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Press Release: William J. Clinton Foundation 2010 Year-End Report


Clinton Foundation reaches significant milestones including nearly 2,000 commitments made at the Clinton Global Initiative, 10,000 schools enrolled in Healthy Schools Program, and progress made in economic development in Africa and Latin America, recovery in Haiti, and climate change globally.

New York, NY — The William J. Clinton Foundation today announced broad accomplishments in 2010 in the areas of economic opportunity, childhood obesity, emergency relief and long-term recovery, global health and nutrition, and climate and energy.

Founded by President Bill Clinton, the Foundation’s various initiatives work to alleviate poverty, strengthen economies, improve global health, and reduce the harmful impacts of climate change. The Foundation and President Clinton also worked with partners following this year’s devastating earthquake in Haiti in a variety of recovery areas including education, health, and economic development. In addition, the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, continued to welcome visitors from around the world and advance the mission of the Foundation.

Some highlights — explained further in the accomplishments by initiative below — include:

  • Expanding access to comprehensive health benefits to 2 million children in the United States for the prevention, assessment, and treatment of childhood obesity
  • Facilitating more than 10,000 cataracts surgeries in Peru
  • Establishing more than 50 tree nurseries in Kenya
  • Mobilizing unprecedented emergency response after Haiti’s earthquake
  • Welcoming more than 300,000 visitors to the Clinton President Center in Little Rock

2010 Clinton Foundation Accomplishments

Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)

The nonpartisan Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) brings together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Since President Clinton launched CGI in 2005, CGI members have made nearly 2,000 Commitments to Action, valued in excess of $63 billion, which are improving the lives of 300 million people in more than 170 countries.

2010 CGI Highlights:

  • CGI hosted its sixth annual meeting in September 2010, at which CGI members made 291 new commitments.
  • In the last year, as a result of CGI commitments:
    • More than 1.5 million people now have access to clean energy.
    • More than $275 million has been invested in or loaned to small and medium enterprises.
    • Nearly 2 million women are now earning a steady income from new jobs or self-employment.
    • More than 1 million people have gained access to information technology.
    • More than 1.5 million women and children now have access to reproductive and family health services.
  • In 2010, CGI launched more than two dozen Action Networks, which enable members interested in specific issues to meet throughout the year and coordinate action. CGI Action Networks held 71 meetings on topics such as Addressing Violence Against Girls and Women, Green Mobility, Scaling Sustainable Buildings, Impact Investing, Helping Haiti Build Back Better, Gulf Coast Oil Disaster, Non-Communicable Diseases, and Pathways to Employee Engagement.
  • The third Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting was held at the University of Miami in April 2010. More than 1,200 students attended, representing 344 universities, 77 countries, and all 50 states. More than 1,000 Commitments to Action were made by students and university officials, bringing the total number of CGI U commitments to more than 3,000 since the first meeting in 2008. The next CGI U meeting will be held April 1–3, 2011, at the University of California at San Diego. For more information, visit cgiu.org.

Alliance for a Healthier Generation (AHG)

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation works to address one of America’s leading public health threats — childhood obesity. The goal of the Alliance is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity by 2015 and empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices. Founded in 2005 by the Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, the Alliance works to positively affect the places that can make a difference in a child’s health: homes, schools, doctor’s offices and communities.

2010 Alliance Highlights:

  • More than 10,000 schools across the country have joined the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthy Schools Program and are making more physical activity and healthier foods available before, during, and after school.
  • The Healthy Schools Program awarded the first Gold National Recognition Awards in the program’s history to Memorial High School in West New York, New Jersey and Northeast Elementary in Danville, Illinois, in recognition of their efforts to improve access to healthier food and beverage options throughout the school and increase physical activity for students and staff.
  • A study released in March 2010 showed an 88 percent reduction in beverage calories shipped to schools across the country since 2004, largely as a result of a voluntary agreement with the major beverage distributors brokered by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
  • As a result of the Alliance Healthcare Initiative — a voluntary agreement with insurers, major employers and medical associations to provide obese and overweight kids access to at least four visits each with a doctor and a registered dietitian per year — more than 2 million kids now have access to expanded health benefits.
  • The Alliance’s empowerME Kids’ Movement, which inspires kids to make healthy changes and become advocates for eating better and moving more, increased the grand total of healthy commitments from youth made on the empowerME2b.org website to more than 2.5 million.

