Many of the individuals and organizations who pledged to take action at the Clinton Global Initiative need assistance in meeting their obligations, providing others with an excellent opportunity to help make a difference. If you are interested in partnering with any of the projects listed below, please contact that project directly or you may send an email to pledge@clintonglobalinitiative.org for further assistance.

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.

Partner Opportunities:  Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam is a community of Jewish-Israelis and Palestinians committed to promote religious reconciliation and in particular a lasting Israeli-Palestinian through demonstrating the possibility of Jews and Palestinian living together equally and peacefully and a commitment to mutual understanding, respect, dialogue and cooperation. Funds for the following projects are welcome to further the aims of NSWAS. Additional information is available upon request from CGI or from NSWAS: School for Peace Chair ($50,000); building of a Guest House ($50,000); Sponsoring a Primary School Teacher for one year ($35,000); Furnish a Classroom at the Primary School/Junior High School ($35,000); Annual operating funds for the Father Bruno Spiritual Center ($24,900); School for Peace Youth Encounter Workshop ($12,500); Primary School Monthly Transportation Costs ($9,000); Seminars through the Father Bruno Spiritual Center ($5,500); Primary School Partnership Program ($850).   
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US-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.

Partner Opportunities:  To fund its initial program research, the AAI is seeking seed money valued at $250,000. Success in implementing AFFEP will require a multiplicity of partners, including commercial banks, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, African governments and central banks.  
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American 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.

Partner Opportunities:  Seeking additional funding to support their commitment  
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Ashoka 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.

Partner Opportunities:  In an effort to support the expansion of its Fellows program, Ashoka seeks to fundraise for programs in China, Africa, Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia.  
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Michael (Mickey) Bergman has committed to help alleviate the suffering of the victims of the genocide in Darfur and the impacted population in Chad, by mobilizing the North American Jewish Community and raising $50,000 for the International Medical Corps’ operations in the area.

Partner Opportunities:  To date, $14,000 has been raised, and additional funding is being sought. The book produced by Mickey Bergman and Photographer Richard Levine as a result of the trip to the refugee camps in Chad is available for purchase to support additional funding.  
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Mr. Bernard L. Schwartz, through the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation, Inc., commits to give $350,000 to the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Thirteen/WNET) to produce a ninety-minute documentary film, Back to School, for national broadcast on September 5, 2006 through the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). This documentary and its associated activities examine the inequities of global education and raise change-effecting awareness of the crucial social and economic benefits of educating children—especially girls—worldwide.

Partner Opportunities:  Back to School seeks to foster an educated citizenry, raising awareness about global education among all Americans—especially in the policy-making community—through screenings, panel discussions and other public-engagement events. The project requires an additional $400,000 to carry out a supplemental public-engagement campaign including targeted advertising and promotion efforts to ensure maximum attention for the Back to School documentary film and the Time for School longitudinal series.  
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Biodiesel for Katrina: Restoration and Climate Mitigation, a project sponsored by numerous entities including biodiesel America, will make an initial investment of $50,000 leading up to $1 million in services. They will assist in the immediate recovery of South Louisiana oil producing and fishing towns; provide the first public data and photographs on the 36 oil derricks that are currently damaged and facilitate long term sustainability recovery of the damaged areas.

Partner Opportunities:  As we finalize our research, we will begin offering partnerships with private entities to raise capital.  
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The Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC), a program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has launched a new initiative to increase awareness and enhance the effectiveness of the private sector’s role in international aid. By creating an information clearinghouse for companies that seek to invest in international aid and long-term development projects, the BCLC is leveraging the private sector’s ability to support new markets and spur sustainable development.

Partner Opportunities:  BCLC seeks corporate case studies and ongoing information on aid agencies and new and updated research and policies that affect business’ engagement in the global economy.  
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In support of Millennium Promise’s goal to implement 100 Millennium Villages, the Case Foundation will sponsor one Millennium Village in Western Kenya’s Siaya District with a financial commitment of $300,000 a year for five years, a total commitment of $1.5 million dollars.

Partner Opportunities:  In addition to the support by the Case foundation, Millennium Promise is committed to effectively engaging individuals, businesses, charitable organizations, governments, and other organizations in ensuring the success of the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and the end of extreme poverty by 2025. Millennium Promise is seeking in-kind investments (treated anti-malaria bed nets, Anti-Retro-Virals, etc.) to supplement the Case Foundation’s commitment.  
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Catholic Relief Services has committed to strengthen the capacity to promote religious peace-building in Africa, by providing financial support in the order of $400,000 over two years, and technical support to The Denis Hurley Peace Institute, which has as its objective the building and promoting of just peace in sub-Saharan Africa.

Partner Opportunities:  Seeking funding to support this project  
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This commitment endeavors to expand the contributions of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to both sustainable development in Latin American countries and to emissions reductions from 2008-2012 through the design and implementation of high impact policy-based mitigation activities.

Partner Opportunities:  All interested parties are invited to join this effort, which could contribute to the success of the Kyoto Protocol.  
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Ceres, INCR, and the UN Foundation have launched an expanded drive to recruit the world's largest investors to deploy over $1 billion in clean technologies to combat climate change, and have invited 50 new major institutional investors to attend a November, 2005 briefing on the clean energy investment market. The meeting has helped develop innovative financial mechanisms to allow private capital to flow to clean energy technologies and projects.

Partner Opportunities:  We invite companies and investors interested in the clean energy and cleantech marketplace to participate in our conference calls and join our Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR).  
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Ceres commits to increase the availability of information on the impact of man-made greenhouse gas emissions and on the affordability of insurance for individuals and businesses through research and collaboration with institutional investors. By encouraging insurers to create new financial products and services that help companies reduce their carbon emissions, Ceres is helping to catalyze a broad corporate response to climate change.

Partner Opportunities:  We are open to discussing partnerships with both investors, who wish to join us in engaging the insurance industry on this issue, and insurance companies themselves.  
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CGNET Services International Inc. and its sister non-profit SITIA have committed to provide IT services to organizations working to advance sustainable development in Africa and Asia. Using the services offered by CGNET, small, mobile groups of development workers will be able to coordinate their actions in the field and “on the fly.” As development workers gain increased access to technology, they will be able to provide improved health and relief services to rural and developing communities – particularly in times of natural disaster.

