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The UN Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and also works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach. The UN Foundation is a public charity. The UN Foundation strengthens and supports the UN and its causes through a blend of advocacy, grantmaking, and partnerships. Wherever possible, we align these core organizational assets behind the large-scale problems we address. Advocacy. From the outset, we have worked to strengthen the relationship between the UN and the U.S. government with a focus on getting Congress to clear up billions of dollars in arrears owed by the U.S. to the UN, and on continuing to pay our dues on time and in full. This effort led by the UN Foundation's sister organization, the Better World Fund built the base for broader...
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NAICS Code Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities: 541720
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Summit Series Announces Spontaneous Philanthropy Drive
The Worldâ??s Top Young Entrepreneurs Organize Social Giving Drive, including an Auction of Dinner with UN Foundation Chairman, Mr, Ted Turner and Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan ...
World Economic Forum Gives Adolescent Girls a Voice on the Global Stage
Corporate, Foundation, Government and NGO Leaders to Discuss Girls' Ability to End Intergenerational Cycles of Poverty DAVOS, Switzerland -- With an agenda focused almost exclusively on the global financial crisis, the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting program today will feature its first-ever plenary session focused on adolescent girls. ...
Keynote Speech by Ted Turner at the United Nations General Assembly Thematic Debate on the Millennium Development Goals
New York, New York April 1, 2008 Thank you for that warm welcome. And thank you President Kerim for inviting me to be here. It's always great to be back at the UN because this is where the most important work in the world is happening. The Millennium Development Goals...
UN Foundation Report: Leading Industrial Countries Could Reduce Global Warming Carbon Levels to Near What is Needed, Simply by Cutting Energy Waste
Improvements would pay for themselves in just three to five years, get close to a carbon level that would avert most serious climate effects; new business and non-profit partnership will work to promote implementation WASHINGTON -- An analysis commissioned by the United Nations Foundation finds that the industrial nations...
TerreStar Global Ltd. Supports Emergency Telecommunications Missions
Agreement with the United Nations Foundation Funds Humanitarian NGO Telecoms Sans Fronti[c]res WASHINGTON -- TerreStar Global TerreStar, a European communications company that plans to offer satellite and terrestrial mobile communications, will donate one week of emergency response time for disaster response provided by the NGO Telecoms Sans Fronti[c]res TSF,...
Health Campaign to Protect Indonesian Children Successfully Completed
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Hayatee Hasan of WHO, +41 22 791 2103, hasanh@who.int; or Jessica Malter of UNICEF, +1-212-326-7412, jmalter@unicef.org; or Michael Oko of American Red Cross, +1-202-303-6820, okom@usa.redcross.org; or Steven Stewart of CDC, +1 404-639-8327, znc4@cdc.gov; or Amy DiElsi of UN Foundation, +1-202-419-3230, adielsi@unfoundation.org More than 31 million children...
Science Panel Outlines Roadmap for Reducing Risks from Climate Change
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSContact: Katherine Miller, Communications Director of the United Nations Foundation, o +1-202-778-1622, kmiller@unfoundation.org; Charles Blackburn, Communications Manager of Sigma Xi, +1-800-243- 6534, cblackburn@sigmaxi.org NEW YORK, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Nations Foundation UN Foundation and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, released today "Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding...
Worldwide Drive Against Measles Receives Financial 'Shot in the Arm'
To: HEALTH/MEDICAL EDITORSContact: Katherine Miller, +1-202-778-1622, kmiller@unfoundation.org, or Amy DiElsi, +1-202-419-3230, adielsi@unfoundation.org, both of United Nations Foundation; or Ruth Landy of GAVI Alliance, +41-22-909-6525, rlandy@gavialliance.org GENEVA and WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Nations Foundation UN Foundation announced today that it has received a US$139 million contribution from the...
Worldwide Drive Against Measles Receives Financial 'Shot in the Arm'.
GENEVA and WASHINGTON, February 26 /PRNewswire/ -- - GAVI Alliance US$139 million contribution to UN Foundation supports global goal to reduce measles mortality by 90 percent by 2010 The United Nations Foundation UN Foundation announced today that it has received a US$139...
Golden Opportunity for U.S.-UN Relationship
To: FOREIGN EDITORSContact: Katherine Miller, Communications Director, +1-202-778- 1622, kmiller@unfoundation.org, or Amy DiElsi, Press Secretary, +1- 202-887-9040, adielsi@undfoundation.org, both of United Nations Foundation WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The President of the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund, Timothy E. Wirth, testified in Congress today in favor of...
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