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Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation. In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will: • Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues. • Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world. Panel Discussion: MODERATOR: Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex PANELISTS: Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A. Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP) Panel Discussion: PANELISTS: Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation PARTICIPANTS: Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
Viewed from the inside of Meriam Library, the steel beams for the framing are installed as the construction process continues to make way for a new physical science building on Monday, May 13, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
Night falls on the new Science building undergoing construction on Friday, November 15, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Highland Council is to submit a detailed planning application tomorrow for the new Torvean Golf Course, as part of its project plans for enhanced sports facilities in the city, made possible with the building of the Inverness West Link.
The planning application in principle for the Torvean Golf Course, Sports Hub & Parkland Application was granted on the 14th April 2014.
The project delivery is conditional on the Council obtaining the statutory consents to build the Inverness West Link road and funding being approved by The Council at its meeting in March 2015.
The construction of the West Link requires a reconfiguration of the Golf Course and an estimated investment of £1.3 million is the minimum required to relocate the golf holes to enable the building of the road.
Additional enhancements to the golf course have been developed as part of the proposals, in a greater ambition for the City of Inverness, thus enabling further economic development in the area.
The proposals include:
Locating the new 18 hole golf course in one contained area of land
A Practice area that allows for the Club to expand it to SGU Development Standard status
A new Clubhouse, which will accommodate a Junior Room;
New Maintenance buildings
An access road to service the Clubhouse and Maintenance building.
As highlighted in the approved Torvean and Ness-side Development Brief, this relocation of the golf course will also release residual existing golf course land to the East of General Booth Road to enable the development of a sports hub. Land to the South of the A82 will be freed up for informal public open space and a mixed use development adjacent to the canal at this important gateway to Inverness and discussions are ongoing with Scottish Canals to consider opportunities and bring these forward.
The expanded golf project is estimated to cost an additional £7.41 million (December 14) and could see a start of works in 2016.
The Council has been working on the proposals involving a range of partners and officers were invited by the Scottish Golf Union to attend a meeting at Torvean Golf Club on 20 January 2015 to present the proposals for the new golf course and associated infrastructure.
Hamish Spence, President of Torvean Golf Club said: "Torvean Golf Club have, for the past two years, been working closely with the Council on this project. We are delighted that it is now taking a major step towards fruition. As well as the obvious benefits to our members, the new clubhouse and course will be a major improvement to the existing sporting facilities available to the local community and will provide a massive boost to tourism in the city of Inverness and the wider Highland area.”
Councillor Thomas Prag, Chair of the Development and Infrastructure Committee welcomed the news of the proposals reaching planning application stage. He said: “I am delighted with the progress we are making across a number of fronts associated with the Inverness West Link and the associated sports and leisure projects. The plans are ambitious and will deliver substantial long term assets to the city.”
Leader of The Highland Council, Councillor Drew Hendry added: “The delivery of the West Link is a key commitment in the Council’s Programme and will greatly improve our infrastructure, linking communities, reducing congestion in the city and supporting economic development.”
The planning process for the enhanced sports facilities will include a public display of the Canal Parks Rugby Club proposals at the Inverness Aquadome on Tuesday 27th January 2015 from 10am until 8pm.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District began a remedial investigation and feasibility study July 13 at the former Sahuarita Air Force Range in Pima County, Arizona.
SAFR is a Formerly Used Defense Site of approximately 27,000 acres. Airmen from Davis-Monthan in Tucson used the site from 1943 to 1958 for bombing and gunnery training.
This RI/FS will investigate more than 10,000 acres using digital geophysical mapping.
"DGM is being used to characterize the nature and extent of munitions of explosive concern at the site," said Kyle Lindsay, a geophysicist from the Sacramento District. "DGM locates anomalies resulting from metal in the subsurface. These anomalies are then excavated to determine what they are, and the information is then used to define concentrated target areas which help determine an appropriate remedial action."
To calibrate the DGM equipment, three site survey control points were established for the area.
"A number of quality control tests are run at the beginning of each day to ensure the geophysical instrument is functioning properly," added Lindsay. "Additionally, data is collected over an area with known objects buried at known depths and locations to verify GPS accuracy and instrument readings."
In addition to the harsh desert terrain, some of the munitions used were quite small.
"The smaller an object is, the more difficult it is to accurately detect in the subsurface," said Lindsay. "There were some very small munitions potentially used at SAFR which presents an interesting challenge for DGM."
The District is working with the State of Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Federal Projects Team as a regulatory partner for the project.
"ADEQ's role is to provide oversight of the project and to ensure that all State and Federal regulatory requirements are properly followed and met," said Sara Benovic, ADEQ project manager. "We will coordinate with the Corps and all stakeholders to discuss the project by participating in Technical Project Planning meetings, teleconferences, site visits and emails."
The RI/FS will run through May 2018, with a final report due in August 2019.
"ADEQ appreciates being a part of this project and looks forward to working with the Corps, as well as stakeholders such as Arizona State Land Department and the City of Tucson," added Benovic. "Our mission is to protect and enhance human health and the environment."
The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
British postcard by Film Weekly, London.
American film actress Jean Harlow (1911–1937) was with her come-hither body, platinum blonde hair, and keen sense of humour, one of Hollywood's sex symbols of the 1930s. She had her breakthrough in Howard Hughes' World War I epic Hell's Angels (1930). Frank Capra's Platinum Blonde (1931) cemented her role as America's new sex symbol. In 1932, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became the leading lady in a string of hit films. These included Red Dust (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Reckless (1935) and Suzy (1936). Among her frequent co-stars were William Powell, Spencer Tracy and, in six films, Clark Gable.
Jean Harlow was born Harlean Harlow Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1911. The name is sometimes incorrectly spelt Carpentier, following later studio press releases. Her father, Mont Clair Carpenter was a dentist from a working-class background who attended dental school in Kansas City. Her mother, Jean Poe Carpenter née Harlow was the daughter of a wealthy real estate broker, Skip Harlow. The marriage was arranged by Jean's father for their underage daughter in 1908. Jean was resentful and became very unhappy in the marriage. The couple lived in Kansas City in a house owned by Jean's father. Harlean was nicknamed 'The Baby', a name that would stick with her for the rest of her life. Harlean and 'Mother Jean', as she became known when Harlean became a film star, remained very close. Harlean's mother was extremely protective and coddling, reportedly instilling a sense that her daughter owed everything she had to her. "She was always all mine", she said of her daughter. When Harlean was at school, her mother filed for a divorce that was finalised in 1922. She was granted sole custody of Harlean, who loved her father who would survive her by thirty-seven years. However, Harlean would rarely see him again. Mother Jean moved with Harlean to Hollywood in 1923 with hopes of becoming an actress but was too old at 34 to begin a film career. Young Harlean attended the Hollywood School for Girls but dropped out of school at age 14 in the spring of 1925. Finances dwindling, she and her mother moved back to Kansas City after Skip Harlow issued an ultimatum that he would disinherit Jean if she did not return. Several weeks later, Skip sent his granddaughter to a summer camp, Camp Cha-Ton-Ka, in Michigamme, Michigan, where she became ill with scarlet fever. Her mother travelled to Michigan to care for her, rowing herself across the lake to the camp but was told she could not see her daughter. Harlow attended the Ferry Hall School (now Lake Forest Academy) in Lake Forest, Illinois. Her mother had an ulterior motive for Harlean's attendance there, as it was close to the Chicago home of her boyfriend, Marino Bello. Each freshman was paired with a 'big sister' from the senior class, and Harlean's big sister introduced her to 19-year-old Charles 'Chuck' Fremont McGrew, heir to a large fortune, in the fall of 1926. Soon the two began to date, and then married. Early 1927, Jean Carpenter also married Bello; Harlean was not present. Shortly after the wedding, the McGrews left Chicago and moved to Beverly Hills. McGrew turned 21 two months after the marriage and received part of his large inheritance. The couple moved to Los Angeles in 1928, settling into a home in Beverly Hills, where Harlean thrived as a wealthy socialite. McGrew hoped to distance Harlean from her mother with the move. Neither McGrew nor Harlean worked, and both, especially McGrew, were thought to drink heavily. In Los Angeles, Harlean befriended Rosalie Roy, a young aspiring actress. Lacking a car, Roy asked Harlean to drive her to Fox Studios for an appointment. Reputedly, Harlean was noticed and approached by Fox executives while waiting for her friend but stated that she was not interested. Nevertheless, she was given dictated letters of introduction to Central Casting. A few days later, Rosalie Roy bet Harlean that she did not have the nerve to go and audition. Unwilling to lose a wager and pressed by her enthusiastic mother, now back in Los Angeles, Harlean drove to Central Casting and signed in under her mother's maiden name, Jean Harlow. After several calls from Central Casting and several rejected job offers, Harlean was pressed into accepting work by her mother. She appeared in her first film, Honor Bound (Alfred E. Green, 1928), as an unbilled extra. This led to small parts in feature