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Data Science for Social Impact is sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation's Data Science for Social Impact team makes technical grants and creates products to expand capabilities in data science, leveraging research, analysis, funding, and partnering to deploy advanced data science and machine learning tools to empower underserved communities and increase equity, addressing problems like climate change and climate health.
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Data Science for Social Impact | RF Innovation / Data Science for Social Impact Data Science for Social Impact Since its founding, The Rockefeller Foundation has been a data-driven philanthropy focused on innovation and finding solutions to the world’s most pressing and persistent challenges.
Today, our Data Science for Social Impact team leverages research, analysis, funding, and partnering capabilities to ensure that the most advanced data science and machine learning tools are deployed in ways that empower underserved communities and increase equity. To do this, we hold frequent convenings in order to build a network that brings together data scientists from across the field.
We build products for internal teams within the Foundation, and we build trusted relationships with grantees. Across the U.S. and worldwide, we make early investments in young organizations and connect them with other partners. Our research helps us find people and organizations that have solved problems using data science.
We work to apply those solutions to other problems like climate change and climate health. Innovation is critical to deal with a changing world, increasing sustainability, and equitably supporting human well-being. lacks access to the internet [Brookings] of organizations see data science as key to advancing digital innovation non-profits and foundations are working in the data-for-social-good space Want To Change Africa’s Future?
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