Small businesses and AI: Accelerating innovation and inclusion

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Highly confident, women entrepreneurs still face systemic barriers

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How data and AI can drive change: 4 ways forward

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Unlocking the power of small businesses to drive climate-smart inclusive growth

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The Rockefeller Foundation advances new frontiers of science, data, and innovation to solve global challenges related to health, food, power, and economic mobility. As a science-driven philanthropy focused on building collaborative relationships with partners and grantees, The Rockefeller Foundation seeks to inspire and foster large-scale human impact that promotes the well-being of humanity throughout the world by identifying and accelerating breakthrough solutions, ideas, and conversations.THE PARTNERSHIP The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and the Rockefeller Foundation announced a new partnership, “Data Science for Social Impact.” This transformational model for collaborative philanthropy will accelerate the use of data science by empowering non-profit, civic and government organizations with the tools, expertise and knowledge they need to help solve the world’s most pressing challenges. The collaborative was announced at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, with an initial commitment of $50 million from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mastercard Impact Fund over five years and an invitation to other companies and philanthropies to join. Building on The Rockefeller Foundation’s leadership in social impact and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth’s innovative approaches to data philanthropy, the collaborative will identify key priorities and investment opportunities to accelerate data for good, whether that be research, skills or new technology platforms.&nbsp;By growing the data science capabilities of social and civic organizations the collaborative can help local leaders uncover new insights and trends from their data and build more impactful programs for the communities they serve.

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Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation is among the most respected and deep-rooted of American philanthropies.

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