Partner Opportunities:  We seek partners who work in sustainable development, particularly in rural Africa and Asia, where we may contribute our specialized skills and resources. New satellite internet methods are being introduced in the first half of 2006 around the world that will enable new ways of integrating international development efforts. We particularly anticipate important applications in rural health care and disease detection (for example, early warning of flu or other disease outbreaks). We would welcome cooperative projects with actors in this area.  
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Doc to Dock is a newly established organization that collects medical supplies and pharmaceutical products from doctors, hospitals and industry to be shipped to healthcare counterparts in developing nations.

Partner Opportunities:  In addition to seeking funding to support the establishment of the organization, Doc to Dock is seeking to partner with hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and industry convention leaders to collect the medical supplies so needed in Africa.  
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Cisco Systems, Inc. and the Sapling Foundation will match dollar for dollar contributions to Acumen Fund up to a total of $1 million, during the Clinton Global Initiative. The Acumen fund will be used to deliver clean water, health and housing to the poor through investments in innovative, social entrepreneurs.

Partner Opportunities:  As a non-profit dedicated to fighting global poverty, The Acumen Fund is continuously looking to meet with individuals and organizations interested in its model for development, and has many opportunities for committed parties to get engaged in their work and to help them reach their goals of creating a private equity fund, building an energy portfolio, leveraging the capital markets and expanding geographic operations.  
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The Climate Group commits to engage and recruit corporate members over the next two years, and to use The Climate Group's tiered membership and support services to assist each corporation in defining and achieving measurable goals for preventing climate change.

Partner Opportunities:  All of The Climate Group’s relationships with corporate members are collaborative. First and foremost, we welcome queries from corporate leaders seeking to join or form leadership groups or to consider becoming members. The Climate Group also welcomes partnerships with organizations that have similar goals and programs. We currently collaborate with the World Resources Institute, for example, in convening the European arm of the Green Power Market Development Group. Among the many groups with whom we partner closely are CERES (with whom we chiefly collaborate on working with the US insurance industry), and the International Emissions Trading Association and the World Economic Forum (with whom we partner on our voluntary carbon offset standard). As we deepen our work in specific sectors we anticipate further collaboration with industry-specific associations as well as NGOs.  
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In order to spread the work of the Clinton Global Initiative to the global investment community, CLSA Limited commits to incorporate the Initiative’s four areas of focus – religious reconciliation, poverty, enhancing governance, and climate change – into the agendas of its global investors’ forums. The forums attract over 3,000 investors from 30 countries representing $10 trillion of assets under management, and thus provide an ideal arena to foster and develop the Clinton Global Initiative’s key areas of focus within the investment community.

Partner Opportunities:  We seek collaboration with experts from all walks of life who can help us educate and inform our investors about the Clinton Global Initiative areas of focus.  
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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has developed the Pennsylvania Project to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, a multiple-initiative project to deploy clean, renewable and efficient energy technologies which will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while strengthening economic and environmental security.

Partner Opportunities:  Our objective is to continue to develop partnerships with colleges and universities, industrial partners, and the agricultural sector to facilitate off-take agreements and to develop clean energy projects.  
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In order to scale back global climate change, the Compton Foundation commits to provide grants to outstanding projects that will: 1. Reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions from both public and private sources; 2. Develop, advocate, and implement state and regional policy initiatives to decrease greenhouse gas emissions; and 3. Analyze and communicate the regional effects of climate change.

Partner Opportunities:  The Compton Foundation is delighted to partner with other funders or sources of funding on all of its projects.  
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HH Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa the Crown Prince and Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Bahrain commits to raise $32 million over the next ten years to finance the education of young Bahrainis and enable them to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees through the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program (CPISP).

Partner Opportunities:  Seeking funding from interested parties which would contribute to the continued success of the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program. We wish to extend our scholarship remit from just undergraduate courses to now include postgraduate courses also.  
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Based on the growing international consensus on key elements of the development agenda and the recent commitment to large increases in resource transfers to the developing world, Dalberg Global Development Advisors has designed, and is in the process of convening a High Level Commission on Capacity for Program Delivery, which aims to systematically address a number of key implementation issues that continue to hamper the ability of the development sector to scale up effective interventions.

Partner Opportunities:  Dalberg is seeking total external funding of $850,000 to support the work of the Task Force in addition to the $300,000 which has been committed internally by Dalberg (including $50,000 in kind by the Executive Director of the Task Force, Nissim Ezekiel). The feeling is that it would be most productive if the amount can be raised through contributions of up to $200,000 each from three or four core funders. As the work of the Task Force will result in tangible scalable initiatives, contributions can appropriately be routed through The Global Development Incubator, an independent non-profit organization with 501 c3 status.  
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The Eli & Edythe L. Broad Foundation commits $1 million over the next four years to finance the UFT Charter School, the first union-run charter school in the U.S. The Broad foundation identified UFT Charter School as an opportunity to further endorse its commitment to transform public education and improve K-12 urban facilities by equipping schools with modern tools. This general support grant will go into the school’s operating budget to cover start-up costs.

Partner Opportunities:  The total needed to close the 10 percent gap between charter school and public school funding is $3.4 million. Following Mr. Broad’s generous donation, the UFT is working to raise the additional $2.4 million needed for the regular school day programs.  
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EMBARQ and the municipality of Porto Alegre will equally fund a bus rapid transit system for the city of Porto Alegre. EMBARQ will provide advice and tools for project management, studies and the basic design of the project. This partnership was established to improve the quality and efficiency of public transportation through the adoption of cleaner fuels, technology and the promotion of the use of non-motorized transport.

Partner Opportunities:  EMBARQ actively establishes partnerships with governments, organizations and companies in the private sector, and NGOs with the aim of developing sustainable transportation projects. EMBARQ assists the city in the development of stakeholder management and engagement plans. In addition, EMBARQ works with a network of experts in various fields that contribute to the project at different stages.  
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The Energy Future Coalition, the United Nations Foundation, Brookings Institute and the Center for American Progress commit to stimulate and facilitate expanded investments in vitally needed infrastructure, such as roads, water, and electricity through Global Development Bonds, thereby generating more and better job and opportunities.

