Rahim Kanani: What have been some of the milestones of the UN Foundation in recent past?
The Secretary-General later attended a dinner with business leaders hosted by the UN Foundation.
Mr. Murthy is giving back by involving himself with various social causes including the UN Foundation.
The United Nations Adolescent Girls Task Force (UN AGTF) was established in 2007 in partnership with the UN Foundation.
Through partnerships, campaigns, public outreach, and advocacy, the UN Foundation is broadening support for the UN on a daily basis.
Sponsored by the UN Foundation, Mashable, 92Y, UNDP and The Gates Foundation, the annual Social Good Summit, now heading into its 4th year, never ceases to amaze.
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We, with Vodafone Foundation and the UN Foundation, created the Mobile Health Alliance a global alliance trying to catalytically move mobile health all around the world.
The use of the technology is spreading: a recent report funded by the UN Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, two charities, documented more than four dozen projects across the developing world.
Most mobile-health projects are still at the trial stage, but a report compiled in 2008 by the UN Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation documented around 50 such projects across the developing world.
Timothy Wirth later became undersecretary of state for global affairs for the Clinton-Gore administration, U.S. representative to the 1992 UN Rio de Janeiro Climate Summit that set Kyoto Protocol carbon regulations in motion, and president of the UN Foundation.
The Global Good Challenge project is the brainchild of the Global Entrepreneurs Council, a group of successful under-40 entrepreneurs assembled to refresh the UN Foundation's image and find new ways to promote its programs by tapping into the social media set.
"By signaling his intention to restore U.S. funding for UNFPA, the UN Population Fund, President Barack Obama is signaling his re-engagement with the international community on the critical challenge of improving reproductive health around the world, " UN Foundation President Timothy Wirth said.
Additionally, The UN Foundation is currently leading a large-scale, multi-stakeholder advocacy effort which seeks to strengthen the leadership role of the United States in advancing progress toward the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets of universal access to reproductive health by 2015.
This is a strategy that former Secretary-General Kofi Annan identified, and the UN Foundation has been thrilled to help the UN on this front by building issue-based grassroots campaigns to involve individuals and groups from all walks of life such as basketball players, bishops, business leaders, students and celebrities in the critical work of the United Nations.
Partnerships with national governments and development partners, including, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank Booster Program for Malaria Control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UN Envoy for Malaria, which has mobilized thousands of partners with the goal of reaching the universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated bed-nets by the end of this year, have made these successes possible.
Any big foundation might turn into another UN, with expensive staffs and fancy digs.
The debate is believed to be the first to address climate justice in a parliament in the world, according to former Irish president Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner on Human Rights and who now runs her own foundation for climate justice.
Cliff Kincaid, the indefatigable president of the UN watchdog, America's Survival, has pointed out that the prospects for sovereignty-sapping and financially burdensome international taxes are being further enhanced by the recruitment to this cause of deep-pocketed individuals besides George Soros and Ted Turner (the latter's foundation actually has for years had employees working in the UN Secretariat).
But that gift went toward a pledge he made in 1997 to establish the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund, both targeted at strengthening the UN.
The Austrian Government is the main sponsor of the 2nd UN Inter-agency Meeting which has also received a contribution from the Open Society Foundation, via DEMOS Guatemala.
As many as six million Iranian patients could be harmed by the drug shortage, Fatemeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of Iran's Charity Foundation for Special Diseases and daughter of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, wrote in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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