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September
22, 2010
Nearly 40 Commitments
Announced As President Bill Clinton Hosts the Second Day of
Programming at the Clinton Global Initiative’s 2010 Annual Meeting
Wednesday’s
Program Focused on Strengthening Market-Based Solutions and
Harnessing Human Potential
Program Participants
Include Madeleine K. Albright, Lance Armstrong, Stephen Bing, Tony
Blair, Michael Bloomberg, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, Jim Carrey, John
Chambers, Jack Dorsey, Paul Farmer, Thomas Friedman, Sanjay Gupta,
Jenna Hager, Valerie B. Jarrett, Muhtar Kent, Jack Ma and Tom
Vilsack
New York, NY – On the second day
of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI),
President Clinton opened plenary sessions on Strengthening
Market-Based Solutions and Harnessing Human Potential by announcing
a range of commitments aimed at addressing the world’s most pressing
challenges.
"Commitments announced today will have a
significant impact on a range of issues, from fighting cancer to
investing in small holder farmers," President Clinton said. "All of
these challenges are interconnected, and I'm pleased our members are
taking comprehensive and sustainable approaches to solve them."
The commitments announced today include:
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Preventing Tobacco-Related Deaths in
Sub-Saharan Africa
The American Cancer Society will develop a public health
campaign to prevent tobacco-related deaths in Sub-Saharan
Africa. The campaign entails working with strategic partners and
advocating for the creation of smoke-free places, strict tobacco
control policies, and increased tobacco taxes in the region.
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Brazil’s First Social Fund
Sitawi will raise $1.5 million for its Social Fund, which will
distribute loans to Brazilian mission-driven organizations that
are too big for microcredit, too small for development banks,
and too risky for commercial lenders. Sitawi will offer loans
between $50,000-$250,000 at below-market interest rates, close
to Brazil’s Central Bank base rates of approximately 1 percent.
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The Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN)
for a New Beginning
The Coca-Cola Company is committing approximately $3.75 million
to launch eight water projects in Muslim-majority African
countries, including Morocco, Sierra Leone, and Somalia. Total
investment, including support from co-financing partners such as
USAID and UNDP, will exceed $7.5 million.
In total, 40 commitments were announced during
today’s programming. Details on all of them are below.
Wednesday’s programming was primarily structured
around two of CGI’s Action Areas: Strengthening Market-Based
Solutions and Harnessing Human Potential. At the plenary session on
Strengthening Market-Based Solutions, leaders from business,
government, and civil society came together in a conversation about
using markets to source and scale solutions to global challenges.
The session featured Robert E. Diamond, Jr., president and chief
executive designate of Barclays PLC, Thomas Friedman, foreign
affairs columnist with the New York Times, and Valerie B. Jarrett,
senior advisor and assistant to the president for intergovernmental
affairs and public engagement.
Participants of the Harnessing Human Potential
plenary session, including former first lady Laura Bush, came
together to discuss how to foster entrepreneurship and job creation
across the globe, and how to broaden access to knowledge and
training in order to build a global workforce that meets the needs
of the 21st century economy. Other participants included Jack Ma,
chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, Jenna Hager, contributing
correspondent, NBC News, and Barbara Bush, president, Global Health
Corps.
Wednesday’s programming also featured three
special sessions. A session on Addressing Cancer in the Developing
World explored efforts underway to increase access to effective
diagnosis and quality treatment for cancer in the developing world.
The session brought together experts from across the field,
including HRH Princess Dina Mired, director general of the King
Hussein Cancer foundation, Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in
Health, Lance Armstrong, founder and chairman of LIVESTRONG, and
Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent at CNN.
A special session on Building Partnerships to
Empower the World’s Smallholder Farmers featured actor Jim Carrey,
founder of the Better U Foundation, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom
Vilsack. Discussions focused on how corporations can help farmers
build better lives for themselves, while strengthening their supply
chains, protecting the environment, and promoting the long-term
health and prosperity of the communities where they do business.
In addition, CNBC's “Meeting of the Minds: The
Future of the Global Economy," hosted by Maria Bartiromo, was filmed
today at CGI's Annual Meeting. The program premieres on Thursday,
September 23rd at 8 p.m. ET on CNBC. The CNBC special event brings
together some of the world’s most prestigious leaders including
President Clinton; Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC); Andrew N. Liveris, chairman and CEO of
the Dow Chemical Company; and Peter Sands, group chief executive of
Standard Chartered PLC; to address the most pressing questions
facing the global community today.
