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The Hill
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hill
Is world cooperation still possible? Global Citizen wants to prove so — with some help from FIFA
NEW YORK (AP) — Inspiring the next generation of advocates and identifying unlikely funding partners has grown more important for humanitarians amid USAID's dismantling and wealthy nations' declining support. They might then welcome that Global Citizen is going, well, even more global. As foreign aid cuts upend international cooperation, the anti-poverty organization is taking its flagship summit to new populations worldwide and leveraging a recent FIFA partnership to raise more money for education. The expanded footprint and soccer's high-powered governing body are key to meeting Global Citizen's goal of mobilizing 50 million people by 2029. Global Citizen Founder Hugh Evans acknowledged Wednesday that people feel hopeless. But he said there's 'amazing cause for optimism' in 'this consensus that we should put service above self.' 'That's why, over the next 18 months, we're going to five continents with Global Citizen,' Evans told The Associated Press Wednesday at Global Citizen NOW. 'Because we need to activate youth all around the world right now at this critical, important time to uphold that basic social contract.' The annual New York City conference kicked off the nonprofit's momentous year by leaning on a tried-and-true strategy honed since its 2008 founding: rallying entertainers, politicians and business leaders around common solutions to urgent world problems. The one-day summit featured performances from English singer James Blake, Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean and Brazilian musician Seu Jorge as well as appeals from actors Hugh Grant, Laverne Cox and Rachel Brosnahan. But much has changed since last spring's two-day event. The Trump administration has cut most U.S. aid and development work abroad, reduced funding to several United Nations agencies assisting vulnerable communities and slashed emergency programs helping keep millions alive in impoverished countries. The tumultuous global development landscape didn't dampen speakers' insistence that the public, private and philanthropic sectors can still work together. To further that point, Global Citizen is bringing summits to Detroit, Belém, Seville and Johannesburg. 'International cooperation — the global town hall, support for our global village — is being challenged on very deep principles and values,' U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told Bill Nye onstage. 'We need to stand up and say, 'This doesn't work.' We need to lean into that and not lean back.' Gargee Ghosh, the president of global policy and advocacy at the Gates Foundation, said the world is experiencing challenges to international cooperation never before seen in the charity's 25-year history. It's therefore important, she argued, to fund the most impactful interventions — such as the global vaccine alliance Gavi. 'We've only ever lived in a world of increasing cooperation, increasing focus on solidarity and shared prosperity. And that has led us to do amazing things,' Ghosh said. 'This is money well spent.' The withdrawal of some major donor countries — the United States, Germany and France, among others — may just require that more private partners to step up, according to some panelists. Global Citizen's latest partnership exemplified the creative coalition building they want to foster. FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced the launch of the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which will raise $100 million for grassroots organizations improving access to education and advancing life skills through soccer. Sierra Leone Chief Minister David Moinina Sengeh, 39, pointed to the fund as proof that Global Citizen spurs more than 'just talk.' 'When FIFA engages with a minister of planning and myself and other actors to say, 'How do we launch a global education fund driven by sports?' — that's very much what the world is about,' he said. The fund will receive a dollar from every ticket sold for this summer's Club World Cup, a 32-team international soccer tournament hosted across 11 American cities. Proceeds from The Weeknd's 2025 stadium tour will also be donated, as will point-of-sale contributions from ecommerce platform Shift4's network of more than 200,000 merchants. The move builds on last September's partnership in which Global Citizen supporters get tickets to matches by taking action on humanitarian issues. Evans said Global Citizen wanted to take advantage of one of the world's biggest stages through this summer's matches and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 'We knew that over the next two years we're going to have the biggest platforms on the planet,' he said. 'They're going to reach more people than the Olympics, more people than the Super Bowl. So how do you channel that platform for good?' ___ Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and non-profits receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP's philanthropy coverage, visit
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Is world cooperation still possible? Global Citizen wants to prove so -- with some help from FIFA
