About The Rockefeller Foundation:
For more than 100 years, The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission has been to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world. Today, The Rockefeller Foundation pursues this mission through dual goals: advancing inclusive economies that expand opportunities for more broadly shared prosperity, and building resilience by helping people, communities and institutions prepare for, withstand, and emerge stronger from acute shocks and chronic stresses. To achieve these goals, The Rockefeller Foundation works at the intersection of four focus areas — advance health, revalue ecosystems, secure livelihoods and transform cities — to address the root causes of emerging challenges and create systemic change. Together with partners and grantees, The Rockefeller Foundation strives to catalyze and scale transformative innovations, create unlikely partnerships that span sectors, and take risks others cannot — or will not. For more information, please visit www.rockefellerfoundation.org.
About 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation:
100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) helps cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century. 100RC provides this assistance through: funding for a chief resilience officer in each member city who will lead the resilience efforts; resources for drafting a resilience strategy; access to private sector, public sector, academic and NGO resilience tools; and membership in a global network of peer cities to share best practices and challenges. 100RC currently has 67 member cities. For more information, visit: www.100ResilientCities.org.
About Rebuild by Design:
Our cities were built in response to yesterday’s problems. As the world faces rising populations, climate change and economic challenges, communities can’t afford to wait until after the next hurricane or flood, or ignore chronic stresses such as aging infrastructure and pollution, to plan for the future. Rebuild by Design is reimagining the way communities find solutions for today’s large-scale, complex problems. Rebuild by Design convenes a mix of sectors — including government, business, non-profit, and community organizations — to gain a better understanding of how overlapping environmental and human-made vulnerabilities leave cities and regions at risk. Rebuild’s core belief is that through collaboration, our communities can grow stronger and better prepared to stand up to whatever challenges tomorrow brings. Through a partnership with 100 Resilient Cities (100RC), Rebuild’s collaborative research and design approach is helping cities around the globe achieve resilience. To learn more visit www.rebuildbydesign.org.
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