Haiti

In 2010, President Clinton led international efforts to help Haiti recover and rebuild following the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010. In addition to his role as UN Special Envoy for Haiti, a position he has held since May 2009, President Clinton has brought attention and funding to Haiti through the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, the Clinton-Giustra-Slim Development Fund, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission. The Clinton Foundation’s work in Haiti, in collaboration with the Haitian government, diaspora, NGOs, international donors, and the private sector, has focused on a variety of recovery areas including education, health, and economic development.

2010 Haiti Highlights:

  • Spent $11.5 million in emergency relief supplies and long-term recovery projects, and facilitated the delivery of $16 million worth of goods donated by other organizations – making the total value of assistance to Haiti approximately $27.45 million.
  • Supported relief efforts beyond the emergency phase by working with the Haitian government and local municipalities and workers to construct 20 emergency shelters at a cost of $1 million and provided $500,000 in funding to JPHRO for continued camp management costs and medical relief programs.
  • Worked with more than 20 Haitian small and medium sized enterprises to create nearly 700 jobs in Haiti by helping them identify financing opportunities, new customers and technical expertise to rebuild after the earthquake. These business recovery initiatives will create thousands of new jobs throughout the country in 2011.
  • Launched a $20 million fund in partnership with Frank Giustra and Carlos Slim to support and develop Haitian small businesses and entrepreneurs and spur job creation.
  • Facilitated new investments from major US and international companies, despite a challenging global economic climate. Major multi-national firms such as Coca-Cola, Macy’s, and Phillips Van Heusen have begun to grow, develop, and manufacture a range of products in Haiti from mangos to artisan handicrafts and polo shirts.
  • Provided grant funding to support several priority initiatives of the Haitian Government, including $500,000 for the Building Back Better Communities Housing Exposition, and $1.5 million for cholera education and prevention programs.

Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (CGSGI)

The Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (CGSGI) is an innovative partnership between the Clinton Foundation, the private sector, governments, local communities, and other NGOs to increase the scope, scale, impact, and sustainability of social and economic development efforts in areas where poverty is widespread. Established in June 2007 by President Clinton and Frank Giustra, CGSGI focuses on alleviating poverty in the developing world through market-driven development that creates jobs and increases incomes, and by strengthening factors that enable economic growth such as health and education.

2010 CGSGI Highlights:

  • Facilitating the completion of more than 10,000 cataract surgeries in Peru. Eighteen private clinics are now participating in the project that will enable better vision to improve economic productivity and quality of life in the nation, and a patient bus transport service has recently been launched.
  • Enabling more than 2,300 small producers in Peru to make more than $1.5 million in incremental sales by utilizing market linkage and technical assistance services provided by in CGSGI’s Poverty Reduction and Alleviation projects in Peru.
  • Enabling more than $500,000 in cumulative sales between 14 small suppliers and hotel buyers in Cartagena, Colombia. Due to the success of this project, additional suppliers are being added and CGSGI is using this project as a model to replicate elsewhere in Colombia and Peru.
  • Providing more than 2 million meals to 4,000 schoolchildren in Pies Descalzos schools in Colombia and supporting more than 700 microenterprises. This project has also created more than 2,000 jobs through the vocational training/income generation programs of the Pies Descalzos project in Soacha, Quibdo and Barranquilla Colombia.
  • CGSGI has assisted the Afro-Colombian women producers of TANA improve their business value chain. In 2010, CGSI helped TANA renew their organic certification, select a Bogotá-based packager and distributor and revise their product presentation. The product, in new form and packaging, will hit shelves in Colombia stores in January.

Clinton Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI)

A partnership between the Hunter Foundation and the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI) is pursuing an innovative, integrated approach to encourage economic growth in Africa and empower more Africans with the tools needed to uplift their communities. CHDI currently operates in two African countries — Rwanda and Malawi — at the invitation of these countries’ national governments.

