as a Program- Edward T. Jackson and Associates Ltd., Monitor Institute in support of a research proj- Related Investment to support the Ottawa, ON, Canada: $425,000 in support of ect to explore the potential of outsourced development of intermediation capacity for monitoring and evaluation of The Rockefeller employment opportunities for providing jobs impact investment by providing capital for Foundation’s initiative in development, and economic growth to very poor popula- agri-businesses that support small holder Poverty Reduction through Information and tions in South Africa, Kenya and Ghana and to understand the current and potential scale

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of client demand and the critical interventions develop concrete intervention opportunities and formulate and communicate solutions necessary to increase client demand for that inform potential interventions by the Foun- to overcoming these barriers. Impact Sourcing services. dation and the broader development commu- SA Node of the Millennium Project, nity, to be held in New York, April 2012. NASSCOM Foundation, New Delhi, India: Johannesburg, South Africa: $200,000 in $300,000 in support of piloting a demonstra- Intellecap Inc., Palo Alto, CA, United States: continued support of a project to conduct tion of business process outsourcing and $50,125 in support of the production of trend monitoring and horizon scanning on impact sourcing service provider collabora- research products that will enhance the issues relevant to poverty and human tion and developing a process and quality strategic knowledge base of the international development, focused on Southern Africa. certification framework for impact sourcing development community on topics related to Society for International Development, service providers, as part of a broader poverty reduction in the Global South. Bathesda, MD, United States: $189,186 for demonstration to test whether the nascent Intellecap Inc., Palo Alto, CA, United States: use by its Regional Office in Tanzania in con- field of “impact sourcing” can yield better $170,200 toward the costs of a project to tinued support of a project to conduct trend employment opportunities for poor and conduct trend monitoring, and horizon scan- monitoring and horizon scanning on issues vulnerable populations. ning, and idea generation research on issues relevant to poverty and human development National Council for Law Reporting, relevant to poverty and human development, focused on the Greater Horn of Africa. Nairobi, Kenya: $293,000 in support of the focused on South Asia, and for the dissemi- digitization of the laws of Kenya, as part of nation of trend monitoring information Search a broader demonstration to test whether a through online blog distribution channels. new field of “impact sourcing” can yield better Accenture LLP, Chicago, IL, United States: Millennium Project Corporation, Washing- employment opportunities for poor and $345,240 for use by its Accenture Develop- ton, DC, United States: $172,050 in support vulnerable populations. ment Partnerships toward the costs of identi- of 1) targeted travel support for participants fying intervention opportunities related to TechnoServe, Washington, DC, United from Africa to attend the Millennium Project problems facing poor and vulnerable people States: $346,439 in support of a proof-of- Planning Committee Meeting, to be held in and sharing them with the philanthropic and concept pilot project to demonstrate the Vancouver, Canada, July 2011; and 2) a social sector communities. potential for a local Impact Sourcing Service project to assist in improving the capacity Provider in Kenya to create and sustain of developing countries to conduct futures Aspen Institute, Washington, DC, United opportunities targeting poor and disadvan- research by implementing the results of a States: $500,000 for use by its Congressional taged students in public universities. long-term financial sustainability and feasibility Program toward the costs of a nonpartisan plan for the organization. project to educate Members of the U.S. Congress on key public policy issues. Research National University of Singapore, Singapore: City Futures, New York, NY, United States: African Center for Economic Transforma- $150,460 for use by its Lee Kuan Yew School $47,000 for use by its Center for an Urban tion, Washington, DC, United States: of Public Policy toward the costs of a project Future in support of convening a roundtable $169,800 in continued support of a project to to conduct trend monitoring and horizon of urban thought leaders and practitioners to conduct trend monitoring and horizon scan- scanning research on issues relevant to discuss the trends that will affect urban areas ning on issues relevant to poverty and human poverty and human development, focused and those who live in them over the next development focused on West Africa. on Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand two decades, with a particular emphasis on Center for Democracy and Development, and Vietnam. issues expected to impact the most vulnera- Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria: $189,860 in contin- ble urban residents. ued support of a project to conduct trend Noviscape Consulting Group Co. Ltd., Community Partners, Los Angeles, CA, monitoring and horizon scanning on issues Bangkok, Thailand: $92,390 toward the United States: $200,000 for use by the relevant to poverty and human development, costs of a project, in collaboration with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media focused on West Africa. Urban and Regional Planning Department of Chulalongkorn University and the Siam toward the costs of a global research study Indochina Research (Cambodia) Ltd., Intelligence Unit, to conduct trend monitoring, that will examine gender portrayals in family Phnom Penh, Cambodia: $150,000 toward horizon scanning, and idea generation films made outside of the United States and the costs of a project to conduct trend moni- research on issues relevant to poverty and the impact of these portrayals on the social, toring, horizon scanning, and idea generation human development, focused on Southeast emotional and physical health, attitudes and research on issues relevant to poverty and Asia, and for the dissemination of trend behaviors of women and girls. human development, focused on Cambodia, monitoring information through online blog Fundacao Brasileira para o Desenvolvi- Laos, and Vietnam, and for the dissemination distribution channels. mento Sustentavel, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, of trend monitoring information through online Brazil: $550,000 in support of the Joint Initia- blog distribution channels. Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, England: $199,633 in support of tive on Urban Sustainability (JIUS) to develop Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, research to identify barriers to translating models, relationships and an overarching VA, United States: $398,998 in support of food crisis early warning signs into early framework that will catalyze sustainable convening the annual gathering of The Rocke- action, produce regional case studies on investment in Brazil, the United States and feller Foundation Searchlight grantees, to the recent crises in East Africa and the Sahel, other countries.

