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September 2 and 3, 8-9 pm EST  Read More

At a gathering in New York, former President Bill Clinton announced the details for the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative and provided an update on commitments from CGI 2005.   Read More

The first commitment for 2006 was announced as Citigroup pledges $5.5 million for a global micro-finance program.  Read More

Three-day conference of government leaders, business moguls, activists, and experts from around the world, gathered on this day in mid-September to discuss what can be done about poverty, corruption, climate change, and religious conflict.  Read More

Former President Clinton announced that the first commitment from the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in September has been fulfilled by Deutsche Bank.  Read More

Bill Clinton is out of the White House, and his party controls nothing in Washington more august than the mayor's office. So it is not entirely surprising that the former president is discovering the virtues of mobilizing interests outside of government to tackle the problems at the top of his priority list.  Read More

On the evening of Sept. 15, former President Bill Clinton stood at the center of a flock of reporters and well-wishers at Nobu 57. The first day of his sprawlingly ambitious conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, had gone smashingly well, and now he was enjoying the company of a mostly fawning press corps as it munched on sushi and trundled about the open bar.  Read More

The big surprise of Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative conference at the Sheraton Hotel in New York last week was how strangely calming it was.  Read More

At the closing session of his Global Initiative conference last week, Bill Clinton stood atop a circular stage surrounded by rows of his faithful — people who had come from around the world to pay homage to his notion of the global village.  Read More

Did you see the Bill Clinton telethon over the weekend? Don't feel bad if you didn't. The Clinton Global Initiative wasn't carried on any channel, even if, in its slickness, it seemed made for TV. But don't be surprised if it really is on TV next year.  Read More

Call it the dawn of the Golden Age of Philanthropy. And one early manifestation was on display this past weekend at an elegant hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Kings, prime ministers, international entrepreneurs, media moguls, and savvy local business people met at the first annual Clinton Global Initiative to pledge themselves to take on a lofty set of once seemingly intransigent challenges: from international poverty and AIDS to global warming to ethnic and religious strife.  Read More

Former President Bill Clinton convinced world and business leaders to commit more than $1.25 billion to address major global problems, ranging from poverty to clean energy.  Read More

Former US president Bill Clinton has closed the frenetic three-day Clinton Global Initiative conference that won pledges of $1.64 billion in commitments to tackle some of the world's biggest problems.  Read More

They're ba-aack. Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush, America's political odd couple, are teaming up for another big roadshow, this time to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Last week, they stood shoulder to shoulder with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office, the 59-year-old Clinton now completely gray and looking a bit fragile, and the 81-year-old Bush looking stooped and a bit weary. Later the pair appeared together in Houston, chatting with evacuees at the Astrodome and the Reliant Center Arena. Their goal was to demonstrate unity at a time of calamity.  Read More

Former President Bill Clinton will be back in the spotlight this week when he hosts the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.  Read More

Even with the elegant and steely presence of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the opening session, the gathering of world leaders that former President Bill Clinton convened over the weekend here to chew over global problems still felt like a pep rally for a government in exile.  Read More

If there was any doubt that Bill Clinton still elicits the adoration of women, Barbra Streisand was on hand last week to squash it. As the former president laid out his agenda for world change from a podium flanked by Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice and King Abdullah of Jordan, the singer-actress emitted a series of gentle but disconcerting squeals of approval, interspersed with admiring sighs.  Read More

The final day of the summit and everything has gone quiet: fewer camera crews and their pushy presenters are prowling the corridors, and there are fewer huddles around doors and lift lobbies to intercept presidents.  Read More

Bill Clinton’s summit of world leaders and tycoons is the latest chapter of his increasingly public return to the world stage with a post-White House career political scholars call unique in American history.  Read More

Tim Russert interviews Former President Bill Clinton  Read More

George Stephanopuolos interviews Former President Bill Clinton  Read More

The three-day Clinton Global Initiative closed in New York City with commitments worth $1.25 billion and promises of more than 100,000 hours of service.  Read More

Bill Clinton's summit of world leaders, tycoons and nonprofit groups collected more than $1.25 billion in pledges for money and programs intended to combat global problems, the former president said Saturday.  Read More