2010 CHDI Highlights:

  • By the end of 2010, over 4,000 smallholder farm families, working within CHDI-trained local community groups, planted and continued to maintain 1.9 million trees in Malawi, helping to build sustainable small agro-forestry businesses and reverse deforestation in Malawi by sequestering 248,000 tons of CO2. Now, importantly, the operation of these nurseries will transition from CHDI to farmer owned community nurseries. By the end of the year, all seedling production transitioned to smaller community nurseries which will serve as small business enterprises and remain sustainable after CHDI’s exit. To date, 102 community nurseries have become fully operational.
  • CHDI is beginning the third year of operation of its innovative Anchor Farm Project. On its commercial farm, Mpherero, CHDI has completed planting five crops: hybrid seed maize, OPV seed maize, seed soya, commercial soya and seed groundnut. The maize, seed soya and groundnuts are being grown under contract with SeedCo, Malawi’s largest seed company. There is a critical shortage of high quality certified domestic seed in Malawi, and one objective of the Anchor Farm Project is to make sure smallholder farmers have access to high quality seed to get higher yields. On Mpherero Farm this past season, CHDI grew 290 tons of high quality certified maize seed and 480 tons of soy seed, sufficient to plant 29,000 smallholder maize plots and 9,500 smallholder soya plots.
  • CHDI is partnering with The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (a Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation organization) to expand the training elements of the Anchor Farm Project to 21,000 smallholder farmers in Mchinji District over the next three years. Other elements of the partnership include resources to strengthen the soil testing capacity of the laboratory at the Ministry of Agriculture’s Chitedze Research Station and to promote smallholder adoption of improved integrated soil fertility management, including conservation agriculture and use of fertilizer trees.

Clinton Economic Opportunity Initiative (CEO)

The Clinton Foundation’s domestic economic work began in 2002 with a small business consulting program in New York City in partnership with Booz & Company and New York University’s Stern School of Business. This work has grown into the Clinton Economic Opportunity Initiative (CEO), and focuses on supporting entrepreneurs in underserved communities and helping low- and moderate-income families become more financially stable all across the United States.

2010 CEO Highlights:

  • The Entrepreneur Mentoring Program (EMP), a CEO partnership with Inc. magazine, launched new rounds of its programs in cities across the United States and is working with businesses in Chicago, Newark, New York, Oakland, and Philadelphia. EMP pairs entrepreneurs running growth companies in underserved communities with successful business leaders and entrepreneur mentors.
  • CEO continued its longstanding partnership with Booz and NYU Stern to support New York small businesses through CEO’s Consulting Program by providing financial and operational support to companies in New York City. Since 2002, more than 72,500 hours of pro bono consulting services worth more than $15 million have been provided to support entrepreneurs.
  • In June, CEO launched a partnership with Seedco Financial Services, a not-for-profit Community Development Financial Institution. Through this partnership, up to 20 small business owners in New York City will receive strategic operational and financial assessments from Booz & Company consultants and NYU MBA students through CEO’s Consulting Program, a loan of up to $750,000 from Seedco Financial, an EMP mentor, and access to a network of professional service providers through Seedco Financial.

Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI)

The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) was established in 2006 to create and advance solutions to the core issues driving climate change. Working with governments and businesses around the world to tailor local solutions that are economically and environmentally sustainable, CCI focuses on three strategic program areas: reducing emissions in cities, catalyzing the large-scale supply of clean energy, and working to measure and value the carbon absorbed by forests.