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IDEO.org, San Francisco, CA, United States: vulnerable people and sharing them with the empowerment of women, including ensuring $850,000 toward the costs of identifying philanthropic and social sector communities. that women’s voices and concerns are heard intervention opportunities related to problems through the Grassroots Women Participation NetHope, Fairfax, VA, United States: facing poor and vulnerable people and shar- in Rio+20 project and enhancing the capacity $300,000 in support of identifying interven- ing them with the philanthropic and social of rural women farmers through the Rural tion opportunities related to problems facing sector communities. Women Feed Africa project. poor and vulnerable people and sharing Janot Mendler de Suarez, Wayland, MA, them with the philanthropic and social sector University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States: $49,520 in support of design- communities. Chapel Hill, NC, United States: $100,000 for ing, managing, facilitating and documenting use by its Carolina Population Center in sup- New York University, New York, NY, United three convenings on the principles of port of a scoping paper and a convening of States: $200,000 for use by its Institute for resilience through dialogue and innovative leading global thinkers in the fields of obesity, Public Knowledge in support of the planning game sessions to help Rockefeller Founda- nutrition, food security and agriculture to phase of an initiative on public-private part- tion staff operationalize resilience concepts explore innovative approaches to combating nerships in U.S. infrastructure finance. into its grantmaking strategies and share the obesity in the developing world. tools and outcomes with interested partners OpenPlans, New York, NY, United States: University of Oxford, Oxford, England: and grantees. $27,000 in support of a project to foster $300,000 for use by its Oxford Martin School discussion around "smart" cities, including Jewish Funds for Justice, New York, NY, in support of two workshops to develop a implications for public and technology policy, United States: $500,000 toward the costs broad and cross-cutting perspective on through website outreach, social media, of the Care Fund for the Caring Across resilience both in theory and practice, with a working group activities, and an "Urban Generations Campaign, which is designed to focus on the role of resilience in the reduction Systems Symposium" to be held in New research, evaluate and promote strategies of poverty. York City, May 2011. that strengthen the quality of jobs for direct University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, care workers as well as the quality and avail- Rockefeller Foundation CREATE Event South Africa: $270,250 in support of a series ability of care they provide. Donations, United States: $4,000 for dona- of workshops to build knowledge, skills and tions to organizations identified by Rockefeller Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, capacity among Rockefeller Foundation staff, Foundation staff participating in the United States: $198,523 for use by its School partners and grantees to better define, meas- C.R.E.A.T.E. (Collaborative Rockefeller Engine of Advanced International Studies in support ure and report on achieving more equitable to Advance Topics for Exploration) workshop, of investigating and supporting the accelera- growth for poor and vulnerable people. a project of the Internal Innovation Fund. tion of capital flows from sovereign wealth Urban Institute, Washington, DC, United funds into resilient and sustainable infra- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, States: $250,000 in support of preparing structure investment to ensure inclusive, United States: $2,000,000 for use by its and releasing the 2010 Neighborhood equitable and sustainable economic growth National Museum of African American History Change Database. with substantial social, environmental and and Culture in support of content develop- health benefits. ment and design for the "Panorama of the WETA, Arlington, VA, United States: Modern Civil Rights Movement" and "Interac- $375,000 in support of "Coping with Climate Meridian Institute, Dillon, CO, United States: tive Lunch Counter" exhibitions. Change," a multi-platform public media proj- $350,000 in support of facilitating the devel- ect by PBS NewsHour that focuses on the opment and implementation of a collaborative Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United challenges presented by a changing environ- strategic framework among a diverse set of States: $450,000 for use by its Woods Insti- ment in communities across the U.S. entities working on disaster risk reduction in tute for the Environment in support of the the Asia Pacific region. “Uncommon Dialogue” program, a series of World Bank, Washington, DC, United States: workshops and papers exploring new ideas $200,000 toward the costs of in-depth analy- Meridian Institute, Dillon, CO, United States: and intervention opportunities related to sis of qualitative gender data for a paper on $500,000 toward the costs of its AGree problems facing poor and vulnerable people "Defining Gender in the 21st Century: Con- initiative, an effort to enhance U.S. food and and sharing them with the philanthropic and versations with Men and Women Around the agricultural policy to improve the productivity social sector communities. World" as a companion publication to its and environmental performance of agricul- 2012 World Development Report, and a writ- ture, increase access to nutritious food and The PopTech Institute, Camden, ME, United ing workshop on "Defining Gender," to be promote opportunities for rural communities States: $500,000 toward the costs of a held at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio to succeed. conference on understanding resilience for Center, Bellagio, Italy, September 2011. vulnerable populations across the globe, National Council for Science and the “PopTech 2012: Toward Resilience,” to be World Food Prize Foundation, Des Moines, Environment, Washington, DC, United held in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2012. IA, United States: $1,250,000 to endow an States: $50,000 toward the costs of its 12th annual award in honor of Dr. Norman E. Bor- National Conference on Science, Policy and United Nations Entity for Gender Equality laug recognizing an outstanding young field the Environment, “Environment and Security,” and the Empowerment of Women, New research scientist or extension worker in agri- to be held in Washington, D.C., January York, NY, United States: $700,000 toward cultural development, and to contribute to the 2012, and of identifying intervention opportu- the costs of specific activities to support its Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium nities related to problems facing poor and mission to accelerate progress toward the over the next 10 years. goal of achieving gender equality and the

