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UN Foundation (United Nations Foundation)

The United Nations Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. We are an advocate for the UN and connect people, ideas, and resources to power solutions to global challenges.
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Locals and travellers can unite to care for world heritage

Expedia, UNESCO and the UN Foundation – providing the tools to protect world heritage

Expedia, Inc, UNESCO and the UN Foundation founded the Friends of World Heritage initiative to ensure the protection of World Heritage sites for today’s travelers and future generations. More

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Mobile technology enhances services at this Kenyan hospital

Vodafone and the UN Foundation – harnessing technology for humanitarian goals

Recognising the potential of technology to drive global change, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation partnered in 2005 to form the Technology Partnership, a five-year, $30 million commitment in support of UN causes. More

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Promoting sustainable tourism to the world’s great sites

Expedia and UN Foundation partner to promote World Heritage tourism

Together with about 50 members from the travel industry, governments and conservation community the World Heritage Alliance for sustainable tourism is working to preserve more than 20 World Heritage sites in seven countries. More

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Failure to invest in the lives of adolescent girls condemns millions to poverty

World Economic Forum gives girls a voice on the global stage

The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting programme featured its first-ever plenary session at which corporate, foundation, government and NGO leaders discussed the ability to end intergenerational cycles of poverty amongst females. More

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Doctors and clinic workers use mobile phones to collect and record vital health data and monitor patients’ status.

DataDyne.org and Vodafone Foundation: health surveys with EpiSurveyor

Apart from regular reporting, surveys are an additional tool of national health monitoring. For conducting health surveys the non-profit software provider DataDyne.org developed EpiSurveyor, an open-source software application available to every internet user at no cost. More

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Bringing healthcare to remote populations through mobile technology

Microsoft joined the “mHealth and Mobile Telemedicine” session, led by UNF and Vodafone ’s Technology Partnership

The “mHealth and Mobile Telemedicine” session is gathering 25 private sector and public health leaders to explore the challenges, opportunities and way forward in building mHealth systems that can improve the access, efficiency and quality of health services in the developing world. The overarching... More

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Going beyond aid to ‘build back better’

UNDP and Coca-Cola work together to rehabilitate water and sanitation systems in tsunami-affected countries

The goal of this partnership was to support the long-term reconstruction effort with a focus on sustainable, community-based water and sanitation activities in remote, tsunami-affected areas of Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives. More

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The Public-Private Partnership Dialogue brought together Heads of State and Government, UN officials, and corporate, foundation and NGO leaders to review experiences and affirm commitments for children.

Public and private sectors search for common ground in the movement for children's rights

Leaders from business, government and civil society met to discuss better ways of involving their constituencies in the movement for children's rights. More

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Lifting poverty by investing in adolescent girls

Public-private partnership investing in adolescent girls in developing countries

The first step to ending generations of poverty is investing in adolescent girls. That’s the premise behind the Coalition for Adolescent Girls (the Coalition), a public-private partnership established in 2006 with the UN Foundation, Nike Foundation and more than 30 leading international... More