Subject: Clinton Foundation News & Guidance
From: Clinton Foundation Press Office <[email-masked]>
To: Clinton Foundation Press Office <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 22:35:52 +0000

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

Refinery29 partners with CGI U for Mental Health Week
This week, Refinery29 announced<https://twitter.com/Refinery29/status/704754388150013954> its partnership with CGI to discuss the topic of mental health during the CGI U 2016 meeting. The partnership includes a co-hosted breakout session moderated by their Health & Wellness Director, Anna Maltby, which will be covered on Refinery29 as part of a larger Mental Health Week feature. Content will include profiles on CGI U participants as well as articles on key topics covered during the session.

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We’ve teamed up with @ClintonGlobal<https://twitter.com/ClintonGlobal> to fight the stigmas around mental health at the 2016 @CGIU<https://twitter.com/CGIU> meeting: http://bit.ly/1REg4BG <https://t.co/FWwaVIiJlc>  #CGIU<https://twitter.com/hashtag/CGIU?src=hash>

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How CHMI is working to combat the prescription opioid epidemic
The Spring Issue of the Magazine for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health<http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2016/spring/forum/the-exchange-a-different-lens/index.html> includes a Q&A with Clinton Health Matters Initiative CEO Rain Henderson. Rain discusses the prescription opioid epidemic and ways to reduce opioid-related tragedies.

“We know that substance misuse is a huge and growing epidemic, and we see it just undercutting people’s economic prosperity, their mental health and well-being, and the ability for families to thrive. So we were watching the trends and seeing the data, and then simultaneously President Clinton knew three young people (whom he’d known since they were very small) who suffered from accidental overdose. It compelled us to look much more closely at the issue.”

Virtual reality films and “changing hearts and minds”
A piece in WIRED<http://www.wired.com/2016/03/virtual-reality-social-change-fundraising/> discusses how virtual reality technology can be a tool for charities to tell stories and change hearts and minds. The piece uses the Clinton Global Initiative’s “Inside Impact: East Africa<https://www.facebook.com/clintonglobalinitiative/videos/10153250212525318/>” virtual reality film as an example and includes a video<https://vimeo.com/140688208> of President Clinton introducing it at the 2015 CGI Annual Meeting.

“And last year the Clinton Foundation produced a VR series with Felix & Paul Studios that followed President Clinton visiting Africa on behalf of the Clinton Global Initiative.

According to Bryan Mochizuki, a CGI marketing director who was behind the organization’s use of VR, the reaction to the experience was unlike anything he’d ever seen from just showing photos, videos, or statistics. ‘Here you see the interweaving of an issue, a public that wants to take action but needs to be informed, and media,’ he says. ‘If you look at that formula with VR as the third piece, then VR has the highest ceiling in terms of how well people can actually understand an issue.’”

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Continuing Coverage of the CGI Commitment Announcement on Detroit Home Mortgages
The CGI commitment announcement in Detroit two weeks ago continues to gain coverage. This week, KOB4<http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s4063955.shtml>, Michigan Radio<http://michiganradio.org/post/detroit-mortgage-program-aims-fix-broken-system>, and Daily Detroit<http://www.dailydetroit.com/2016/02/29/new-second-mortgage-program-could-be-a-real-game-changer-for-detroit/> discussed how “The Detroit Home Mortgage initiative,” a new mortgage program, aims to increase homeownership opportunities in Detroit by offering new and much needed financing tools for homebuyers who are ready to buy a home, but lack the upfront capital to pay for necessary home repairs.

Daily Detroit: “Last week, Detroit’s Mayor Mike Duggan unveiled the Detroit Home Mortgage Initiative, a new program that could be a potential game changer…At the urging of Duggan, and with organizing support from the Obama administration’s Detroit Federal Working Group, Clinton Global Initiative, local banks, foundations, and nonprofits joined forces last summer to help solve Detroit’s appraisal gap problem.”