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Secondary Education Emerald Cities Collaborative, Inc., Washing- Progressive America Fund, New York, NY, ton, DC, United States: $550,000 in general United States: $250,000 toward the costs of Results for Development, Washington, DC, support of its mission to “green” U.S. cities implementing Green Jobs/Green New York, a United States: $980,000 in support of and metropolitan economies through energy collaborative project with the New York State research and convenings to identify and efficiency retrofit programs and other high Energy and Research Development Authority explore innovative secondary education for road employment-oriented initiatives that that seeks to use a green infrastructure invest- skills enhancement, and explore paths to advance equal opportunity, shared wealth ment program to create jobs in New York scale up the most effective models in Africa and democracy. State, reduce energy use and climate impacts, and Asia. lower energy bills, and serve as a model for Green For All, Oakland, CA, United States: other state initiatives around the country. Sustainable Employment in a $1,000,000 toward the costs of its new Green US Economy (SEGUE) initiative to develop green jobs opportunities The DC Project, Inc., Washington, DC, in the water management sector. United States: $250,000 toward the costs of BlueGreen Alliance Foundation, Minneapo- its National Training Program, an effort to Innovation Network for Communities, Tam- lis, MN, United States: $300,000 for use by generate consumer demand for residential worth, NH, United States: $65,000 in support its Clean Energy Manufacturing Center energy efficiency and channel benefits back of its Building Retrofit Industry Market (BRIM) toward the costs of “Creating an Administra- into communities through cost savings, car- Scan and Segmentation Analysis, an effort to tive Policy Road Map for the Clean Energy bon emissions reductions, new jobs for retro- conduct research in support of a coordinated Economy,” a collaborative project with the fit workers and green economic market development investment plan for the Sierra Club to perform an analysis of employ- development. energy efficiency retrofit sector in the U.S. ment opportunities for low- and moderate- The Partnership for Working Families, income workers throughout the wind and Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington, DC, United States: $500,000 solar energy supply chains. Washington, DC, United States: $300,000 toward the costs of research to quantify toward the costs of an integrated research Capital E LLC, Washington, DC, United potential employment, environmental and project to analyze employment opportunities States: $75,000 toward the costs of its other social impacts of the waste manage- for women across the green economy and Green Building Performance Database, which ment sector as well as to develop a national identify programs to help women transition will make rigorous data on the costs and campaign focused on social and economic from green job training to sustainable benefits of green buildings free and publicly equity in the waste and recycling industry. employment. accessible. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clean Economy Development Center, WI, United States: $250,000 for use by its Cambridge, MA, United States: $115,000 for Washington, DC, United States: $150,000 Center on Wisconsin Strategy in support of use by its Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action toward the costs of developing an energy “Greener On-Ramps: Skill Formation, Lab in support of a study of 40,000 house- efficiency financing strategy for Rhode Island, Resilience, and Equity in the Clean Energy holds in Michigan to measure the impact of to stimulate investment in clean energy, lever- Economy,” which seeks to advance a greener the Weatherization Assistance Program age private capital, and provide a model that and more equitable economy in the U.S. (WAP), specifically producing insights into can be replicated nationally. the number of green jobs created through Workers Defense Project, Inc., Austin, Clean Energy Works Oregon, Portland, OR, this program. TX, United States: $300,000 toward the United States: $300,000 toward the costs costs of its Premier Community Builder proj- National Council of La Raza, Washington, of a project expanding its residential energy ect, an effort to create equitable and sustain- DC, United States: $125,000 in support of an retrofit program (from the city of Portland to able jobs in the green construction industry integrated research project to analyze employ- the state of Oregon) with enhanced market- in Austin, Texas. ment opportunities for Latino workers across ing, information technology systems and the green economy, and to develop policy pro- communications strategies. posals for increasing Latino workers’ pre- Smart Power for Environmentally- CNT Energy, Chicago, IL, United States: paredness for jobs in the green economy. sound Economic Development $350,000 in support of its "Building the Multi- (SPEED) Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA, United States: family Retrofit Market: Replicating Energy $230,000 in support of a comprehensive Confederation of Indian Industry, New Savers in New Markets" initiative, which aims scoping analysis of the green jobs potential Delhi, India: $506,350 for use by its Sohrabji to replicate its multi-family energy retrofit in the water management sector. Godrej Green Business Center in support of model in U.S. cities. bringing together stakeholders from the People United for Sustainable Housing, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, mobile phone industry, financial institutions, Buffalo, NY, United States: $250,000 toward DC, United States: $400,000 in support of community organizations, government and the costs of developing and replicating its research on employment opportunities and the technology manufacturing and supply Green Development Zone model of commu- challenges in the green economy, including sectors to create an enabling environment nity regeneration, and partnering with the current analysis and future projections of the necessary for the success and scale up of New York State Energy Research and Devel- growth, quality and composition of jobs in a multi-site project to generate off-grid elec- opment Authority to implement the state’s multiple sectors of the economy related to tricity for distribution to poor rural communi- residential energy efficiency retrofit program, climate mitigation and resilience. ties in India. Green Jobs/Green New York.