Webcasts of all open-press sessions can be viewed
at live.clintonglobalinitiative.org. Each session is webcast live
and a recorded version is made available shortly after each session.
For a complete agenda, please visit clintonglobalinitiative.org/schedule.
Photos are available approximately two hours
after each session on our Flickr page. Please visit
press.clintonglobalinitiative.org for the link.
CGI is soliciting questions from the Twitter
audience for plenary sessions and select breakout sessions. Follow
the Clinton Foundation’s tweets about CGI at: twitter.com/ClintonTweet.
The official hash-tag for the 2010 CGI Annual Meeting is
#cgi2010.
CGI is posting daily video highlights
on our YouTube channel, youtube.com/cgivideos. Follow President
Clinton’s updates on his facebook page at facebook.com/billclinton.
The following commitments were announced today:
Acxiom
Partners for a New Beginning, Reach In, Reach Out
Working within the Partners for a New Beginning umbrella, Acxiom
will develop an outreach program, Reach In, Reach Out. This program
will develop and publicize best practices to be used to include
people of the Muslim faith in community affairs and corporate
interactions in the Middle East, Northern Africa, the West Bank,
Asia and the United States. The program will also reach out to
students from Islamic countries who are attending college and
universities in the United States.
After-School All-Stars
Delivering Clean Energy to Haiti
After-School All-Stars, through its We Are Ready initiative, will
provide high school readiness training, study skills, career
exploration activities, and college exposure and mentorship
opportunities to American eighth graders at risk of becoming high
school dropouts. Over the next five next years, more than 6,000
low-income students who are at the highest risk of dropping out will
be reached in 12 cities across the country.
The Alicea Foundation, Mothers in Black
Re-introduction of School Road Safety Patrols in Guyana
The Alicea Foundation will educate students, parents, and teachers
on the essentials of road safety in Georgetown, Guyana. Beginning in
2011, the pilot program will be implemented in 10-20 primary
schools.
American Cancer Society
Preventing Tobacco-Related Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa
The American Cancer Society will develop a public health campaign
committed to preventing a pandemic of tobacco-related deaths in
Sub-Saharan Africa. The campaign entails working with strategic
partners and advocating for the creation of smoke-free places,
strict tobacco control policies, and increased tobacco taxes in the
region.
Asia Injury Prevention Foundation
Reduce Road Traffic Fatalities and Injuries Globally
The Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation will expand its road
safety programs in Vietnam to Cambodia, Uganda, and one state in
India. With the aim of increasing access to high quality helmets and
promoting safer behavior among road users, AIP will build strategic
private-public partnerships, provide school and public road
awareness education and work with governments to introduce laws and
standards.
BreastSens
Soweto Breast Cancer Network
BreastSens will establish the Soweto Breast Cancer Network (SBCN) to
improve cancer survival rates in Soweto by promoting early detection
and providing access to informed healthcare
choices.Usingmulti-disciplinary specialists in gender equity and
women’s health,SBCN will train 60 local primary healthcare nurses in
breast cancer diagnosis and ensure better communication between the
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and local clinics.
Burson-Marsteller
Launching the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety
Burston Marsteller, representing WPP, has developed a logo for the
UN Decade of Action for Road Safety and commits to provide
additional pro-bono communications services to support the Decade’s
launch in May of 2011.
The Coca-Cola Company
The Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) for a New Beginning
The Coca-Cola Company is committing approximately $3.75 million to
launch eight water projects in Muslim-majority African countries,
including Morocco, Sierra Leone, and Somalia. Total investment,
including support from co-financing partners such as USAID and UNDP,
will exceed $7.5 million.
Comet-ME
Sustainable Provision of Basic Energy Services
Comet-ME will build and install hybrid wind and solar stand-alone
mini-grids for all off-grid Palestinian communities in the South
Hebron Hills. This commitment will provide basic energy services to
a neglected region with the aim of creating a sustainable and
environmentally friendly power source. Comet-ME will also run an
advanced renewable energy course to build regional capacity to run
the operation and to ultimately transfer project management to local
partners.
Cordes Foundation, Calvert Foundation and
Giving Assets
Global Impact 50
The Cordes Foundation, in partnership with The Calvert Foundation
and Giving Assets, commits to create the “Global Impact 50,” an
index ranking the top 50 impact investment managers that deliver
social and environmental value in addition to financial returns. The
index will be the first part of a broader effort sponsored by the
organizations, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, to
convene a consortium of philanthropic and financial services leaders
in the creation of a comprehensive impact investment platform. The
Cordes Foundation and its partners aim to raise $2 billion for
impact investing by 2016.
