Clinton Foundation News & Guidance 9/18/15

From:press@clintonfoundation.org To: press@clintonfoundation.org Date: 2015-09-18 21:00 Subject: Clinton Foundation News & Guidance 9/18/15

Hi everyone - we wanted to give you some updates on recent events, Foundation work, and announcements in the news this week. Leadership and Social Good Bob Harrison, CEO of CGI, authored a piece published on LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-leadership-lessons-from-calamity-changed-course-robert-harrison> that details five Katrina-inspired lessons for leaders interested in advancing social good. Tips include curbing inequality, engaging the community, thinking proactively, understanding the influence of anchor institutions, and taking advantage of partnerships. As we gear up for this year's CGI Annual Meeting, Bob takes a look at how business, government, and NGO leaders are exploring the Future of Impact. "President Bill Clinton established CGI in 2005 as a way to get leaders from different sectors to work together on creating strategies for lasting change. CGI's focus on collaboration was a new model for philanthropy and corporate social responsibility -- and an inspiration for the City of New Orleans, which tapped into the power of cooperation after Katrina." Share the piece on LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2F<https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Ffive-leadership-lessons-from-calamity-changed-course-robert-harrison> Share the piece on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ClintonGlobal/status/643858807781761024 Share the piece on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/clintonglobalinitiative/posts/10153233942175318 Voice your vision for the #FutureofImpact This year, CGI is teaming up with GOOD Magazine<http://magazine.good.is/articles/clinton-global-initiative-future-of-impact> for a campaign encouraging people around the world to digitally participate in the Annual Meeting. Tell us your vision for the future on Instagram or Twitter and use the hashtag #futureofimpact. Submitted ideas will be curated and presented before the policy-makers, entrepreneurs, and innovators that will be joining us at the Annual Meeting. "It isn't very often that more than 1,000 of the world's most influential people are in the same building. But that's what'll happen September 26-29, when the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) holds its 11th Annual Meeting. The likes of Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and many (many) more will put their heads together to come up with real, actionable solutions to major problems." Share the campaign on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ClintonGlobal/status/644521185301164032 Share the campaign on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/clintonglobalinitiative/photos/a.101502<https://www.facebook.com/clintonglobalinitiative/photos/a.10150230180650318.320940.377374190317/10153235439185318/?type=1&theater> Clinton Global Citizen Award recipient Dr. Mukwege profiled on TakePart On Monday, TakePart profiled<http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/09/14/panzi-hospital-drc-denis-mukwege> Dr. Denis Mukwege, who founded the Panzi Hostpital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The hospital has treated the gynecological injuries of 40,000 women, half of whom are survivors of sexual violence. Dr. Mukwege received a Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2011. "Recognizing that it takes more than just medical care to recover from sexual trauma, the hospital also provides therapy, temporary housing, counseling, job training, and other services to help women get their lives back together. Mukwege's work has been lauded by organizations from the Clinton Foundation to the United Nations, and last year he won the European Union's highest humanitarian honor, the Sakharov Prize." Share the article on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ClintonFdn/status/643484080412209152 Healthy Schools Program and healthier meals In response to a New York Times story, Alliance for a Healthier Generation CEO Howell Wechsler wrote a letter to the editor<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/science/letters-to-the-editor.html?_r=1> explaining the successes of healthier meal standards and the Alliance's Healthy Schools Program. "Our Healthy Schools Program works with more than 30,000 schools across the country. Our school leaders report that students are enthusiastic about the healthier meals. Under any fair examination of the evidence, the healthier meal standards are a huge step forward." Share the letter on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ClintonFdn/status/643875194117996544 "The most data gathered around women's rights in the last 20 years" Last week, Inc. Magazine published an article<http://www.inc.com/ilan-mochari/chelsea-clinton-persuasive-pitch.html> on Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton's keynote address at HubSpot's INBOUND conference in Boston. During her speech, Chelsea highlighted the No Ceilings Full Participation Report and the rights and opportunities for girls and women around the world. "In her talk at INBOUND, Clinton's data points came from a research collaboration between the Clinton Foundation and the Gates Foundation. The result, released as a PDF in March called 'The Full Participation Report,' amounts to 'the most data gathered around women's rights in the last 20 years,' said Clinton." Share the article on FACEBOOK: https://twitter.com/ClintonFdn/status/643875194117996544 Entrepreneurship and its barriers in poorer nations In a Financial Times piece<http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0945e53a-55a0-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz3m1vvbkC7> on the barriers that entrepreneurs face in poor nations, the Full Participation Report was again cited. The article uses the report to explain that "...in mature economies, women spend twice as much time on unpaid work as men, in India, they do seven times as much" and "...in some African and Latin American countries, the percentage of women entrepreneurs is relatively high - 41 per cent in Nigeria and 33 per cent in Ecuador - in Iran it is just 7 per cent." "Lack of support services, such as childcare, creates additional pressures for women. While in mature economies, women spend twice as much time on unpaid work as men, in India, they do seven times as much, according to a report from the Clinton Foundation's No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project." CGI U student and Clinton School Graduate Starts Social Enterprise The Arkansas Times interviewed<http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/inquizator-read-admire/Content?oid=4079984> Read Admire, a CGI U student and a recent graduate of the Clinton School of Public Service. He recently launched his CGI U commitment The Urban Food Loop. It's a subscription service that picks up kitchen scraps and turns landfill-bound waste into compost. The subscriber can either get bulk deliveries of their compost in time for garden planting in the spring and early fall, or the fertilizer can be donated to local community organizations. "It's a social enterprise with a double bottom line. We want to make money, but we want to do it doing something that matters. Studying at the Clinton School has really shown me that there is a way to do both." Christy Turlington Burns on maternal health and human rights In an interview published on the Clinton Foundation blog<https://www.clintonfoundation.org/blog/2015/09/16/christy-turlington-burns-maternal-health-and-human-rights?utm_source=sf-fb&utm_medium=social>, Christy Turlington Burns, Founder of Every Mother Counts, discusses her work to help make pregnancy and childbirth safe for mothers around the world. "Our goal is to educate and activate as many individuals as possible. We want them to use their voices and share their stories to help improve maternal health, proving what is possible when we come together." Share the interview on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ClintonFdn/status/644275076465061888 Share the interview on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ClintonFoundation/posts/850922418362534 In Case You Missed It: * In an interview with MTV News<http://www.mtv.com/news/2263531/no-ceilings-chelsea-clinton-interview/>, Chelsea Clinton discussed gender-based violence, sexual assault, and how women are often missing in leadership roles. The interview highlights No Ceiling's digital awareness campaign, #NotThere. * The Atlantic<http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/georgias-plan-to-close-the-30-million-word-gap-for-kids/403903/> wrote about the importance of closing the word gap not only to resolve education consequences, but also to improve health outcomes. * Woman's Day published a study<http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/a51769/how-this-family-changed-their-routine-and-got-active-together/> conducted with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation that shows how families are not getting enough physical activity on a daily basis. * Remember to keep checking the CGI website<https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/meetings/annual-meetings/2015> for the most up-to-date list of Annual Meeting participants. Have a great weekend!