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DESI Power, Bangalore, India: $766,457 in tices in the health private sector to scale Centre for Promotion of Quality of Life, Ho support of a project to design and test scala- through existing and evolving networks of Chi Minh City, Vietnam: $105,040 in support bility and replicability of off-grid energy service healthcare providers in low- and middle- of a project to strengthen health systems, companies for delivering renewable energy income countries. address climate change challenges and solutions that provide clean energy and spur increase access to health insurance for poor African Health Economics and Policy Asso- local economic growth for rural communities communities in Tien Giang Province, Vietnam. ciation, Surrey, United Kingdom: $75,000 in India. toward the costs of its conference "Towards China Medical Board, Inc., Cambridge, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Universal Health Coverage," to gather health MA, United States: $128,500 in support of United States: $649,470 for use by its School experts, academics, practitioners and policy- launching HealthSpace.Asia, a web-based of Advanced International Studies in support makers from African countries to present and platform that aims to encourage networking of landscaping global energy policies, tech- exchange the latest research on employing among health systems researchers in Asia, nological developments and financing mech- appropriate health economics tools and including regional dissemination of the 2011 anisms to raise awareness of and contribute financing for improvements in health care, to Lancet Southeast Asia series. to scaling up the Smart Power for Environ- be held in Dakar, Senegal, March 2011. China National Health Development mentally-sound Economic Development African Population and Health Research Research Center, Beijing, China: $350,000 (SPEED) initiative. Center, Nairobi, Kenya: $46,976 in support in support of formulating specific, evidence- Prayas, Maharashtra, India: $337,780 toward of a collaboration with the Ministry of Health, based options for creating a national provider the costs of policy-relevant research in Rwanda to develop a plan to increase policy payment system in an effort to achieve uni- support of the economically viable, socially planning and analysis skills within the Ministry, versal health coverage in China. equitable and environmentally sustainable and to develop a framework and methodol- Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thai- growth and development of India’s renewable ogy for an assessment of the role of the land: $30,000 for use by its Centre for Health energy sector. private health sector in Rwanda. Economics, in collaboration with the Asia Sambodhi, New Delhi, India: $498,168 in Asian Community Health Action Network, Network for Capacity Building in Health support of conducting monitoring and evalua- Madras 90, India: $150,000 in support of the System Strengthening and the World Bank tion of the Foundation's Smart Power for People’s Health Movement’s bi-annual Institute, in support of a course on “Strate- Environmentally-sound Economic Develop- Assembly and a related workshop to engage gies for Private Sector Engagement and ment initiative work in India, to capture and civil society in policy dialogues on strengthen- Public Private Partnership in Health,” to be share lessons learned about the feasibility ing health systems. held in Bangkok, Thailand, summer 2011. and replicability of off-grid renewable energy BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh: $782,000 in sup- Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, solutions to provide electrification and spur port of a project to fine-tune, implement and MA, United States: $594,960 for use by its economic growth in poor rural communities, scale-up the BRAC Healthcare Innovations Rwanda Country Office, in collaboration with and to foster learning, accountability and per- Program (B-HIP) for BRAC beneficiaries and the Ministry of Health in Rwanda, to upgrade formance improvements in the Foundation their families. District Health Strengthening Tool software and among its grantees. and provide regional training and support for Carego, Danville, CA, United States: $55,000 Technology and Action for Rural Advance- the local-level integration of new eHealth in support of facilitating a learning visit by ment, New Delhi, India: $3,556,667 in sup- technologies country-wide. officials of the Kenyan Ministry of Medical port of coordinating a multi-stakeholder, Services to a successful health information Council on Foreign Relations, New York, multi-site project to develop and test the fea- exchange working site in Brisbane, Australia NY, United States: $49,220 in support of a sibility and replicability of off-grid renewable as a potential model for improving the quality collaboration with the Brazilian Mission to energy solutions to provide electrification and and efficiency of health care in Kenya. organize a panel on progress toward univer- spur economic growth in poor rural commu- sal health coverage, to be held during the nities in India. Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru: United Nations General Assembly Meeting in $30,000 toward the costs of convening The Energy and Resources Institute, New September 2011, and three follow-up round- health informatics experts to discuss best Delhi, India: $100,000 toward the costs of the table discussions. practices and encourage South-South and Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, an North-South collaborations that tackle health Elets Technomedia Pvt. Ltd., Uttar Pradesh, international platform for constructive dia- care gaps faced by underserved communities India: $54,500 in support of conducting a logue and debate on climate change that at the “Symposium on mHealth Strategy for feasibility study on creating an online eHealth aims to deliver globally accepted agreements Latin America” to be held in Lima, Peru, magazine that covers developments in the on building a sustainable future, held in New March 2011. eHealth sector in Africa. Dehli, India, February 2011. Centre for Health and Social Services, Family Health International, Research Transforming Health Systems Accra, Ghana: $257,242 in support of the first Triangle Park, NC, United States: $200,000 "Pan-African Conference on Universal Health for use by its Asian Pacific Regional Office ACCESS Health International, Washington, Coverage," to be held in Accra, Ghana, toward the costs of developing and imple- DC, United States: $545,450 in support of November 2011, to create a movement menting a hospital accreditation system in activities to build capacity through training among community-supported organizations, Bangladesh. and mentoring, in order to bring best prac- ministries of health, practitioners and academ- ics for equitable health financing in Africa.