NEW YORK (AP) — Inspiring the next generation of advocates and identifying unlikely funding partners has grown more important for humanitarians amid USAID's dismantling and wealthy nations' declining support. They might then welcome that Global Citizen is going, well, even more global. As foreign aid cuts upend international cooperation, the anti-poverty organization is taking its flagship summit to new populations worldwide and leveraging a recent FIFA partnership to raise more money for education. The expanded footprint and soccer's high-powered governing body are key to meeting Global Citizen's goal of mobilizing 50 million people by 2029. Global Citizen Founder Hugh Evans acknowledged Wednesday that people feel hopeless. But he said there's 'amazing cause for optimism' in 'this consensus that we should put service above self.' 'That's why, over the next 18 months, we're going to five continents with Global Citizen," Evans told The Associated Press Wednesday at Global Citizen NOW. "Because we need to activate youth all around the world right now at this critical, important time to uphold that basic social contract.' The annual New York City conference kicked off the nonprofit's momentous year by leaning on a tried-and-true strategy honed since its 2008 founding: rallying entertainers, politicians and business leaders around common solutions to urgent world problems. The one-day summit featured performances from English singer James Blake, Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean and Brazilian musician Seu Jorge as well as appeals from actors Hugh Grant, Laverne Cox and Rachel Brosnahan. But much has changed since last spring's two-day event. The Trump administration has cut most U.S. aid and development work abroad, reduced funding to several United Nations agencies assisting vulnerable communities and slashed emergency programs helping keep millions alive in impoverished countries. The tumultuous global development landscape didn't dampen speakers' insistence that the public, private and philanthropic sectors can still work together. To further that point, Global Citizen is bringing summits to Detroit, Belém, Seville and Johannesburg. 'International cooperation -- the global town hall, support for our global village -- is being challenged on very deep principles and values,' U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told Bill Nye onstage. 'We need to stand up and say, 'This doesn't work.' We need to lean into that and not lean back.' Gargee Ghosh, the president of global policy and advocacy at the Gates Foundation, said the world is experiencing challenges to international cooperation never before seen in the charity's 25-year history. It's therefore important, she argued, to fund the most impactful interventions — such as the global vaccine alliance Gavi. 'We've only ever lived in a world of increasing cooperation, increasing focus on solidarity and shared prosperity. And that has led us to do amazing things,' Ghosh said. 'This is money well spent.' The withdrawal of some major donor countries — the United States, Germany and France, among others — may just require that more private partners to step up, according to some panelists. Global Citizen's latest partnership exemplified the creative coalition building they want to foster. FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced the launch of the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which will raise $100 million for grassroots organizations improving access to education and advancing life skills through soccer. Sierra Leone Chief Minister David Moinina Sengeh, 39, pointed to the fund as proof that Global Citizen spurs more than 'just talk.' 'When FIFA engages with a minister of planning and myself and other actors to say, 'How do we launch a global education fund driven by sports?' — that's very much what the world is about,' he said. The fund will receive a dollar from every ticket sold for this summer's Club World Cup, a 32-team international soccer tournament hosted across 11 American cities. Proceeds from The Weeknd's 2025 stadium tour will also be donated, as will point-of-sale contributions from ecommerce platform Shift4's network of more than 200,000 merchants. The move builds on last September's partnership in which Global Citizen supporters get tickets to matches by taking action on humanitarian issues. Evans said Global Citizen wanted to take advantage of one of the world's biggest stages through this summer's matches and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 'We knew that over the next two years we're going to have the biggest platforms on the planet," he said. "They're going to reach more people than the Olympics, more people than the Super Bowl. So how do you channel that platform for good?' ___ Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and non-profits receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP's philanthropy coverage, visit
Associated Press
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Is world cooperation still possible? Global Citizen wants to prove so -- with some help from FIFA