films such as Moran of the Marines (Frank R. Strayer, 1928) with Richard Dix, This Thing Called Love (Paul L. Stein, 1929), Close Harmony (John Cromwell, 1929), and The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch, 1929), starring Maurice Chevalier. In December 1928, she signed a five-year contract with Hal Roach Studios for $100 per week. She had a co-starring role in Laurel and Hardy's short Double Whoopee (Lewis R. Foster, 1929), and went on to appear in two more of their films: Liberty (Leo McCarey, 1929) and Bacon Grabbers (Lewis R. Foster, 1929). In March 1929, however, she parted with Hal Roach, who tore up her contract after Harlow told him, "It's breaking up my marriage, what can I do?" In June 1929, Harlow separated from her husband and moved in with her mother and Bello. After her separation from McGrew, Harlow worked as an extra in several films. She landed her first speaking role in The Saturday Night Kid (A. Edward Sutherland, 1929), starring Clara Bow. The couple divorced in 1929. In late 1929, Jean was spotted by actor James Hall, who was filming Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930). Hughes revamped most of his originally silent film of 1927 with sound, and he needed an actress to replace Greta Nissen, who had a Norwegian accent that was considered to be undesirable for her character. Harlow made a test and got the part. In this film she uttered the immortal words "Would you be shocked if I changed into something more comfortable?" Hughes signed Harlow to a five-year, $100-per-week contract in 1929. Hell's Angels premiered in Hollywood on 27 May 1930, at Grauman's Chinese Theater, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1930, besting even Greta Garbo's talkie debut in Anna Christie (Clarence Brown, 1930). Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale, 1930) made Harlow an international star. Although she was popular with audiences, critics were less than enthusiastic. The New Yorker called her performance "plain awful", though Variety magazine conceded, "It doesn't matter what degree of talent she possesses ... nobody ever starved possessing what she's got." During the shooting, Harlow met MGM executive Paul Bern. She was again an uncredited extra in the Charlie Chaplin film City Lights (1931), though her appearance did not make the final cut. With no projects planned for Harlow, Hughes sent her to New York, Seattle, and Kansas City for Hell's Angels premieres. In 1931, loaned out by Hughes to other studios, she gained more attention when she appeared in The Secret Six (George W. Hill, 1931), with Wallace Beery and Clark Gable; Iron Man (Tod Browning, 1931), with Lew Ayres and Robert Armstrong; and The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931), with James Cagney. Though the successes of the films ranged from moderate to hit, Harlow's acting was mocked by critics. Concerned, Hughes sent her on a brief publicity tour, which was not a success, as Harlow dreaded such personal appearances. Jean Harlow dated notorious New Jersey mobster Abner Zwillman (aka 'Longy"), who secured a two-picture deal for her with Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures by loaning Cohn $500,000 in cash. He also purchased her a jewelled charm bracelet and a red Cadillac. Columbia Pictures cast her in Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra, 1931), with Loretta Young. The film, originally titled Gallagher, was renamed to promote Harlow, capitalising on her hair colour, called 'platinum' by Hughes' publicists. Though Harlow denied her hair was dyed, the platinum blonde colour was reportedly achieved by bleaching with a weekly application of ammonia, Clorox bleach, and Lux soap flakes. This process weakened and damaged Harlow's naturally ash-blonde hair. Many female fans began dyeing their hair to match hers. Howard Hughes' team organised a series of 'Platinum Blonde' clubs across the nation, with a prize of $10,000 to any beautician who could match Harlow's shade. No one could, the prize went unclaimed but Hughes' publicity worked and the nickname stuck with Harlow. Harlow next filmed Three Wise Girls (William Beaudine, 1932), for Columbia Pictures, with Mae Clark and Walter Byron. Paul Bern then arranged to borrow her for The Beast of the City (1932), co-starring Walter Huston. After filming, Bern booked a 10-week personal appearance tour on the East Coast. To the surprise of many, especially Harlow herself, she packed every theatre in which she appeared, often appearing in a single venue for several nights. Despite critical disparagement and poor roles, Harlow's popularity and following were large and growing and, in February 1932, the tour was extended by six weeks.
Jean Harlow was now romantically involved with MGM producer Paul Bern and he spoke to Louis B. Mayer about buying out her contract with Hughes and signing her to MGM, but Mayer declined. MGM's leading ladies were presented as elegant, while Harlow's 'floozy' screen persona was abhorrent to Mayer. Bern then began urging close friend Irving Thalberg, production head of MGM, to sign Harlow, noting her popularity and established image. After initial reluctance, Thalberg agreed and, on 3 March 1932, Harlow's 21st birthday, Bern called her with the news that MGM had purchased her contract from Hughes for $30,000. At MGM, Harlow was given superior movie roles to show off her looks and nascent comedic talent. Though Harlow's screen persona changed dramatically during her career, one constant was her apparent sense of humour. In 1932, she starred in the comedy Red-Headed Woman (Jack Conway, 1932), for which she received $1,250 a week. The film is often noted as being one of the few films in which Harlow did not appear with platinum blonde hair; she wore a red wig for the role. She next starred in Red Dust (Victor Fleming, 1932), her second film with Clark Gable. Harlow and Gable worked well together and co-starred in a total of six films. She was also paired multiple times with Spencer Tracy and William Powell. At this point, MGM began trying to distinguish Harlow's public persona from that of her screen characters, changing her childhood surname from common 'Carpenter' to chic 'Carpentier', claiming that writer Edgar Allan Poe was one of her ancestors and publishing photographs of Harlow doing charity work to change her image from that of a tramp to an all-American girl. This transformation proved difficult; once, Harlow was heard muttering, "My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?" During the making of Red Dust, Bern—her husband of two months—was found dead at their home. His death created a lasting scandal. Initially, Harlow was speculated to have killed Bern, but Bern's death was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Reportedly, the day after Bern's former common-law wife met Harlow, Bern shot himself. A few days later former Mrs. Bern was found floating in the Sacramento River, after allegedly committing suicide. Louis B. Mayer feared negative publicity from the incident and intended to replace Harlow in the film, offering the role to Tallulah Bankhead. Bankhead was appalled by the offer and wrote in her autobiography, "To damn the radiant Jean for the misfortune of another would be one of the shabbiest acts of all time. I told Mr. Mayer as much." Harlow kept silent, survived the ordeal, and became more popular than ever. A 2009 biography of Bern asserted that Bern was murdered by a former lover and the crime scene re-arranged by MGM executives to make it appear Bern had killed himself. After Bern's death, Harlow began an indiscreet affair with boxer Max Baer who, though separated from his wife Dorothy Dunbar, was threatened with divorce proceedings naming Harlow as a co-respondent for "alienation of affection", a legal term for adultery. After Bern's mysterious death, the studio did not want another scandal and defused the situation by arranging a marriage between Harlow and cinematographer Harold Rosson. Rosson and Harlow were friends and Rosson went along with the plan. They quietly divorced eight months later. By 1933, MGM realised the value of the Harlow-Gable team and paired them again in Hold Your Man (Sam Wood, 1933), which was also a box-office success. The same year, she played the adulterous wife of a ruthless tycoon (Wallace Beery) in the glittering all-star comedy-drama Dinner at Eight (George Cukor, 1933), and played a pressured Hollywood film star in the screwball comedy Bombshell (Victor Fleming, 1933) with Lee Tracy. The film has often been cited as being based on Harlow's own life or that of the 1920s 'It Girl', Clara Bow. The film included Harlow's greedy stepfather, her nine-room Georgian-style home with mostly-white interiors, and her numerous pet dogs. The following year, she was teamed with Lionel Barrymore and Franchot Tone in The Girl from Missouri (Jack Conway, 1934). The film was the studio's attempt at softening Harlow's image, but suffered with censorship problems, so much so that its original title, Born to Be Kissed, had to be changed. In 1934, Jean Harlow went on a salary strike from MGM, during which she wrote a novel, 'Today is Tonight'. The book was not published until 1965. After the financial success of Red Dust and Hold Your Man, MGM cast Harlow with Clark Gable in two more successful films: China Seas (Tay Garnett, 1935), with Wallace Beery and Rosalind Russell; and Wife vs. Secretary (Clarence Brown, 1936), with Myrna Loy and James Stewart. Jean Harlow's popularity rivalled and soon surpassed that of her MGM colleagues Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer. Reckless (Victor Fleming, 1935) was her first film musical. It co-starred her then-boyfriend William Powell and Franchot Tone. Suzy (George Fitzmaurice, 1936), in which she played the title role, gave her top billing over Franchot Tone and Cary Grant. While critics noted that Harlow dominated the film, they added that her performance was imperfect, and the film was a reasonable box-office success. She then starred in Riffraff (J. Walter Ruben, 1936) with Spencer Tracy and Una Merkel, a financial disappointment, and the worldwide hit Libeled Lady (Jack Conway, 1936), in which she was top billed over Powell, Myrna Loy, and Tracy. By the late 1930s, Jean Harlow had become one of the biggest stars of Hollywood, often nicknamed the 'Blonde Bombshell' and the 'Platinum Blonde'. She filmed W.S. Van Dyke's comedy Personal Property (1937), co-starring Robert Taylor. It was Harlow's final fully completed film appearance. During the filming of Saratoga (Jack Conway, 1937), she died in a hospital of renal failure at the age of 26. The official cause of death was 'uremic poisoning brought on by acute nephritis'. For many years it was a widely held belief that she died because her mother, a Christian Scientist, refused to let doctors operate on her after she became sick. This story has been repeatedly shown to be completely untrue. MGM closed on the day of her funeral, 9 June 1937. Saratoga was completed using doubles and released a little over a month after Jean Harlow's death. It became MGM's second-highest-grossing picture of 1937. In 1965, two films about Jean Harlow were released, both called Harlow. The first, Harlow (Alex Segal, 1965), was released by Magna in May 1965 and stars Carol Lynley with Ginger Rogers as Mama Jean. The second, Harlow (Gordon Douglas, 1965), was released in June by Paramount Pictures and stars Carroll Baker with Angela Lansbury as her mother. Both were poorly received and did not perform well at the box office.