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FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil: Network regarding the design, implementa- London School of Hygiene and Tropical $250,000 for use by its Center for Interna- tion, and evaluation of relevant quality mech- Medicine, University of London, London, tional Relations in Health, in support of the anisms as a means to achieve universal England: $250,000 for use by its Department costs of participation of nongovernmental health coverage. of Global Health and Development in support organizations from developing countries in of broad dissemination and launch activities Institute for Social Development Studies, the "World Conference on Social Determi- for the book "Good Health at Low Cost," to Hanoi, Vietnam: $363,500 in support of a nants of Health" to be held in Rio de Janeiro, inform debates around health systems project to build the capacity of the civil society Brazil, October 2011. strengthening and bolster regional capacity in sector to advocate health equity in Vietnam. health systems research. Health Strategy and Policy Institute, Hanoi, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control Vietnam: $550,700 in support of establishing Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, and Research, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh: a new research center for studying the non- Thailand: $550,000 for use by its Faculty of $202,650 in support of activities to mitigate state health sector in Vietnam. Tropical Medicine in support of expanding the impact of climate change to reduce the the Center of Excellence in public health HELINA, Bamako, Mali: $45,000 toward the burden of climate-sensitive illnesses through informatics, with a focus on developing a costs of its 2011 Health Informatics in Africa strengthening health systems, collaborative curriculum and faculty to launch a master's conference and additional planning for devel- networking and enhanced disease surveil- degree program. opment of health informatics research and lance in Bangladesh. education in Africa. Management Sciences for Health, Cam- Institute of Health Policy, Management and bridge, MA, United States: $510,839 in sup- INAFI Bangladesh Foundation, Dhaka, Research, Nairobi, Kenya: $299,894 in sup- port of its "Campaign for Universal Health Bangladesh: $57,680 in support of conduct- port of activities to increase awareness of Coverage in Low and Middle Income Coun- ing a study on the feasibility of making health market innovations in East Africa, and tries" to encourage equitable health reform in microinsurance products available to poor identify and disseminate best practices to five African countries. and vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. bring them to scale. Management Sciences for Health, Cam- INAFI Bangladesh Foundation, Dhaka, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease bridge, MA, United States: $747,539 for use Bangladesh: $225,000 in support of fostering Research, Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka, by its Rwanda office in support of research, a pro-poor health insurance agenda by Bangladesh: $39,811 in continued support of financial modeling and capacity building to supporting the further development and activities to develop and implement a pilot expand access, utilization and sustainability sustainability of “Micro Insurance Mutual health insurance scheme in Bangladesh. within the Community-Based Health Insur- Enabling" (MIME), a mutual insurance International Health Policy Program, ance scheme in Rwanda. program in Bangladesh. Thailand, Nonthaburi, Thailand: $25,000 in Medical Credit Fund, Amsterdam, Nether- INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana: $606,623 support of participants from Asia to attend the lands: $161,500 in support of a feasibility in support of a study to document the impact 6th Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human study to assess the technical assistance and of Universal Health Care reforms on access, Resources for Health (AAAH) conference to be business needs of midwives in Ghana in an uptake and utilization of health care services held in Cebu, the Philippines, November 2011. effort to inform a reduction in maternal and among poor and vulnerable people at the International Health Policy Program, infant mortality. household level in Ghana and Vietnam. Thailand, Nonthaburi, Thailand: $532,190 Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka- InSTEDD, Palo Alto, CA, United States: in support of creating and institutionalizing a 1000, Bangladesh: $214,290 for use by its $58,000 in support of a scoping study to universal health coverage training center for Health Economics Unit in support of activities design an organizational structure and south-south learning efforts. to develop and institutionalize the National resource mobilization strategy for an innova- Jembi Health Systems, Cape Town, South Health Accounts, a tool for summarizing, tion lab that fosters the development and Africa: $300,000 in general support of its describing and analyzing the financing of implementation of locally sourced eHealth mission to develop health information systems national health systems in Bangladesh. solutions in Bangladesh. for use in low-resource settings in Africa. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Institute for Collaborative Development, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh: $400,000 for use Bethesda, MD, United States: $225,441 in United States: $203,320 for use by its School by its Directorate General of Health Services support of research on institutional and sus- of Public Health in support of activities, in in support of establishing a national eHealth tainability options for a potential African Plat- collaboration with the Future Health Systems steering committee and new technical form on Health Systems and Policy that will Consortium, to facilitate an evidence- resources in order to develop standards provide evidence-based analysis to inform informed discussion and analysis among and a framework for national health informa- policy making, including a convening to be foundations, development partners and tion systems in Bangladesh. held at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio experts about the nature and future of health Center, Italy, 2012. Ministry of Health, Ghana, Accra, Ghana: care markets in low- and middle-income $497, 250 in support of strengthening policy Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cam- countries and innovative ways to intervene in development and analysis capacity among bridge, MA, United States: $1,299,870 in markets to promote accessible, quality care public health leaders and practitioners in support of a project to provide technical sup- for poor and vulnerable people. Ghana to improve health policy implementa- port and facilitate networking among approxi- tion and practice. mately 10 countries of the Joint Learning

