Restarting the global warming conversation

By Reid Detchon on June 17, 2013

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said climate change “is a humanitarian issue, a development issue, and an issue of security and stability.”

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16-year old Jack Andraka Brings Youth, Ingenuity and Brainpower to mHealth Design

By Chelsea Hedquist on June 14, 2013

The term “smartphone” first appeared in 1997 – the same year that 16-year-old Jack Andraka was born. Since then, smartphones have spread to cover the globe, with more than 1 billion in use worldwide. As for Andraka, it has taken him only 16 years to become a well-respected researcher and innovator who has most recently turned his attention – and his impressive brainpower – to the field of mobile health…

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Citizens Share Their Voices in Advance of the G8

By Kathy Calvin on June 13, 2013

Urgent challenges like poverty, climate change, and disease cross borders and boundaries, affecting us all. Solving these global problems requires global cooperation – and in today’s connected world, we have the opportunity and the responsibility to expand cooperation beyond governments to include the ideas of people from around the world.

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Want to Change the World? Let Girls Lead

By Kathy Calvin on June 12, 2013

“I want to serve the people. And I want every girl, every child, to be educated.” These are the powerful words of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenage girl who was shot by the Taliban last year when returning home from school…

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G-Everyone: Make Your Voice Heard to the G8

By Jenni Lee on June 7, 2013

On Monday, June 10th, one week before the G8 Summit, you are invited to join “G-Everyone,” a day of dialogue that encourages everyone to share their ideas on how technology, innovation and entrepreneurship can address global challenges.

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Celebrating World Environment Day

By Hilary French on June 5, 2013

Today marks the 40th time that the world has come together to raise awareness of critically important issues on World Environment Day. This year’s theme, Think Eat Save: Reduce Your Foodprint, zeroes in on an issue that all people, from all walks of life, from all the countries in the world, can relate to and understand.

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The Post-2015 Development Opportunity

By Kathy Calvin on June 4, 2013

Creating the post-2015 development agenda is a chance to bring people and countries together around a shared vision of a more equitable, prosperous, and sustainable world.

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The Post-2015 Development Agenda: What it is and why it matters

By Jenni Lee on May 31, 2013

What kind of world do we want to live in? It’s a question that matters to all of us, and a question at the heart of the post-2015 development agenda that will guide global development efforts after 2015…

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Adolescent Girls: The Most Powerful Catalysts for Change

By Jenni Lee on May 30, 2013

“We believe adolescent girls are the most powerful catalysts for change on the planet,” wrote UN Foundation President & CEO Kathy Calvin and Nike Foundation President & CEO Maria Eitel in a piece that appeared on the Guardian website this week…

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Dispatches from Women Deliver: Breaking Taboos For Women’s Health

By Guest Blogger on May 30, 2013

The hidden subtext of the Women Deliver 2013 Conference in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, the largest global health event of the decade, is all about breaking taboos: Taboos about women and power, about sex, about relationships between men and women, and about the role of global institutions in quite simply talking about sexual health.

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