Subject: Clinton Foundation News & Guidance
From: Clinton Foundation Press Office <[email-masked]>
To: Clinton Foundation Press Office <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:57:56 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you all for your interest in the work of the Clinton Foundation and continuing to support our efforts around the world.

We wanted to give you some updates on recent events, Foundation work, and announcements in the news this week.

Clinton Health Matters Initiative announces progress in Northeast Florida
Last Friday, the Clinton Health Matters Initiative announced progress with their Northeast Florida Blueprint for Action to decrease rates of preventable disease in the region. Read the front page story in The Florida Times-Union.<http://jacksonville.com/news/health-and-fitness/2015-11-20/story/bill-clinton-urges-jacksonville-group-focus-health-threats>

"The Clinton Health Matters Initiative, the PGA Tour and The Players Championship partnered in January 2013 to create and implement an action plan to transform health in five Northeast Florida counties: Duval, Clay, Nassau, Baker and St. Johns."

"The CHMI has focused on six American communities....Local stakeholders, about 150 in each community, collaborate to set priorities in each region and create a five-year plan to improve key health indicators."

"The blueprint for Northeast Florida includes increasing pedestrian and bicyclist safety, identifying resources to help move homeless children into housing, supporting education and employment for young black men, increasing physical activity and a host of other initiatives."

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Also read stories and watch clips here: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/local/2015/11/20/bill-clinton-health-paris-ponte-vedra/76116120/
and here:
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/news/local/president-bill-clinton-discusses-health-issues-par/npR8k/

President Clinton visits the work of the Clinton Foundation and CGI commitments in Latin America
Just a few weeks ago, President Clinton led a group of Foundation supporters to Latin America, where they saw firsthand the work of the Clinton Foundation and CGI commitments in El Salvador, Panama, and Peru. Devex wrote about the visit<https://www.devex.com/news/bill-clinton-to-cop21-make-sure-you-have-more-winners-than-losers-87287> to a completed windfarm in Panama, which was developed as a CGI Commitment to Action by InterEnergy. The piece also discusses the Clinton Foundation's work to mitigate the effects of climate change.

"There, he visited the wind turbines resulting from a Clinton Global Initiative commitment to action by InterEnergy. As part of his Clinton Foundation Instagram takeover, he posted a video with an aerial view: "Pretty soon, these wind turbines will start turning and power a clean future for the country. - BC"

"He said he wants to convince every country in Central America and the Caribbean to develop a plan to transition to 100 percent self-sufficient clean energy. He cited this goal as the motivation for the Clinton Foundation partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute and Carbon War Room - two organizations that promote business solutions to transform global energy."

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Read other stories about the Latin America trip: https://www.devex.com/news/carlos-slim-on-how-to-scale-what-works-in-development-87288

See pictures from the trip: https://www.instagram.com/clintonfoundation/?hl=en

CGI U student on the connection between lack of toilets and sexual assault
In honor of World Toilet Day, CGI U student Sachi Shah penned a piece for takepart<http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/11/19/world-toilet-day-oped> that discusses how access to sanitation facilities - toilets, showers, etc. - can prevent sexual assault and improve public health.

"Through the Clinton Global Initiative University, which President Bill Clinton launched to engage the next generation of leaders, I've made a commitment to work alongside communities in India to address the issues of sexual violence and poor sanitation. By emphasizing the intrinsic link between them, my CGI U Commitment to Action-Mahila Sanasar (Women's Safe Haven)-seeks to create safe sanitation facilities, complete with a toilet, a bathing area, and a room for child care. The facilities will also offer counseling and media-based education on relevant health issues for women and children."

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President Clinton on the achievements of Partners in Health
As part of the annual Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, President Clinton presented a lifetime achievement award to Partners in Health cofounder Paul Farmer. President Clinton discussed Dr. Farmer's achievements and the lifesaving work he does with the Clinton Foundation. You can read the Forbes story online here<http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2015/11/24/buffett-gates-clinton-and-paul-farmer-share-stories-on-philanthropy/> and find it on newsstands now.

"During my second term as President, I spent a lot of late nights reading in my office after Hillary had gone to bed. One night I finished the book Mountains Beyond Mountains, about Paul Farmer, and I called up my daughter, who was still awake at Stanford three time zones away. "Chelsea, you know anything about Paul Farmer?" I asked her. "Oh Dad, he's a saint," she told me. Since then I have been lucky to work with Paul in Rwanda, Haiti, Liberia and elsewhere. There are so many people all around the world whose lives he has saved. And there are countless others whose lives he has touched, including mine."

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Marcus Samuelsson on how chefs are fighting global food insecurity
Chef Marcus Samuelsson authored a piece for Huffington Post<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcus-samuelsson/cooking-up-solutions-to-_b_8642738.html> about participating in a CGI Annual Meeting session on food insecurity and the role chefs can play in fighting global hunger.

"Lately I've been thinking about a panel discussion that I joined a few months ago at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, where we discussed the role that chefs and others play in the face of global poverty and hunger. I walked away inspired by the forward-looking ways that members of the CGI community are fighting food insecurity."

Alliance for a Healthier Generation partners with Urban School Food Alliance
An article in The Washington Post<https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-venerable-sporks-days-are-numbered-as-school-cafeterias-move-on/2015/11/24/36cc1044-92cf-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html> discusses how the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Urban School Food Alliance are joining forces to help provide compostable cutlery and healthier school food options.

"To further expand its buying power, the group joined with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a 10-year-old nonprofit organization that works with 5,000 U.S. school districts to reduce childhood obesity."

"We have an extraordinary reach," said Howell Wechsler, chief executive of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, which the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation created. "We work with thousands and thousands of school districts, and many of them are small and rural and would benefit enormously by getting in with the big fellows, the big districts that have huge purchasing power."

"In addition to negotiating favorable pricing on food and supplies, Wechsler said the two groups will try to pressure food manufacturers to reformulate their recipes to create healthier school food options. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation already has a track record in that area - the group persuaded the American Beverage Association to remove most full-calorie soft drinks from schools and to replace beverages in school vending machines and cafeterias with lower-calorie or no-calorie versions."

In Case You Missed It:

*         Meet the farmer<https://www.clintonfoundation.org/blog/2015/11/20/meet-farmer-president-clinton-featured-instagram> that President Clinton featured on Instagram during the Latin America trip.

*         Last week, the first ready-to-use, needle-free naloxone nasal spray called "NARCAN Nasal Spray" was approved by the FDA to help stop or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose from prescription drugs. The Clinton Health Matters Initiative is helping to make this lifesaving drug widely available<https://www.facebook.com/ClintonFoundation/posts/878556248932484>.

*         The Alliance for a Healthier Generation's CEO<https://www.facebook.com/ClintonFoundation/posts/877143522407090> Dr. Howell Wechsler commented on new CDC data which shows that childhood obesity rates have leveled off in recent years. Dr. Wechsler urges that we "double down on our efforts to go beyond flattening the rates so that we actually start decreasing childhood obesity..."

*         See how a CGI commitment is improving education<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXZadjZCEPI&feature=youtu.be> in cocoa-growing communities in the Ivory Coast.