William J. Clinton Foundation 2012 Year-End
Report
Clinton Foundation reaches significant milestones including
nearly 5 million people benefiting from HIV/AIDS treatment, more than15,000
schools enrolled in Healthy Schools Program in the United States, progress made
in economic development in Africa, Latin America, and in the fight against
climate change globally, recovery in Haiti, and more than 2,300 commitments made
through the Clinton Global Initiative.
New York, NY—The William J. Clinton Foundation today announced broad accomplishments in 2012 in the areas of global health, childhood obesity and health and wellness, economic opportunity, and climate and energy.
Building on a lifetime of public service, President Bill Clinton established the Clinton Foundation with the mission to improve global health, strengthen economies, promote health and wellness, and protect the environment by fostering partnerships among governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private citizens to turn good intentions into measurable results.
Since 2001, President Clinton’s vision and leadership have resulted in nearly 5 million people benefiting from lifesaving HIV/AIDS treatment; more than 15,000 U.S. schools building healthier learning environments; more than 51,000 micro-entrepreneurs, small business owners, and smallholder farmers improving their livelihoods and communities; and more than 248 million tons of CO2 being reduced in cities around the world. And President Clinton has redefined the way we think about giving and philanthropy through his Clinton Global Initiative, whose members have made more than 2,300 commitments that are improving the lives of nearly 400 million people in more than 180 countries.
Some highlights — explained further in the accomplishments by initiative below — include:
- Providing more than 47,000 cataract surgeries in Peru.
- Reducing prices from $15 to $5 per child for the rotavirus vaccine in developing countries.
- Launching the new Clinton Health Matters Initiative, which works to improve the health and well-being of people across the United States.
- More than 160 new Commitments to Action made by Clinton Global Initiative members that, once fully funded, will be valued at more than $2.4 billion and positively impact nearly 22 million lives.
Alliance for a Healthier Generation (AHG)
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, founded by the Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, is leading the charge against the childhood obesity epidemic by engaging directly with industry leaders, educators, parents, doctors, and kids. The Alliance works to positively affect all the places that can make a difference in a child's health including homes, schools, doctors' offices, and communities. Alliance initiatives address both the macro- and micro-level changes necessary to combat the childhood obesity epidemic. The goal of the Alliance is to reduce the nationwide prevalence of childhood obesity by 2015 and to inspire young people to develop lifelong healthy habits.
2012 Alliance Highlights:
- The Alliance’s landmark agreement with the American Beverage Association has contributed to a 90 percent reduction in calories from beverages shipped to schools between the 2004-2010 school years, according to a 2012 report published in the American Journal of Public Health released this year. As part of the Alliance’s agreement with the American Beverage Association, the vast majority of full-calorie soft drinks have been removed from schools, and the beverages available to students through school vending machines and cafeteria a la carte lines are now nutritious, age appropriately portioned, and no or low calorie.
- This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) Journal
Preventing Chronic Disease published two peer-reviewed research papers
on the findings from a cohort of 1,300 schools that enrolled in the Healthy
Schools Program between 2007 and 2009 and were followed through 2010. Findings
include:
- Schools serving students from lower-income families and students at high risk for obesity were just as likely and — in some cases — more likely to adopt health-promoting policies as schools that served students from higher-income families.
- Schools accessing and participating in more training and one-on-one support made the most progress in implementing policies and programs that support healthy eating and regular physical activity among students.
- Children’s average BMI decreased significantly, bringing more kids into a healthy weight range, between 2007-2008 and 2009-2010.
- Decreases were found primarily among middle school students, and decreases were similar for both genders and across ethnic groups.
- Elementary and middle school children drank significantly fewer sugar-sweetened beverages in the 2009-2010 school year than in the 2007-2008 school year
- Schools that improved their competitive food and beverage policies saw the largest declines in average BMI.
- All students reported spending more time in physical education in 2009-2010 than in 2007-2008.
Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI)
The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) is implementing programs that create and advance solutions to the root causes of climate change — while also helping to reduce our reliance on oil, saving money for individuals and governments, creating jobs, and growing economies. CCI, in partnership with the C40 Climate Leadership Group (C40), focuses on helping large cities reduce their carbon emissions. Other programs aim to increase energy efficiency through building retrofits; to increase access to clean energy technology and deploy it at the government, corporate, and homeowner levels; and to reverse deforestation by preserving and regrowing forests.
2012 CCI Highlights:
- In April, the State Government of Gujarat announced that CCI 's work on a solar park in India is generating electricity from the first 214 mega-watts. This is the first stage in a 1000 mega-watt solar park. CCI's role has been to act as overall and financial advisers to the state and national governments for the project.
- In Latin America, the C40-CCI Hybrid & Electric Bus Test Program
completed bus testing in participating cities Bogota, Curitiba, Sao Paulo and
Rio de Janeiro, and is supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
This landmark program builds the business case for investment in clean bus
technologies on a regional scale. It aims to reduce the carbon footprint of
public transportation in Latin America, and develop a market for fuel efficient,
low-carbon buses in the region.
- Final results establish that hybrid and electric bus technology is more fuel-efficient and produces fewer local air pollutants and greenhouse gases than conventional diesel buses, while key findings of the program’s economic analysis demonstrate the lower life-cycle cost of low carbon buses.
- In 2012, C40 added 5 new member cities from around the word: Oslo, Vancouver, Venice, Singapore, and Washington, D.C. Representing megacities as well as innovative smaller cities, the new additions bring total C40 membership to 63.