Partner Opportunities:  We are seeking a wide range of partnerships to produce an effective systemic solution that brings together institutional issuers and investors, local financial institutions, and a range of other partner organizations.  
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The Energy Future Coalition, in partnership with agricultural and forestry leaders, is sponsoring the 25x’25 Initiative to set a national goal for America to produce 25% of its energy from renewable resources by 2025. Two separate economic analyses, one by the RAND Corporation and one by the University of Tennessee, will address the macroeconomic impacts of pursuing this goal, and its impacts on U.S. agriculture, respectively.

Partner Opportunities:  The 25x’25 Initiative seeks a diverse and broad-based group of partners to join in its broader objective of promoting 25% renewable energy for America.  
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On September 26, 2005, Equity International fulfilled its Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to provide a major public service to respond to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We organized The Katrina Reconstruction Summit in the U.S. Senate, bringing together more than 300 leaders from governmental, business, and public service organizations dedicated to the long-term economic recovery of the U.S.Gulf Coast.

Partner Opportunities:  As we move forward to implement a long-term Gulf Coast reconstruction initiative, we seek partnerships and alliances with all government agencies, commissions, task forces, companies, organizations, and others interested in the economic reconstruction of the Gulf Coast. We are a facilitator in bringing together all of the sectors needed for successful long-term economic reconstruction.  
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The Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East (FRME) commits to support the operations of the Israeli-Palestinian Institute for Peace (IPIP) through fund raising and professional guidance and collaboration.

Partner Opportunities:  To date, the Israeli-Palestinian Institute of Peace (IPIP) has raised $87,000 for its operations. Additional funding is sought to meet the $1.4 million annual budget needed for 2006.  
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Engagement with Religious Leaders of Iran, due to be launched this year, aims to enable engagement and greater understanding between Iran and the west through a program of inter-religious dialogue and establishment of the Iranian Institute of Peace. The project welcomes additional funds in anticipation of a 2005 launch.

Partner Opportunities:  The Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East is actively seeking partnership opportunities to fund the $585,800 necessary to move forward on further engaging Iranian leaders in an inter-religious dialogue.  
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The Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East (FRME) commits to continue supporting the establishment of the Iraqi Institute of Peace as a vehicle for inter-religious dialogue in Iraq, through financial and professional support and guidance.

Partner Opportunities:  The Iraq institute for Peace has spent over $1.3 million to date. Partners are sought to fund its continuous activities, and reach the target budget of $2.8 million.  
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FXB will create 20 new low-cost, sustainable community-based Modules in Uganda and Rwanda to help orphans, families, and communities combat the effects of AIDS. Each Module provides a basic package of health, education, psychosocial and income-generating services through in-kind investment in economic development.

Partner Opportunities:  FXB seeks $1.5 million in funding to create 10 community-based Modules in Uganda and Rwanda. Each Module provides up to 80 families with a basic package of in-kind health, education, psychosocial and income-generating services.  
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FXB commits to provide in-kind support and investment as needed to assist in the tree planting efforts of Nobel Prize winner Professor Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement (GBM). In support of GBM’s broader goals, FXB pledges to achieve carbon neutrality by mitigating the environmental costs of its organizational activity—such as travel, paper use, lighting, and heating—through tree planting.

Partner Opportunities:  FXB continues its search for a firm to do a pro bono carbon audit of all organizational operations.  
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Jane Garrett in partnership with Creation commits to teach and inspire a generation of global peacemakers by supporting, promoting, and funding the We Are Family Foundation’s Just Peace Summit. The summit, scheduled for 2007, will bring together fifty qualified teen leaders from countries all over the world to explore and discuss conflict resolution and the possibility of peace while arming the children with the tools and information to return to their respective countries and make a long lasting impact in furtherance of world peace.

Partner Opportunities:  Corporate and private sponsorship of both in-kind services for the Just Peace Summit participants (i.e. airfare, lodging, venues) are appreciated, as well as financial contributions to support and underwrite the Summit itself.  
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Georgetown University Law Center, through its Human Rights Institute, will conduct a study of human rights guarantees in constitutions of predominantly Muslim countries, with a special focus on the treatment of freedom of religion or belief and the ramifications in practice of the status of Islam in constitutional law.

Partner Opportunities:  Due to outstanding funding needs, estimated at $250,000, the scope of the study has yet to be determined. Any partnership offers to support this project and enhance its scope are welcome.  
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A partner in the Music Rising campaign, Gibson Guitar Corp has pledged to restore instruments lost during the 2005 hurricanes to Gulf Coast area musicians. By using recycled wood from the affected areas for the manufacture and sale of limited-edition guitars, Gibson Guitar and partners have developed this $2 million commitment to help music continue to thrive in an area widely known for its tremendous contribution to global music and culture.

Partner Opportunities:  Donors from around the globe are invited to contribute. Any charitable funds received will go directly to the Music Rising program.  
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The Business Alliance for Food Fortification (BAFF) is a new joint partnership between the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and private sector businesses, aimed at expanding coverage, sharing best practices, developing common approaches to food fortification, and identifying resources and mechanisms to finance new fortification initiatives that will benefit the poor and at-risk populations around the world.

Partner Opportunities:  The BAFF is continuously seeking to expand its membership base, and have additional companies join in on the effort of food fortification for the world’s poor. For additional information on BAFF, please refer to the programs section on the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition website (www.gainhealth.org).  
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The Global Catalyst Foundation, in partnership with The Skoll Foundation, is sponsoring The Gandhi Project through a donation of $600,000 and in-kind administrative support. The goal of the Gandhi Project is to engender peaceful and positive social change through the application of Gandhi’s philosophy of personal, social, and economic empowerment through community screenings of the Arabic version of the film, Gandhi, in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, the Qalandia checkpoint, and throughout the Palestinian territories.

Partner Opportunities:  The Project welcomes all sources of funding and/or collaboration with other NGOs that operate programs in the Middle East.  
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The Global Media Project is a two year initiative of the Global Exchange to develop an international journalism code of ethics standard. The code will be developed by participants in the Global Exchange’s training program that will focus on the importance and role of the media in today’s global village. The organization seeks $1,000,000 to supplement $200,000 which has been committed by private donors from the Middle East.