Read passed coverage of the announcement in the Associated Press<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article61010962.html>, The Atlantic’s CityLab<http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/02/detroit-home-mortgage-housing-market-appraisals-lending-clinton-global-initiative/463395/>, the Detroit Free Press<http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/02/18/new-program-aims-1000-mortgages-detroit/80563174/>, Crain’s Detroit Business<http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160218/NEWS/160219832/duggan-unveils-40-million-fund-to-help-detroit-homebuyers> , and Next City<https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/plan-fix-detroit-mortgages-homebuying-program-clinton-global>.

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Expanding CGI Commitment highlights LGBT-inclusion
An article in Money Market UK<http://www.money-marketuk.com/business-and-finance/inditex-and-burberry-join-business-coalition-pushing-for-lgbti-rights> describes how two international fashion brands – Burberry and Inditex – have joined the CGI commitment “Open For Business,” a coalition of businesses pushing to make LGBT inclusiveness the norm.

“Spain's Inditex and Burberry, which include well-known brands such as Zara, Bershka and Massimo, have signed up to the Open for Business coalition, a collection of companies advocating for global LGBTI inclusion and rights. The coalition was officially launched last September with announcements at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York with the belief that governments and lawmakers in some countries with homophobic laws may be more likely to be persuaded by arguments presented from multi-national corporates.”

Encouraging social entrepreneurship through the Hult Prize
Two separate pieces on the Huffington Post explain how the Hult Prize, which is awarded by President Clinton each year at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, is helping to nurturing social entrepreneurship among students around the world. The first piece discusses<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jaron-soh/finance-vs-social-enterpr_b_9335490.html> how the Hult Prize Challenge is encouraging London School of Economics students to pursuit careers in the social impact space.

“Beyond educating youths of the fallacy that the concepts of profit and charity are mutually exclusive, more so than ever, our education systems need to inculcate empathy and instill a much-needed social agency… The past fall was also the first time the US$1,000,000 Hult Prize Challenge was held at LSE. Held in partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative, the Hult Prize is a social impact competition that challenges university

Another piece in the Huffington Post<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bipul-saha/can-social-entrepreneursh_b_9329104.html> explains how the winners of the Hult Prize PAN India are working to address India’s “skill gap” by connecting career trainers to those who lack formal job training. Using this network, the winning team will then develop an ecosystem to provide jobs to those who have completed the training successfully.

“It is also the duty of individuals with sufficient resources to come forward and develop scalable businesses which can impart training and skill to India's labour force. This is exactly how the winners of the Hult Prize PAN India Initiative plan to provide meaningful employment opportunities to millions in India.”

In Case You Missed It:

·         The Thomson Reuters Foundation wrote a piece<http://news.trust.org/item/20160226145933-ly6r4/>, titled “It's time for women to take power in the global move toward clean energy,” spotlighting yesterday’s launch of the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Women in Island Energy Leadership Network.

·         Inside Philanthropy<http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/girls-women-grants-funding/2016/2/23/whats-the-clinton-foundation-doing-for-womens-empowerment.html> covered the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative Winter Meeting with two articles that provided in-depth looks at two issue-areas discussed during the meeting: women’s empowerment<http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/girls-women-grants-funding/2016/2/23/whats-the-clinton-foundation-doing-for-womens-empowerment.html> and LGBT-inclusion<http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/2/24/also-on-the-clinton-foundation-agenda-getting-business-behin.html> in the workplace.

·         Last week, Mashable<http://mashable.com/2016/02/18/how-to-talk-about-race-kids/#ss.jZE8DhZqT> used Too Small to Fail’s Twitter tips<https://twitter.com/2SmallToFail> as a resource for a piece about how to talk to kids about race.

·         The CGI Annual Meeting was included in the Biz Bash 2016 Top 100 Events in NYC<http://www.bizbash.com/clinton-global-initiative-annual-meeting-1-political-diplomatic-event/gallery/177280>.