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation
Institute
Cradle to Cradle Certification
Cradle to Cradle will expand its green certification standard to
encompass 1,000 well-recognized products over the next five years.
By assessing the water purity, renewable energy, and social fairness
involved in a product’s manufacturing process, Cradle to Cradle
provides a green stamp of approval that can be trusted by
environmentally-conscious consumers.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
DFCI Commits to Expanded Access to Cancer Care Globally
The Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) commits to work with
Partners in Health (PIH) to donate cancer drugs, offer remote
consultative services to clinicians, and develop cancer control and
care programs in Haiti, Mexico, Jordan, and Rwanda.
Delta Partners Group, Ericsson, MTN
Uganda, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Refugees United and
Control Arms Campaign
Building a Global Platform to Reunite Refugee Families
Refugees United, Ericsson and Delta Partners will launch a mobile
phone application that will help refugees locate their family
members via text messaging. They plan to implement this tool in
Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of
Congo, with the goal of helping 120,000 refugees find their families
by the end of 2011.
Durabilis
Integrating Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) Agriculture Supply Chains
Over the next five years the Durabilis Foundation will work in Latin
America and sub-Saharan Africa to develop agricultural supply chains
to link famers with local and regional markets. They will link
smallholder farmers producing a range of products to state of the
art processing and distribution networks ensuring they can access
new markets for their products.
FARM-Africa
Maendeleo Agricultural Enterprise Fund
FARM-Africa will launch the Maendeleo Agriculture Enterprise Fund, a
competitive grant-making fund in four African countries that will
support small-scale agricultural producers. Based on FARM-Africa’s
existing model, the fund will finance approximately 48 projects over
five years in order todevelop innovative and effective approaches to
natural resource management that will benefit 96,000 farmers.
Dina Mired;
Ghida Talal; King Hussein Cancer Foundation
Cancer in the Middle East - Personalized Medicine
In 2011, the King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center in Amman,
Jordan will establish a new approach towards cancer treatment called
“Personalized Medicine” in order to combat rising cancer rates in
the Middle East. The initiative will use molecular testing methods
to determine the genetic make-up of tumors and how they relate to
the specific individual, thus allowing doctors to determine specific
treatment plans with greater precision.
Firmenich Foundation
Vetiver Farmer Support in Haiti
Firmenich and its partners will create new income opportunities for
farmers and distillers by providing trees, training, and equipment
for the sustainable production of essential oils. The goal of the
commitment is to provide Vetiver farmers with the inputs, tools and
access to markets necessary to diversify their production with a
range of high value, commercially important, essential oils.
Global Citizen Year
Unleashing the Potential of Next Gen Global Leaders
By 2015, Global Citizen Year will engage 1,000 American high school
graduates in annual structured apprenticeships in communities across
Asia, Africa, or Latin America through a “bridge year” program
between high school and college. Each Fellow will develop a fluency
in a new language and an understanding of other cultures.
Gonzalo Rodriguez Memorial Foundation (GRMF) Safe Mobility for
Uruguayan Children
GRMF will promote road safety awareness and citizenship education in
Uruguay. The specific objective of this one-year, $87,000 commitment
is to provide more than 1,000 children aged 4-12 years old with
engaging learning alternatives in the classroom with the aim of
protecting them and educating them to be responsible drivers.
Great Barrier Reef Foundation
Tackling Climate Change Adaptation Through Coral Reef Bonds
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation will create a ten-year, $60
million bond, in partnership with Goldman Sachs and KPMG, to fund
research and interventions that will help coral reefs adapt to
climate change. The protection of species and habitats will be paid
for by interest and capital repayments generated by increases in
levies and taxes on those who use the Reef.
IMAFLORA
Brazilian Forest Conservation through Cocoa Production
IMAFLORA will contribute to the conservation of the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest by developing a pilot model of payments for
environmental services. The model will be based on a regional
approach that links the responsible production of cocoa and
environmentally-friendly markets with the maintenance and
enhancement of environmental services like forest carbon stocks,
water production, biodiversity protection and improvement of
farmer-livelihoods.
ImagineNations Group and Yahoo!
