TO SOLVE GLOBAL PROBLEMS
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You do not have to be a world leader–or even a billionaire– to make an impact. If we are going to turn things around, we all need to do our part to make it happen. Change starts with you. —Ted Turner
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Chairman & Founder, UN Foundation
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WHO WE ARE POSITIVE CHANGE FOR A BETTER WORLD
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OUR MISSION AN ADVOCATE FOR THE UN
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OUR BOARD PROMOTING DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES AND BACKGROUNDS
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OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UN
10 OUR FOCUS AREAS THE UN AT WORK 12 OUR CAMPAIGNS & INITIATIVES WE CONNECT YOU WITH THE UN’S WORK 16 JOIN US PARTNERSHIPS FOR GREATER PROGRESS
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POSITIVE CHANGE FOR A BETTER WORLD WHO WE ARE
A Letter from Ted and Tim When disaster strikes, the world turns to one organization for hope, help, leadership, and coordination: the United Nations. When there is peace to keep between warring factions, the world asks the UN to mobilize peacekeepers, oversee elections, and create stability. In the face of challenges such as global warming, the UN provides the platform for international cooperation. The UN is the one international organization with the reach, scale, and vision capable of solving global problems. The United Nations Foundation links the UN’s work with others around the world, mobilizing the energy and expertise of business and non-governmental organizations to help the UN tackle issues including climate change, energy access, global health, peace and security, and poverty reduction.
One way the UN Foundation supports the UN is through innovative campaigns that are an entry point for the public sector and our partners to impact a specific issue. To date, our award-winning grassroots initiative Nothing But Nets has sent more than 7 million bed nets to African families to prevent malaria. In addition, our Girl Up campaign funds UN programs to provide the world’s hardest-to-reach girls with life-changing opportunities like the ability to go to school and stay safe from violence, and our recently launched Shot@Life campaign educates, connects, and empowers Americans to champion vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries. We believe that catalyzing positive change on the critical issues facing the world requires engagement and commitment by all countries and all sectors. With each passing day, our world becomes more interconnected. The fates and future of humanity are linked as never before. We believe that it is not enough
to find solutions merely for today but we must force ourselves to think 1,000 years ahead and develop a long-term plan for humanity. International cooperation through the UN is no longer a wishful dream; it is both a reality and urgent necessity. The UN Foundation is honored to work with you and the United Nations to foster a more peaceful, prosperous and just world. Thank you for your commitment to helping the UN solve global problems. Sincerely,
TED TURNER Chairman of the Board
TIMOTHY E. WIRTH Vice Chairman of the Board
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OUR MISSION The UN Foundation connects people, ideas, and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems. The Foundation was created in 1998 as a U.S. public charity by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner and now is supported by global corporations, foundations, governments, and individuals. We help the UN take its best work and ideas to scale—through partnerships, advocacy, constituency building, and fundraising. because we have learned what can be achieved when the public and private sectors work together through the United Nations;
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because the UN was created for “we the people,” and all of us can give back and contribute to a better world;
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because we need new and additional resources to power solutions to global challenges; and
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because we know the leverage and impact that sound policy can have on the kind of social, economic, and environmental change the UN seeks and the world needs.
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AN ADVOCATE FOR THE UN
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OUR BOARD We are governed by a distinguished Board of Directors, whose members share a commitment to the goals and objectives of the UN Charter and the UN’s work on behalf of economic, social, environmental, and humanitarian causes. Under the direction of our distinguished Board of Directors, we work closely with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations Office for Partnerships.
PROMOTING DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES AND BACKGROUNDS
TED TURNER
KATHY CALVIN
Chairman & Founder
President and CEO
HER MAJESTY QUEEN RANIA AL ABDULLAH
KOFI ANNAN
jordan
Former UN Secretary-General
u.s.a.
u.s.a.
ghana
Chair, Jordan River Foundation
FÁBIO C. BARBOSA
GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND
brazil
norway
CEO, Abril Group
Vice Chair
IGOR IVANOV
N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY
russia
india
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Infosys Limited
HISASHI OWADA
EMMA ROTHSCHILD
japan
u.k.
President, International Court of Justice
Director, Joint Center for History & Economics, Harvard University
NAFIS SADIK
TIMOTHY E. WIRTH
pakistan
u.s.a.
Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General
Vice Chair
ANDREW YOUNG
YUAN MING
u.s.a.
china
Chairman, Andrew Young Foundation
Director, Institute of International Relations, Peking University
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
GRAÇA MACHEL
bagladesh
mozambique
Founder, Grameen Bank
Chair, Foundation for Community Development (Emeritus)
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PARTNERSHIPS FOR A MORE PEACEFUL, OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UN The UN Foundation is guided by the key priority of the UN: fostering international cooperation for a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world. We are honored to work closely with the UN’s effective leaders in the Secretariat and across the UN system. Our work supports these leaders and the priorities set by Member States. To ensure effective collaboration with the UN, we work with the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP) and the United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP). UNFIP and UNOP are liaisons between our work and that of the UN system, acting as channels for our financial and other contributions to the UN system. Together, we work to foster new and innovative partnerships in support of UN causes.
PROSPEROUS, AND JUST WORLD CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs) The UN Foundation is committed to helping advance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The MDGs focus on eradicating poverty, ensuring access to education, empowering women and girls, improving women and children’s health, combating disease, ensuring a sustainable environment, and developing global partnerships.
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MATERNAL HEALTH
UNIVERSAL EDUCATION
COMBAT HIV/AIDS
GENDER EQUALITY
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
CHILD HEALTH
GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
Significant progress has been achieved, even in the poorest countries, where UN programming is supported by adequate resources. But to fully realize the promise of the MDGs, good policies must be implemented at every level, and we need to build effective partnerships between the public and private sectors.
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OUR FOCUS AREAS In consultation with our UN partners and the Board of Directors, we dedicate our work to the following issue areas:
THE UN AT WORK
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global health
women
We work closely with the UN to develop and expand major health initiatives to help families survive and thrive. Through our anchor partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and public-private partnerships with Rotary International, the American Red Cross, the United Methodist Church, and others, we help deliver life-saving vaccines and anti-malaria nets to children, stimulate a market for clean cookstoves that are safe and healthy for families and the environment, harness the latest mobile technologies to improve public health, and address the major health challenges facing the most vulnerable women and children around the world.
We believe that empowering women and girls with educational and economic opportunities and securing their health and human rights is one of the best investments we can make for families, communities, and the world. We work with the UN and our NGO, corporate, and government partners to promote gender equality; advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (including family planning); advocate for increased resources and funding for programs and activities benefitting adolescent girls; eliminate genderbased violence; combat climate change; and improve maternal health care using integrated health systems and mobile technology.
energy
& climate change
Energy is essential to economic development. Energy provides mobility, heat and light, and fuels the machinery that drives the global economy. But the world’s dependence on coal and oil harms public health and the environment, contributing to air pollution and climate change. We work with the UN to help move the world toward a safer, cleaner, more equitable and climate-friendly energy future. We imagine a world where sustainable energy powers a better future for everyone.
advocating for the un
The Better World Campaign and the United Nations Association of the United States of America advocate in support of a strong, effective and fully funded United Nations. As the single largest network of American supporters of the UN, we mobilize media to communicate UN efforts, build public support for UN causes, and help ensure the U.S. government pays its dues to the UN on time and in full. Why? Because a strong UN is the world’s most effective voice for international cooperation on behalf of peace, development, human rights and the environment.
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WE CONNECT YOU WITH THE UN’S WORK OUR CAMPAIGNS & INITIATIVES The UN Foundation connects individuals, organizations, and governments with the work of the UN, by building new coalitions and supporting creative initiatives that mobilize resources, amplify voices, and ultimately multiply results.
girl up gives American girls the opportunity to chan-
nel their energy and compassion to raise awareness and funds for UN programs that help the world’s hardest-to-reach adolescent girls. Through Girl Up’s support, girls have the opportunity to become educated, healthy, safe, counted and positioned to be the next generation of leaders. www.girlup.org
was created in 1988. The UN Foundation works with the Initiative’s partners, including Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to mobilize resources to eradicate polio, helping to reduce polio by 99% worldwide. the global polio eradication initiative
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is a broad-based, nonpartisan alliance that seeks to bridge the differences among business, labor, and environmental groups, and identify energy policy options with broad political support. The coalition aims to bring about changes in U.S. energy policy to address the economic, security, and environmental challenges related to the production and use of fossil fuels. We envision a world of economic opportunities that will be created by the transition to a new energy economy. the energy future coalition
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is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Inspired by sports columnist Rick Reilly, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the campaign since it was created by the UN Foundation in 2006. Founding campaign partners include the National Basketball Association’s NBA Cares, The People of The United Methodist Church, and, Sports Illustrated. It only costs $10 to provide an insecticide-treated bed net that can prevent this deadly disease. To date, the campaign has raised $45 million and sent 7 million nets to families in Africa. The message is clear: Send a Net, Save a Life. nothing but nets
www.nothingbutnets.net
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the global alliance for clean cookstoves is a
