Deadline: 16-Jun-23

The Rockefeller Foundation is seeking applications for the Reinventing Capitalism Convenings under the Bellagio Center Convening Program 2024 to unlock breakthrough solutions to alleviate the negative social impacts the economic systems have on low and middle-income countries and marginalized communities.

Successful applicants will reimagine economic systems, improve development finance practices and innovate upon the basic tenets of the global economy and more, to build a more just, equitable and sustainable world.

Areas of Interests

• Moral Leadership and Corporate Governance – How can leaders set new norms and standards through values-driven leadership and redefine what it means to conduct “good business”?  How can they go beyond ESG, CSR and impact investing to make systemic changes in how they measure the bottom line?
• Income and Wealth Gap – How can they create new legal, economic, and business incentives to address the widening gap between the rich​​​​ and the poor?
• Fundamental Concepts – How can they innovate and improve upon the conceptual and legal building blocks of capitalism, such as property rights or the rights of the corporation?
• Democracy and Worker’s Rights – How can they prevent economic interests from overshadowing or eroding democratic ideals, the protection of natural capital, and workers’ rights?
• The Care Economy – How can they create policies and systems which recognize and value the unpaid labor related to childcare, elder care, and domestic chores?
• Global Economic Recovery – How can they reform development finance mechanisms, to provide more equitable financing terms to developing nations to allow the world to accelerate progress on global challenges such as climate change?

How they support?

• Convening design resources, to help maximize the experience and impact of your convening
• Modest travel support for eligible participants
• Ground transportation from Milan to the Bellagio Center
• A dedicated convening lead on-site, as well as amenities such as lodging, food, AV etc.

Successful Convenings

• Demonstrate the potential to result in impact following the convening
• Hinge on a clear, specific, and compelling purpose
• Engage diverse stakeholders necessary for success during and after the convening
• Are timely and centered during a moment that helps catalyze impact

Eligibility Criteria

• The Rockefeller Foundation is especially interested in supporting convening organizers who are based outside of the U.S., who are citizens of low and middle-income countries and/or who represent low and middle-income countries through their cultural backgrounds, the focus area of their work, and their worldviews.

For more information, visit Rockefeller Foundation.