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UN SG Ban Ki-moon & President Clinton on tackling global public health with philanthropy

Posted in Philanthropy, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Earlier this week, the UN Economic and Social Council held a special event on the role of philanthropy in combating global public health challenges.  The meeting convened over 400 executives and philanthropy leaders, representatives of UN Member States and other partners at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called [...]

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Council staff at CGI U

Posted in Philanthropy, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Several Council staff are back in the office today after a long weeked in Austin Texas where they took part in the Clinton Global Initiative University conference.  While mainly involved in the Poverty Alleviation track, Council staff also got to participate in the plenary sessions with President Clinton, and in several of the breakouts in [...]

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More New Philanthropy: Hedge Funds and their results driven approach

Posted in Philanthropy, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

An article today on Bloomberg.com explores one of the biggest forces in today’s global philanthropy: hedge fund leaders.  The authors emphasize the weight these hedge fund philanthropists place on results: “If a hedge fund manager is going to give money, we want them to give based on the effectiveness of the charity,” says Martin Brookes, [...]

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Clinton reveals donors

Posted in Philanthropy, tagged , , , , , , , on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just this morning, former President Clinton released for the first time his complete donor list.  Over 200,000 donor names appear, all having given to his foundation since 1997.  The publication of the list is one piece of a nine-part agreement with President-Elect Obama to dispel any concerns of a conflict of interest if Senator Hillary [...]

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Vetting Senator Clinton

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As President-Elect Obama prepares for taking office on January 20th, speculation abounds on the names surfacing as potentials for major cabinet positions. One name that has been the subject of much discussion in the past few days is that of Senator Hillary Clinton. President-Elect Obama met with her in Chicago to discuss the [...]

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Looking Forward: Making Good on our Promises to the Poor

Posted in Philanthropy, Policy, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Across all panels in the past two days, and especially this morning, we have seen that technological innovation now arms us with unprecedented opportunities for alleviating poverty. In our final panel for the poverty alleviation track, we heard about the nexus between information and poverty from moderator Sonal Shah, Head [...]

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At the Clinton Global Initiative: Bono and others Find Hope Amidst the Financial Crisis

Posted in Philanthropy, Policy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“This country that we sit in is a great country. And it’s a great country because it’s not just a country, it’s an idea. And that idea was supposed to be contagious – it’s bound up in the idea of the inalienable rights of men and women and children, equal in the eyes of God.” [...]

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