About The Clinton Foundation
President Bill Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation in 2001 to identify and take action on global problems he could uniquely influence through his experience as a global leader and public servant. Today, the Clinton Foundation works to strengthen the capacity of governments and individuals to alleviate poverty, improve global health, strengthen economies, and protect the environment.
Under President Clinton’s leadership, the Foundation initiates change by fostering partnerships among governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private citizens. The Foundation focuses these collaborations to develop programs that leverage the expertise, resources, and passions of all sectors and turn good intentions into measurable results.
To accomplish its goals, the Clinton Foundation has established separate initiatives, each with a distinct mission but all reflecting President Clinton’s founding vision: to implement sustainable programs that improve access worldwide to investment, opportunity, and lifesaving services now and for future generations. Working in diverse geographic regions and responding to local needs, the initiatives address targeted challenges in the Foundation’s key areas of focus: economic empowerment, education, environment and energy, health systems, and nutrition.
Because of this work world leaders have made 1,700 Commitments to Action to improve more than 220 million lives around the world; 9,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 4,300 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 14 cities around the world are implementing energy efficiency projects to eliminate 75,000 tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year; $20 million is being invested in small- and medium-sized businesses in Colombia; and 2.6 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV/AIDS medications.
Across all initiatives, the Clinton Foundation emphasizes:
- Partnership and Collaboration. The Foundation brings together governments, NGOs, and businesses in partnerships that harness each sector’s unique expertise and resources. No matter where the Foundation works, it engages partners on the ground to ensure that projects are properly responding to local needs.
- Measurable Results. The Foundation focuses its efforts in areas where it can have the greatest impact. Foundation projects develop best practices and lessons learned.
- Innovation and Markets. The Foundation drives the innovation of individuals and businesses to develop new technologies and approaches that respond to markets and economies.
- Efficiency and Sustainability. The Foundation spends every dollar and every moment wisely and works to ensure that projects can be affordably sustained by local communities.
- Replication and Scale. The Foundation ensures that programs can be replicated and expanded by organizations, governments, and individuals to address their own specific challenges.
- Systemic Change and Local Impact. The Foundation takes comprehensive approaches that reenvision entire systems while still responding to the unique challenges in the places where we work.
Through strategic organization and investment, the Clinton Foundation strives to change global systems, entire communities, and the way business is done in both developed and developing countries — while emphasizing solutions that make meaningful and positive changes in individual lives.
2009 Annual Report
