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Watch the UN Foundation's Elizabeth Gore on Andrea Mitchell Reports from our national launch in September of 2010 above.

The UN Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. We are an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas, and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems.

We help the UN take its best work and ideas to scale — through advocacy, partnerships, constituency building and fundraising.

• Partnerships because we have learned what can be achieved when the public and private sectors work together through the United Nations;
• Advocacy because we know the leverage and impact that sound policy can have on the kind of social, economic and environmental change the UN seeks;
• Community-building because the UN was created for “we the people,” and all of us can give back and contribute to a better world; and
• Fundraising because we need new and additional resources to power solutions to global challenges.

Visit UNFoundation.org to learn more.

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