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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“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.  
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ACCION 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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Governor 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.  
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The 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.  
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The 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.  
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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.  
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The 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.  
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The 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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Basic Energy. Ltd. will build two wind energy power plants in the Dominican Republic totaling 109 megawatts for a total investment of over $130 million. By providing energy services while addressing the challenge of global warming, Basic Energy will reduce 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year.  
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Inspired at the Clinton Global Initiative inaugural meeting, Basler Associates commits to identify 3-4 individuals during 2006 who will agree to provide Grameen Foundation USA (GFUSA) with a total of $10 Million in five-year standby letters of credit, to support its Growth Guarantees Program.  
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Inspired by Jeffrey Sachs’ presentation at the Clinton Global Initiative inaugural meeting, Basler Associates commits to increase philanthropic giving in Westport/Weston, CT, with a focus on supporting a Millennium Village, beginning in 2007, thus becoming a model for other communities committing to end extreme poverty and increasing US foreign aid.  
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Over a five-year period, the BBC World Service Trust, in partnership with Internews, Reuters Foundation, Article 19, Media Institute of Southern Africa, PANOS, West African Media Foundation, and Rhodes University School of Journalism will develop the African Media Development Initiative which will seek to increase the resources, duration and scale of media in Africa.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Senior partners from Booz Allen Hamilton are interviewing influential leaders from around the globe to author and publish A Leader’s Guide to Sustainable Globalization. The book will draw on critical insights from these leaders to formulate practical advice on how to drive beneficial and sustainable globalization.  
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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.  
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Business for Diplomatic Action (BDA), in partnership with the Young Arab Leaders (YAL) commits to work together to place qualified young people from the Middle East in internships in U.S. multinational corporations, thus furthering its mission to build international bridges of mutual understanding and respect through business-led actions.  
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Designed to address corruption in emerging democracies, the Task Force will take the form of a collective of international experts from academic, non-profit, multinational, and governmental entities which will convene in the summer of 2006. The Task Force will recruit participants to develop strategies for enforceable accountability that deter corrupt activities in both government and enterprise.  
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Mary Ann Casati, partner at Circle Financial Group, has committed to support the growth of foreign private direct investment in developing economies through capital investments in one or more developing economies, starting with India. Ms. Casati hopes to encourage others to invest in developing economies through “lead by example” and sharing of ideas.  
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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.  
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Center for American Progress in partnership with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, The Portland Trust (London) and other individuals committed to design a political risk insurance product to help reduce identified impediments to foreign investment in Gaza and the West Bank. Following its development, this model could then serve as a template for encouraging investment in other politically sensitive emerging markets  
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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.  
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Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), in partnership with the Strategic Foresight Group (SFG) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada commit to research the apparent conflict between the Islamic world and the West, through activities such as high-level dialogue between researchers and policy practitioners, focusing on strategies and means of action toward addressing this conflict.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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The Christian Children’s Fund (CCF) commits to launch and implement two new programs – the Universal Monitoring Scale and Training of Traditional Birth Attendants. Both programs will contribute to furthering CCF’s aims of helping children reach their full potential by committing to long term strategies targeted to combat poverty.  
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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.  
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City Year will expand City Year South Africa by 50% and will train and deploy more than 165 young leaders in a year of full-time citizen service. The program will provide assistance to South Africa and will connect young people of different racial, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds to opportunities for employment or to start a small business or non-profit once their year of service has been completed.  
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"Ciudadanos por el Cambio" (Citizens for a Change), has united over 30 NGOs working toward a common objective: comprehensive political reform in Argentina. Through the proposal of a popular initiative, the organization aims to increase accountability and enhance the nation's governance.  
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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.  
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The Clinton Global Initiative, in conjunction with GreenOrder and Baker & McKenzie, will concretely contribute to mitigating climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through carbon financing renewable energy projects that replace fossil-fuel energy sources. These projects will also assist in alleviating poverty as they were specifically chosen based on the benefits of rural electrification in Nigeria and in Native American land in the U.S.  
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The Coca-Cola Company, in cooperation with the EPA, Green Strategies and 3 Phases Energy Services, will offset 2% of the electricity consumption of its entire owned and operated manufacturing operations in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico with Green-e certified renewable energy certificates from wind energy sources.  
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Common Ground Productions (CGP), a division of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), along with VideoCairoSat (Egypt), have committed to take Islamic-Western reconciliation beyond elite circles to broader populations through a TV series to be aired in the Arab world and the US using a popular reality format.  
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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.  
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Community and Family Services International (CFSI) will be funded to construct one permanent classroom at the Inug-ug Elementary School in Pagalungan, Maguindanao, in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines. Barangay Inug-ug has been badly affected by decades of armed conflict resulting in the repeated displacement of its residents and extreme poverty. CFSI’s project will not only provide educational assistance for children, but also much needed jobs for members of the community.  