NEW YORK (AP) — Inspiring the next generation of advocates and identifying unlikely funding partners has grown more important for humanitarians amid USAID's dismantling and wealthy nations' declining support. They might then welcome that Global Citizen is going, well, even more global. As foreign aid cuts upend international cooperation, the anti-poverty organization is taking its flagship summit to new populations worldwide and leveraging a recent FIFA partnership to raise more money for education. The expanded footprint and soccer's high-powered governing body are key to meeting Global Citizen's goal of mobilizing 50 million people by 2029. Global Citizen Founder Hugh Evans acknowledged Wednesday that people feel hopeless. But he said there's 'amazing cause for optimism' in 'this consensus that we should put service above self.' 'That's why, over the next 18 months, we're going to five continents with Global Citizen,' Evans told The Associated Press Wednesday at Global Citizen NOW. 'Because we need to activate youth all around the world right now at this critical, important time to uphold that basic social contract.' The annual New York City conference kicked off the nonprofit's momentous year by leaning on a tried-and-true strategy honed since its 2008 founding: rallying entertainers, politicians and business leaders around common solutions to urgent world problems. The one-day summit featured performances from English singer James Blake, Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean and Brazilian musician Seu Jorge as well as appeals from actors Hugh Grant, Laverne Cox and Rachel Brosnahan. But much has changed since last spring's two-day event. The Trump administration has cut most U.S. aid and development work abroad, reduced funding to several United Nations agencies assisting vulnerable communities and slashed emergency programs helping keep millions alive in impoverished countries. The tumultuous global development landscape didn't dampen speakers' insistence that the public, private and philanthropic sectors can still work together. To further that point, Global Citizen is bringing summits to Detroit, Belém, Seville and Johannesburg. 'International cooperation -- the global town hall, support for our global village -- is being challenged on very deep principles and values,' U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told Bill Nye onstage. 'We need to stand up and say, 'This doesn't work.' We need to lean into that and not lean back.' Gargee Ghosh, the president of global policy and advocacy at the Gates Foundation, said the world is experiencing challenges to international cooperation never before seen in the charity's 25-year history. It's therefore important, she argued, to fund the most impactful interventions — such as the global vaccine alliance Gavi. 'We've only ever lived in a world of increasing cooperation, increasing focus on solidarity and shared prosperity. And that has led us to do amazing things,' Ghosh said. 'This is money well spent.' The withdrawal of some major donor countries — the United States, Germany and France, among others — may just require that more private partners to step up, according to some panelists. Global Citizen's latest partnership exemplified the creative coalition building they want to foster. FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced the launch of the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which will raise $100 million for grassroots organizations improving access to education and advancing life skills through soccer. Sierra Leone Chief Minister David Moinina Sengeh, 39, pointed to the fund as proof that Global Citizen spurs more than 'just talk.' 'When FIFA engages with a minister of planning and myself and other actors to say, 'How do we launch a global education fund driven by sports?' — that's very much what the world is about,' he said. The fund will receive a dollar from every ticket sold for this summer's Club World Cup, a 32-team international soccer tournament hosted across 11 American cities. Proceeds from The Weeknd's 2025 stadium tour will also be donated, as will point-of-sale contributions from ecommerce platform Shift4's network of more than 200,000 merchants. The move builds on last September's partnership in which Global Citizen supporters get tickets to matches by taking action on humanitarian issues. Evans said Global Citizen wanted to take advantage of one of the world's biggest stages through this summer's matches and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 'We knew that over the next two years we're going to have the biggest platforms on the planet,' he said. 'They're going to reach more people than the Olympics, more people than the Super Bowl. So how do you channel that platform for good?' ___ Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and non-profits receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP's philanthropy coverage, visit
North Wales Live
28-04-2025
- Business
- North Wales Live
Decision looms on 'disappointing' plan to shut public toilets in three towns
