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Stories of Impact

Read how we're making an impact around the world

  1. Young Delegates Turn to the UN

    Area of Involvement: UN-US Relations

    Ask Generation Y (20-somethings) to name one reason they get involved with international causes and likely, you will receive a host of varying but significant responses.  Specifically though, ask Model UN students and this will be their answer: “So that I can be an ethical leader in a global community.” 

  2. Students Investigate Intersection of Poverty, Climate Change

    Area of Involvement: Climate & Energy

    We no longer live in a world where global issues are isolated from one another. All one has to do is take a look at the eight Millennium Development Goals to realize that it’s impossible to achieve one goal without addressing another. For example, how can we reduce child mortality (goal 3) without combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (goal 6) given that a child in Africa dies every 30 seconds from malaria? This fall students from more than 90 countries are addressing the reality of the world we live in and expanding their global mindset to tackle the intersection of poverty and climate change.

     

  3. The mHealth Moment: Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award Spotlights mHealth

    Area of Involvement: Technology

    Could a mobile phone be a key tool in the prevention of disease outbreaks and epidemics? Judges on the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards panel believe so: DataDyne.org, a core partner in the United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation’s mHealth (mobile health) program, won the prestigious award in the Healthcare IT category.

  4. Largest Investor Group Ever Calls for Strong Climate Change Agreement

    Area of Involvement: Climate & Energy

    Investors are sounding the alarm on climate change. On September 16, 2009, the world’s largest global investors issued a joint call for strong action to reduce global warming pollution and catalyze massive global investments in low-carbon technologies. Signed by 181 investors collectively managing more than $13 trillion in assets, the statement is the most significant investor pronouncement on climate change in world history.

  5. Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula to Preserve World Heritage

    Area of Involvement: Sustainable Development

    Meet Lizbeth Pool Uc, co-founder of Flor de Tajonal, a women’s cooperative in the small town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mexico that makes and sells honey and honey products.  For generations, Lizbeth’s family has been keeping bees, one of the oldest economic activities of the Yucatan’s Mayan people and an important part of their ceremonial life.   

  6. Youth Leaders Activate on Climate Change at Summit

    Area of Involvement: Climate & Energy

    The Youth Leadership Summit is a culmination of the UN Foundation’s Global Debates program which engages 2,000 international high schools in climate change debates and action.  Winners of this program are brought to New York City and the United Nations for three days of knowledge-exchange, skill-building and service.   

  7. Experts Bridge Chasm Between Technology and Development

    Area of Involvement: Technology

    Around the world, 5.7 billion people live in countries where infrastructure, healthcare, and social services are often unreliable or unavailable. Two billion people around the world lack access to even basic computing equipment. But the growing availability of low-cost, rugged technology is creating an important new window for technology-based solutions to humanitarian challenges. 

  8. The Galapagos Islands - Biodiversity on the Brink

    Area of Involvement: Sustainable Development

    Many of us first read about the Galápagos Islands in a high school biology text book.  Charles Darwin's famous theory of evolution was inspired by his visit to one of the largest, most complex, most diverse, and best preserved ocean archipelagos on earth.  Because of its outstanding and universal value, the Galápagos Islands were fittingly designated as our planet's first World Heritage site in 1978. 

  9. NYC Students Get Environmentally Engaged

    Area of Involvement: Climate & Energy

    Ever wonder if an engine could run on algae -- and if so, whether or not you could build it? Or how about that local, toxic, abandoned plot of land that you wish could be sustainably restored? Well, wonder no more, because a group of 100 New York City Public High School Students have figured out new, creative ways to address these critical environmental issues and more.

  10. Delivering Hope to Refugees in Uganda

    Area of Involvement: Children’s Health

    Malaria is the number one killer of refugees in Africa.  For people who have lost so much, a bed net can mean life or death.  I traveled to Uganda with the UN High Commission on Refugees to help deliver some of the 600,000 bed nets we have pledged to cover the most vulnerable of the camps.

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