public-private initiative to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. The Alliance’s ‘100 by 20’ goal calls for 100 million homes to adopt clean and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020, toward a long-term vision of universal adoption of clean and efficient cooking solutions. www.cleancookstoves.org
& rubella initiative—led by a core of partners including the UN Foundation, the American Red Cross, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization—provides technical and financial support to governments and communities for large-scale vaccination campaigns around the world. The Initiative has supported the vaccination of more than 700 million children, helping to reduce measles deaths by 78 percent globally (since 2000). the measles
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strengthens the relationship between the United States and the United Nations through outreach, communications, and advocacy. It encourages U.S. leadership to enhance the UN’s ability to carry out its invaluable international work on behalf of peace, progress, freedom, and justice. We engage policymakers, the media, and the American public to increase awareness of and support for the United Nations. the better world campaign
is dedicated to the delivery of quality health care to the farthest reaches of wireless networks in the developing world. Our mission: to catalyze and accelerate the emerging field of mobile health (mHealth) and increase global efforts to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals of reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. the mhealth alliance
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una-usa
is dedicated to building understanding of and support for the ideals and work of the UN among the American people. Its education, membership and advocacy programs emphasize the importance of cooperation among nations and the need for American leadership at the UN. www.unausa.org
the shot@life campaign
educates, connects and empowers Americans to champion vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries. www.shotatlife.org
(pgh), developed by the UN Foundation, is a financial tool that helps grant recipients increase their aid effectiveness. Through PGH, recipients can reduce their procurement cost by as much as 20%, better maintain their inventory, and meet on-the-ground demand in real time. The result: an innovative financing tool that leaders, donors, and organizations worldwide can use to enhance value for money and maximize health impact. pledge guarantee for health
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works to achieve universal access to reproductive health care – Millennium Development Goal 5 – which leads to healthier women, stronger families, and more stable, prosperous communities. Since 2008, the UN Foundation has led an initiative to strengthen the role of the U.S. in advancing reproductive health and rights globally. The initiative is a collaborative effort of seven leading foundations committed to the idea that universal access to sexual and reproductive health education, services, and supplies must be an integral component of the global development agenda and a priority for U.S. foreign policy. the universal access project
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The UN Foundation is proud to support the UN Secreatry-General’s key initiatives by raising global awareness, engaging stakeholders worldwide, and mobilizing the private sector into innovative, meaningful action.
is a global initiative led by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to mobilize action from all sectors of society – business, governments, investors, community groups and academia – to forge common cause in support of three interlinked objectives: ensure universal access to modern energy services; double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix. These objectives are complementary. Progress in achieving one can help with progress toward the others. All are to be achieved by 2030, and all are necessary to achieve sustainable energy for all.
every woman every child aims to save the lives of 16
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sustainable energy for all
million women and children by 2015. Launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in September 2010, it is an unprecedented global effort that mobilizes and intensifies international and national action by governments, multilaterals, the private sector and civil society to address the major health challenges facing women and children around the world. The effort puts into action the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, which presents a roadmap on how to enhance financing, strengthen policy and improve service on the ground for the most vulnerable women and children.
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JOIN US As a dynamic partnership organization, we bring together a diverse set of stakeholders to help the UN solve global problems. Our corporate partnerships link the entrepreneurial spirit, innovative ideas, and expertise of the private sector with the social, economic, and environmental objectives of the United Nations. Our results-driven partnerships with governments, foundations, member organizations, faith communities, and individuals are critical to leveraging the impact of the UN’s work on issues ranging from global health and women’s rights, to peace and security. corporate partnership opportunities
Every day, more international companies recognize the value of strategically investing their resources in global causes. The UN Foundation’s many corporate partners provide the UN with critical technical expertise, strategic planning support, human resources, marketing platforms, products, and technologies to overcome some of the world’s most intractable problems. organizational partnership opportunities
individual partnership opportunities
What one organization can accomplish alone, two can double. We believe that partnerships built on common goals enable all of us to make a more sustainable and profound impact. By sharing our networks, leveraging existing resources, learning from one another’s best practices, and taking collective action, we will be one step closer to realizing our common goals and those of the UN.
We all have a role to play in creating a better world. Anyone can dedicate their time, energy or money to help the UN. Ted Turner started the UN Foundation to make it easier for anyone who wants to help others around the world take action. Whether you give $1 billion, or $10 to protect a family in Africa from malaria, take action on Facebook and Twitter, or simply tell a friend or neighbor, together we can extend the UN’s reach and create a better world. In hundreds of ways, hundreds of thousands of supporters have teamed up with the Foundation to learn more about the UN, support its work, and join the modern family of UN supporters committed to erasing the ravages of extreme poverty from the planet.
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PARTNERSHIPS FOR GREATER PROGRESS
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