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Ministry of Health, Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam: Limited in support of travel and accommoda- University of California, San Francisco, San $1,000,000 for use by its Department of tions for representative delegates and speak- Francisco, CA, United States: $200,000 for Planning and Finance in support of a project ers at the “Health System Reform in Asia” use by its Global Health Group in support of to strengthen the health system in Vietnam conference, to be held in Hong Kong, documenting expanded evidence of the role with a focus on improved governance and December 2011. of the private sector within health systems in the capacity building of health professionals. developing countries and fostering a commu- Research, Training and Management nity of practice around social franchising. Monitor Company Group LP, Cambridge, International, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh: MA, United States: $200,000 in support of a $200,000 in partnership with the James P. University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, collaboration with the United States Agency Grant School of Public Health in support of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: $252,780 in sup- for International Development to plan and conducting a comprehensive assessment of port of a project to develop a Master of Sci- develop a Challenge Fund focused on sup- the current status of private health capacity ence degree in Health Economics and porting promising innovative healthcare enter- institutions in Bangladesh, with a particular Management in Vietnam. prises that serve the poor in Africa. focus on the private sector. Vietnam Health Economics Association, National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, Results for Development, Washington, Hanoi, Vietnam: $204,950 in support of a WA, United States: $70,000 for use by its DC, United States: $101,200 in support of project to strengthen its institutional and Center for Health and Aging in support of a recruiting authors and facilitating the creation, organizational capacity building efforts to pro- workshop at the 2011 Pacific Health Summit planning and review of articles for a Lancet mote health finance reform in Vietnam. on the implications of universal health cover- special series on universal health coverage. VillageReach, Seattle, WA, United States: age for fair access to medicines and vaccines Results for Development, Washington, $452,172 in support of its "OpenLMIS Initia- to be held in Seattle, June 2011. DC, United States: $1,172,500 in support tive," a community of health systems design- National Hospital Insurance Fund, Kenya, of providing technical assistance and facilitat- ers and public health practitioners working Nairobi, Kenya: $229,980 in support of a ing networking among approximately toward building an open source medical study to provide policymakers with evidence 10 countries of the Joint Learning Network logistics management tool and facilitating of the appropriate structure for a Health Insur- regarding the design, implementation, and collaborative development of an eHealth soft- ance Subsidy program that will serve Kenya's evaluation of relevant provider payment ware platform to improve health care access poorest populations. mechanisms as a means to achieve universal in developing countries. health coverage. Open Health Tools, Ashville, NC, United Women in Informal Employment: Globaliz- States: $400,000 toward the costs of devel- Society for Health Information Systems ing and Organizing, Manchester M2 7 EN, oping the HEART project, a high quality Programmes, New Delhi, India: $350,000 United Kingdom: $66,100 in support of a repository of freely available health enterprise in support of expanding the District Health policy dialogue to increase access for women architecture artifacts and building blocks for Information Software (DHIS2) platform and in the informal economy to universal health use by countries and implementers to save strengthening technical capacity in order to insurance schemes, in collaboration with time and money in the design of national advance health information systems develop- the Foundation for Labour and Employment health information systems. ment in Asia. Promotion (HomeNet Thailand) and the Self-Employed Women's Association of India. Peking University, Beijing, China: $500,000 Thailand Development Research Institute for use by its Health Science Center toward Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand: $80,000 in World Bank, Washington, DC, United States: the costs of the Second Global Health Sym- support of conducting research on the Thai $1,050,000 for use by its Health, Nutrition posium on Health Systems Research to be Universal Coverage scheme and its impact and Population Unit toward the costs of pol- held in Beijing, China, November 2012, and on the health status, health equity and health icy and analytical research for a 2013 report the development of an international society promotion efforts in Thailand. on the links between health and economic to advance the Symposium’s work. development, particularly around the issue of Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand: universal health coverage, and participation Press Institute of Bangladesh, Dhaka 1000, $25,000 for use by its Faculty of Law and in the Joint Learning Network. Bangladesh: $208,880 in support of activities Public Health in support of a regional work- to promote universal health coverage in shop on “Globalizing Asia: Health Law, Gov- World Health Organization, Geneva, Bangladesh through capacity building and by ernance, and Policy – Issues, Approaches Switzerland: $55,000 for use by its Knowl- leveraging media engagement. and Gaps” to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, edge Management and Sharing Department April 2012. toward the costs of a special eHealth-themed Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA, United issue of the "Bulletin of the World Health States: $58,388 for use by its Center for United Nations Foundation, Washington, Organization," to promote a stronger commit- Innovation and Technology in Public Health DC, United States: $70,000 for use by its ment to eHealth interoperability and its wider and in collaboration with Atlas Corps toward mHealth Alliance in support of the “Top 11 in application. the costs of two mHealth and eHealth fellow- 2011 Challenge,” a celebration of innovators ships for individuals from low- and middle- from the global south in the field of mobile World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzer- income countries. health, and of the awardees' participation in land: $80,000 for use by its Western Pacific the “2011 mHealth Summit,” to be held in Regional Office in support of providing techni- Reed Elsevier PLC, London WC2N 5JR, Washington, DC, December 2011. cal assistance on enterprise architecture and United Kingdom: $30,000 for use by Elsevier health information systems design to the