Sources: Sandra Brennan (AllMovie), Denny Jackson (IMDb), Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
For this weeks "sportswear" challenge I made a vintage inspired romper with a coordinating reversible button up skirt. My little one wanted to join in the fun so she "designed" her own graphic art for a tee shirt then I scanned and printed on fabric and appliqued the shirt which she can wear with the skirt. I also made a head scarf out of some beautiful fabric. Now my moppet is ready for the beach, a picnic in the park or a game of croquet! I love how fresh this color combination looks! I blogged about it here: urbanmoppets.blogspot.com/2012/04/sewing-along-with-proje...
© Copyright Jan Richards 213/365 Project planning using colored stickies to represent various actions I'm considering.
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Main Street Indiana Steering Committee Met Tues., March 21, 2016. The second meeting of the Bristol IndianaMain Street Indiana group met at the Bristol Library on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 6pm. All those in attendance agreed to be part of the Steering Committee for the program. Some additional members are likely to be added. Anyone interested in joining the group should contact Jill Swartz at the Bristol Town Hall at 574-848-7007 during business hours. Jennifer Vandeberg, North Central Liaison for the Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) returned to lead the discussion for selecting a name for the group, choosing a mission statement, by-laws and selecting a slate of officers for President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. The group will finalize their choices at their next meeting on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at the Bristol Library at 6pm. There was a brief discussion of possible projects and that planning now underway for the continuation of the Quaker Trace Bike path that will include a bike and foot bridge across the St. Joe River from Congdon to Hermance Park in Bristol and continue east through Bristol might affect their project planning for late 2017 or early 2018. They will wait for further information as it becomes available.
I sheared my goat Stardust. I always wondered why she was named that, until I saw her in fleece! She's a reddish blonde, but her fleece is a lovely pale silvery caramel. She looks like a huge puffball with it all on.
This is Type C pygora fiber, similar to cashmere. SUPER soft, fine, and lightweight. If I didn't shear her, she would eventually shed all this fiber - I lost her fleece last year to matting when I left it on too long.
I might have some of her fleece for sale after washing, but I already have a project planned incorporating some of it. I love Stardust to pieces, she has the biggest personality of all my goats!
(blog post coming soon!)
These benches in O-day'min park pay tribute to the warehouses that were here in the early 20th century.
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The deconstruction process continues as Siskiyous Hall is torn down to make way for a new physical science building on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announces that the city is issuing new rules setting forth a permitting process and guidelines for the take-off and landing of unmanned aircraft in New York City. The rules including building inspections, infrastructure inspections, and capital project planning, at Pier 35 in Manhattan on Friday, July 20, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Quality Assurance for Volunteer Stream Monitoring
Capstone students help coordinate and implement all aspects of the quality assurance project plan (QAPP) for the Student Watershed Research Project (SWRP)'s volunteer monitoring program. Students will work as a team to ensure data quality for the 25 high school groups involved in SWRP. Non-science majors encouraged to become “citizen scientists” through their participation in this capstone.
Oregon is Our Classroom.
wuhoo!!!! hooray! hooray! its a holi-holiday! ngehehehe.....its finally totally over....now its time for me to do what i want to do! tonnes of projects planned for this looooong holiday....next semester starts in July....fuh....^^
okay....this picture taken during our portfolio review.....the panel, Ar.Hj.HAJEEDAR(my idol local architect) giving some free lectures and reviewing my works( the green board) thats my final product for my final project for 2nd semester, the DOJO HOUSE for my client Bruce Lee...its a training/retreat house project....
Thank God, this semester is sooo awesome and my grade for design class is higher than last semester! and passed with flying colours....thanks to all who had supporting me so much especially PAPA...! ^^
fuh...hope next semester will be better...=)
The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announces that the city is issuing new rules setting forth a permitting process and guidelines for the take-off and landing of unmanned aircraft in New York City. The rules including building inspections, infrastructure inspections, and capital project planning, at Pier 35 in Manhattan on Friday, July 20, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
The construction process of the new physical science building continues with installation of brick siding on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
A sign outlines the project planned to be constructed at the New York State Armory complex on Glenmore Road in Troy, New York on March 31, 2023. A groundbreaking ceremony marked the start of construction on a state-of-the-art maintenance facility, budgeted for $17 million, which is being constructed to replace a maintenance shop incorporate in the armory, which was built in 1970-71. The Office of General Services is responsible for the construction of New York National Guard facilities. ( U.S. Army National Guard photo by William Albrecht)
Xi Jinping (/ʃiː dʒɪnˈpɪŋ/; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the 9th General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the 13th Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2012, and as well as the 7th President of China since 2013.[1] As General Secretary, he is also a member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body.[2] Xi is the first CCP general secretary born after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.[3][4]
Early life
Xi Jinping is the son of former Chinese Vice Premier Xi Zhongxun and Qi Xin. He rose politically in China's coastal provinces. He was the Governor of Fujian between 1999 and 2002. Between 2002 and 2007, he was Governor and CPC party chief of Zhejiang. After the dismissal of Chen Liangyu, Xi was transferred to Shanghai as the party secretary for a short time in 2007. Xi was promoted to the central leadership in October 2007 and trained to become Hu Jintao's successor.
General Secretary
In November 2012, he was elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission in the CPC convention. In March 2013, he was elected as the president of China by the Chinese Congress. This started his first term as China's leader.
Chinese leadership changes every 5 years, and it happens roughly in October/November (for CPC and military) and March next year (for government). In October 2017 and March 2018, Xi was re-elected as party, military and government leader. This started his second term.
By tradition in recent decades, the Chinese leader leads two terms (10 years in total). The second term identifies his successor and prepares for the power transfer. However, Xi stopped this tradition and abandoned his potential successors Hu Chunhua and Sun Zhengcai.
On 11 March 2018, the National People's Congress approved an amendment to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, so that Xi and the future presidents could be reelected for president without term limits.[5][6]
with Shinzō Abe in October 2018
In July 2018, a trade war started between the US and China. At the early stage Xi showed China's muscle by declaring to fight "a tooth for a tooth". As the conflicts continues to worsen, China softened its stance. There were reports that Xi's authority got damaged by his handling of the trade dispute with US.[7]
In October 2022, Xi was re-elected to a third term. This re-election made him the first party leader since Mao Zedong to be chosen for a third term, though Deng Xiaoping ruled the country informally for a longer time.[8]
Personal life
Xi was born on 15 June 1953 in Beijing, China.[9] His father held lots of posts, including party propaganda chief and vice premier.[10] He has been married to Peng Liyuan since 1987. They have one daughter, Xi Mingze, who graduated from Harvard University in 2015. Xi lives in Zhongnanhai, China.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman serving as the 47th president of the United States since January 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
Born in New York City, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He became president of his family's real estate business in 1971 and oriented it to luxury hotels and casinos. After a series of bankruptcies in the 1990s and 2000s, he began side ventures. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted the reality television show The Apprentice. A political outsider, Trump won the 2016 presidential election against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
In his first term, Trump imposed a travel ban on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries, expanded the U.S.–Mexico border wall, and implemented a brief family separation policy. Domestically, he rolled back environmental and business regulations, signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and appointed three Supreme Court justices. In foreign policy, Trump withdrew the U.S. from agreements on climate, trade, and Iran's nuclear program; negotiated the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement, began a trade war with China, and met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without reaching an agreement on denuclearization. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he downplayed its severity, contradicted guidance from public health officials, and enacted the CARES Act stimulus package. Trump was impeached in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and in 2021 for incitement of insurrection; the Senate acquitted him in both cases. After his first term, scholars and historians ranked him one of the worst presidents in American history.
Trump is the central figure of the Trumpism movement. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged, racist or misogynistic, and he has made false and misleading statements and promoted conspiracy theories to a degree unprecedented in American politics. He lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden but refused to concede, falsely claiming electoral fraud and attempting to overturn the results, including through his involvement in the January 6 Capitol attack in 2021. In 2023, Trump was held liable in civil cases for sexual abuse, defamation, and business fraud, and in 2024 he was found guilty of falsifying business records, making him the first U.S. president convicted of a felony. He won the 2024 presidential election against Kamala Harris, becoming the first person since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to be elected to a non-consecutive second term. Afterwards, he was sentenced to a penalty-free discharge, and two other felony indictments against him were dismissed.
