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?? REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: CGI 2025 Annual Meeting! Join us as we mark 20 years of action at this year's CGI Annual Meeting – September 24-25 in New York City. We're at a pivotal moment — the issues we face are unprecedented, but so is our collective power to address them. The CGI community brings together diverse voices, ideas, and resources across sectors to drive global impact. ?? Early access registration is now available with special rates! Secure your spot today → https://lnkd.in/etetuKmW

There's never been a more important time to bring together a wide-range of global leaders committed to working together to tackle our greatest challenges. Save your spot for our 20th anniversary meeting! We're building the agenda now and, as always, scouring the planet for the best solutions, leaders and ideas that demonstrate a path forward on economic inclusion, climate resilience, health equity, humanitarian response, women and girls' equality, and more. If you know of a solution that can change the world that should be on the CGI agenda, comment below or reach out!

Always happy to be part of the team making the CGI 2025 Annual Meeting happen—this milestone year is set to be an unforgettable one. 20 Years! ?? If you’re passionate about driving change, this is the place to be. Early access registration is now open—don’t miss your chance to join us in NYC this September! ?? Register now: https://lnkd.in/etetuKmW

???ICYMI: Our partners at Tarsadia Foundation just released their annual impact report!? ? With their support, we’ve expanded our CGI Greenhouse program that helps dozens of entrepreneurs to learn, network, and incubate their biggest ideas for social impact.? ? Read their full report???

In honor of World Water Day, we’re highlighting five organizations working from campuses to coastlines to fight the global water crisis, cut down on plastic waste, and help communities build a more sustainable future: Didómi Bottle CleanHub Sungai Watch The WASH Foundation Safe Water Network SWIPE ?? to see how they’re making waves!

Communities around the world are facing worsening challenges due to climate change — and women are increasingly on the front lines. According to the United Nations,?women and girls are disproportionately impacted by natural disasters, increased temperatures, food insecurity, and other effects of climate change, which can lead to poor maternal health outcomes, higher rates of conflict-related sexual violence, loss of wages, and lack of access to job opportunities. From building sustainable agriculture programs to unlocking new funding for clean energy, several women-led organizations in the CGI community are driving impactful climate solutions that center women and girls on the front lines. → World Jewish Relief → Lambaye Women Project (LWP) → Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance → OK Kit → The Ashley Lashley Foundation → SEWA → ReMake → MSI Reproductive Choices UK and Blue Ventures https://lnkd.in/e9K_FDmj

The New York Times: Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life. At #CGI2022, Dr. David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc's nonprofit, Every Cure, committed to create an open-source database of drug treatments for rare diseases. This week, the New York Times reported on the success of his research, and how drug repurposing through machine learning is delivering lifesaving treatments to the most vulnerable patients. https://lnkd.in/dFti6sKa

Week 2 of #CSW69 is in full swing! Thrilled to have joined Clinton Global Initiative for a roundtable on the need to elevate women in humanitarian leadership, where our partners Shaza Elmahdi from #Sudan & Anzhelika Bielova from #Ukraine spoke about their frontline work and why innovative partnerships with private sector actors are key to scaling their impact. #WPHFatCSW69

Today, I was grateful to participate virtually to our joint event "No Child Left a Bride: Successes & Setbacks in the Global Effort to End Child Marriage", during #CSW69 week two. It was critical to listen to these inspiring voices in the face of backlash to gender equality and girls' rights. ? Here some key highlights from this powerful conversation: ? ?? Isata Mahoi from the Government of Sierra?Leone reinforced their commitment and leadership standing with girls, showing once more the importance of political will to end child marriage.? ?? Fraidy Reiss?powerfully shared her experience?and her motivation to create?Unchained At Last?to end forced marriage and child marriage in the US, shone a light on the extent of child marriage in the country, and stressed on the importance of civil society cooperation through the National Coalition to End Child Marriage. We cannot end the challenges girls face without ending child marriage.? ?? S. Mona Sinha?from?Equality Now?flagged the importance of comprehensive legal frameworks, of dismantling social norms, and of investments in girls' education and SRHR, as well as funding specifically grassroot movements. Progress is not linear, we have seen progress, but we have also seen significant backlash. Ending child marriage is not just a goal, it is a necessity.? ?? Sarah Hendriks from?UN Women highlighted the need to invest in multi-stakeholder and holistic approaches, centre children and adolescents' voices and their leadership, strengthen grassroots women's movements and address poverty.? ?? Saba Lishan?from the?African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) Forum?stressed that it is crucial that we work on the intersection of rights, investing in tracking progress and how governments are delivering on multi-sectoral action to end child marriage. We need to address the slow pace of progress and the fact that girls are facing multiple crises. ?? Chelsea Clinton?representing the?Clinton Global Initiative?reiterated her commitment to ending child marriage in the US and globally, recognising that we are only going to be more vulnerable if we don't realise how interconnected we are. She acknowledged the difficult and precarious moment we are in, and reminded us of Coretta Scott King's teachings that "progress needs to be protected and defended while we look to advance it in every generation".? ?? Maria?Jiménez??from the Government of the Dominican Republic closed the panel by emphasising that from a global perspective child marriage is not only a harmful practice, but it is a human rights violation and an obstacle to achieving gender equality.? ? Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, Unchained At Last, Clinton Global Initiative, Chelsea Clinton, Equality Now, NGO Committee on the Status of Women (NGO CSW/NY), UN Women, African Child Policy Forum (ACPF),?Government of Sierra Leone and the Dominican Republic ? #DearFutureMe #EndChildMarriage #CSW69