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Celebrating International Women's Day Every Day

Jill Sheffield | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Maternal Health, International Women's Day, Women's Health, Global Motherhood, UN Foundation, Impact News

Today, on the 101st anniversary of International Women's Day, we celebrate girls and women, and the tremendous contributions they make to families, communities and the world.

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Girls Advocating for Girls

Kathy Calvin | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Girl Up Campaign, Women's Empowerment, Female Leadership, Girl Power, UN Foundation, Un Women, Global Motherhood, Girl UP, International Women's Day 2012, International Women's Day, Women's Day, Impact News

Girls have the powerful potential to be innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders in their communities, if given the chance and environment to thrive.

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Polio Eradication Within Reach as India Takes Giant Step Forward

Timothy E. Wirth | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: India, Polio, UN Foundation, United Nations, World News

This week the world celebrates a major milestone in the global fight against polio. On January 13, India will mark one year in which no child was paralyzed by polio -- for the first time in history.

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Cooking Shouldn't Kill

Susanna Murley | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Cookstoves, Clean Cookstoves, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Igniting Change, UN Foundation, Video, Green News

Some of us in the U.S. may be hoping for kitchen makeovers, but even more are hoping for a toxic-free kitchen.

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Pneumonia: One Disease, Two Solutions

Kathy Bushkin Calvin | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: World Pneumonia Day, Pneumonia, UN Foundation, United Nations, Personal Health, Pneumonia and Children, Solutions to Pneumonia, Pneumonia Day, Pneumonia and Cookstoves, Symptoms of Pneumonia, Healthy Living News

Pneumonia inflicts a terrible toll on children around the world. Yet it doesn't have to. With your help, we can all breathe a little easier -- one vaccine and one clean cookstove at a time.

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UN Foundation Launches iPhone App To Donate To Global Causes

AP | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Mobile Application, Video, UN Foundation, United Nations, Climate Change, General Assembly, Maternal Health, Text Donation, iPhone Apps, Impact News

By Associated Press UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations is going digital with a new mobile application. The U.N. Foundation, a nonprofit organi...

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WATCH: Celebrate The Technologies That Aid Moms In Need

Kate Otto | Posted 03.18.2012

As Americans gather on Sunday to honor our mamas, we should also be celebrating "MAMA," a new global health initiative launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

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The Power of Music to Ignite Hope in Haiti

Dave "Phoenix" Farrell | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Linkin Park, Music for Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Solar Lighting, Haiti, UN Foundation, Downloadtodonate, Impact News

As a member of a rock band and leader at the United Nations Foundation, we are a unique pair, but our goal is the same. We are committed to helping the United Nations protect Haitian women.

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Weekly Mulch: The EPA Can Regulate Carbon, For Now

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.08.2011

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger This week, the House voted to shut down the carbon regulation program at the Environmental Protection Agency...

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Clean Water for a Brighter Future

Elizabeth Gore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Girl Up Campaign, UN Foundation, Lupe Fiasco, United Nations, Alexandra Cousteau, Summit on the Summit, World-Water-Day, Jessica Biel, Kenna, Ethiopia, Green News

By investing in access to water around the globe, we are also investing in the education of a girl who will have the tools to reinvest back into her family, community, and our world.

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Linkin Park Goes To The UN: A Conversation With Mike Shinoda

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Linkin Park, Enrique Iglesias, Glitch Mob, Everest, Red Cross, UN Foundation, Lupe Fiasco, Pro Tools, Alanis Morissette, Twitter, Music for Relief, Download to Donate, Haiti Relief, Crystal Method, Facebook, MTV VMAs, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Puerta De Alcalá, The Griffith Observatory, Dave "Phoenix" Farrell, Jack Johnson, Metric, All American Rejects, Garage Band, Logic, Kenna, Topspin, Mike Shinoda, Bandcamp, Entertainment News

Mike Shinoda of Lincoln Park agrees with the assessment that his band is a band in which everyone is always experimenting with new things.

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Tapping Consumer Minitrends: Predictions for 2011

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Micro-Inverters, Mobile Banking, Mobile Health Care, Mobile Phones, Amazon Kindle, Medical Apps, U.N. Foundation, Project Masiluleke, SMS Banking, Emerging Markets, Mobile Readers, Solar Energy, Africa, E-Readers, Minitrends, Small Business America, Business News

A trend's growth factor depends, like all things do, on timing: Is the right technology in place in the right hands for a tech trend to take off? Or, if it's a new product or service, has it hit the price-point sweet spot in such a way as to get a handle with the right number of the right people?

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UPDATE: Ted Turner Donation Reports Incorrect

AP | BASHIR ADIGUN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Africa Polio, Ted Turner Donation, Polio, Measles, Ted Turner Charity, UN Foundation, Ted Turner, Impact News

ABUJA, Nigeria — The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about Ted Turner pledging $80 million to a United Nations foundation to fight childhoo...

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A Winning Recipe for Sustainable Development

Isobel Coleman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cookstoves, Environmental Protection Agency, Women, Clinton Global Initiative, Lisa Jackson, Women's Health, UN Foundation, Economic Development, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Hillary Clinton, World News

Every year, two million women and children die due to smoke inhalation from traditional stoves -- more than die from malaria. What was sorely missing until now was an affordable, scalable solution.

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The Four R's: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic... and Restrooms

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011

Sanitation is a basic need that could enable a new destiny for billions of people and it is time to apply the same degree of innovation and ingenuity to this problem that has been brought to bear in other fields.

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C.E.O. Brooke Partridge Helps Lead Technology Thought in Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, David Lehr, Santa Clara, Microsoft, Fortune 500, Cupertino, San Jose, Brooke Partridge, Xian Province Ministry of Commerce, Thought Leadership, Mexico, Chile, U.N. Foundation, China, New York, Apple Macintosh, Vital Wave Consulting, South Africa, Peru, Madrid, Palo Alto, India, Corporate Social Responsibility, Technology, Hp, Silicon Valley, GSM World Congress, Business News

Brooke has been quietly moving behind the scenes for many years now helping technology companies strategize and tool up for successful revenue growth in emerging markets.

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American Idol Dedicates Thursday's Show To Haiti

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Idol Kris Allen, Idol Gives Back, American Idol, Kris Allen, American Idol Winners, UN Foundation, American Idol Thursday February 25, Video, Impact News

"American Idol" has teamed up with the United Nations Foundation to benefit Haiti on its Feb. 25 show. During the broadcast, "Idol" winner Kris Allen ...

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Helping Haiti to Reconnect

Joe Waz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Telecommunications Without Borders, Broadband, Haiti Earthquake, UN Foundation, Impact News

Here at Comcast, we're providing airtime and production assistance to help point Americans toward key relief agencies. One of these agencies may be of particular interest to HuffPost readers.

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