Trump began his second presidency by implementing a mass deportation program and attempting to reduce the size of the federal workforce.
Early life and education
A black-and-white photograph of Trump as a teenager, smiling, wearing a dark pseudo-military uniform with various badges and a light-colored stripe crossing his right shoulder
Trump at New York Military Academy, 1964
Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at Jamaica Hospital in the New York City borough of Queens, the fourth child of Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.[1] He is of German and Scottish descent.[2] He grew up with his older siblings, Maryanne, Fred Jr., and Elizabeth, and his younger brother, Robert, in a mansion in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens.[3] Fred Trump paid his children each about $20,000 a year, equivalent to $265,000 a year in 2024. Trump was a millionaire at age eight by contemporary standards.[a][4]
Trump attended the private Kew-Forest School through seventh grade. He was a difficult child and showed an early interest in his father's business. His father enrolled him in New York Military Academy, a private boarding school, to complete secondary school.[5] Trump considered a show business career but instead in 1964 enrolled at Fordham University. Two years later, he transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics. He was exempted from the draft during the Vietnam War due to bone spurs in his heels.[6]
Business career
Main article: Business career of Donald Trump
Further information: Business projects of Donald Trump in Russia and Tax returns of Donald Trump
Real estate
Starting in 1968, Trump was employed at his father's real estate company, Trump Management, which owned racially segregated middle-class rental housing in New York City's outer boroughs.[7][8] In 1971, his father made him president of the company and he began using the Trump Organization as an umbrella brand.[9] Roy Cohn was Trump's fixer, lawyer, and mentor for 13 years in the 1970s and 1980s.[10] In 1973, Cohn helped Trump countersue the U.S. government for $100 million (equivalent to $686 million in 2023)[11] over its charges that Trump's properties had racial discriminatory practices. Trump's counterclaims were dismissed, and the government's case was settled with the Trumps signing a consent decree agreeing to desegregate.[12] Helping Trump projects, Cohn was a consigliere whose Mafia connections controlled construction unions.[13] Cohn introduced political consultant Roger Stone to Trump, who enlisted Stone's services to deal with the federal government.[14] Between 1991 and 2009, he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for six of his businesses: the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, the casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts company.[15][16]
In 1992, Trump, his siblings Maryanne, Elizabeth, and Robert, and his cousin John W. Walter, each with a 20 percent share, formed All County Building Supply & Maintenance Corp. The company had no offices and is alleged to have been a shell company for paying the vendors providing services and supplies for Trump's rental units, then billing those services and supplies to Trump Management with markups of 20–50 percent and more. The owners shared the proceeds generated by the markups. The increased costs were used to get state approval for increasing the rents of his rent-stabilized units.[17]
Manhattan and Chicago developments
Trump in 1985 with a model of one of his aborted Manhattan development projects[18]
Trump attracted public attention in 1978 with the launch of his family's first Manhattan venture, the renovation of the derelict Commodore Hotel, adjacent to Grand Central Terminal.[19] The financing was facilitated by a $400 million city property tax abatement arranged for him by his father who also, jointly with Hyatt, guaranteed a $70 million bank construction loan.[8][20] The hotel reopened in 1980 as the Grand Hyatt Hotel,[21] and that same year, he obtained rights to develop Trump Tower, a mixed-use skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan.[22] The building houses the headquarters of the Trump Corporation and Trump's PAC and was his primary residence until 2019.[23] In 1988, Trump acquired the Plaza Hotel with a loan from a consortium of 16 banks.[24] The hotel filed for bankruptcy protection in 1992, and a reorganization plan was approved a month later, with the banks taking control of the property.[25]
In 1995, he defaulted on over $3 billion of bank loans, and the lenders seized the Plaza Hotel along with most of his other properties in a "vast and humiliating restructuring" that allowed him to avoid personal bankruptcy.[26][27] The lead bank's attorney said of the banks' decision that they "all agreed that he'd be better alive than dead".[26] In 1996, Trump acquired and renovated the mostly vacant 71-story skyscraper at 40 Wall Street, later rebranded as the Trump Building.[28] In the early 1990s, he won the right to develop a 70-acre (28 ha) tract in the Lincoln Square neighborhood near the Hudson River. Struggling with debt from other ventures in 1994, he sold most of his interest in the project to Asian investors, who financed the project's completion, Riverside South.[29] Trump's last major construction project was the 92-story mixed-use Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago which opened in 2008. In 2024, The New York Times and ProPublica reported that the Internal Revenue Service was investigating whether he had twice written off losses incurred through construction cost overruns and lagging sales of residential units in the building he had declared to be worthless on his 2008 tax return.[30]
Atlantic City casinos
The entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal, a casino in Atlantic City. It has motifs evocative of the Taj Mahal in India.
Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City
In 1984, Trump opened Harrah's at Trump Plaza, a hotel and casino, with financing and management help from the Holiday Corporation.[31] It was unprofitable, and he paid Holiday $70 million in May 1986 to take sole control.[32] In 1985, he bought the unopened Atlantic City Hilton Hotel and renamed it Trump Castle.[33] Both casinos filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1992.[34] Trump bought a third Atlantic City venue in 1988, the Trump Taj Mahal. It was financed with $675 million in junk bonds and completed for $1.1 billion, opening in April 1990.[31] He filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1991. Under the provisions of the restructuring agreement, he gave up half his initial stake and personally guaranteed future performance.[35] To reduce his $900 million of personal debt, he sold the Trump Shuttle airline; his megayacht, the Trump Princess, which had been leased to his casinos and kept docked; and other businesses.[36] In 1995, Trump founded Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts (THCR), which assumed ownership of the Trump Plaza.[37] THCR purchased the Taj Mahal and the Trump Castle in 1996 and went bankrupt in 2004 and 2009, leaving him with 10 percent ownership.[31] He remained chairman until 2009.[38]
Clubs
In 1985, Trump acquired the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.[39] In 1995, he converted the estate into a private club with an initiation fee and annual dues. He continued to use a wing of the house as a private residence.[40] He declared the club his primary residence in 2019.[23] He began building and buying golf courses in 1999, owning 17 golf courses by 2016.[41]
Licensing the Trump name
See also: List of things named after Donald Trump
The Trump Organization has licensed the Trump name for consumer products and services, including foodstuffs, apparel, learning courses, and home furnishings.[42] According to The Washington Post, there are more than 50 licensing or management deals involving his name, and they have generated at least $59 million for his companies.[43] By 2018, only two consumer goods companies continued to license his name.[42]
Side ventures
Trump, Doug Flutie, and an unnamed official standing behind a lectern with big, round New Jersey Generals sign, with members of the press seated in the background
Trump and New Jersey Generals quarterback Doug Flutie at a 1985 press conference in Trump Tower
In 1970, Trump invested $70,000 to receive billing as coproducer of a Broadway comedy.[44] In September 1983, he purchased the New Jersey Generals, a team in the United States Football League. After the 1985 season, the league folded, largely due to his attempt to move to a fall schedule (when it would have competed with the National Football League (NFL) for audience) and trying to force a merger with the NFL by bringing an antitrust suit.[45] Trump and his Plaza Hotel hosted several boxing matches at the Atlantic City Convention Hall.[31][46] In 1989 and 1990, he lent his name to the Tour de Trump cycling stage race, an attempt to create an American equivalent of European races such as the Tour de France or the Giro d'Italia.[47] From 1986 to 1988, he purchased significant blocks of shares in various public companies while suggesting that he intended to take over the company and then sold his shares for a profit,[48] leading some observers to think he was engaged in greenmail.[49] The New York Times found that he initially made millions of dollars in such stock transactions, but "lost most, if not all, of those gains after investors stopped taking his takeover talk seriously".[48]
A red star with a bronze outline and "Donald Trump" and a TV icon written on it in bronze, embedded in a black terrazzo sidewalk
Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
In 1988, Trump purchased the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle, financing the purchase with $380 million (equivalent to $979 million in 2023)[11] in loans from a syndicate of 22 banks. He renamed the airline Trump Shuttle and operated it until 1992.[50] He defaulted on his loans in 1991, and ownership passed to the banks.[51] In 1996, he purchased the Miss Universe pageants, including Miss USA and Miss Teen USA.[52] Due to disagreements with CBS about scheduling, he took both pageants to NBC in 2002.[53][54] In 2007, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work as producer of Miss Universe.[55] NBC and Univision dropped the pageants in June 2015 in reaction to his comments about Mexican immigrants.[56]
In 2005, Trump cofounded Trump University, a company that sold real estate seminars for up to $35,000. After New York State authorities notified the company that its use of "university" violated state law (as it was not an academic institution), its name was changed to the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative in 2010.[57] In 2013, the State of New York filed a $40 million civil suit against Trump University, alleging that the company made false statements and defrauded consumers. Additionally, two class actions were filed in federal court against Trump and his companies. Internal documents revealed that employees were instructed to use a hard-sell approach, and former employees testified that Trump University had defrauded or lied to its students.[58] Shortly after he won the 2016 presidential election, he agreed to pay a total of $25 million to settle the three cases.[59]
Foundation
Main article: Donald J. Trump Foundation