Partner Opportunities:  Interested parties are invited to become partners in the Global Media Project, dedicated to furthering appreciation of the media – arguably the most powerful force in today’s global village. Through the program’s training, young students from around the world will be engaged in an intense internship experience with major media companies in Los Angeles, as well as dialoguing with industry leaders in this 12 week summer experience. In this program, students, will not only experience the day-to-day decision making of how news and entertainment is made, produced and marketed, they also will be asked to make their own documentaries on a topic of interest. The finished product will be premiered as part of the final program with constructive criticism from some of Hollywood’s most gifted artists. A fundamental objective of this experience is to train leaders on the use of the media and how they need to be actively engaged in constructing meaningful cultural narratives. The hope is to develop, from this experience, working papers on media and journalism, and potentially, on a global media code of ethics and standards.  
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The Synapse Market Access Fund, established in 2005 by the Global Fairness Initiative, commits to address the problem of global poverty by operating on the cutting edge of philanthropy, applying investment strategies to charitable giving, identifying organizations with viable business models and innovative approaches to opening new markets and cultivating opportunities for products of grassroots producer.

Partner Opportunities:  Synapse’s entire operational model is based on creating partnerships and linkages with communities on the lending side, and with the funding community on the development side. Given its startup nature, Synapse welcomes partnership opportunities and investments from high net worth individuals, corporations, foundations and multilateral institutions.  
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The Global Health Council pledges to serve the members of the Clinton Global Initiative and beyond as a channel to civil society organizations working on the frontlines of basic healthcare and advocacy in the world’s poorest nations.

Partner Opportunities:  The Global Health Council is continuously seeking additional support to fund trips which provide the opportunity to see firsthand the global health programs that are working to improve the health of some of the poorest and sickest residents of South Africa. Past experience has shown that such trips are the most effective tool in educating others about the realities and possibilities of global health programs. Global Health Council staff has completed a tour of South Africa where meetings were held with NGOs, civil society organizations and others.  
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The GIFT Young Leaders Program is a climate change young leadership program in Asia to promote ways in which practical frameworks for sustainable development and interdependence can be demonstrated. This will be done by bringing young business leaders and policy makers together in Asia to agree on such challenges of climate change as promoting renewable energy, forestry and conservation, and stimulating technical innovation.

Partner Opportunities:  We are actively seeking corporate partners to participate. We are also pitching our program to U.S., European, and Asian multinationals as a unique learning and leadership development program, and are beginning to work with various NGOs in the region.  
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The Global Process Institute is developing a Trauma Healing Training Center in cooperation with Africa University Zimbabwe. The Center will provide psychological skills training for trauma workers to meet the needs of victims of conflict and gender violence, in addition to clinical, educational, and research services to African NGOs and trauma healers.

Partner Opportunities:  The Global Process Institute and its partners commit to develop a Trauma Healing Training Centre to provide clinical, educational, and research services to African NGOs and trauma healers. The center’s clinic will treat men, women, children, and communities for psychological trauma; provide basic treatment and counseling to participants affected by HIV/AIDS; and support conflict and gender violence victims in a culturally sensitive and adaptive setting. The Center responds to the increasing need for resources among African communities impacted by violent conflict. As international focus on the psycho-social effects of war on civilian populations grows, our proposal seeks to marshal the resources and energies of individuals and organizations to provide healing for the afflicted and break the cycle of generational violence.  
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The Community Productivity Project (CPP) aims to reduce poverty through inclusive economic development. The project will document how productive low-income people are, how hard they work, how much value they create, and the close relationships of their economic activities to the formal economic system in order to design and implement inclusive economic development strategies in low-income communities.

Partner Opportunities:  The Community Productivity Project welcomes any additional partnerships from other companies, organizations, investors, suppliers, and volunteers, to meet its target funding needs of $6 million.  
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The Grameen Foundation USA’s Growth Guarantees Program, a joint initiative of the Grameen Foundation USA (GFUSA) and Citigroup, will be launched as a new global, innovative financing tool to accelerate the growth of microfinance. The fund is anticipated to reach $50 million and is designed to generate up to $300 million in local currency funding to support the microfinance industry’s service to the poor.

Partner Opportunities:  The next fundraising strategy for GFUSA’s Growth Guarantees Program (beginning in mid-2006), will focus on US-based, high net worth individuals making minimum commitments of $2-3 million. Referrals of potential prospects for the $19 million second round, and others to support GFUSA’s innovative capital markets program are welcome.  
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In this results-oriented approach toward protecting the environment, GreenOrder is offering a number of free climate strategy workshops to entities participating in the Clinton Global Initiative. Each half-day workshop will evaluate an organization’s current climate strategy (or options under consideration) and explore how that strategy can be aligned with the organization’s overall goals and priorities.

Partner Opportunities:  This commitment offers pro-bono climate strategy workshops to entities participating in the Clinton Global Initiative.  
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The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML), in partnership with the Institute of Ecumenical and Cultural Research, will host annual, weeklong opportunities for small groups and individual scholars of eastern and western Christian leaders to meet for structured, off-record dialogue, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between Christianity and Islam.

Partner Opportunities:  As this project is expected to be a multi-year series of conversations, opportunities are available for financial support from private individuals and foundations.  
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With a proven “epicenter strategy” of assisting local communities to take responsibility for meeting all basic needs, such as health, education, food security and family income, The Hunger project has committed to launch a national scale-up of the “epicenter strategy”, starting with at least one country in 2006, possibly Burkina Faso, Malawi, or Ghana

Partner Opportunities:  The epicenter strategy empowers women and men in rural Africa to take responsibility and effective action to meet their basic needs. This methodology has proven successful in eight countries and achieves self-reliance in 5 years. The Hunger Project commits to scale-up its epicenter strategy in Ghana, beginning in the Eastern region. This will demonstrate that bottom-up, gender focused development is a viable and affordable alternative for the entire continent.