- In Arkansas, CCI operates the Home Energy Affordability Loan (HEAL) program, which helps local businesses and their employees reduce their energy use and related utility expenses through energy efficiency building retrofits. In 2012, CCI HEAL’s residential and commercial retrofits resulted in a reduction of 2,742 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. CCI has completed 234 deep residential retrofits and 4 commercial energy retrofits including L’Oreal, USA, the Arlington Hotel, Hendrix College, and Friendship Community Care.
Clinton Development Initiative (CDI)
The Clinton Development Initiative (CDI) works to give smallholder farmers in Rwanda and Malawi the tools they need to increase their harvests and incomes and support their families and communities. In close collaboration with farmers and nongovernmental organizations, and at the invitation of the governments of Malawi and Rwanda, these programs provide access to better farming inputs and more stable markets – and ensure that communities can ultimately sustain themselves. CDI in Malawi is supported financially by the Salida Capital Foundation, and CDI in Rwanda is a partnership between the Clinton Foundation and the Hunter Foundation.
2012 CDI Highlights:
- CDI is in its fifth season operating its successful Anchor Farm Project, and operates five commercial farms in western Malawi – up from one farm in previous years – growing soya, maize, and groundnuts. CDI currently works with 21,000 smallholder farmers near the commercial farms to grow additional soya.
- Smallholder farmers in the Anchor Farm Project are experiencing an average increase in yield (kilograms/hectare) of 150% through CDI’s work and sales. Prices for their soya have increased by 167% through direct links with processors negotiated by CDI. As a result of both productivity and market access improvements, smallholder profitability was 567% higher in 2012 than in any year since the project has been in operation.
- This year, CDI was the only commercial farm operator to successfully fulfill its contract with Senwes, Limited, the second largest agricultural services company in South Africa. The contract gives smallholders a guaranteed base price and an increase in price if Malawi soya market prices rise.
- CDI made its first seven sales of certified carbon credits generated by the planting of trees in its Trees of Hope project in Malawi. The majority share of the revenue from the sale of carbon credits will be paid out directly to the farmers in the project; the remainder will be used to expand the project to additional smallholder farmers and community groups.
- In Rwanda, the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI) is making
significant progress in the development of two agro-businesses, which are
currently under construction:
- A large soybean and sunflower edible cooking oil factory, which will have the capacity to process 200 metric tons of grain daily. The factory will employ over 200 permanent staff members and will create a market for soybean and sunflower for more than 100,000 smallholder farmers.
- A coffee roasting factory, which will add value to Rwandan coffee and increase revenues to smallholder coffee farmers.
Clinton Economic Opportunity Initiative (CEO)
The Clinton Economic Opportunity Initiative (CEO) promotes economic growth in economically distressed and emerging communities by enlisting Americans with business expertise to help local entrepreneurs compete and succeed. CEO believes that enabling entrepreneurship is one of the strongest ways to create lasting economic growth in underserved communities because it creates jobs, promotes development, and generates wealth in those communities. By creating, implementing, and scaling sustainable models to support entrepreneurship, CEO strives to help entrepreneurs develop the strategic, management, and operational capacity to compete in the marketplace and contribute to their communities.
2012 CEO Highlights:
- CEO works with Inc. magazine and community organizations across the country to connect small businesses within underserved communities with highly successful entrepreneurs to serve as their Mentors. Mentees participating in the program experience an average increase in workforce of 16% during their enrollment in the program, and 92% of these participants credit in CEO’s mentoring program for helping them to overcome key challenges they have faced as a result of the recession.
- More than 600 volunteers across nine major U.S. cities have committed to long-term relationships with entrepreneurs as Mentors and Advisors.
- In 2012, CEO completed the New York Metropolitan Area pilot of a new mentoring program for high-growth small businesses in underserved communities in partnership with UBS Wealth Management Americas. Leveraging the unique assets and infrastructure of UBS, the program provides its participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to support business expansion and job growth.
Clinton Foundation in Haiti
The Clinton Foundation has been actively engaged in Haiti since 2009, focusing on private sector investment and job creation in order to create long-term, sustainable economic development. After the devastating earthquake in 2010, President Clinton formed the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund and raised $16.4 million from individual donors for immediate earthquake relief efforts. Since 2010, the Clinton Foundation has spent a total of $28 million in Haiti, including relief funds as well as projects focused on restoring Haiti's communities, sustainable development, and capacity building. The Clinton Foundation has now refocused its efforts in Haiti from emergency planning, putting emphasis on private sector investment and job creation as well as capacity building and education. In 2012, the Clinton Foundation concentrated on the four priority sectors of energy, tourism, agriculture, and apparel/manufacturing, working to bring new investors, develop and support local organizations and business and improve Haiti’s business environment to facilitate economic growth.
2012 Clinton Foundation in Haiti Highlights:
- President Clinton hosted targeted investor missions in energy, tourism and apparel/manufacturing, bringing high-level delegations to Haiti to discover the country’s potential and explore opportunities for investment. The Clinton Foundation facilitated high level visits to Haiti from over 85 leaders in international business and philanthropy to expand investment opportunity in Haiti.
- The Clinton Foundation provided $500,000 to support agriculture and green technology initiatives throughout the country, working on projects that support reforestation, improve agriculture methods, develop new products, and train Haiti’s energy students and professionals.
- The Clinton Foundation is providing support and technical assistance to non-profit and social business partners in Haiti to support capacity building and provide access to training, financing, and new markets. This year, the Clinton Foundation also provided pro-bono support and capacity building to the Center for Investment Facilitation.
- Working with corporate foundation partners, the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund allocated over $1 million to school construction and education programming while continuing its commitment to work with the Government of Haiti to support their Back to School Initiative.
- The Clinton Foundation signed an MOU with the Qatar Haiti Fund and the
Government of Haiti for $5 million to provide housing to communities affected by
the 2010 earthquake.
The Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative
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