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Ministry of Health, Philippines, and organizing Building America's Future Educational tive, a regional effort by eleven Northeast and a workshop on Health Information Systems Fund, Washington, DC, United States: Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Colum- in Vietnam including funding support for par- $150,000 in support of a national poll to eval- bia to reduce transportation-sector green- ticipants from Bangladesh. uate Americans’ views of investments in house gas emissions and speed the transportation infrastructure and reform. development of a clean energy economy. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzer- land: $150,000 for use by its Department of Carnegie Endowment for International Good Jobs First, Washington, DC, United Health Systems Financing in support of the Peace, Washington, DC, United States: States: $100,000 in support of building “Providing-for-Health” partnership's efforts $125,000 toward the costs of completing and working coalitions between transit-riders and to increase national and global awareness publicizing a research report to make the case transit unions and recruiting more organized of universal health coverage. for new revenue sources that can fund sus- labor groups to help advance transportation tainable transportation, reduce carbon emis- policy reform. sions and help to reduce the national deficit. Transitions to Growth Institute for Sustainable Communities, Economic Mobility Corporation, New York, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Montpelier, VT, United States: $150,000 in NY, United States: $400,000 in support of Chicago, IL, United States: $250,000 toward support of expanding its climate leadership an evaluation of transitional employment the costs of improving and encouraging the academies to provide officials from U.S. cities programs supported with American Recovery use of the Housing and Transportation with knowledge and training on how to plan, and Reinvestment Act funds to assess Affordability Index, a tool that measures the build, finance and manage gold-standard Bus participant and employer experiences and impact of transportation costs on household Rapid Transit systems. economic security, and assisting advocacy outcomes. Institute for Transportation and Develop- organizations in using area-specific informa- ment Policy, New York, NY, United States: MDRC, New York, NY, United States: tion to encourage new policies that will $500,000 in support of its “Roadmap to $500,000 toward the costs of evaluating achieve greater social equity and improved Gold-Standard Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)” the federally-funded Subsidized Transitional environmental outcomes. Employment Demonstration project, to test project to assist up to four U.S. cities with the effectiveness of different transitional Chicago Community Trust, Chicago, IL, developing and planning world-class BRT employment models in improving outcomes United States: $60,000 toward the costs of systems, and to broadly educate cities among vulnerable U.S. workers. facilitating a task force of key stakeholders in across the country on the definition and Chicago, including philanthropic, civic and value of BRT. government leaders, to develop a shared Transportation Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Edu- vision and high-level implementation plan for cation Fund, Washington, DC, United States: American Ideas Institute, Palo Alto, CA, gold-standard Bus Rapid Transit in the city. $300,000 in support of educational and United States: $75,000 for use by its Ameri- Duke University, Durham, NC, United States: advocacy activities framing transportation can Conservative Center for Public Trans- $188,000 for use by its Center on Globaliza- policy as a matter of human and civil rights. portation toward the costs of commentary, tion, Governance & Competitiveness to pre- media and advocacy activities to build sup- Livable Communities Coalition, Inc., Atlanta, pare a value chain analysis on the agencies, port for public transportation. GA, United States: $100,000 toward the institutions and firms necessary to develop a costs of its Public Transportation Education Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc., Washington, robust gold-standard Bus Rapid Transit sys- and Advocacy Campaign for Metro Atlanta, DC, United States: $300,000 toward the tem throughout the United States. which seeks to strengthen and expand transit costs of its National Transportation Policy Environmental Law and Policy Center, options in the region. Project, an effort to create a vision for the Chicago, IL, United States: $300,000 toward future of surface transportation policy in the Metropolitan Area Research Corporation, the costs of its Transportation Reform Proj- United States through research, policy analy- Collingswood, NJ, United States: $125,000 ect, a multi-pronged effort that aims to inform sis and recommendations, and advocacy to toward the costs of its Building One America the national transportation reauthorization help advance five national transportation project, an educational and advocacy cam- debate, advocate for high-speed rail, and goals: economic growth; metropolitan acces- paign to frame transportation policy as a vital promote rural transportation and other state sibility; climate change and energy security; component for economic growth and social policy reform efforts in the Midwest region of safety; and national connectivity. equity in small town and suburban America. the United States. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, Montgomery County Revenue Authority, Florida State University Research Founda- United States: $400,000 for use by its Metro- Rockville, MD, United States: $260,000 in tion, Tallahassee, FL, United States: $100,000 politan Policy Program toward the costs of support of a series of critical studies and for use by Florida State University toward the an initiative to address transportation and analyses related to the Bus Rapid Transit costs of convening a workshop and estab- infrastructure challenges facing cities in the system being considered for Montgomery lishing a clearinghouse on market-based United States and create a national vision County, Maryland by the County Executive’s solutions to improve public transportation. that will advance transportation policies that Transit Task Force. lead to social equity, environmental sustain- Georgetown University, Washington, DC, National Conference of State Legislatures, ability, and economic growth. United States: $400,000 for use by its Denver, CO, United States: $150,000 in sup- Georgetown Climate Center in support of port of a series of activities that will educate coordinating the Transportation Climate Initia-

