The United Nations will draw foundations and nonprofits to New York for a packed schedule of events on the sidelines of its General Assembly next week.
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24, 2022, in New York. FILE - A United Nations Department of Safety and Security officer stands watch before the start of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, at UN headquarters. FILE - Jamaica's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. FILE - The symbol of the United Nations is displayed on the main gate outside UN headquarters, Feb. 24, 2022, in New York. , the United Nations will still draw foundations and nonprofits to New York next week for a packed schedule of conferences, meetings, happy hours and dinnersbefore the U.N. General Assembly meets, has delayed this year’s report because it's not yet clear how much foreign aid and global health funding countries will commit going forward. Former President Bill Clinton said the, which started convening its annual meeting on the U.N. sidelines in 2005, will change its format this year to ask leaders from business, politics and philanthropy to develop new programs during the two-day conference.across U.N. agencies. Its most powerful body, the Security Council, has not acted to stop two major wars, despite its founding mandate after World War II “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” The world’s uncertainty has made this year’s UNGA Week even more important, say some ready to join in the gatherings. “It is still the only place that the whole world gets together and that alone, in my view, is enough to justify its existence,” said Kevin Sheekey, senior adviser to billionaire and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg. Since 2017, Bloomberg's organization has convened a forum on the U.N. sidelines, which Sheekey said is a unique opportunity to make connections between world leaders, businesses and philanthropies. This year it will focus on global collaboration and investment opportunities in African countries, especially around sports. The United Nations Foundation, founded by Ted Turner in 1989 to promote cooperation with the U.N., compiles a list of public events that take place on the sidelines. This year, the foundation has tracked about the same number of events as in previous years, said George Hampton, one of the foundation's executive directors. But he said there seems to be a greater emphasis on smaller roundtables, where conversations can be more frank and substantive. “It is clear that the space we have to solve problems is shrinking, the kind of global cooperation table is shrinking as the problems themselves grow,” Hampton said. “So it does feel there’s a new urgency, a new sense that this time matters more than those before it.” Clinton Global Initiative CEO Gregory Milne said the changes the nonprofit plans for this year's meeting are similar to how it responded to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is a critical moment for the global development community," he said. “But we also know that the CGI community and thousands of organizations that span the public and private sector have always worked to meet the unique and urgent challenges of the time.” An early event, hosted Thursday at the Ford Foundation, was Free Future, which focuses on ending gender-based violence. Speakers, including former Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, reflected on the 30th anniversary of the U.N. conference on women in Beijing in 1995, where countries made many pledges to move toward gender equality. She said while there's been progress in terms of the promotion of women leaders and access to opportunity, “We have not done enough.” The conference this year was co-hosted by Pivotal, Melinda French Gates' organization, and highlighted the economic toll that violence takes. “Violence has a cost,” said Monica Aleman, international program director at the Ford Foundation, adding, “that money can make a difference in bringing a solution, whether that is through cash transfers or other economic opportunities that you can offer survivors.” The event, which convened funders, private companies, advocates and grantees, is also meant to fortify and inspire attendees in advance of what will be for many, a packed week of meetings on the U.N. sidelines. Celiné Justice, of Pivotal Ventures, said part of what her organization will be doing is “really listening for opportunities to bring this issue into the room, so that it doesn’t get forgotten.”Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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Big foundations and nonprofits still flood to the sidelines of a diminished United NationsThe United Nations will draw foundations and nonprofits to New York for a packed schedule of events on the sidelines of its General Assembly next week. But uncertainty over its future and foreign aid commitments have already had an impact. The Gates Foundation has delayed an annual report about progress toward global development goals.
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