Reclaiming America’s Youth and Recovering Our Economy
by Chelsea Clinton
Crime and ennui in Columbia Heights, D.C., overwhelmed the adolescence of Elmer Diaz, a first-generation immigrant from El Salvador. He was always bright, but with his hard-working parents constantly away from home, Elmer’s life became entwined with gangs. He also got into drugs. Then he dropped out of high school.
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Impact of the 2013 Health Matters Conference
In January the Clinton Foundation hosted its second annual health and wellness conference, Health Matters: Activating Wellness In Every Generation, where conference participants announced pledges to action totaling more than $100 million. These pledges will work to increase access for education, disease prevention...
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Celebrating 20 Years of the Family & Medical Leave Act
The late 20th century will be remembered for the onset of dramatic economic, social, environmental and political changes which continue to challenge us at home and abroad. Though our increasingly interdependent global economy allowed people...
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Health Matters Conference Inspires Pledges to Action
With the recent launch of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI), we anticipate that 2013 will be a year of catalyzing action on the health and wellness challenges we face across the United States. To help create sustainable solutions that can be replicated nationally, we are calling on individuals, communities, and organizations to make pledges to increase access to resources that can help people everywhere live better – from health and wellness education to healthier food and fresh produce to health care and mental health support.
And in the short time since CHMI’s launch in November 2012,…
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Bringing Change to Washington’s HIV Crisis
All eyes have been on Washington D.C. as the close of the inauguration brings the inevitable return to political wrangling. But to Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) participant Tyler Spencer and a group of NCAA-Division I athletes, partisanship isn’t the capitol city’s only problem.
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Minutes Matter: Haiti Deserves Better Weather Forecasting Three Years After the Quake
In the three years following the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti to its core, we've watched additional natural disasters repeatedly take their toll on the fragile...
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