The Donald J. Trump Foundation was a private foundation established in 1988.[60] From 1987 to 2006, Trump gave his foundation $5.4 million which had been spent by the end of 2006. After donating a total of $65,000 in 2007–2008, he stopped donating any personal funds to the charity,[61] which received millions from other donors, including $5 million from Vince McMahon.[62] The foundation gave to health- and sports-related charities, conservative groups,[63] and charities that held events at Trump properties.[61] In 2016, The Washington Post reported that the charity committed several potential legal and ethical violations, including alleged self-dealing and possible tax evasion.[64] Also in 2016, the New York attorney general determined the foundation to be in violation of state law, for soliciting donations without submitting to required annual external audits, and ordered it to cease its fundraising activities in New York immediately.[65] Trump's team announced in December 2016 that the foundation would be dissolved.[66] In June 2018, the New York attorney general's office filed a civil suit against the foundation, Trump, and his adult children, seeking $2.8 million in restitution and additional penalties.[67] In December 2018, the foundation ceased operation and disbursed its assets to other charities.[68] In November 2019, a New York state judge ordered Trump to pay $2 million to a group of charities for misusing the foundation's funds, in part to finance his presidential campaign.[69]
Legal affairs and bankruptcies
Main article: Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump
According to a review of state and federal court files conducted by USA Today in 2018, Trump and his businesses had been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions.[70] While he has not filed for personal bankruptcy, his over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses in Atlantic City and New York filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection six times between 1991 and 2009.[71] They continued to operate while the banks restructured debt and reduced his shares in the properties.[71] During the 1980s, more than 70 banks had lent Trump $4 billion.[72] After his corporate bankruptcies of the early 1990s, most major banks, with the exception of Deutsche Bank, declined to lend to him.[73] After the January 6 Capitol attack, the bank decided not to do business with him or his company in the future.[74]
Wealth
Main article: Wealth of Donald Trump
Ivana Trump and King Fahd shake hands, with Ronald Reagan standing next to them smiling
Trump (rightmost) and wife Ivana at a 1985 state dinner for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia with President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan
Trump has often said he began his career with "a small loan of a million dollars" from his father and that he had to pay it back with interest.[75] He borrowed at least $60 million from his father, largely did not repay the loans, and received another $413 million (2018 equivalent, adjusted for inflation) from his father's company.[76][17] Posing as a Trump Organization official named "John Barron", Trump called journalist Jonathan Greenberg in 1984, trying to get a higher ranking on the Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans.[77] Trump self-reported his net worth over a wide range: from a low of minus $900 million in 1990,[b] to a high of $10 billion in 2015.[80] In 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at $2.3 billion and ranked him the 1,438th wealthiest person in the world.[81]
Media career
Main article: Media career of Donald Trump
See also: Bibliography of Donald Trump
Trump has produced 19 books under his name, most written or cowritten by ghostwriters.[82] His first book, The Art of the Deal (1987), was a New York Times Best Seller, and was credited by The New Yorker with making Trump famous as an "emblem of the successful tycoon".[83] The book was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz, who is credited as a coauthor. Trump had cameos in many films and television shows from 1985 to 2001.[84] Starting in the 1990s, Trump was a guest 24 times on the nationally syndicated Howard Stern Show.[85] He had his own short-form talk radio program, Trumped!, from 2004 to 2008.[86] From 2011 until 2015, he was a guest commentator on Fox & Friends.[87] In 2021, Trump, who had been a member of SAG-AFTRA since 1989, resigned to avoid a disciplinary hearing regarding the January 6 attack.[88] Two days later, the union permanently barred him.[89]
The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice
Main articles: The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice
Producer Mark Burnett made Trump a TV star[90] when he created The Apprentice, which Trump hosted from 2004 to 2015 (including variant The Celebrity Apprentice). On the shows, he was a superrich chief executive who eliminated contestants with the catchphrase "you're fired". The New York Times called his portrayal "a highly flattering, highly fictionalized version" of himself.[91] The shows remade Trump's image for millions of viewers nationwide.[91][92] With the related licensing agreements, they earned him more than $400 million.[93]
Early political aspirations
Further information: Political career of Donald Trump
Trump registered as a Republican in 1987;[94] a member of the Independence Party, the New York state affiliate of the Reform Party, in 1999;[95] a Democrat in 2001; a Republican in 2009; unaffiliated in 2011; and a Republican in 2012.[94]
Trump, leaning heavily onto a lectern, with his mouth open mid-speech and a woman clapping politely next to him
Trump speaking at CPAC 2011
In 1987, Trump placed full-page advertisements in three major newspapers,[96] expressing his views on foreign policy and how to eliminate the federal budget deficit.[97] In 1988, he approached Lee Atwater, asking to be put into consideration to be Republican nominee George H. W. Bush's running mate. Bush found the request "strange and unbelievable".[98][99] Trump was a candidate in the 2000 Reform Party presidential primaries for three months, but withdrew from the race in February 2000.[100][101][102] In 2011, Trump speculated about running against President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, making his first speaking appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February and giving speeches in early primary states.[103][104] In May 2011, he announced he would not run.[103]
2016 presidential election
Main article: Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
Further information: 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 United States presidential election, and First presidential transition of Donald Trump
Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015.[105][106] He became the front-runner in March 2016[107] and was declared the presumptive Republican nominee in May.[108] His campaign statements were often opaque and suggestive,[109] and a record number were false.[110][111][112] He was highly critical of media coverage and frequently made claims of media bias.[113][114] Hillary Clinton led Trump in national polling averages throughout the campaign, but, in early July, her lead narrowed.[115] In mid-July, he selected Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate,[116] and the two were officially nominated at the 2016 Republican National Convention.[117] Trump and Clinton faced off in three presidential debates in September and October 2016. He twice refused to say whether he would accept the result of the election.[118]
Trump speaking in front of an American flag behind a lectern, wearing a black suit and red hat. The lectern sports a blue "TRUMP" sign.
Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016
Trump described NATO as "obsolete"[119][120] and espoused views that were described as noninterventionist and protectionist.[121] His campaign platform emphasized renegotiating U.S.–China relations and free trade agreements such as NAFTA and strongly enforcing immigration laws. Other campaign positions included pursuing energy independence while opposing climate change regulations, modernizing services for veterans, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, abolishing Common Core education standards, investing in infrastructure, simplifying the tax code while reducing taxes, and imposing tariffs on imports by companies that offshore jobs. He advocated increasing military spending and extreme vetting or banning of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries.[122] Trump's proposed immigration policies were a topic of bitter debate during the 2016 campaign. He promised to build a wall on the Mexico–U.S. border to restrict illegal movement and vowed that Mexico would pay for it.[123] He pledged to deport millions of illegal immigrants residing in the U.S.,[124] and criticized birthright citizenship for incentivizing "anchor babies".[125] According to an analysis in Political Science Quarterly, Trump made "explicitly racist appeals to whites" during his 2016 presidential campaign.[126] In particular, his campaign launch speech drew criticism for claiming Mexican immigrants were "bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists";[127] in response, NBC fired him from Celebrity Apprentice.[128]
Trump's FEC-required reports listed assets above $1.4 billion and outstanding debts of at least $315 million.[129][130] He did not release his tax returns, contrary to the practice of every major candidate since 1976 and his promises in 2014 and 2015 to do so if he ran for office.[131][132] He said his tax returns were being audited, and that his lawyers had advised him against releasing them.[133] After a lengthy court battle to block release of his tax returns and other records to the Manhattan district attorney for a criminal investigation, including two appeals by Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court, in February 2021 the high court allowed the records to be released to the prosecutor for review by a grand jury.[134][135] In October 2016, portions of Trump's state filings for 1995 were leaked to a reporter from The New York Times. They show that he had declared a loss of $916 million that year, which could have let him avoid taxes for up to 18 years.[136]
On November 8, 2016, Trump received 306 pledged electoral votes versus 232 for Clinton. After elector defections on both sides, the official count was 304 to 227.[137] The fifth person to be elected president while losing the popular vote,[c] he received nearly 2.9 million fewer votes than Clinton, 46.3% to her 48.25%.[138] He was the only president who neither served in the military nor held any government office prior to becoming president.[139] Trump won 30 states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, states which had been considered a blue wall of Democratic strongholds since the 1990s. His victory marked the return of an undivided Republican government—a Republican president combined with Republican control of both chambers of Congress.[140] Trump's victory sparked protests in major U.S. cities.[141][142]
First presidency (2017–2021)
Main article: First presidency of Donald Trump
For a chronological guide, see Timeline of the Donald Trump presidencies.
Early actions
See also: First presidential transition of Donald Trump and First 100 days of the first Donald Trump presidency
Trump, with his family watching, raises his right hand and places his left hand on the Bible as he takes the oath of office. Roberts stands opposite him administering the oath
Trump took his first oath of office, administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., at the Capitol on January 20, 2017.