Cost-cutting Denbighshire cabinet members will be tasked with closing public toilets in St Asaph, Rhuddlan, and Dyserth tomorrow (Tuesday). At a meeting at Denbighshire 's Ruthin County Hall HQ, councillors will debate the future of the toilets, following a review. Closing the toilets follows a draft local toilet strategy and savings proposal, which was discussed at a communities scrutiny committee meeting last month. Backbench Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd and Gwyddelwern councillor Hugh Evans criticised the plans. 'It's disappointing that it has come to this, isn't it, given the budget which Welsh Government allocated Denbighshire of about £260m, that they are unable to allocate something to protect the toilets and keep them open to the public,' said Cllr Evans. Sign up for the North Wales Live newsletter sent twice daily to your inbox. 'One or two members of the public have spoken to me and are disappointed and surprised. We are promoting tourism in Denbighshire, aren't we, and need to give a good message that public toilets are open.' If the plan is agreed, the council will upgrade public conveniences in Rhyl, Prestatyn, Denbigh, Ruthin, Llangollen and Corwen, where "cashless payment" systems will be used to charge customers. The funds will then be used to pay for "a mobile cleaning team". Denbighshire has applied for Welsh Government grants to fund the renovations. The council hope to redeploy any affected staff to avoid a risk of redundancy payments but the report adds: 'Redundancy costs would be zero if all staff are successfully redeployed, and the estimated range of potential redundancy costs runs from zero to £180,000.' The plans follow Denbighshire completing a needs assessment of its public toilets, which highlighted a need for public toilets in the six towns' facilities to be upgraded. But the assessment didn't regard St Asaph, Rhuddlan, or Dyserth as needing them. The report states: 'Given that this is a discretionary service, the council should cease to operate public conveniences in towns where it has been established that there is no identified need for public conveniences, i.e. St. Asaph, Rhuddlan, and Dyserth. 'Public conveniences in towns with an identified need should be upgraded to enable them to accept cashless payment so they can be unstaffed.' The council's consultation, the Local Toilet Interim Needs Assessment, ran from 22 July to 15 September 2024 and received 1,419 responses. In setting the 2024/25 budget a review of public conveniences was included as a 'Major Savings Proposal' with £200,000 removed from the public toilets' budget, reducing the budget to £70,000. That decision was largely based on an assumption that at least some public toilets would need to close, unless a way could be found to make the service fit the new budget. One council scheme involves offering shops £500 a year to provide toilets to the public. Public notices in your area
Korea Herald
11-04-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
2025 Sunhak Peace Prize Spotlights Champions of Global Change
Celebrating 10 years of honoring exceptional leadership in sustainability, global citizenship, and education SEOUL, South Korea, April 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sunhak Peace Prize Ceremony took place on Friday, April 11, at the Crystal Ballroom of Lotte Hotel World, Seoul, attended by over 750 international guests, including global leaders, former heads of state, and prominent civil society representatives. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Prize honored three distinguished leaders for their significant contributions in environmental sustainability, global citizenship, and educational innovation. Wanjira Mathai from Kenya was recognized for her outstanding environmental leadership, notably through the AFR100 initiative and the Green Belt Movement. Her dedicated efforts have contributed significantly to environmental restoration, with over 51 million trees planted to rehabilitate degraded landscapes across Africa. Hugh Evans from Australia, co-founder and CEO of Global Citizen, received the prize for his exceptional commitment to global citizenship. Through his leadership, Global Citizen mobilized over $43 billion, directly impacting the lives of more than 1.3 billion individuals worldwide by addressing poverty, health, education, and access to essential services. Patrick Awuah Jr., founder of Ashesi University in Ghana, was honored for transforming African higher education. His visionary leadership introduced innovative curricula emphasizing ethics, gender equality, critical thinking, and leadership. Ashesi University is now recognized as a pioneering institution, producing graduates equipped to lead positive social change across Africa and beyond. The Founders' Award was presented to former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan for his contributions to peaceful democratic transitions and good governance, and Samuel Radebe from South Africa for his dedication to interreligious harmony and community peace in Africa. Meanwhile, the awarding of the Founders' Award to Xanana Gusmão, Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, was postponed due to unavoidable circumstances. In his congratulatory remarks, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated, "On its 10th anniversary, the Sunhak Peace Prize continues to spotlight the vital contributions of unsung heroes to global peace and solidarity. I deeply commend the laureates for their inspiring dedication and extend heartfelt gratitude to Founder Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon for her visionary leadership and unwavering support of global peace efforts."