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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.  
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The Conference Board commits to improve company performance while strengthening company values through the inclusion and engagement of employees living with HIV/AIDS or other chronic diseases in the workplace. To these ends, the Conference Board will provide employers with a robust overview of successful policies and actions addressing workforce inclusion, empowerment, and support of employees living with HIV/AIDS and other terminal illnesses.  
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The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) has committed to provide technology leaders and commercial banks with in-depth research, to support efforts to develop a technology infrastructure (including low-cost ATMs and other points of service) that facilitates financial transactions for the poor.  
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The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) has committed to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of aid agencies, through assessing microfinance practices in three countries (including Tsunami-stricken Sri-Lanka), and providing feedback and actionable recommendations for more effective aid money distribution.  
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The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) has committed to launch in 2006, a fundraising effort to roll out and strengthen microfinance best practices in the Middle East and North Africa at all levels of the financial system – from retail microfinance providers, to auditors, regulators, and policymakers. The aim is to work with local partners to increase access by the majority of the population to financial services.  
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The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) has committed to work closely with microfinance institutions, NGO’s, and international agencies, to replicate their successful “graduation” model from social safety net programs into micro-entrepreneurship and self-reliance. Initial efforts will focus on Africa and South Asia.  
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The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) has committed to work with India’s second largest bank, ICICI, and microfinance provider, SKS, to develop a franchise model and pilot it in under-served areas in rural India. CGAP will provide both technical guidance and fund an expert consultant for this effort.  
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Michael Cooper has committed to determining whether a financial model on reducing poverty is feasible and, if it were, what resources would be necessary to create it in order to develop a model to assist in poverty-reducing capital allocation  
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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).  
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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.  
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Deutsche Bank has committed to launching the $75 million Global Microfinance Consortium as a demonstration of a new model of corporate social engagement. The fund will provide financing for MFI’s throughout the developing world while creating a new asset class in which responsible corporations may invest which earns a return while realizing social gains for the world’s poor.  
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The Dignity Fund and Unitus have committed to creating a micro-credit lending facility, placing up to $30 million of debt with leading microfinance organizations around the world to fuel the social empowerment of the poor. The Fund is a pro-bono initiative in which the principals do not take a carried interest or salary from the Fund.  
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A partnership between the Domini Foundation and the UN Foundation, the Domini Global Giving Fund, is a donor-advised fund that exclusively supports UN Foundation programs to improve children’s health and protect the world’s natural beauty and precious resources.  
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The Climate Change and Environment Coalition was developed to reduce the impact of climate change through prevention and mitigation strategies. This global awarenesss program of the Earth Council Foundation seeks to multiply commitments to taking action on the environment in part by convening an international meeting of NGOs.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Family Care International (CFI) commits no less than $500,000 of its budget towards HIV prevention projects targeted towards women and mothers, aimed to address the urgent need to build bridges between efforts to fight HIV/AIDS and those focused on women’s reproductive health.  
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The Floyd & Delores Jones Foundation will make a $10,000 contribution to facilitate the start-up of City Year South Africa, with special interest in City Year’s capacity to build democracy in South Africa. The program is designed to encourage civic participation, job training, youth leadership, and powerful community service for youth in South Africa.  
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Forward Thinking commits to contribute to the search for a durable peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians by initiating and facilitating a more inclusive process that engages religious-politico groups on both sides, who had been considered hitherto as beyond diplomacy.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Francois-Xavier Bagnoud commits $1 million to further a comprehensive and humanitarian approach initiated by the Peres Center, bringing together Israelis and Palestinians through cooperation in the fields of health and sports.  
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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.  
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The Association François-Xavier Bagnoud commits to convene a meeting of key economic leaders from the public and private sectors, bilateral aid agencies, the UN, NGOs, developing country ministries and Internet companies to discuss utilizing Internet technologies to more efficiently deliver development aid to the world’s poorest people. This project proposes to utilize modern communications technology to transmit development funds directly to communities in need, thus bypassing the multiple intermediaries that threaten to siphon-off aid.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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In an effort to mobilize organizations and individuals to work together towards ending hunger and poverty, Heifer International commits to launch HungerMovement.org, an innovative website, as a leader in the use of the Web by nonprofit organizations.  
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The Hidary Foundation has embarked on a campaign to reform local policy to stimulate the use of clean technologies in transportation and building projects throughout the United States. The Foundation will expand its successful New York City program to convert taxi-cabs and public transportation to hybrid vehicles to other cities across the country. Additionally, the foundation will provide prize money as an incentive to stimulate research and development of clean technology for energy and transportation.  
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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.  