Imagine-Network.org: Entrepreneurs, Mentors Go Mobile
ImagineNations Group, with Yahoo!, will connect young entrepreneurs
to one another, to mentors, to supporters, to financing sources, and
to markets through the ImagineNations Network (INN), an online
platform. Over twelve months, INN will develop country portals
(including mobile phone integration, mentoring, resources, access to
financing and marketplace) and a regional portal. The commitment
aims to increase the number of INN users from 4,000 to 750,000 over
five years, while targeting the sub-Saharan African, Southeast
Asian, and Middle East/North African regions. Additionally,to
promote global entrepreneurship and INN's efforts, Yahoo! will
provide $250,000 of targeted media on its advertising platform.
InSTEDD
The InSTEDD iLab - A Model for Sustainable Innovation
InSTEDD will open an innovation laboratory, or iLab, in Zimbabawe in
2011. The iLab will be a collaborative environment where young
students and entrepreneurs will learn software development, project
management, and collaboration techniques in order to advance
solutions in economic development, public health, and environmental
sustainability. InSTEDD will reach 120 students in five years.
Interfaith Youth Core
InterFaith Leaders for a New Beginning
Over three years, the Interfaith Youth Core will create a global
network of 150 Interfaith Youth Leaders, age 16 to 35, from the U.S.
and 11 Muslim countries. With assistance from US Embassies and
Partners for New Beginning, Interfaith Youth Core will provide
grants, coaching, and online networking to empower interfaith
leaders to implement social projects in their communities, stay
connected with each other, and gain awareness about successful
national and international models of interfaith cooperation.
International Road Assessment Programme
(iRAP) and Asian Development Bank (ADB)
iRAP and ADB: Asia Pacific Free of High Risk Roads
iRAP in partnership with the ADB, will work towards eliminating high
risk roads in the Asia Pacific region by evaluating, rating and
implementing safety measures on the 10 percent of roads with the
highest volume of traffic in the region.
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Urban Sustainability Triage and Realization
Lockheed Martin commits to its first public-private partnership,
joining the city of Burlington, Vermont in its search for
sustainable technologies to lead the city towards its goal of 100
percent renewable power supply by 2012.
Lumni, Inc.
Innovative College Funding for 10,000 Students
Over the next five years, Lumni will provide 10,000 students in
Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and the U.S. with access to financing for
higher education. Through partnerships with individuals and
institutions, Lumni will create social investment funds that will
provide students with funding. These students will commit to
repaying a fixed percentage of income for a period after graduation.
Make Roads Safe, a campaign of the FIA
Foundation
Delivering Vaccines for Road Traffic Injury
The FIA Foundation, with the IDB and others, commits $10 million to
promote safe driving, and the use of motorcycle crash helmets and
seat belts, to combat road traffic injury during the UN Decade of
Action for Road Safety (2011-2020).
The Mayo Clinic
Global Bridges: Healthcare Alliance for Tobacco Dependence
Treatment
The Mayo Clinic School for Continuous Professional Development and
Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center will create an institution to
better treat tobacco dependence and to reduce tobacco use by
advocating for tobacco control policies, such as smoke-free
workplaces. The project will mobilize global and regional networks
of healthcare providers and tobacco dependence treatment
organizations, for a comprehensive and measurable approach to the
threat of tobacco.
Merck & Co., CARE USA, and Save the
Children
Bridging Health & Education Programs for Young Children
Merck & Co. commits to invest more than $3 million in partnership
with CARE USA and Save the Children to develop a package of services
focused on five areas of impact: child development, health,
nutrition, child protection, and economic empowerment. These
services will be provided through caregivers, childcare settings,
and national policy. With a focus on low-resource communities with
high HIV-prevalence, these services will improve the quality of life
and long-term developmental outcomes for orphans and vulnerable
children from conception to primary school. After three years, the
initiative will share its initial findings in India and El Salvador
with global policymakers, international NGOs, community-based
organizations, and donors with the aim of expanding the program to
other countries.
Rural Development Institute, Humanity
United and the Nike Foundation
Creating Opportunities for Girls Through Land Rights
The Rural Development Institute (RDI), along with the Nike
Foundation, Omidyar Network, and the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, will launch an advocacy campaign to help girls in rural
sub-Saharan Africa and Asia secure land rights.
