Refugees scrambling for food from community-led kitchen. With minimal international prescence, locally chadians have been filling the gap. Their arrival causes stampedes - as some havent eaten for days. Caitlin Kelly 3 May 2025

July 6, 2025

The Ramboll Foundation supports Sudanese refugees in Chad

The conflict in Sudan continues to fuel what is currently the world's biggest humanitarian crisis. Since April 2023, Chad has become a lifeline for over 859,000 Sudanese refugees fleeing violence and instability in their home country. The Ramboll Foundation has now decided to support UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with a donation of DKK 500,000 towards their refugee response in Chad.

Pretoria cityscape across the parklands of the Union Buildings. Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities and is the administrative capital. Gauteng province. South Africa

June 25, 2025

The Ramboll Foundation announces strategic partnership with C40

C40 Cities and the Ramboll Foundation, together with experts from Ramboll, aim to accelerate urban resilience and put community wellbeing at the heart of city development. 

Dnipro, Ukraine - A year after a missile struck a nine-story residential building in Dnipro, Ukrainian Red Cross volunteers who responded remember it like it was yesterday. “Another volunteer and I were working in one of the districts of our city when we heard the explosion,” said Natalya Rubcke a volunteer with the Dnipro Red Cross Emergency Response Team. “It was a mess at first, everyone was running around, crying, screaming.” The team provided first aid, psychosocial support, set up a safe place for people who lost their homes. “The fact that we can help people by providing some kind of assistance and support, by doing something for people, is what inspires us to continue working, that's why we are volunteers.” The Ukrainian Red Cross is working hard to provide emergency services to those impacted by the ongoing fighting, while also supporting the recovery and reconstruction efforts in many parts of Ukraine. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies with more than a dozen partner Red Cross organizations supports the work of the Ukrainian Red Cross.

June 2, 2025

The Ramboll Foundation supports “Building Back Resilient” training initiative

Titled “Building Back Resilient: Regenerative Building Damage Assessment and Repair in Ukraine,” this initiative is launched by RedR UK and aims to support the recovery and reconstruction efforts in war-affected areas of Ukraine by equipping local professionals with vital technical skills.

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May 11, 2025

The Ramboll Foundation supports emergency relief efforts in Myanmar

On March 28, a deadly earthquake and strong aftershock occurred near Mandalay, Myanmar, killing more than 3,800 and affecting an estimated 17 million people. The Ramboll Foundation has donated DKK 250,000 (USD 37,600) to the NGO, CARE, and their locally led shelter activities. 

May 7, 2025

The Ramboll Foundation hires its first Head of Philanthropy

Having worked with and in a number of Foundations previously, the Ramboll Foundation’s new Head of Philanthropy, Asbjørn Kristensen Høgsbro, knows how philanthropy can inspire new thinking and catalyse impact beyond what individual actors can achieve alone. We have asked him five quick questions to get to know him better.

Ramboll biologists mapping biodiversity on site at the Solrødgård wastewater facility in Hillerød, Denmark.

April 8, 2025

Annual Report 2024 – People and philanthropy

On the Foundation’s Annual Meeting on 9 April 2025, the Board of Trustees approved the Annual Report for 2024.

March 12, 2025

Promoting equitable environmental justice

The 2024 Ramboll Foundation Award has been awarded to Doctor of Law and Senior Lecturer of the University of Malawi, Dr. Ngcimezile Mweso, for her research on environmental justice in carbon sequestration projects in Malawi. Dr. Mweso’s work stands out for integrating social equity into climate action.

RFI brand photoshoot in Espoo, Finland. A group of people in outdoor clothing having a chat on a rock in front of a lake in Nuuksio National Park, Finland.

January 31, 2025

A new philanthropic direction

Since 1972, we have been exclusively application-driven, focusing on smaller short-term philanthropic projects. During 2025, we are transitioning to a more proactive mission-driven and catalytic approach, where we support fewer projects and partners, but aim for bigger and more durable change.

MSF is running a clinic in Zamzam camp, ~15km south east of El Fasher, the state capital, hosting more than 300,000 internally displaced people. MSF teams are offering Ambulatory Therapeutic Feeding services. A rapid nutrition and mortality assessment carried out by MSF in Zamzam camp in January 2024 reveals that a deadly situation has unfolded over the past nine months All emergency thresholds for malnutrition have been reached. Almost a quarter of children assessed in the camp were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition, with seven per cent having SAM (severe acute malnutrition) and being at immediate risk of death. , Among children aged six months to two years old, the figures were even more stark with nearly 40 per cent of this age group malnourished – 15 per cent with SAM. The emergency threshold for SAM, which indicates that urgent action must be taken, is two percent – indicating that a serious emergency situation is present in Zamzam camp.

October 1, 2024

The Ramboll Foundation donates DKK 500,000 to Doctors without Borders’ crisis response in Sudan

For the past year, large parts of Sudan have been experiencing ongoing violence, including intense urban warfare, gunfire, shelling, and airstrikes. More than 10 million people have been displaced by the current conflict, including over 2 million people who have fled to neighbouring countries.

September 26, 2024

Ramboll Foundation co-hosts roundtable at New York Climate Week about sustainable capitalism

Wednesday this week, the Ramboll Foundation, Ramboll, and UC Berkeley gathered leaders from global businesses founded in the Nordics and the U.S. to discuss how to best balance profitability with purpose and drive positive social, environmental, and economic growth.

June 17, 2024

The Ramboll Foundation and UC Berkeley join forces to advance research in the enterprise foundation ownership model

In a new long-term collaboration, the Ramboll Foundation teams up with The Nordic Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Center for Responsible Business at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business to explore global research opportunities focusing on the unique ownership model of enterprise foundations. 

Children draw the Ukrainian flag house on the pavement. Selective focus.

April 15, 2024

Rebuilding in Ukraine based on Danish model for non-profit housing

The "Ukrainian Homes for All" initiative has been created with the purpose of taking a tried and successful model of non-profit housing and use in an area in desperate need of affordable housing.