S. Daniel Abraham commits to support the Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam community, aimed at demonstrating the possibility of Jews and Palestinians living together peacefully and equally in a community based on mutual acceptance, respect and cooperation. This is one of Mr. Abraham's several Clinton Global Initiative commitments aimed at promoting religious reconciliation and in particular a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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"Insight on Incitement", a project of Queens College, CUNY, will provide research and recommendations to combat the incitement that has plagued Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. This project is part of a series undertaken by philanthropist S. Daniel Abraham in the area of promoting a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Read More“The Holy Sites Initiative” is a project lead by Search for Common Ground (SFCG), aimed to allow key Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders to find common ground regarding the holy sites in the Holy Land. This is a part of philanthropist Daniel S. Abraham's focus in the area of promoting a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Read MoreACCION International and Unitus will form a strategic alliance to provide permanent and sustainable microfinance services to 15 million of India’s under-privileged population within the next 10 years, thus serving as catalysts to the creation of a large-scale and profitable microfinance industry in India.
Read MoreUS-Africa Financial Fellows Exchange Program, a year-long exchange to enhance the expertise of young bankers from Africa and the United States in the financial, capital markets, corporate finance and economic policy areas.
Read MoreOn behalf of bipartisan support for more effective and innovative U.S. leadership on international human rights and humanitarian issues, Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, and the Aspen Institute commit to convene a conference and ensuing forum, entitled Uncommon Leadership for Common Values, with focuses on protecting religious liberty; stopping trafficking in human beings; helping refugees and the displaced; and halting and preventing genocide.
Read MoreOn a local, state and global level, Ameresco will develop a Multifaceted Climate Change Project. Locally, they will work with 160 ICLEI communities to find options for meeting their sustainability commitments. State governments will be encouraged to adopt policies that encourage state and municipal facilities to reduce energy demand and use. Globally, this project will seek to educate other nations about the benefits of landfill gas utilization.
Read MoreAmerican Jewish World Service (AJWS) commits to support HIV/AIDS interventions undertaken by community-based institutions working to break down the barriers to accessing treatment and prevention and implement effective programming at the local level.
Read MoreGovernor Manuel Andrade of the State of Tabasco, Mexico in partnership with the Economic Transformations Group and other local agencies, commits to distribute $9,000,000 in small business loans to 15,000 poor women in the Tabasco area over the next year, using the successful model of the Van Mujeres savings and loan groups program.
Read MoreThe Apollo Alliance, a partnership between the Center for American Progress and the Campaign for America’s Future will build and support real coalitions for change in California, Ohio, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin to advance better energy policy during 2006 and beyond. This five-state campaign will build on Apollo’s regional organizing, moving concrete legislation and mobilizing powerful political constituencies toward clean energy policy action.
Read MoreThe Career Pathways Project will provide support to Arkansas’s rural poor by helping the program’s participants transition off of welfare and into the workforce through a sequential process of education and support. Working with the Department of Human services, The Career Pathways Project will identify people in the poorest areas of Arkansas and will direct funding toward area colleges on a highest-need basis. Funding will be used to restructure curricula, to provide support services and tuition scholarships, and to help secure child care and transportation to enable citizens to enter into a career pathway.
Read MoreAshoka commits to identify and support 260 new social entrepreneurs around the world, many working on innovative solutions to eliminate poverty, promote environmental sustainability and halt climate change, improve governance and encourage peace, tolerance and religious understanding, through a $50 million fund-raising campaign.
Read MoreThe Asper Foundation commits to stimulate economic expansion and create employment opportunities for Israelis and Israeli-Arabs, by providing loan guarantees to economically disadvantaged persons, as well as to Israeli-Arabs and jointly owned Israeli – Israeli-Arab small businesses.
Read MoreThe Asper Foundation and Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc., in partnership with the Government of Canada, Province of Manitoba, City of Winnipeg and private donors have committed to build a museum that advances understanding of and support for human rights in Canada and throughout the world
Read MoreThe AY Foundation, the social development arm of the Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC), commits to provide basic healthcare services and improve the quality of education in the poor areas of Paglat, Maguindanao and Gen. Salipada K. Pendatun in Mindanao, while helping to bridge the gap between the Christians and Muslims of the areas.
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