A head-and-shoulders portrait of Trump beaming in front of the U.S. flag, wearing a dark blue suit jacket with American flag lapel pin, white shirt, and light blue necktie.
Official portrait, 2017
Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017. The day after his inauguration, an estimated 2.6 million people worldwide, including a half million in Washington, D.C., protested against him in the Women's Marches.[143] During his first week in office, Trump signed six executive orders, including authorizing procedures for repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, advancement of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline projects, and planning for a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.[144]
Conflicts of interest
See also: First presidency of Donald Trump § Ethics
Before being inaugurated, Trump moved his businesses into a revocable trust,[145][146] rather than a blind trust or equivalent arrangement "to cleanly sever himself from his business interests".[147] He continued to profit from his businesses and knew how his administration's policies affected them.[146][148] Although he said he would eschew "new foreign deals", the Trump Organization pursued operational expansions in Scotland, Dubai, and the Dominican Republic.[146][148] Lobbyists, foreign government officials, and Trump donors and allies generated hundreds of millions of dollars for his resorts and hotels.[149] Trump was sued for violating the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution, the first time that the clauses had been substantively litigated.[150] One case was dismissed in lower court.[151] Two were dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court as moot after his term.[152]
Domestic policy
Main articles: Economic policy of the first Donald Trump administration, Environmental policy of the first Donald Trump administration, and Social policy of the first Donald Trump administration
Trump took office at the height of the longest economic expansion in American history,[153] which began in 2009 and continued until February 2020, when the COVID-19 recession began.[154] In December 2017, Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It reduced tax rates for businesses and individuals and set the penalty associated with the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate to $0.[155][156] The Trump administration claimed that the act would not decrease government revenue, but 2018 revenues were 7.6 percent lower than projected.[157] Under Trump, the federal budget deficit increased by almost 50 percent, to nearly $1 trillion in 2019.[158] By the end of his term, the U.S. national debt increased by 39 percent, reaching $27.75 trillion, and the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio hit a post-World War II high.[159] Trump also failed to deliver the $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan on which he had campaigned.[160]
Trump is the only modern U.S. president to leave office with a smaller workforce than when he took office, by 3 million people.[153][161] Trump rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.[162][163][164][165] He reduced the budget for renewable energy research by 40 percent and reversed Obama-era policies directed at curbing climate change.[166] He withdrew from the Paris Agreement, making the U.S. the only nation to not ratify it.[167] Trump aimed to boost the production and exports of fossil fuels.[168][169] Natural gas expanded under Trump, but coal continued to decline.[170][171] He rolled back more than 100 federal environmental regulations, including those that curbed greenhouse gas emissions, air and water pollution, and the use of toxic substances. He weakened protections for animals and environmental standards for federal infrastructure projects, and expanded permitted areas for drilling and resource extraction, such as allowing drilling in the Arctic Refuge.[172]
Trump dismantled many federal regulations on health,[173][174] labor,[174] and the environment,[175][174] among others, including a bill that made it easier for severely mentally ill persons to buy guns.[176] During his first six weeks in office, he delayed, suspended, or reversed ninety federal regulations,[177] often "after requests by the regulated industries".[178] The Institute for Policy Integrity found that 78 percent of his proposals were blocked by courts or did not prevail over litigation.[179] During his campaign, Trump vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.[180] In office, he scaled back the Act's implementation through executive orders.[181][182] He expressed a desire to "let Obamacare fail"; his administration halved the enrollment period and drastically reduced funding for enrollment promotion.[183][184] In June 2018, the Trump administration joined 18 Republican-led states in arguing before the Supreme Court that the elimination of the financial penalties associated with the individual mandate had rendered the Act unconstitutional.[185][186] Their pleading would have eliminated health insurance coverage for up to 23 million Americans, but was unsuccessful.[185] During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised to protect funding for Medicare and other social safety-net programs. In January 2020, he expressed willingness to consider cuts to them.[187]
In response to the opioid epidemic, Trump signed legislation in 2018 to increase funding for drug treatments, but was widely criticized for failing to make a concrete strategy.[188] Trump barred organizations that provide abortions or abortion referrals from receiving federal funds.[189] He said he supported "traditional marriage", but considered the nationwide legality of same-sex marriage "settled".[190] His administration rolled back key components of the Obama administration's workplace protections against discrimination of LGBTQ people.[191] His attempted rollback of anti-discrimination protections for transgender patients in August 2020 was halted by a federal judge after a Supreme Court ruling extended employees' civil rights protections to gender identity and sexual orientation.[192] Trump has said he is opposed to gun control, although his views have shifted over time.[193] His administration took an anti-marijuana position, revoking Obama-era policies that provided protections for states that legalized marijuana.[194] Trump is a long-time advocate of capital punishment,[195][196] and his administration oversaw the federal government execute 13 prisoners, more than in the previous 56 years combined, ending a 17-year moratorium.[197] In 2016, he said he supported the use of interrogation torture methods such as waterboarding.[198][199]
Race relations
Trump's comments on the 2017 Unite the Right rally, condemning "this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides" and stating that there were "very fine people on both sides", were criticized as implying a moral equivalence between the white supremacist demonstrators and the counter-protesters.[200] In a January 2018 discussion of immigration legislation, Trump reportedly referred to El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, and African nations as "shithole countries".[201] His remarks were condemned as racist.[202]
Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from the White House to St. John's Church
In July 2019, Trump tweeted that four Democratic congresswomen—all minorities, three of whom are native-born Americans—should "go back" to the countries they "came from".[203] Two days later the House of Representatives voted 240–187, mostly along party lines, to condemn his "racist comments".[204] White nationalist publications and social media praised his remarks, which continued over the following days.[205] He continued to make similar remarks during his 2020 campaign.[206] In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests, federal law-enforcement officials controversially removed a largely peaceful crowd of lawful protesters from Lafayette Square, outside the White House.[207][208] Trump then posed with a Bible for a photo-op at the nearby St. John's Episcopal Church,[207][209][210] with religious leaders condemning both the treatment of protesters and the photo opportunity itself.[211] Many retired military leaders and defense officials condemned his proposal to use the U.S. military against anti-police-brutality protesters.[212]
Pardons and commutations
Further information: List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump
Trump granted 237 requests for clemency, fewer than all presidents since 1900 with the exception of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.[213] Only 25 of them had been vetted by the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney; the others were granted to people with personal or political connections to him, his family, and his allies, or recommended by celebrities.[214][215] In his last full day in office, he granted 73 pardons and commuted 70 sentences.[216] Several Trump allies were not eligible for pardons under Justice Department rules, and in other cases the department had opposed clemency.[214] The pardons of three military service members convicted of or charged with violent crimes were opposed by military leaders.[217]
Immigration
Main articles: Immigration policy of the first Donald Trump administration and Mexico–United States border crisis § First Trump administration (2017–2021)
Further information: Trump travel ban, Trump administration family separation policy, and Mexico–United States border wall § First Trump administration (2017–2021)
Trump is speaking with U.S. Border Patrol agents. Behind him are black SUVs, four short border wall prototype designs, and the current border wall in the background.
Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.
