The Bellagio Center Residency Program

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency Program offers academics, artists, policymakers, and practitioners an opportunity to unlock their creativity and advance groundbreaking work through the completion of a specific project in a residential group setting during 4 weeks of focused time.

The Bellagio Center Residency is an unparalleled opportunity for deep exchange among leaders from a wide array of backgrounds, disciplines, and geographies. Rather than a retreat for private reflection, the Bellagio Center Residency offers an opportunity to advance a specific breakthrough project and a stimulating environment to forge cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural connections with other residents that can strengthen their work, shift their perspectives, and spur new ideas. Bellagio Center residents form lasting bonds and stay connected to each other and to The Rockefeller Foundation long after their residency ends, as members of the Bellagio Center Network.

The Foundation’s Bellagio Residency Program has a track record for identifying big bets on some of the world’s most complex challenges, supporting the development of breakthrough ideas and innovative works of art that enhance our understanding of pressing global and social issues and encourage positive action. Alumni include remarkable leaders from around the world—luminaries of the past century like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Maya Angelou, and Dikgang Moseneke, and current trailblazers like Nikole Hannah-Jones, Akin Omotoso, and Ilwad Elman. The Bellagio Center Network spans 6 decades and includes more than 5,000 alumni, reflecting The Rockefeller Foundation’s longstanding commitment to support groundbreaking people and ideas that improve well-being and make opportunity universal and sustainable.

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