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Policy Action Groups | Special Initiatives Cross Sectoral Deliberation | Public Engagement SPECIAL INITIATIVES |
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Policy Action Groups | Special Initiatives Cross Sectoral Deliberation | Public Engagement SPECIAL INITIATIVES |
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Special Initiatives are comprised of projects undertaken by various Co-Chairs and Commissioners on a range of topics and geographic regions. Some are building global coalitions while others are designed to develop innovative ideas and best practices in meeting critical global challenges. The following Special Initiatives are currently under development:
International
Interfaith Investment Group (3IG) - with Commissioner
Martin Palmer, The Alliance for Religion and Conservation (ARC) and
representatives of religious communities within the eleven major faith
traditions, who agreed to form the International Interfaith Investment
Group (3IG) designed to promote faith compliant investing among the
major faith traditions. This project was developed in an active collaboration
with Citigroup, the C.S. Mott Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, the
Pilkington Trust, State of the World Forum, and major religious institutions
to develop common socially and environmentally sensitive guidelines
for religious institutional investment. Two meetings of the money
managers for the participating religious groups, led by the Buddhist,
Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Druze and Zoroastrian organisations,
were convened.
The first meeting of the official Steering Committee took place on
April 12, 2002 in London where a small group of Advisors, comprised
of the lead faith communities, met to prepare for a larger meeting
in June. On
June 18-20, 2002, a second conference at the Council on Foreign Relations
in New York was
organized exclusively
for faith leaders who manage funds for faith communities, investment
specialists, and environmental professionals
to formally establish the
International Interfaith Investment Group
after
many years of ongoing development and planning. The conference moved
through a series of presentations and discussions and adopted a formal
agreement to establish the 3IG; appointed a Continuing Committee that
ARC and its partnering organizations serviced; designed the necessary
legal and financial structures; and continued to discuss new potential
members.
Access
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partnership between Hewlett Packard, the Hewlett Foundation, Center
for Global Development, Klaus Schwab Foundation, Medley Global Advisors,
and State of the World Forum. Working for donors, in consultation
with a number of highly respected international development research
and grant-making organizations, this group seeks to explore the feasibility
of a large scale social marketing, fundraising, and project finance/grant-matching
initiative. This social venture enterprise was designed to match private
voluntary donations and/or investments coming from civil society,
the corporate sector and faith communities with small and medium scale
sustainable development projects proposed by reputable, pre-screened
non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), community-based organizations
(CBO’s), private voluntary organizations (PVO’s), faith-based
organizations (FBO’s), businesses and entrepreneurs, as well
as local government agencies throughout the developing world. Global
Giving was established for the purpose of raising billions of dollars
annually, through private investments and charitable contributions,
with the goal of significantly alleviating hunger, illiteracy, preventable
disease, environmental degradation and poverty writ large for the
world’s poorest communities. Access was organized under the auspices
of an international consortium of highly respected civil society,
private sector and faith-based organizations working together as an
operating alliance, and seeks to achieve its goals and objectives
by mobilizing the commitment and directing the resources of a broad-based
coalition of actors. The organizers are continuing to conduct a series
of consultations throughout Europe and North America to explore the
efficacy of this proposal, with the intent of forming a community
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