As president, Trump described illegal immigration as an "invasion" of the United States[218] and drastically escalated immigration enforcement.[219][220] He implemented harsh policies against asylum seekers[220] and deployed nearly 6,000 troops the U.S.–Mexico border to stop illegal crossings.[221] He reduced the number of refugees admitted to record lows, from an annual limit of 110,000 before he took office to 15,000 in 2021.[222][223][224] Trump also increased restrictions on granting permanent residency to immigrants needing public benefits.[225] One of Trump's central campaign promises was to build a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border;[226] during his first term, the U.S. built 73 miles (117 km) of wall in areas without barriers and 365 miles (587 km) to replace older barriers.[227] In 2018, Trump's refusal to sign any congressional spending bill unless it allocated funding for the border wall[228] resulted in the longest-ever federal government shutdown, for 35 days from December 2018 to January 2019.[229][230] The shutdown ended after Trump agreed to fund the government without any funds for the wall.[229] To avoid another shutdown, Congress passed a funding bill with $1.4 billion for border fencing in February.[231] Trump later declared a national emergency on the southern border to divert $6.1 billion of funding to the border wall[231] despite congressional disagreement.[232]
In January 2017, Trump signed an executive order that temporarily denied entry to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.[233][234] The order caused many protests and legal challenges that resulted in nationwide injunctions.[233][234][235] A revised order giving some exceptions was also blocked by courts,[236][237] but the Supreme Court ruled in June that the ban could be enforced on those lacking "a bona fide relationship with a person or entity" in the U.S.[238] Trump replaced the ban in September with a presidential proclamation extending travel bans to North Koreans, Chadians, and some Venezuelan officials, but excluded Iraq and Sudan.[239] The Supreme Court allowed that version to go into effect in December 2017,[240] and ultimately upheld the ban in 2019.[241] From 2017 to 2018, the Trump administration had a policy of family separation that separated over 4,400 children of migrant families from their parents at the U.S.–Mexico border,[242][243] an unprecedented[244] policy sparked public outrage in the country.[245] Despite Trump initially blaming Democrats[246][247] and insisting he could not stop the policy with an executive order, he acceded to public pressure in June 2018 and mandated that migrant families be detained together unless "there is a concern" of risk for the child.[248][249] A judge later ordered that the families be reunited and further separations stopped except in limited circumstances,[250][251] though over 1,000 additional children were separated from their families after the order.[243]
Foreign policy
Main articles: Foreign policy of the first Donald Trump administration and First Trump tariffs
Further information: Russia–United States relations § First Trump administration (2017–2021), China–United States relations § First Trump administration (2017–2021), 2017–2018 North Korea crisis, and 2018–19 Korean peace process
See also: List of international presidential trips made by Donald Trump § First presidency (2017–2021)
Trump and other G7 leaders sit at a conference table
Trump with the other G7 leaders at the 45th summit in France, 2019
Trump described himself as a "nationalist"[252] and his foreign policy as "America First".[253] He supported populist, neo-nationalist, and authoritarian governments.[254] Unpredictability, uncertainty, and inconsistency characterized foreign relations during his tenure.[253][255] Tensions between the U.S. and its European allies were strained under Trump.[256] He criticized NATO allies and privately suggested that the U.S. should withdraw from NATO.[257][258] Trump supported many of the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[259] In 2020, the White House hosted the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalize their foreign relations.[260]
An economic conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018, when Trump began setting tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the goal of forcing it to make changes to what the U.S. says are longstanding unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft.[261] The first Trump administration stated that these practices may contribute to the U.S.–China trade deficit, and that the Chinese government requires transfer of American technology to China.[262] The Trump administration weakened the toughest sanctions imposed by the U.S. after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.[263][264] Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, citing alleged Russian noncompliance,[265] and supported a potential return of Russia to the G7.[266] Trump repeatedly praised and, according to some critics, rarely criticized Russian president Vladimir Putin[267][268] but opposed some actions of the Russian government.[269][270] In 2017, when North Korea's nuclear weapons were increasingly seen as a serious threat,[271] Trump, the first sitting U.S. president to meet a North Korean leader, met Kim three times: in Singapore in June 2018, in Hanoi in February 2019, and in the Korean Demilitarized Zone in June 2019.[272] However, no denuclearization agreement was reached,[273] and talks in October 2019 broke down after one day.[274]
Personnel
Main articles: Political appointments of the first Trump administration and First cabinet of Donald Trump
Trump made daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner unpaid advisors.[275]
The Trump administration had a high turnover of personnel, particularly among White House staff. By the end of his first year in office, 34 percent of his original staff had resigned, been fired, or been reassigned.[276] As of early July 2018, 61 percent of his senior aides had left[277] and 141 staffers had left in the previous year.[278] Both figures set a record for recent presidents.[279] Notable early departures included National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (after just 25 days), and Press Secretary Sean Spicer.[279] Close personal aides to Trump including Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, John McEntee, and Keith Schiller quit or were forced out.[280] Some later returned in different posts.[281] He publicly disparaged several of his former top officials.[282]
Trump had four White House chiefs of staff, marginalizing or pushing out several.[283] Reince Priebus was replaced after seven months by John F. Kelly.[284] Kelly resigned in December 2018 after a tumultuous tenure in which his influence waned, and Trump subsequently disparaged him.[285] Kelly was succeeded by Mick Mulvaney as acting chief of staff; he was replaced in March 2020 by Mark Meadows.[283] In May 2017, Trump dismissed FBI director James Comey. While initially attributing this action to Comey's conduct in the investigation about Hillary Clinton's emails, Trump said a few days later that he was concerned with Comey's role in the ongoing Trump-Russia investigations.[286] At a private conversation in February, he said he hoped Comey would drop the investigation into Flynn.[287] In March and April, he asked Comey to "lift the cloud impairing his ability to act" by saying publicly that the FBI was not investigating him.[287][288]
Trump lost three of his 15 original cabinet members within his first year.[289] Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price was forced to resign in September 2017 due to excessive use of private charter jets and military aircraft.[289][280] Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt resigned in 2018 and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke in January 2019 amid multiple investigations into their conduct.[290][291] Trump was slow to appoint second-tier officials in the executive branch, saying many of the positions are unnecessary. In October 2017, there were hundreds of sub-cabinet positions without a nominee.[292] By January 8, 2019, of 706 key positions, 433 had been filled and he had no nominee for 264.[293]
Judiciary
Further information: List of federal judges appointed by Donald Trump and Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies
Trump appointed 226 Article III judges, including 54 to the courts of appeals and three to the Supreme Court: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.[294] His Supreme Court nominees were noted as having politically shifted the Court to the right.[295][296][297] In the 2016 campaign, he pledged that Roe v. Wade would be overturned "automatically" if he were elected and provided the opportunity to appoint two or three anti-abortion justices. He later took credit when Roe was overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization; all three of his Supreme Court nominees voted with the majority.[298][299] Trump disparaged courts and judges he disagreed with, often in personal terms, and questioned the judiciary's constitutional authority. His attacks on the courts drew rebukes from observers, including sitting federal judges, concerned about the effect of his statements on the judicial independence and public confidence in the judiciary.[300][301]
COVID-19 pandemic
Main article: COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Further information: U.S. federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Communication of the Trump administration during the COVID-19 pandemic
See also: Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Trump speaks in the West Wing briefing room with various officials standing behind him, all in formal attire and without face masks
Trump conducts a COVID-19 press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 15, 2020.
Trump initially ignored public health warnings and calls for action from health officials within his administration and Azar,[302] focusing on economic and political considerations of the outbreak.[303] Trump established the White House Coronavirus Task Force on January 29.[304] Prior to the pandemic, Trump criticized the WHO and other international bodies, which he asserted were taking advantage of U.S. aid.[305] On March 27, he signed into law the CARES Act—a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill—the largest stimulus in U.S. history.[306][307] In April 2020, Republican-connected groups organized anti-lockdown protests against the measures state governments were taking to combat the pandemic;[308][309] Trump encouraged the protests on Twitter,[310] although the targeted states did not meet his administration's guidelines for reopening.[311] He repeatedly pressured federal health agencies to take actions he favored,[312] such as approving unproven treatments.[313][314] On October 2, 2020, he tweeted that he had tested positive for COVID-19, part of a White House outbreak.[315] By July 2020, Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic had become a major issue in the presidential election.[316]
Investigations
Further information: Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, Mueller special counsel investigation, and Mueller report
After he assumed office, Trump was the subject of increasing Justice Department and congressional scrutiny, with investigations covering his election campaign, transition, and inauguration, actions taken during his presidency, his private businesses, personal taxes, and charitable foundation.[317] There were ten federal criminal investigations, eight state and local investigations, and twelve congressional investigations.[318]
In July 2016, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane, an investigation into possible links between Russia and Trump's 2016 campaign.[319] After Trump fired Comey in May 2017, the FBI opened a second investigation into Trump's personal and business dealings with Russia.[320] In January 2017, three U.S. intelligence agencies jointly stated with "high confidence" that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to favor Trump.[321][322] Many suspicious[323] links between Trump associates and Russian officials were discovered.[324][325][326] Trump told Russian officials he was unconcerned about Russia's election interference.[327] Crossfire Hurricane was later transferred to Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation;[328] the investigation into Trump's ties to Russia was ended by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein after he told the FBI that Mueller would pursue the matter.[329][330] At the request of Rosenstein, the Mueller investigation examined criminal matters "in connection with Russia's 2016 election interference".[329] Mueller submitted his final report in March 2019.[331] The report found that Russia did interfere in 2016 to favor Trump[332] and that Trump and his campaign welcomed and encouraged the effort,[333][334][335] but that the evidence "did not establish" that Trump campaign members conspired or coordinated with Russia.[336][337] Trump claimed the report exonerated him despite Mueller writing that it did not.[338] The report also detailed potential obstruction of justice by Trump but "did not draw ultimate conclusions"[339][340] and left the decision to charge the laws to Congress.[341]
In April 2019, the House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas seeking financial details from Trump's banks, Deutsche Bank and Capital One, and his accounting firm, Mazars USA. He sued the banks, Mazars, and committee chair Elijah Cummings to prevent the disclosures.[342] In May, two judges ruled that both Mazars and the banks must comply with the subpoenas;[343][344][345] Trump's attorneys appealed.[346] In September 2022, Trump and the committee agreed to a settlement regarding Mazars, and the firm began turning over documents.[347]
Impeachments
Main articles: First impeachment of Donald Trump and Second impeachment of Donald Trump
Trump displaying the headline "Trump acquitted"
Trump was impeached twice. The first time, he was impeached in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of justice for pressuring Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden,[348] in an attempt to gain an advantage in the 2020 presidential election.[349][350] The Senate acquitted him of both charges on February 5, 2020, with Senator Mitt Romney the only Republican voting to convict him one of the charges.[351] Trump was impeached a second time on January 13, 2021, for incitement of insurrection leading to the Capitol riot.[352] After Trump had left office on January 20, he was acquitted on February 13 when the Senate voted 57–43 to convict, ten votes short of the two-thirds majority required. Seven Republicans voted to convict, which was the most bipartisan support in any Senate impeachment trial of a president or former president.[353]
2020 presidential election
Further information: 2020 United States presidential election
Presidential campaign
Main article: Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign
Trump filed to run for re-election only a few hours after becoming president in 2017.[354] He held his first re-election rally less than a month after taking office[355] and officially became the Republican nominee in August 2020.[356] Trump's campaign focused on crime, claiming that cities would descend into lawlessness if Democratic nominee Joe Biden won.[357] He repeatedly misrepresented Biden's positions[358][359] and appealed to racism.[360] Starting in early 2020, Trump sowed doubts about the election, claiming without evidence that it would be rigged and that widespread use of mail balloting would produce massive election fraud.[361][362] He blocked funding for the U.S. Postal Service, saying he wanted to prevent any increase in voting by mail.[363] He repeatedly refused to say whether he would accept the results if he lost and commit to a peaceful transition of power.[364][365]
Loss to Biden and rejection of results
Further information: Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election and 2020–21 United States election protests
The electoral vote results of the 2020 election. Biden defeated Trump, 306–232.