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state legislators and their staff on policies that Reconnecting America, Inc., Washington, TransFormCA, Oakland, CA, United States: promote equitable and sustainable trans- DC, United States: $150,000 in support of $70,000 toward the costs of a community portation options. research and outreach designed to build outreach program in East Oakland, California support among rural and small city leaders to help create a model Bus Rapid Transit Natural Resources Defense Council, New for public transportation and sustainable program in the region. York, NY, United States: $250,000 toward communities. the costs of education and outreach for its Transportation Choices Coalition, Seattle, "MOVE NY" campaign to establish equitable, Resources Legacy Fund, Sacramento, CA, WA, United States: $150,000 toward the sustainable, and economically- and environ- United States: $750,000 toward the costs of costs of its Transportation for Washington mentally-friendly traffic pricing in the New providing strategic and technical support to campaign, a collaboration with Futurewise, York metropolitan region. California’s five largest regions for preparing which seeks to increase transit funding, plans to change transportation, land use and promote transit-oriented communities New America Foundation, Washington, DC, housing policies in an effort to meet new and reform transportation policy in Washing- United States: $125,000 toward the costs of greenhouse gas emission reduction targets ton State. a multimedia, journalistic project – including mandated by the state. magazine articles, radio and television inter- Tri-State Transportation Campaign, Inc., views, video dispatches, and a full-length Securing America's Future Energy New York, NY, United States: $157,000 book – to explore the human impact of Amer- Foundation, Washington, DC, United States: toward the costs of conducting an analysis ica’s failing infrastructure, how it contributes $500,000 toward the costs of educating the of state transportation spending programs to poverty, and innovative solutions being U.S. public and policymakers about the rela- in all 50 states, and coordinating outreach in employed by governments and communities. tionship between transportation policy and New York, New Jersey and Connecticut for energy security through policy analysis and the Transportation for America campaign. North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coali- advocacy. tion, Raleigh, NC, United States: $50,000 toward the costs of planning, organizing, and Smart Growth America, Washington, DC, launching the Piedmont Crescent Partnership United States: $1,250,000 toward the costs for Economic Growth, a regional initiative that of its initiative to strengthen the capacity of will unite civic and business leaders across U.S. states to implement equitable and sus- North Carolina’s Piedmont metropolitan tainable transportation policies, plans and corridor to produce a shared development investments. agenda centered on a high-quality trans- Southern Environmental Law Center, Char- portation infrastructure aimed at promoting lottesville, VA, United States: $250,000 economic growth and enhancing the quality toward the costs of advocacy efforts to of life in the region. advance sustainable transportation and land Northeast-Midwest Institute, Washington, use policies and projects in the Southeast DC, United States: $175,000 toward the region of the United States, with a particular costs of placing a transportation expert in the focus on North Carolina and Georgia. Office of Sustainable Communities at the U.S. Sustainable Mobility Finance LLC, Arlington, Environmental Protection Agency, and efforts VA, United States: $170,000 in support to inform policymakers about how sustain- of developing and testing innovations for able communities and livability relate to fed- front-end planning and fast tracking Bus eral transportation policies. Rapid Transit project design and approval PolicyLink, Oakland, CA, United States: in U.S. cities. $50,000 toward the costs of “Equity Summit TCC Group, New York, NY, United States: 2011: Healthy Communities, Strong Regions, $390,000 in support of an evaluation of the A Prosperous America,” a convening of lead- Foundation's Promoting Equitable and ers in government and the not-for-profit and Sustainable Transportation initiative, to foster private sectors to advance equity-based learning, accountability and performance policies and strategies to create conditions improvements in the Foundation and among in urban, suburban, and rural regions that its grantees. benefit low-income people and communities of color, to be held in Detroit, Michigan, Tides Center, San Francisco, CA, United November 2011. States: $200,000 toward the costs of its project, the Apollo Alliance, for support of PolicyLink, Oakland, CA, United States: its Transportation-Manufacturing Action Plan $425,000 in support of efforts to advance (T-MAP), a research and advocacy effort to economic and social equity in the federal develop the economic case for green trans- transportation policy debate. portation by assessing the potential for growth and job creation in the public transit manufacturing sector in the U.S.

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This list includes any Trustee who served Diana Natalicio between January 1 and December 31, 2011. President (No new Trustees joined in 2011.) The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, Texas David Rockefeller, Jr., Board Chair Director and Former Chair Sandra Day O’Connor Rockefeller & Co., Inc. Associate Justice, Retired New York, New York Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D.C. Ann Fudge Retired Chairman and CEO Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Young & Rubicam Brands Managing Director New York, New York The World Bank Washington, D.C. Helene D. Gayle President and CEO Richard D. Parsons CARE USA Chairman of the Board Atlanta, Georgia Citigroup Inc. New York, New York Rajat K. Gupta (until March 1, 2011) Surin Pitsuwan Senior Partner Emeritus Secretary-General McKinsey and Company, Inc. ASEAN (the Association of Stamford Connecticut Southeast Asian Nations) Jakarta, Indonesia Thomas J. Healey Partner Judith Rodin Healey Development LLC President Morristown, New Jersey The Rockefeller Foundation New York, New York Alice Huang Senior Faculty Associate in Biology John W. Rowe California Institute of Technology Professor Pasadena, California Columbia University New York, New York Strive Masiyiwa Executive Chairman Vo-Tong Xuan Econet Group (retired June 2011) Johannesburg, South Africa Rector Emeritus An Giang University Long Xuyen City, An Giang, Vietnam

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