Summits and concerts call for an end to poverty. But what's it going to take beyond good intentions and promises? A faith divided, confronting radical Islam and its deadly effects. When is faith taken too far? These are among the most pressing issues of our time, challenges on the minds of world leaders gathered in New York for President Clinton's Global Summit.  Read More

Bill Clinton expanded his coalition of the giving yesterday, adding nearly $200 million worth of pledges in one day to an already impressive war chest devoted to curing the world's ills.  Read More

On September 15-17, 2005, President Clinton will host the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), a major conference that will bring together global leaders from business, politics, science, religion, and non-governmental organizations. The CGI will be a forum for the group to develop concrete policies and implement solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.  Read More

Former President Bill Clinton wheeled and dealed on Friday at his Clinton Global Initiative summit, yielding promises from global leaders to do things to make the world a better place and bringing the value of aid commitments over two days to nearly $500 million.  Read More

Former President Bill Clinton on Saturday adjourned a frenetic, three-day Clinton Global Initiative conference that won pledges of $1.25 billion in commitments to tackle some of the world's biggest problems.  Read More

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern discussed loyalist violence and development issues with former US president Bill Clinton in New York yesterday.  Read More

He can't run for president again. He hasn't been invited to become Secretary-General of the United Nations. There's no vacancy for the presidency of the World Bank. So what's a fifty-something former president with a famously insatiable appetite for the glare of the public spotlight and the obscurer minutiae of public policy to do?  Read More

Bill Clinton challenged world political and business leaders Thursday to fight poverty, climate warming and other global ills, kicking off a three-day summit of premiers, kings and CEOs that returned the former president to the center of the international stage.  Read More

Nonpartisan Conference Focuses on Global Improvement  Read More

Former US president Bill Clinton gathered world leaders at his alternative to the UN summit, with the same goals of reducing poverty and conflict and highlighting Gaza on opening night.  Read More

City Year commits to opening a full-time national service program in Louisiana to engage a diverse corps of 50 young civic leaders in the relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast. Their mission is to bring help, hope and healing to those whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.   Read More

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton received pledges of more than $200 million for economic development in Africa and to fight HIV/AIDS  Read More

Bill Clinton - former president, heart patient and fund-raiser for tsunami and hurricane victims - has a quartet of new causes.  Read More

Culturally this kind of gathering is about as far from America as it is possible to get without leaving the country. At a welcoming dinner on Thursday night the participants got a private tour of the Museum of Modern Art, strolling among the giants of American 20th century art. But never mind the Pollocks, there was serious work to be done.  Read More

South African President Thabo Mbeki on Friday questioned the commitment of developed nations to stamping out poverty.  Read More

BILL CLINTON KICKED off his own private gathering of world leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations yesterday, convincing corporate honchos and philanthropists to ante up $300 million to tackle the world's chronic problems, including extreme poverty and climate change.  Read More

Tonight, former President Bill Clinton, working with former President Bush to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and now organizing world leaders to tackle global problems.  Read More

Bill Clinton, the former president, called for a terrorism insurance scheme to encourage private investment in Gaza, as entrepreneurs pledged more than $300m of funding for development and environmental projects around the world at the opening on Thursday of the Clinton Global Initiative.  Read More

SCOTTISH businessman Sir Tom Hunter has teamed up with Bill Clinton, the former US president, to spend £55 million of his fortune on alleviating poverty in some of the poorest countries on the planet.   Read More

Former US president Bill Clinton, apparently not content with eight years as leader of the free world, is now out to save the planet. With more than 170 heads of state and government gathered in New York for the UN summit, Clinton will open Thursday the inaugural meeting of his Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), aimed at wiping out poverty, ending conflict, rolling back climate change and promoting better governance worldwide.  Read More

In New York, from September 15 to 17, an unprecedented meeting will be taking place: the Clinton Global Initiative. Convoked by the former president of the United States, the conference stems from one of Clinton's often-repeated convictions. The world is facing serious problems. The problems can be solved. But we are not going to solve them if we do not approach them together - all of us.  Read More

SIR Tom Hunter has joined forces with Bill Clinton and donated $100m of his personal wealth to create a project aimed at fighting Third World poverty. The Scots entrepreneur and philanthropist will appear with the former US president in New York today to launch the Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI), which will initially fund projects in two of the world's poorest countries.  Read More