A fundamental partnership in the epicenter strategy is with hundreds of individual investors – committed individuals investing $5,000 and more each year – individuals who often travel at their own expense to see the work first hand, express their solidarity, and empower themselves as spokespeople and advocates in their communities for addressing poverty and hunger in the developing world.

To implement scale-up, The Hunger Project is seeking an additional $4 million each year for the next 10 years from investors who will be co-equal partners and stakeholders with the women and men in Africa who are doing the 16-hour-a-day hard work to build lives of self-reliance and dignity.  
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Cities for Climate Protection, a partnership between ICLEI, the Chicago Climate Exchange, the City of Seattle, Generation Earth and 200 cities and counties across the US, will work with local governments to achieve an additional 20 million tons of domestic sources of greenhouse gas emissions reductions while building political support for climate protection.

Partner Opportunities:  ICLEI seeks partnerships with other organizations that offer a value added to ICLEI's climate protection work with local governments. Partnerships often result in joint fundraising efforts and the enhancement of ICLEI's regional initiatives.  
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Infotech Investment Group, Ltd, together with The Aspen Institute, Aspen Co. USA and Technoserve Inc. NY will contribute 10% of the total cost of the 2006 class of 20 Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) fellows for East Africa, a rigorous leadership program for developing the next generation of leaders in Africa.

Partner Opportunities:  The Africa Leadership Initiative endeavors as a matter of priority to involve the private sector in funding the program, providing potential participants and mentors. The private sector is also a vital source of program content (business case studies) and networking opportunities for our fellows.  
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The Institute of Strategic Clarity has interviewed thirty-eight Guatemalan stakeholders from a broad cross-section of the society who co-developed a shared understanding and agreement regarding the fundamental dynamics of poverty in Guatemala. Our commitment is to develop specific, executable strategies for acting on the insights developed by these stakeholders for resolving the fundamental dynamics of poverty.

Partner Opportunities:  The Institute for Strategic Clarity is offering its services to up to three CGI projects (depending on scope) in this calendar year at half of the project retail rate. We offer to help you develop strategic, actionable clarity amid the complexity of your inter-sectoral commitments, while simultaneously building the collaborative capacity of your network.

Most of today’s globally significant issues involve either high degrees of complexity or multiple (often conflicting) stakeholders – or both. We have developed proven processes and methodologies that 1. Distill clear, concise, actionable insights for resolving complex problems while 2. Simultaneously building strong collaboration among the various stakeholders – whether across an organization or across a society.  
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The Inter-religious Council of Mexico and its Ecology Committee will gather religious leaders from around the globe to announce their commitment to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of their houses of prayer, in part through community-based forestry and renewable energy projects as well as educational outreach in developing nations and impoverished communities.

Partner Opportunities:  The initiative is open to all religious organizations that share an interest in reducing the effects of climate change and meet the requirements listed below to participate. Each organization must commit to:
1. Inform their congregations and other stakeholders of the initiative and
2. Encourage them to act to reduce their climate impact. They will inform through email, websites, newsletters, press releases, etc. (Carbonfund.org pledges to help develop these commitments).

Carbonfund.org seeks funding for two purposes:
1. Improve our outreach capacity by funding development of a new website
2. Travel funding to personally meet and invite world religious leaders to develop their outreach and offset programs
3. Estimated contribution: $40,000   
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The Jenesis Foundation has committed $100,000 to strengthening the Interfaith Youth Core’s capacity to build an international movement of religiously diverse young people, cooperating to serve the common good. This gift will underwrite the development of an evaluation paradigm and plan for the movement, information systems infrastructure and the addition of key staff.

Partner Opportunities:  The projected cost of the Chicago-Amman youth exchange program is about $200,000. The IYC is currently seeking private and corporate partners to fund this program.  
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The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) commits to continue playing a leadership role in the development of an effective AIDS vaccine for the developing world, by supporting President Clinton’s HIV/AIDS initiative, mobilizing political support from the leaders of the G8 for an international vaccine campaign and providing technical assistance to developing countries in their strategy of fighting the AIDS pandemic.

Partner Opportunities:  IAVI is a global not-for-profit organization working to accelerate the development of a vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS. Founded in 1996 and operational in 23 countries, IAVI and its network of partners research and develop vaccine candidates. IAVI welcomes any opportunities for support up to $250,000 to cover the costs for its commitment - the Global Politcal Advocacy Initiative (GPAI).  
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In order to improve transparency and broaden participation in public budgeting, the International Budget Project is designing and implementing a research and advocacy project to measure and advance budget transparency in the developing world. The Open Budget Questionnaire will help increase access to budget information, and thus support a vital strategy for improving governance and reducing poverty in developing and transitioning countries.

Partner Opportunities:  The Open Budget Questionnaire is completed by civil society research organizations in each country. It is funded by private U.S. donor institutions. The next phase of the project will be to support budget transparency advocacy in each country. This activity will be undertaken by the participating research organizations. The IBP is interested in discussing financial and technical donations and grants towards the costs of this initiative.  
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This commitment to establish a private equity/venture capital fund will demonstrate how companies in emerging markets that operate with good corporate governance, increased transparency, and reduced corruption can raise capital and can provide investors and other stakeholders with strong returns.

Partner Opportunities:  This commitment invites interested individuals and institutions to help raise and/or provide capital for the establishment of a private equity/venture capital fund for investment in emerging market opportunities.  
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In partnership with the Institute for Islamic Policy Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan, the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy is conducting a project to reform the religious schools in Pakistan. An additional $226,000 is sought to complement the $208,000 that has been raised to date from private sources.

Partner Opportunities:  An additional $226,000 is sought to complement the $208,000 that has been raised to date from private sources, to complete the “winning the hearts and minds” phase of this project. Additionally, and depending on the situation, this project engages faith-based NGOs, donors, and volunteers in achieving its objectives.  
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The Crisis Group Project on Religion & Conflict will focus on identifying key factors fuelling extremism and highlighting opportunities to support moderate voices, specifically in countries where religious extremism is a present or emerging threat to security. Findings and recommendations will be set out in published reports. Additional funding ($903,864 in 2005-2006; $855,730 in 2006-2007) is being sought.

