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PLANET - Protecting Long Term Environmental Assets Commitment by: Mercy Corps Focus Area: Environment & Energy Introduction: PLANET, Protecting Long-term Assets using Networked-enabled Environmental Transfers, uses financial incentives to motivate local communities to implement environmentally sustainable activities. These incentives are tied to market-based systems, including carbon credit markets , to ensure environmental protection . This processes will lead to the creation of a permanent and sustainable system. Subsequently local community will bolster stewardship of the world's most valuable natural resources, while increasing participating households' resiliency to shock. Read More

Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking Commitment by: Humanity United Focus Area: Economic Empowerment Introduction: The modern anti-slavery movement is both ripe for and in dire need of meaningful collaboration among leading actors. Recognizing the opportunity to facilitate this collaboration, Humanity United (HU) commits to support and manage a diverse coalition of U.S.-based anti-slavery organizations. The coalition, known as the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking, will advance the modern abolitionist movement through better cohesion, collaboration, and complimentarity, and, in the process, create the most comprehensive and effective coalition working to end the phenomenon of slavery in all its forms. HU will hire a full-time coalition director, provide direct and indirect financial support, and allocate additional HU staff to support research, communications, outreach, and lobbying work on behalf of the coalition as a whole. Read More

Subir Chowdhury Fellowship on Quality & Economics Commitment by: Subir Chowdhury Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation Focus Area: Education Introduction: A passion to redefine the meaning of 'Quality' and help it to reach its full potential in society inspired Subir Chowdhury, Founder of the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Foundation, to initiate the concept of 'Global Quality Awareness'. His vision is for every citizen of the globe to understand and adopt a personal commitment to a 'Quality mind-set' that helps advance society through improving the life of the individual and thereby, life for us all. Read More

College Success in the United States Commitment by: Blue Engine Focus Area: Education Introduction: Blue Engine commits to prepare high school students of all academic backgrounds to succeed in advanced coursework. Starting in the fall of 2010, teams of trained academic 'engineers' will begin one-year terms of service (through Americorps) that are designed to provide one-on-one direct instruction to high school students in New York City. Working to supplement the work of classroom teachers, engineers will lead customized tutorials to all students in Blue Engine partner schools, from high performers to low performers, for one hour each day— five times (5X) the number of direct instructional hours that they currently receive. Over four year school partnerships, Blue Engine will help double the numbers of students who enroll in advanced coursework (AP/IB/dual credit) while simultaneously increasing the number of students overall who pass end-of-year examinations with proficiency. In launching this commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative, Blue Engine joins a national movement committed to helping increase the pipeline of young people from underrepresented, low-income communities who are prepared to compete in college and complete their degrees on time. Read More

IDP Rising Schools Commitment by: IDP Foundation, Inc. Focus Area: Education Introduction: The IDP Foundation commits to launching IDP Rising Schools, a two-year pilot program established through a partnership between the IDP Foundation Inc, Sinapi Aba Trust and Opportunity International US. The goal of the pilot is to boost the development of 120 existing, but very poor private schools for disadvantaged children throughout Ghana. IDP hopes to build a sustainable educational model that is supported through microfinance loans and capacity building, and can be replicated throughout Ghana, Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing world. Read More

Water & Sanitation Solutions for Haiti Commitment by: Water.org Focus Area: Global Health Introduction: Water.org is currently implementing work as part of three CGI commitments made over the past three years. Through these commitments and additional initiatives, Water.org has reached more than 350,000 people with water and sanitation services, nearly 120,000 of whom have been reached with microfinance via its WaterCredit Initiative. As part of this commitment, Water.org will bring safe water and sanitation to a minimum of 50,000 people in Haiti over the next three years. Water.org will initially reach these people working through local partner NGOs, supporting them with its grant-driven programs. Additionally, Water.org will continue its focus on financial innovation by exploring relationships with microfinance partners in Haiti under its WaterCredit Initiative. WaterCredit is a financial innovation of Water.org that brings microfinance tools to the world's poor who lack safe water and sanitation. It is the first comprehensive program of its kind to move beyond subsidy-driven approaches and bridge the gap between the microfinance and water/sanitation communities. WaterCredit leverages commercial capital and spurs Microfinance Institutions to launch loan portfolios targeting the poor who lack basic water and sanitation sevices. Read More

Build a First of its Kind Facility to Fight Cancer Commitment by: AREVA Focus Area: Global Health Introduction: As part of this commitment, AREVA will build a new facility for the mass production of the Lead-212 radio-isotope. Research has shown that this isotope might be a critical key to certain cancer treatments. It has, however, traditionally existed in very limited quantities. AREVA, through the treatment of scrap materials from its own processing, will have the capacity to produce large amounts of this isotope that can be used for future research and, ultimately, for treatment of patients suffering from cancer. Read More

Developing Human Capital through Information Technology Commitment by: GEO Capital Holdings, LLC. Focus Area: Education Introduction: GEO Capital, aims to provide students, teachers, and residents of low-income communities in emerging markets a chance to learn, develop, and enhance their technical knowledge, and ability in Information Technology. Through its direct involvement with CDI Uruguay, GEO Capital will provide funding for free computers and software, assist in implementing educational methods, train instructors and monitor schools. Read More

Improving Governance in DRC through Development Commitment by: International Rescue Committee Focus Area: Economic Empowerment Introduction: Tuungane, a current IRC project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (in partnership with CARE International) is an innovative model that improves local governance through development, using a process called community-driven reconstruction. The model empowers local communities to be actors in their own reconstruction rather than passive recipients of aid, and uses the identification of community development needs and implementation of development projects as opportunities to build strong, transparent, accountable, and democratic governance at the community-level. Building on Tuungane's initial successes in DRC, this commitment will expand and reinforce the project to reach more than 4,000,000 people with new programming. The commitment will reach communities not previously involved in Tuungane and will also provide new 'second generation' programming for communities already participating in Tuungane's initial phase, improving linkages to and building the capacity of local government and civil society in vulnerable and conflict-affected areas. Read More

Program for Education Development in Equitorial Guinea Commitment by: Hess Corporation Focus Area: Education Introduction: Hess, the Government of Equatorial Guinea, and the Academy for Educational Development (AED) commit to partnering in a national effort to transform primary education in Equatorial Guinea. This will be accomplished through a five-year program to help strengthen the quality of primary education in 40 primary schools, certifying 1100 teachers in student-centered active learning teaching methodology, producing new curriculum guides and building the capacity of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports to produce yearly education statistics for policy dialogue and formative evaluation. Read More

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