Rockefeller Foundation: the data-driven and scalable solutions framing

The Strategy

The Rockefeller Foundation funds solutions to global challenges — currently focused on health, food, power, and economic opportunity. They are a data-driven funder that values rigorous evidence and scalable models. The data-driven framing: Rockefeller wants to see the data that defines the problem, the evidence that your solution works, and the metrics that will measure success. Proposals without a clear data strategy are not competitive. Show the baseline data, the target outcomes, and the measurement system. The scalability: Rockefeller funds solutions that can scale. We will serve 1,000 people in our city is not scalable. We will pilot in 3 cities, prove the model, and scale to 50 cities through a replication framework is scalable. Show the scaling model — franchise, open-source, policy adoption, commercial replication. The theory of change: Rockefeller requires a clear theory of change…