Partner Opportunities:  Crisis Group is urgently seeking new partners willing to help fund the organization’s commitment to peace and security in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. To date, Crisis Group’s efforts have attracted the support of governments, foundations, companies and private individuals, resulting in pledges or donations in hand of almost $370,000 for use in the year ending 30 June 2006. Additional funds are now required to help pay for Crisis Group’s ongoing work in the region, the cost of which is estimated at $534,000 over the remainder of 2006. Individuals or institutions interested in discussing a contribution should contact Crisis Group Vice President Charles Radcliffe on +44 20 7031 0233, or via email at cradcliffe@crisisgroup.org.

All Crisis Group publications, speeches, media releases and opinion-pieces can be accessed, free of charge, via the organization’s website: www.crisisgroup.org  
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The International Medical Corps (IMC) will continue to efficiently leverage all donated supplies and cash donations that it receives to relieve the disproportionate burden of disease & suffering that women carry in low-income countries.

Partner Opportunities:  In addition to the $17 million already raised, IMC projects an additional funding need of $15 million in cash and $15 million in in-kind support by June 2006 to address women’s broad range of women’s health needs, including: recovery of livelihoods; micro-finance; reproductive health in emergency and development settings; prevention of gender-based violence; disease prevention; and supplementary feeding and nutrition programs for women and children.  
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International Youth Foundation has committed to establish YouthActionNet Leadership Institutes worldwide to equip young leaders with the knowledge, skills and resources to carry out their work more effectively, and significantly increase the scale and impact of their efforts, as well as mobilize additional young people to take an active role in their communities.

Partner Opportunities:  IYF invites funding partners to establish YouthActionNet Leadership Institutes in multiple countries around the world and sponsor national awards programs to identify the young leaders who will attend the comprehensive training programs.  
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Over the next three years the Balkans Regional Program intends to impact more than 58,000 young people (12-29), across different ethnic and religious groups in the Balkan region, through greater employment and civic engagement opportunities. The IYF seeks to raise $14.3 million for economic and social engagements.

Partner Opportunities:  The International Youth Foundation is seeking partnership opportunities and donations of both cash and in-kind services to support its Young Business Entrepreneurship programs in the Balkan region.  
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The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) is sharing the human face of climate change to ensure the duration of Inuit culture and to promote the Arctic. Organizational efforts focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting the Arctic as a warning barometer to decision-makers worldwide, and advocating for an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Partner Opportunities:  ICC welcomes further partnerships at all levels to address climate change with governments, NGOs, universities, fellows, interns and volunteers. With regards to the Arctic-Small Island Developing States partnership, ICC is looking to collaborate with organizations, governments, and regional associations representing SIDS, low-lying states, and others whose people already experience the impacts of climate change.  
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Kenyan Women"s Health Initiative is intended to be a not-for-profit health care organization which will establish a women’s and children hospital in Nairobi Kenya within five years. The proposed facility will house approximately 150 beds and will provide free public access in a number of health areas.

Partner Opportunities:  As the land for the hospital will potentially be donated by the City of Nairobi, the James Jordan Foundation is seeking to partner with corporations who will contribute in-kind the necessary equipment for the hospital.  
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Steven Wozencraft and the John O’Donnell Company commit to mobilize funding, public attention and commitment to NGO’s and projects proven effective in reducing poverty by linking them with private-sector donors through a web-based platform.

Partner Opportunities:  EPAC is seeking to recruit a volunteer Advisory Council comprising up to 20 experts working on issues of worldwide poverty, including people of diverse regional, cultural, national, and religious backgrounds.

We are also seeking nominations and interested applicants for the position of Executive Director. Please contact: info@jodinc.com.   
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Jordan Pioneers and Funworks Media commit to establishing positive role models for Arab and Muslim children through Yalafanous, a high-quality, entertaining program, with positive social content and characters that are authentic and rooted in Arab and Muslim culture and religious tradition. Yalafanous aims to make Arab and Muslim children more receptive to other cultures from a position of pride and self-confidence, while fostering a greater understanding of Islam, in the widest sense, among Western children.

Partner Opportunities:  Seeking funding in the amount of $500,000 for the project.  
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The J.P. Lemann Foundation commits to foster socially responsible investments in education to ensure that young people in the Latin American region are prepared to meet the demands of the 21st-century labor market. A conference planned for June 2006 is the first step toward engaging leaders from the business, education, government, and media sectors to participate in a comprehensive governing process of public education services provided to future generations of Latin Americans.

Partner Opportunities:  Consistent, relevant and sustainable experiences reflecting how the private sector has helped improve the outcome of public education in other countries are welcome.  
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The Khokhar Foundation commits to advancing economic opportunities for local entrepreneurs in South Asia by facilitating global relationships with the private sector. The project will also invite MBA students to consult with entrepreneurs during the business development phase.

Partner Opportunities:  The project currently seeks $5 million in funding for a fully scaleable project. The Foundation will be hosting two high profile events in January 2007 and March 2007, showcasing fashion and contemporary art from the region. The profits from auctions held at these events will go toward seed capital for the foundations project. Corporate support will be recognized on a sponsor level at these events, which will help drive the overarching project initiatives.  
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The Global Sullivan Principles (GSP) align companies of all sizes, in disparate industries and cultures, to work together toward the common goals of human rights, social justice and economic opportunity. Over the next year, The Leon H. Sullivan Foundation commits to reaffirming the involvement of the original endorsers of the GSP, while increasing the number of new endorsers to 100.

Partner Opportunities:  Corporate and NGO endorsers of the Global Sullivan Principles. Endorsement is voluntary and there is no fee.  
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Philanthropists, Janet McKinley and her husband George Miller, are investing $5 million in Oxfam America to support sustainable livelihood work throughout the world and $5 million in Grameen Foundation USA’s microfinance initiatives. They hope their commitment to fund these programs will help more people escape poverty and also will inspire others to join them in making generous gifts to these organizations.