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President’s Peace Action Network (PAN) members Nancy Aossey, Elizabeth Funk, Steven Funk, George Goldsmith, Jim Hornthal, and Bobby Sager commit to help mobilize the Young President’s Organization (YPO) and World President’s Organization (WPO) international membership to catalyze constructive dialogue and action in conflict areas. PAN will do this by doubling the number of action forums that bring YPO and WPO members into affinity based forum groups.  
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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  
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Investment with a Heart, a $100 million African Private Enterprise Fund, will be focused on sub-Sahara Africa and act as a private equity fund investing in businesses and projects which develop infrastructure and/or bear a social dividend. Its objective is to contribute to successful African development through the flow of investment into the continent by creating wealth, jobs and sustained prosperity.  
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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.  
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In accordance with its mission, the IF Hummingbird Foundation have pledged $100,000 over a 4-year period to the Acumen Fund to support its efforts to effectively deliver critical goods and services to the four billion people on earth who earn less than four dollars a day.  
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Over the next two years, the ImagineNations Group commits to spawn a public-private global alliance to empower and inspire a new generation of successful youth investment in the developing world by providing young people with financial resources, training, and business coaching they need to work, participate in internships or apprenticeships, or start micro-enterprises and small businesses.  
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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.  
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The Initiative for Global Development will expand its network of business and civic leaders and commits to reaching a total of 350 members by the end of 2006. In addition, we will convene the first IGD national summit in late spring 2006 to bring our national membership together to promote U.S. leadership in eliminating extreme global poverty, debate and finalize our policy agenda for the next 12 months, and discuss business-oriented solutions to poverty.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.   
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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.  
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The objective of Crossing Boarders, a program developed by the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), is to strengthen and replicate community partnership projects that focus on education, health and enterprise in developing countries through project visits by top business leaders and follow-up assistance to scale up partnerships.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) commits to recruit and train local colleagues to develop appropriate water and sanitation facilities as well as health and education programs across a range of communities in geographically and politically diverse regions of Sudan. The commitment is valued at a minimum of $50 Million over the next 5 years.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Together with the Climate Institute, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, InterSolar – SIMA commits to design, develop, and operate the National High Altitude Global Climate Observation Center in Veracruz, Mexico, to conduct systematic long-term measurements of solar ultraviolet radiation, gases, and meteorological variables, and thus fill a crucial gap in the Global Atmospheric Watch Network.  
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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).  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Preceding the publication of his book “People of the Book: The Forgotten History of Islam and the West” in the UK and the US (fall 2006/winter 2007), Zachary Karabell commits to engage various groups who are dedicated to ecumenical cooperation and to peace. This outreach initiative aimed at focusing the attention on the ability of Muslims, Christians and Jews to live together constructively, was specifically inspired by Mr. Karabell’s attendance of the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2005.  
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Ron Kinnamon committed to bring together young people of all religions to serve others and to teach adults to reach out to people of other religions in love, by serving on the board of the Interfaith Youth Core, and recruiting a National Advisory Council of prominent people interested in interfaith work.  
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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.  
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Rob McDonald of McDonald Media is producing a film and subsequent citywide outreach program to inspire participants of the screenings to take action to alleviate the impact of poverty in Nashville, TN. The project will highlight Nashville as a prototype for finding solutions to urban poverty across the nation.  
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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.  
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The Best Business Practices for Disaster Recovery, a collaboration between McKinsey and Co., Oxfam America and Tufts University FIFC will engage the private sector in a study addressing effective participation in international relief and disaster response.  
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As a donor and Board Member, Mitchel Kapor commits through his foundation to significantly expand financial support for the SMASH and IDEAL programs at the Level Playing Field Institute, thus supporting more high-caliber students from historically underrepresented minorities, to excel in math, technology, engineering, and science at top colleges and graduate schools.  
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Quality Seeds Access Partnership for Africa is a new public-private partnership for African agricultural development that aims to reduce hunger and poverty and build capacity for sustainable economic growth. This program is the first phase in a longer term plan to help African agriculture catch up to current standards of productivity and sustainability.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Building upon Operation HOPE’s successful program of Banking on Our Future in Harlem, NY, the NYSE has committed $100,000 over two years, and a commitment of employees as the core group of volunteers to teach financial literacy to low-wealth young people in New York City.  
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In partnership with the private sector and using volunteerism as a uniquely American export, Operation Hope seeks to “export” its successful model for delivering financial literacy education in America’s low-wealth communities (“Banking on Our Future”), to Africa and other developing countries around the world.  
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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.  
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In order to preserve and revitalize the devastated New Orleans Jewish Community, the Orthodox Union (OU) commits $780,000 over the next five years, to support individuals and businesses with interest free loans, scholarships and monetary donations, spiritual counseling, and other religious services.  
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