Schoenfeld Foundation
Cleantech U: Igniting Cleantech Entrepreneurship
Cleantech U commits to empower students at five universities in the
US to become innovators in the clean technology sector. During the
next academic year, in partnership with Net Impact, Cleantech U will
connect students with mentors, provide them with networking
opportunities and internships, introduce them to investors, and
provide support to help student-led clean technology ventures get
off the ground.
Sitawi
Brazil’s First Social Fund
Sitawi will raise $1.5 million for its Social Fund, which will
distribute loans to Brazilian mission-driven organizations that are
too big for microcredit, too small for development banks, and too
risky for commercial lenders. Sitawi will offer social soans between
$50,000-$250,000 at below market interest rates, close to Brazil’s
Central Bank base rates of approximately 1 percent.
Step Up on Second, Inc.
Step Up in Hollywood: Sustainably Ending Homelessness
Step Up on Second will build, develop, and operate 200 permanent
green housing units for people identified as the most vulnerable by
the Hollywood Homeless Registry. This five-year initiative will
ensure that residents and an additional 1,400 homeless people have
access to free comprehensive services, including health care and
social and educational programming.
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation
Global Education Connects Across Religious Divides
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation will will launch “Face to Faith” in
the U.S, which uses interactive religious education programs to
build understanding and tolerance. As the new term starts, schools
in five different states will introduce the program for the first
time.
United Postcode Lotteries
Postcode Lottery Project Oceans
The United Postcode Lotteries, together with World Wildlife Fund,
Greenpeace, and the Marine Stewardship Council, will implement
Postcode Lottery Project Oceans, a public awareness campaign about
man-made threats to oceans. The campaign, a $9 million, two-year
initiative, will focus on protecting ocean areas, alleviating
overfishing, and protecting endangered species. It will be supported
with significant media outreach efforts, marketing and publishing
campaigns, and a Mattias Klum TV documentary.
The Mayo Clinic
Integrating Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) Agriculture Supply Chains
Over the next five years the Durabilis Foundation will work in Latin
America and sub-Saharan Africa to develop agricultural supply chains
to link famers with local and regional markets. They will link
smallholder farmers producing a range of products to state of the
art processing and distribution networks ensuring they can access
new markets for their products.
Virgin Unite, Humanity United, and the
Nduna Foundation
Enterprise Zimbabwe: Catalyzing Economic Recovery
Virgin Unite, Humanity United, and the Nduna Foundation commit to
establish Enterprise Zimbabwe, a trust that will help to facilitate
the flow of philanthropic and commercial investment into social
development initiatives, small and medium-sized enterprises, and
entrepreneurship. Over a period of two years, this intiative will
impact more than 20,000 lives.
Vittana
Vittana/Africa: Bringing Student Loans to Africa
Vittana commits to develop, launch, and fund the first higher
education micro-loan programs in Africa. The program will enable
10,000 students to pursue post-secondary education and learn
employable skills in fields such as nursing, law enforcement, and
information technology. Vittana will partner with microfinance
institutions to create these programs, in which loans are placed on
the Vittana.org website to receive funding from a global community
of individual micro-lenders. On average, a student featured on
Vittana.org is funded within less than three days. In the last two
months alone, $100,000 has been raised.
Wrap Up Africa
Wrap Up Africa – Ethiopia
OWrap Up Africa (WUA) will expand its existing program to provide
income-generation opportunities for cancer patients and their
families while they undergo treatment, often miles from home.
Wrap-Up Africa trains program-participants as tailors to create
high-end textiles for export. This year, the program will be
introduced in Ethiopia.
About the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global
Initiative (CGI) convenes global leaders to devise and implement
innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing
challenges. Since 2005, CGI Annual Meetings have brought together
more than 125 current and former heads of state, 15 Nobel Peace
Prize laureates, hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of foundations,
major philanthropists, directors of the most effective
nongovernmental organizations, and prominent members of the media.
These CGI members have made more than 1,900 commitments valued at
$63 billion, which have already improved the lives of nearly 300
million people in more than 170 countries. The CGI community also
includes CGI University (CGI U), a forum to engage college students
in global citizenship, MyCommitment.org, an online portal where
anybody can make a Commitment to Action, and CGI Lead, which engages
a select group of young leaders from business, government, and civil
society. For more information, visit www.clintonglobalinitiative.org.
What:
2010 Annual Meeting of the
Clinton Global Initiative
www.clintonglobalinitiative.org
Where:
Sheraton New York Hotel &
Towers
811 7th Avenue at 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
When:
September 20-23, 2010
Twitter
hashtag: #cgi2010
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