2010 CCI Highlights:

  • In April, the Victorian Government announced its Greener Government Buildings program in Australia. Through the program, sites accounting for 90 percent of all State Government’s energy consumption, including hospitals, schools, sporting and other government buildings, will undergo energy and water efficiency retrofits by 2018. CCI assisted the Victorian Government by introducing the global best practice Energy Performance Contracting method, through which energy service companies guarantee energy savings over a defined period of time. CCI also provided project planning and development support, and technical and financial analysis.
  • CCI’s Arkansas Home Energy Affordability Loan (HEAL) pilot program received $3 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants and is working throughout Arkansas to implement energy efficiency program elements for participating industry partners and creating an energy efficiency loan fund for their employees. To date, three industry partners are engaged in facility energy audits, more than 200 residential energy audits were completed, and at least 30 low-to-moderate income employees from each industry location will receive residential retrofits. The HEAL program is building local capacity and creating green collar job opportunities while reducing annual utility costs by an average of $540 and two metric tons of CO2 annually per household.
  • In June, President Clinton and Mayor Castañeda announced that the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima (MML) is improving the energy efficiency of thousands of traffic lights across the city. CCI is helping MML install over 6,000 new light emitting diode (LED) fixtures across the city. The LED lights being used are 90 percent more efficient than the old incandescent lights, and can last more than 10 years. Once the retrofit project is complete, it will annually reduce the city’s energy use by 5,200 megawatt hours, save the City over $1.5 million, and reduce more than 2,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
  • In Kenya, CCI is working with local communities and the Green Belt Movement to help protect the Enoosupukia Forest Trust Land, part of Kenya’s largest closed-canopy forest ecosystem. To date, 54 tree nurseries with an average of 1,120 seedlings each have been established, 500 community members trained on civic and environmental education, and 35 Tree Nursery Groups formed.

Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), formerly the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative and now a separate nonprofit organization, has expanded its focus to the following global programmatic areas: malaria, vaccines, maternal and child health, human resources for health, and health system strengthening, while still remaining dedicated to its work on battling the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. To implement these programs, CHAI country teams partner with governments in 34 developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

2010 CHAI Highlights:

  • CHAI’s pricing agreements have achieved an additional $500 million savings in antiretroviral (ARV) costs for developing countries over the past two years. Additionally, CHAI completed negotiations for malaria drugs reducing the price by up to 40 percent in participating countries.
  • The Lab Services Team (LST) improved Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) turnaround time for laboratory testing in Nigeria (a 50 percent increase), Malawi (a 35 percent increase), and Zimbabwe (a 60 percent increase). CHAI’s EID work is particularly important since 50 percent of all HIV positive children will die within their first year if not identified and treated.
  • CHAI’s work in vaccines was initiated in the second half of 2010, and has already made important progress including:
    • Supporting the design of a national vaccine program to help Kenya become the first large African country to launch the pneumococcus bacteria vaccine.
    • Providing support to Rwanda in developing a strategic plan for introducing Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and arranging for a sustainable donation of the vaccine, making Rwanda the first African country to introduce HPV nationally in 2011.
  • Through CHAI’s efforts, more than 22 million artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) to fight Malaria have been ordered. CHAI’s Human Resources for Health Program in Zambia partnered with and assisted the Ministry of Health to create a system for the national deployment of healthcare workers — resulting in 800 new healthcare workers placed across the country.
  • CHAI began the process of transitioning responsibility of its pediatric AIDS program over to government ministries and other NGOs in the 34 countries where CHAI is active.

Clinton Presidential Center (CPC)

Opened in 2004, the Clinton Presidential Center is home to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, and the Little Rock offices of the Clinton Foundation. The Center also plays an active role in the Little Rock community, hosting a number of events, lectures, and conferences throughout the year. The Center was instrumental in bringing more than $2 billion in economic development to the area, including renovations of the nearby historic River Market district.

2010 Center Highlights:

  • Despite the lag in the economy and the tourism industry, the Center welcomed 319,501 visitors this past year, a 5 percent increase from 2009. In 2010, the Center’s temporary exhibits included “Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection,” “Leadership in a Time of Crisis: President Clinton and the Oklahoma City Bombing,” “Nature Unleashed,” and “Haiti: Building Back Better.”
  • Construction began on the renovation of the Clinton Presidential Park Bridge, formerly the Rock Island Railroad Bridge, into a pedestrian pathway which will give Central Arkansas one of the finest urban trails systems in the country, as well as a distinctive landmark that will continue to support revitalization efforts in downtown Little Rock. The Bridge will open in Fall 2011.
  • The Clinton School of Public Service continues to increase enrollment as it attracts students from around the world. Students in the 2010 class represent 13 states and five countries and have an array of public service experiences, including AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, Teach for America and CityYear. During the summer of 2010, Clinton School students completed 36 international public service projects in 24 countries on six continents.
  • The Frank and Kula Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture Series continued to bring world-class speakers to the Center including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Laura and Lisa Ling, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss.

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