Partner Opportunities:  1. Oxfam America is seeking to expand poverty reduction investments by $10 million per year for the next five years, to support field programs that enhance incomes and livelihoods of poor families in a sustainable way. This gift represents about 10% of the funding needed. To accomplish this expanded program work, Oxfam America is in the planning phase for a major campaign, and seeks additional donors to support it.
2. Grameen Foundation USA is in the second year of a five-year strategic plan, aiming at reaching five million new microfinance clients, ensuring that 50 percent of clients escape poverty within five years of their first loan, and delivering three innovations that will increase substantially the delivery of microfinance to far more of the world’s poorest people. To achieve these goals, additional resources are needed, and the hope is that this commitment can serve as a catalyst for others.  
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NABUUR.com, a facilitator of virtual neighborhoods and neighbors who can help solve local problems, has committed to expand its global network to serve 200 local communities by the end of 2006.

Partner Opportunities:  NABUUR.COM is actively seeking partnerships and other forms of cooperation with volunteers, suppliers and organizations to support its expansion plans. All work through Nabuur.com is done by volunteers, acting as either Neighbour or as Facilitator. The volunteers are recruited from various online volunteer sites as well as through free publicity. To date, 10 related organizations have been approached.  
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The New York Academy of Science commits to establishing “Scientists without Borders”, a vibrant global network of scientists committed to the eradication of poverty and disease – a form of Peace Corps or “Medicins Sans Frontieres” – devoted to addressing the challenges on the ground of reducing poverty through applied science.

Partner Opportunities:  The New York Academy of Sciences is seeking grant support of up to $400,000 to fund the needed core money for year one. Participation by corporate personnel under sponsored programs for voluntary work as well as reassignment of existing fellowships to support “Global Science Fellows” are also welcome.

The President of the New York Academy of Sciences, Ellis Rubinstein, would welcome any interest from participants in the Clinton Global Initiative in the “Science & the City” event on November 14, 2006 that will be dedicated to the theme of “Mobilizing Science for Global Health.” Mr. Rubinstein's contact information is above.  
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OneRoof will create International Franchised Social Businesses by launching at least 100 businesses within 12 months in India and Mexico, and additional countries for expansion and establishing strategic partnership for provision of loan capital to franchises that use the market to deliver essential goods and services to the world’s rural poor.

Partner Opportunities:  As partnerships are key to our model, we are seeking organizations that provide HIV/AIDS training, as well as lending partners in India, Mexico, and Brazil that can offer our franchises the most reasonable terms for their $5,000 businesses. Our store owners will broker the sale of essential goods and services, and it is up to the staff of our subsidiaries to find the right sellers of water filters and systems, solar electricity systems, essential medicines and mosquito bed nets, eco-toilets, and much more. We also seek partnerships with civil society organizations that offer employment training services.  
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Opportunity International commits to ease financial burdens of the poor in Africa by establishing a Trans-Africa Microfinance Banking Network that offers clients, through the use of sophisticated lending and technology, an array of financial services beyond what the predominant non-profit structures allow.

Partner Opportunities:  Opportunity International is still seeking to complete its funding needs (valued at $300,000) for its bank conversion project in Ghana.

Opportunity International is establishing a new microfinance bank in Rwanda capable of serving more than 50,000 poor families annually in 5 years. The initiative will finance start-up costs, equity capital and the support team over about a three-year period. The Rwanda start-up will be a key component of Opportunity’s Trans-Africa Network of Microfinance Banks in which Opportunity seeks to open five new country programs in five years. As part of the resource mobilization effort, Opportunity is currently seeking partners to join in this new country initiative. The initial necessary funding is valued at $750,000.

Additionally, open partnerships are sought after in the areas of insurance, AIDS support, housing, and community development.  
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Aiming to reduce poverty and disease in Africa, the Pan African Health Foundation commits to support the establishment of an Auto-Disable (AD) syringes factory in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, which will also create jobs, take advantage of existing resources, and transfer technology and skills to Africa.

Partner Opportunities:  The Pan African Health Foundation now needs the final $2 million to reach its $18 million funding goal to establish an Auto-Disable Syringe factory in Port Harcourt, Nigeria – a project that will prevent millions of infections (including HIV) each year by providing “safe syringes” for even the poorest clinics. The final $2 million is needed by September 2006.  
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With its objective to promote peace and understanding, tolerance and non-violence among children of different nations through educational and artistic activities, The Peres Children Foundation for Peace continues its commitment through its “Journeys for Peace” after-school program.

Partner Opportunities:  “Journeys for Peace” is actively seeking sponsors and partners to work in promoting peace and understanding in children’s behavior after school peace workshops. A contribution of $26,000 sponsors one “Journeys for Peace” director for one year in each area - Philadelphia, Mexico and the Middle East.  
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Playing for Peace, Middle East will focus on seeking sponsorship to support fellowships for young men and women from the United States, Israel, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to serve as Playing for Peace program directors. A contribution of $25,000 sponsors one Playing for Peace program director for one year.

Partner Opportunities:  Playing for Peace, Middle East will focus on seeking sponsorship to support fellowships for young men and women from the United States, Israel, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to serve as Playing for Peace program directors. A contribution of $25,000 sponsors one Playing for Peace program director for one year.  
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Following its August 2005 report “Growing Up in Asia,” which documented the terrible poverty experienced by over 600 million children in Asia, Plan International commits over the next decade a minimum of $1 billion to address the basic needs of Asian children.

Partner Opportunities:  Plan’s decade-long campaign focusing on poor children in Asia will have to mount a sustained, long-term effort to meet funding needs and therefore continuously seeks to partner with individuals and organizations to meet these targets.  
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Population Action International commits to act upon the critical linkage between reproductive health and the reduction of poverty by advocating universal access to family planning and related health services, thus improving the lives of individual women and their families, while also slowing the world’s population growth.

Partner Opportunities:  PAI is funded solely through private foundations and individual donations, and as a result, the scope of PAI’s activities is limited by the availability of grant funds. PAI is continuously seeking foundation funding to support its programs.  
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Ms. Markie Post commits to support Interfaith Youth Core’s mission of building a world in which religiously diverse young people interact peacefully and cooperate to serve the common good, through raising at least $30,000 to support the planning and launch phases of the Interfaith Youth Core’s Amman/Chicago Youth Exchange program.

