Subject: Clinton Foundation News & Guidance 8/7/15
From: Clinton Foundation Press Office <[email-masked]>
To: Clinton Foundation Press Office <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 20:11:56 +0000

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

A recent article in Nonprofit Quarterly<https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/08/06/wall-street-journal-confuses-clinton-charities/> describes how the Clinton Foundation operates and the perils of misunderstanding philanthropy. It refutes a Wall Street Journal opinion piece in which the editors conflate the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit whose staff works on the ground around the world to implement its programs, with the Clinton Family Foundation, a private foundation and the vehicle through which the Clintons direct their personal money to charitable causes of their choice, including the Clinton Foundation.
"The errors in the WSJ editorial are indicative of how much misunderstanding there is in the media as well as the general public about how the nonprofit sector works from a tax and regulatory perspective. The editorial also demonstrates the potential for damage such ignorance may cause for the sector as well as for well-known donors."
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Similarly, Media Matters<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/06/wsj-and-bill-oreilly-conflate-two-clinton-chari/204809> provided clarity on the Clinton Foundation's role as a public charity.
A Wall Street Journal editorial conflated the public charity known as the Clinton Foundation with the private, personal Clinton Family Foundation in a misleading attack on Hillary Clinton's charitable giving -- and their misinformation made its way straight to Fox News primetime.
Donating to their own internationally-renowned public charity seems like a logical thing the Clintons would do -- the fact is much of the Clintons' contributions also went to a variety of other charities, through their private Family Foundation.
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Devex<https://www.devex.com/news/expanding-door-to-door-sales-in-the-developing-world-86643> wrote about the Foundation's trip to Haiti and how the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership is helping Haitian women entrepreneurs with the innovative Chakipi model.
CGE Partnership, which creates social enterprises through impact investing in the developing world, has three enterprise models: supply chain enterprise, training enterprise and distribution enterprise.
"It's just a very powerful model," Chuck Slaughter, the founder and CEO of Living Goods, told Devex. "It works everywhere. It crosses every political, geographic, economic, social context, with relatively little modification."
The Clinton Foundation has the clout to connect and convene diverse partners, coupled with a huge budget that is only growing.
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In addition to Nonprofit Quarterly, several philanthropy-centric news outlets have commended the Foundation and discussed our life changing work. Inside Philanthropy<http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/8/5/which-big-funders-are-investing-in-economic-growth-in-appala.html> wrote about economic growth in Appalachia:
At the latest Clinton Global Initiative, former President Bill Clinton announced the first-round investment closing of Appalachian Community Capital, with a lead investment of $3.45 million coming from [Appalachia Regional Commission].
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Patrick Welsh, who joined the Clinton Foundation's delegation trip to Africa, penned an op-ed<http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/08/01/welsh-mississippi-africa-share-opportunities/31003077/> about the Foundation's global, life-changing work and how it inspires him to make positive change in his home state of Mississippi.
The initiatives supported by the foundation alter the lives of individuals, communities, nations and the world in immeasurable, positive ways. Experiencing these actions first hand instilled a strong sense of pride in the former first family, the foundation supporters and the United States.
Seeing all the great changes taking place in Africa's developing nations inspired me, because we have the same potential here.
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Finally, a piece in Accounting Today<http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/audit-accounting/guiding-nonprofits-through-charity-evaluator-ratings-75428-1.html> explained the difficulties surrounding charity evaluator ratings and how Charity Navigator couldn't rate the Foundation simply because they "cannot account for the charity's model with its methodology."

Hope you have a great weekend!