press | November 19, 2024
New York, NY – For the second straight year, the Anthem Awards has announced the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) as a Winner, recognizing the work and impact of the CGI 2024 Annual Meeting. At this year’s meeting, businesses and nonprofits launched 175 new Commitments to Action that address climate resilience, global health equity, the protection of journalists, humanitarian crises, and other urgent global challenges.
The CGI 2024 Annual Meeting is the Gold Medalist in the Humanitarian Event category.
For the past four years, the Anthem Awards has honored the purpose and mission-driven work of people, companies and organizations worldwide. This year’s Winners were selected from a pool of over 2,300 entries submitted from over 30 countries by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS). The Anthem Awards judges are intellectually diverse leaders with renown across the impact industry, whose expertise spans issue areas including LGBTQ advocacy, racial equity, climate justice, mental health, gun control, and more.
While the award recognizes CGI’s model and 2024 Annual Meeting specifically, leaders from CGI say this is a testament to the work and impact of the broader CGI community.
“While we are very proud of this recognition by the Anthem Awards, this honor really belongs to the community of doers across the public and private sectors who come together through CGI every year,” said Greg Milne, CEO of CGI. “Every day the leaders who engage with CGI — nonprofits, businesses, leaders from government and civil society — are making a difference in the lives of people around the world.”
Milne added, “CGI is proof that the biggest global challenges can be addressed through community, collaboration, and a commitment to action, and we’re grateful for Anthem’s recognition of our impact.”
Launched by President Clinton in 2005, CGI has built a community of doers who are taking action to make a tangible difference in people’s lives around the world. At CGI 2024, businesses and nonprofits announced 175 new Commitments to Action — new, specific, and measurable projects and programs – that are addressing climate resilience, global health equity, the protection of journalists, humanitarian crises, and other pressing global challenges.
Through CGI’s unique model, more than 10,000 organizations have launched more than 4,100 Commitments that are making a difference in the lives of more than 500 million people in 180 countries.
“The Winners of this year’s Anthem Awards are truly inspiring and I am honored to help elevate their impact,” said Anthem Awards General Manager, Patricia McLoughlin. “At this moment, there is a lot of uncertainty in our world, but the tireless and extraordinary efforts of the Anthem Awards community provide hope that a better tomorrow is possible.”
Several CGI community members were also recognized by the Anthem Awards for their work, including Christy Turlington Burns, the Tent Partnership for Refugees, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, AARP, and the World Food Program USA.
This year’s CGI Annual Meeting included conversations on climate action, reproductive freedom, protecting democracy, global health, and more, with leaders in attendance including President Joseph R. Biden; His Excellency Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Honorable Chief Advisor of Bangladesh; Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados; José Andrés, Founder and Chief Feeding Officer, World Central Kitchen; Matt Damon, Co-founder, Water.org & WaterEquity; Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Jane Goodall, Primatologist and Anthropologist, Jane Goodall Institute; Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex; Yulia Navalnaya; Shonda Rhimes, Founder, Shondaland; Emma Walmsley, CEO, GSK; and more.
Watch Main Stage and Leaders Stage sessions from this year’s meeting at the Digital All Access site: clintonglobal.org/2024
When fully funded and implemented, the 175 new Commitments to Action launched at CGI 2024 will have a positive impact on the lives of more than 285 million people. These commitments will facilitate more than $400 million dollars of funding to support historically excluded communities and businesses, more than 275,000 people with improved access to educational materials, more than 11.7 million people with access to health services, more than 435,000 people with access to maternal/newborn health services, more than $54 million dollars of goods distributed for humanitarian relief or disaster response, and more than 7.3 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents reduced or avoided per year.
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