Partner Opportunities:  The Interfaith Youth Core is currently seeking private and corporate partners to help fund their Amman/Chicago Youth Exchange.  
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Prometheus of Genoa, Italy, in partnership with Azione per un Mondo Unito (AMU) committed to support the “Petite Flame” medical center near Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo aiming to reach 85,000 patients during the first three years of operation. Those served include, among others, patients suffering from HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, children needing medical assistance, and youth groups living in rural areas. Additional funding is sought.

Partner Opportunities:  The expansion of the activities toward the various HIV/AIDS program objectives are linked to the project’s funding, that is slowly progressing through small private contributions. This project is seeking $938,000 to complete its funding needs.  
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The Climate Justice Corps commits to combat the negative effects of climate change on low income communities, people of color, and indigenous populations in the U.S. and around the world, and takes Hurricane Katrina’s harmful consequences on the U.S. gulf coast as an essential call to action. This program of Redefining Progress and the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative will motivate the next generation of policy-makers and consumers in the environmental industry, particularly by training new leaders from communities disproportionately and unjustly affected by climate change.

Partner Opportunities:  Our coalition is composed of 28 different member organizations, all of which we have committed to providing an opportunity for training. We are consistently seeking for more partners to:
1. Provide trainings for
2. Become CJC members either as Fellows, Trainers, Activists, or Advocates
3. Assist with resource development (trainings, website development, and research)
4. Donate green products and services to our incentive system
5. Pledge a monetary donation   
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The Regeneration Project commits to magnifying the responsibility of people of faith to protect Creation by enlisting 1,000 new congregations in the U.S. to cut greenhouse gas emmissions and to launch two new state programs in 2006. These congregations will take action to reduce climate change by 1. Installing solar panels on their roofs 2. Converting to energy efficient appliances 3. Purchasing green energy or Renewable Energy Certificates 4. Delivering a sermon on global warming, 5. Holding educational forums and/or 6. Distributing literature about global warming to congregants.

Partner Opportunities:  The Regeneration Project seeks additional funding to finance full-time program leaders that will dedicate their efforts to increasing membership in the Interfaith Power and Light Campaign. We also seek partnerships with local utilities to help provide clean, green energy to our 1000 congregations and their parishioners.  
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The Salesforce.com Foundation commits to increase the awareness of programs, fund raising capacity and sustainability of global NGOs around the world through providing a donated web-based technology and grants to dramatically improve the efficiency of the NGO sector.

Partner Opportunities:  Funders and other interested parties looking to help improve their grantee’s efficiency around data management should contact Salesforce.com to find out how the program works. Any 501(c)3 organization in the U.S. or the equivalent international non-profit is eligible for donated licenses.  
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Initiated by Search for Common Ground, Nestle Nigeria has agreed to provide $1,5000,000 in additional funds for two more seasons of the TV drama series, The Station, and its accompanying reality TV series, "The Academy", designed to promote reconciliation and tolerance in Nigeria.

Partner Opportunities:  Nestlé’s commitment to Search for Common Ground was for $1.5 million out of a total four- year budget of $5 million. To date, $4.1 million have been raised, yet $900,000 are still needed to complete this project.  
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Search for Common Ground, through its Common Ground News Service (CGNews), commits to amplify constructive voices about Muslim-Western relations in the print media in the West and the Muslim world through expansion of the English-language only CGNews edition into additional languages, adding new staff, and increasing the number of commissioned articles per year.

Partner Opportunities:  CGNews’ annual operating budget is $150,000, for maintaining a team of part-time and full-time editors distributed across the US, Middle East, Africa and South East Asia, commissioning articles, obtaining copyright permission, translating articles, maintain a multi-lingual website and tracking performance for six languages. In November 2005, CGNews received $50,000 from the United States Institute of Peace. An additional $100,000 is sought to meet the remaining need for 2006.  
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Aiming to actively participate in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the Sehgal Foundation commits to 1. Assigning in 2006 four more villages under its Integrated, Sustainable Village Development (ISVD) Model 2. Establishing a training center for hands-on training of village youth leaders; and 3. Bringing credible NGOs in India for a conference to discuss best practices for poverty reduction in the villages in India.

Partner Opportunities:  The Sehgal Foundation provides a platform for other organizations, and is always on the lookout for partnerships that will lead to implementing appropriate and applicable solutions to the rural problems. Through intensive community mobilization activities, the villagers adapt quickly to the technologies that are brought to them.  
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Selling Power magazine commits to launch a public awareness campaign that will raise private funds to combat global poverty.

Partner Opportunities:  Media partnerships are still being sought in order to raise awareness and embark on a national campaign.  
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The Sierra Club will adopt and implement public policies at the local, state, national and international levels that make a rapid transition to clean, smart energy solutions and that reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions contributing to global warming. This campaign promotes renewable energy and efficiency as the alternative to a new generation of either coal or nuclear power plants, and recognizes Smart Energy Solutions as “the single most important conservation goal” for the Sierra Club over the next decade.

Partner Opportunities:  The Sierra Club will actively seek partnerships with a wide variety of partners beyond the environmental community, including organized labor, hunters and anglers, people of faith, consumers, and responsible corporations that share our goals. We will also work in coalition with other local, state, national, and international environmental organizations that work on global warming and energy issues.  
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The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) will take a leading role in raising the $300,000 needed to complete phase II of the solar-electrification of Derijat, a Bedouin village located in the Negev desert of Israel. SELF will assist the Negev Development Authority in implementing all aspects of the project including design, installation, training and sustainability measures.

Partner Opportunities:  The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is seeking partners to implement phase II of a solar electrification project in the Bedouin village of Derijat, Israel. Access to energy is a vital component to poverty alleviation. With this project, SELF provides a clean, renewable, safe alternative to the burning of fossil fuels. With $300,000, SELF will provide solar power to an additional 20 families.  
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The SolarBank Program, developed by Solar International Management, commits to raise $4 million over the next two years to help overcome poverty by scaling up electrification to all homes in the world, through the application of new solar energy technology. The program will develop the small-medium enterprises that will supply, install and service the solar electric systems and will develop a method for financing the installations.

Partner Opportunities:  Seeking partnerships beginning mid-2006, with banks, lending institutions, and solar PV suppliers in developing countries.  
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