The online contest's goal is to promote the United Nations Foundation's missions and drum up support for international activism and the U.N. itself.
This week, the United Nations Foundation will join governments, the private sector and civil society organizations for a summit in Washington focused on ending preventable child deaths.
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 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in cooperation with the United Nations Foundation, Mashable, UNDP, 92Y and Ericsson are hosting the Social Good Summit in New York City this weekend.
"The sudden abundance of low-cost natural gas is a gift, " said Tim Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, who, as a U.S. senator, ran the hearings that turned climate change into a national issue.
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It is organized jointly by UNESCO, the US Department of State, the Centre for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy, the United Nations Foundation as well as international NGOs and other partners.
That evening, the Secretary-General attended a reception in honour of Sustainable Energy for All hosted by Senator Tim Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation, and a dinner hosted by the Director of International Renewable Energy Agency, Adnan Amin.
She was also recently selected as a Teen Advisor to Girl Up, a United Nations Foundation campaign that is committed to ensuring that girls and young women around the world are educated, healthy, safe, counted and positioned to be the next generation of leaders.
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In an effort to harmonize these efforts, sustainable tourism heavyweights including Rainforest Alliance, the United Nations Foundation, as well as travel groups such as Expedia, Federation of Tour Operators (FTO) and Hyatt Hotels have joined together to create the Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism Criteria.
As part of our efforts to educate consumers about responsible travel choices, TIES, along with several other global institutions and organizations such as the United Nations Environmental Programme, United Nations Foundation, Rainforest Alliance and the United Nations World Tourism Organization, has been working on developing a global process evaluating the effectiveness of certification mechanisms that clearly set apart sustainable from non-sustainable forms of tourism. (See: www.sustainabletourismcriteria.org for more information.).
WHO, a Geneva-based arm of the United Nations, openly worry that the foundation is setting up a new power centre that may rival their organisation's authority.
For a second year in a row the Foundation is working with the United Nations to host the Global Conference for Social Change.
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Organized by the UNESCO Office in Bangkok in cooperation with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Eubios Ethics Institute and the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, the event will start with a Youth Conference for Peace based on a Model United Nations (MUN) conference.
Founded in 2003, the Klitschko Brothers Foundation built on work the pair were already undertaking for the United Nations, aiming to promote healthy lifestyles for children through sport.
For me, we find those common values and shared principles in the United Nations Charter, as well as the body of international agreements that are the foundation of our common quest for development, peace and security and human rights.
Funding for the group has been provided by the Waterloo Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The United Nations Adolescent Girls Task Force (UN AGTF) was established in 2007 in partnership with the UN Foundation.
An authoritative report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) shows that the United States has fallen to 6th out of 40 developed nations in innovation capacity and last out of the 40 in making the investments necessary to be innovative and competitive in the future.
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The Foundation is also using innovative technologies to make it easy for people everywhere to connect with the United Nations.
Would Mr. Bush have endorsed a United Nations Oil for Food program had he known that Saddam Hussein would misuse it to strengthen his regime and lay the foundation for another war with another President Bush?
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