Expect world leaders to dodge some scheduled United Nations sessions today in a rush to attend the opening round of the Clinton Global Initiative, where 750 global glitterati and their aides have converged on the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers – at $15,000 per head – to forge a "new level" of global cooperation.   Read More

The guest list runs the gamut from heads of state to on-the-ground activists. The price of admission is steep _ $15,000. And the level of commitment is meant to be significant. Starting Thursday, around 800 people _ including almost 50 heads of state _ are expected to gather at a Manhattan hotel for the first Clinton Global Initiative conference, organized by former President Clinton to tackle issues like poverty, religious strife, governance and climate change.   Read More

Former President Bill Clinton will be back in the spotlight this week when he hosts the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. The get-together has lofty ambitions indeed: to rid the world of extreme poverty, reduce religious conflict, slow global warming, and foster good governance in new democracies. Clinton recently spoke with U.S. News chief economics correspondent Matthew Benjamin.  Read More

Bill Clinton's new role of rallying financial support for victims of Hurricane Katrina is the latest chapter of a post-White House career that political scholars call unique in American history.  Read More

Former President Bill Clinton announced today that Tom Golisano, Founder and Chairman of Paychex Corporation, will be the principal underwriter of the Clinton Global Initiative. Golisano joins an impressive and non-partisan list of participants including King Abdullah II & Queen Rania, Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Leonel Fernandez Reyna, President Victor Yushchenko, Secretary General Kofi Annan, Vice Premier Shimon Peres, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Dr. Hernando de Soto, Sonia Gandhi, Jeff Immelt, Rupert Murdoch, Hank Paulson, Howard Stringer, Dr. Muhammad Yunus and many more global leaders from varying fields.  Read More

In this exclusive interview, Foreign Editor Peter Kammerer asks former US president Bill Clinton about his new initiative to solve global problems.  Read More

Since leaving the White House in 2001, Bill Clinton has been redefining his role as a former U.S. president and appears intent on building a legacy as a major force on the world stage.  Read More

It's worth repeating that Bill Clinton was not this nation's first black president, but he almost certainly was the next best thing.  Read More

In this article from Forbes.com,  Dennis Kneale discusses how President Bill Clinton hopes to garner support of the Clinton Global Initiative from various “opposing” leaders of the world.  Read More

On CNBC’s Street Signs, President Clinton explains to Ron Insana the commitment he expects from attendees of the Clinton Global Initiative.  Watch VideoRead More

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says he is intent on finding ways the private sector can solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.  Read More

The Financial Times interviews former President Bill Clinton about the difference of the Clinton Global Initiative.  Read More

Bill Clinton goes “On The Record” with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren about the Clinton Global Initiative.  Watch VideoRead More

Neal Conan, of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, asks President Clinton about the goals the Clinton Global Initiative seeks to accomplish.  Listen to AudiocastRead More

In this Larry King Live interview, President Clinton discusses the 2005 goals for the Clinton Global Initiative.  Watch VideoRead More

John F. Harris discusses Former President Bill Clinton in the Washington Post.  Read More

If the globe needs a leader, Bill Clinton is volunteering.  Read More

BALTIMORE - In one of the dreams that former President Bill Clinton hopes to make a reality with his upcoming world forum in New York City, Palestinians would make solar panels for energy and it would “work like hot cakes.”  Read More

Part 2 of 2 of Stephen Evans’ exclusive BBC interview with President Clinton discussing the Clinton Global Initiative.  Watch VideoRead More

The Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray speaks with Maria Bartiromo about the Clinton Global Initiative.  Watch VideoRead More

Part 1 of 2 of Stephen Evans’ exclusive BBC interview with President Clinton discussing the Clinton Global Initiative.  Watch VideoRead More

China Sun Media’s Yang Lan Discusses The Clinton Global Initiative With Former President William J. Clinton  Watch VideoRead More

President Clinton discussed with Charlie Rose his vision for the Clinton Global Initiative and how it differs from other global forums.  Watch VideoRead More

Former President Bill Clinton said today that he is organizing a major annual gathering of leaders to address global challenges, with the first meeting set to take place this fall in New York City.  Read More

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