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Start Date & Time
May 28, 2009
11:30 AM
GMT -3.5
End Date & Time
May 28, 2009
1:30
PM
GMT -3.5
Location
Mile One Centre
Downtown
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Event Cost
$99
Event URL
http://www.powerwithin.com/p...
RSVP Info
Name: Www.powerwithin.com
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Education
Peace & Conflict
Globalization
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William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States in 1992, and again in 1996, the first Democratic president to be awarded a second
term in six decades. Under his leadership,the United States enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S.
history. His administration resulted in moving the nation from record deficits to record surpluses; the creation of over 22 million jobs; low levels of unemployment,
poverty and crime; and the highest home ownership and college enrollment rates in history.
After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in
the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.
Upon moving his offices to Harlem in 2002, he launched the Foundation’s first program to help local small business owners succeed. Since then, this
initiative has evolved into the Clinton Economic Opportunity Initiative, which is helping individuals and families succeed and small businesses grow. Also
in 2002, at the World AIDS Conference in Barcelona, President Clinton started the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) to assist developing countries in implementing
large-scale, integrated care, treatment and prevention programs that will turn the tide on the epidemic. Today, 1.4 million people living with
HIV/AIDS are accessing lifesaving treatment because of CHAI.
After undergoing heart surgery in 2004, President Clinton joined forces with the American Heart Association to
combat the rise in childhood obesity in 2005. Later that year, he hosted the inaugural meeting of the Clinton
Global Initiative (CGI), which brings together world leaders from government, business, and nonprofit sectors to
devise solutions to pressing problems.
In 2006, he launched the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) with the mission of applying the Foundation's businessoriented
approach to the fight against climate change in practical, measurable and significant ways. In
addition, the Foundation partnered with the Hunter Foundation to launch the Clinton Hunter Development
Initiative to catalyze sustainable social and economic growth and development in Africa. Today, CHDI works
specifically in Rwanda and Malawi.
Building on this successful approach, President Clinton and Frank Giustra established the Clinton Giustra
Sustainable Growth Initiative in 2007 as an innovative partnership between the Clinton Foundation, the private
sector, governments, local communities, and other NGOs to increase the scope, scale, impact, and sustainability
of social and economic development efforts in countries where natural resource industries are an important part
of the economy. Ultimately CGSGI is an effort to transform the way businesses do business in the developing world.
In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton has joined with former President George H.W. Bush three
times – after the 2004 tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Ike in 2008 – to help
raise money for recovery efforts. He also served as the U.N. Envoy for Tsunami Recovery to help people
“build back better.”
President Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He and his wife Secretary Hillary
Rodham Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and live in Chappaqua, New York |
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