Building on a lifetime of public service, President Bill Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to improve global health, strengthen economies, promote healthier childhoods, and protect the environment by fostering partnerships among governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and private citizens — leveraging their expertise, resources, and passions — to turn good intentions into measurable results.

To accomplish its goals, the Clinton Foundation has established separate initiatives, each with a distinct mission but all reflecting President Clinton’s founding vision: to implement sustainable programs that improve access worldwide to investment, opportunity, and lifesaving services now and for future generations. Working in diverse geographic regions and responding to local needs, the initiatives address targeted challenges in the Foundation’s key areas of focus: economic inequality, climate change, global health, and childhood obesity.

Because of this work, world leaders have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world; 14,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 10,500 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 2 million tons of greenhouse gases will be eliminated from release into the atmosphere; $20 million is being invested in small- and medium-sized businesses in Colombia; and more than 4.5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV/AIDS medications.

Across all initiatives, the Clinton Foundation emphasizes:

• Partnership and Collaboration. The Foundation brings together governments, NGOs, and businesses in partnerships that harness each sector’s unique expertise and resources. No matter where the Foundation works, it engages partners on the ground to ensure that projects are properly responding to local needs.
• Measurable Results. The Foundation focuses its efforts in areas where it can have the greatest impact. Foundation projects develop best practices and lessons learned.
• Innovation and Markets. The Foundation drives the innovation of individuals and businesses to develop new technologies and approaches that respond to markets and economies.
• Efficiency and Sustainability. The Foundation spends every dollar and every moment wisely and works to ensure that projects can be affordably sustained by local communities.
• Replication and Scale. The Foundation ensures that programs can be replicated and expanded by organizations, governments, and individuals to address their own specific challenges.
• Systemic Change and Local Impact. The Foundation takes comprehensive approaches that reenvision entire systems while still responding to the unique challenges in the places where we work. Through strategic organization and investment, the Clinton Foundation strives to change global systems, entire communities, and the way business is done in both developed and developing countries — while emphasizing solutions that make meaningful and positive changes in individual lives.