Biden won the November 2020 election, receiving 81.3 million votes (51.3 percent) to Trump's 74.2 million (46.8 percent)[366][367] and 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232.[368] The Electoral College formalized Biden's victory on December 14.[368] Even before the results were known on the morning after the election, Trump declared victory.[369] Days later, when Biden was projected the winner, Trump baselessly alleged election fraud.[370] As part of an effort to overturn the results, Trump and his allies filed many legal challenges to the results, which were rejected by at least 86 judges in both state and federal courts for having no factual or legal basis.[371][372]
Trump's allegations were also refuted by state election officials,[373] and the Supreme Court declined to hear a case asking it to overturn the results in four states won by Biden.[374] Trump repeatedly sought help to overturn the results, personally pressuring Republican local and state office-holders,[375] Republican legislators,[376] the Justice Department,[377] and Vice President Pence,[378] urging various actions such as replacing presidential electors, or requesting that Georgia officials "find" votes and announce a "recalculated" result.[376]
In the weeks after the election, Trump withdrew from public activities.[379] He initially blocked government officials from cooperating in Biden's presidential transition.[380][381] After three weeks, the administrator of the General Services Administration declared Biden the "apparent winner" of the election, allowing the disbursement of transition resources to his team.[382] While Trump said he recommended that the GSA begin transition protocols, he still did not formally concede.[383][384] Trump did not attend Biden's inauguration on January 20.[385]
January 6 Capitol attack
Main article: January 6 United States Capitol attack
A crowd of Trump supporters during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021
In December 2020, reports emerged that the U.S. military was on "red alert", and ranking officers had discussed what to do if Trump declared martial law.[386] Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley and CIA director Gina Haspel grew concerned that Trump would attempt a coup or military action against China or Iran.[387][388] Milley insisted that he be consulted about any military orders from Trump, including the use of nuclear weapons.[389][390]
At noon on January 6, 2021, while Congress was certifying the presidential election results at the U.S. Capitol Trump held a rally at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., where he called for the election to be overturned and urged his supporters to "fight like hell" and "take back our country" by marching to the Capitol.[391] His supporters then formed a mob that broke into the building, disrupting certification and causing the evacuation of Congress.[392] During the attack, Trump posted on social media but did not ask the rioters to disperse until 6 p.m., when he told them in a Tweet to "go home with love & in peace" while calling them "great patriots" and restating that he had won the election.[393] Congress later reconvened and confirmed Biden's victory in the early hours of January 7.[394] More than 140 police officers were injured, and five people died either during or after the attack.[395][396] The event has been described as an attempted self-coup by Trump.[d]
Between terms (2021–2025)
Main articles: Georgia election racketeering prosecution, Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (election obstruction case), Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (classified documents case), Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York, and E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
See also: Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump and Legal affairs of Donald Trump as president
Upon leaving the White House, Trump began living at Mar-a-Lago, establishing an office there as provided for by the Former Presidents Act.[400] Trump's continuing false claims concerning the 2020 election were commonly referred to as the "big lie" by his critics, although in May 2021, with his supporters he began using the term to refer to the election itself.[401][402] The Republican Party used his election narrative to justify imposing new voting restrictions in its favor.[403][404][405] As of July 2022, he continued to pressure state legislators to overturn the election.[406] Unlike other former presidents, Trump continued to dominate his party; a 2022 profile in The New York Times described him as a modern party boss.[407] He continued fundraising, raising a war chest containing more than twice that of the Republican Party, and profited from fundraisers many Republican candidates held at Mar-a-Lago. Much of his focus was on party governance and installing in key posts officials loyal to him.[407] In the 2022 midterm elections, he endorsed over 200 candidates for various offices.[408] In February 2021, Trump registered a new company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), for providing "social networking services" to U.S. customers.[409][410] In March 2024, TMTG merged with special-purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition and became a public company.[411] In February 2022, TMTG launched Truth Social, a social media platform.[412]
In 2019, journalist E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in the 1990s and sued him for defamation over his denial.[413] Carroll sued Trump again in 2022 for battery and more defamation.[414] Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation and ordered to pay $5 million in one case[415] and $83.3 million in the other.[415][416] In 2022, New York filed a civil lawsuit was filed against Trump accusing him of inflating The Trump Organization's value to gain an advantage with lenders and banks;[417][418] Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $350 million plus interest.[418]
Classified intelligence material found during search of Mar-a-Lago
In connection with Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his involvement in the January 6 attack, in December 2022 the U.S. House committee on the attack recommended criminal charges against Trump for obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and inciting or assisting an insurrection.[419] In August 2023, Trump was indicted on 13 charges, including racketeering, by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election in the state.[420][421]
In January 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of documents Trump had taken to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House, some of which were classified.[422] In the ensuing Justice Department investigation, officials retrieved more classified documents from Trump's lawyers.[422] On August 8, 2022, FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago for illegally held documents, including those in breach of the Espionage Act, collecting 11 sets of classified documents, some marked top secret.[423][424] A federal grand jury constituted by Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump in June 2023 on 31 counts of "willfully retaining national defense information" under the Espionage Act, among other charges.[422][425][426] Trump pleaded not guilty.[427] In July 2024, judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case, ruling Smith's appointment as special prosecutor was unconstitutional.[428]
In May 2024, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.[429] The case stemmed from evidence that Trump booked Michael Cohen's hush-money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels as business expenses to cover up his alleged 2006–2007 affair with Daniels during the 2016 election.[429][430] On January 10, 2025, the judge gave Trump a no-penalty sentence known as an unconditional discharge, saying that punitive requirements would have interfered with presidential immunity.[431] After Trump's re-election, the 2020 election obstruction case and the classified documents case were dismissed without prejudice due to Justice Department policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.[432]
2024 presidential election
Main article: Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign
Further information: 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries, 2024 United States presidential election, and Second presidential transition of Donald Trump
Trump at a rally in Arizona, August 2024
On November 15, 2022, Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election and set up a fundraising account.[433][434] In March 2023, the campaign began diverting 10 percent of the donations to his leadership PAC. His campaign had paid $100 million towards his legal bills by March 2024.[435][436] In December 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Trump disqualified for the Colorado Republican primary for his role in inciting the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress. In March 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court restored his name to the ballot in a unanimous decision, ruling that Colorado lacks the authority to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars insurrectionists from holding federal office.[437]
During the campaign, Trump made increasingly violent and authoritarian statements.[438][439][440][441] He also said that he would weaponize the FBI and the Justice Department against his political opponents[442][443] and use the military to go after Democratic politicians and those that do not support his candidacy.[444][445] He used harsher, more dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric than during his presidency.[446][447][448][449] His harsher rhetoric against his political enemies has been described by some historians and scholars as authoritarian, fascist,[e] and unlike anything a political candidate has ever said in American history.[454][445][455] Age and health concerns also arose during the campaign, with several medical experts highlighting an increase in rambling, tangential speech and behavioral disinhibition.[456]
Trump mentioned "rigged election" and "election interference" earlier and more frequently than in the 2016 and 2020 campaigns and refused to commit to accepting
A monumental, aerial sculpture is suspended over Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway from May through October 2015 as the signature contemporary art installation in the Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program.
The sculpture for Boston spans the void where an elevated highway once split downtown from its waterfront. Knitting together the urban fabric, it soars 600 feet through the air above street traffic and pedestrian park.
The form of “As If It Were Already Here” echoes the history of its location. The three voids recall the “Tri-Mountain” which was razed in the 18th-century to create land from the harbor. The colored banding is a nod to the six traffic lanes that once overwhelmed the neighborhood, before the Big Dig buried them and enabled the space to be reclaimed for urban pedestrian life.
The sculpture is made by hand-splicing rope and knotting twine into an interconnected mesh of more than a half-million nodes. When any one of its elements moves, every other element is affected. Monumental in scale and strength yet delicate as lace, it fluidly responds to ever-changing wind and weather. Its fibers are 15 times stronger than steel yet incredibly lightweight, making the sculpture able to lace directly into three skyscrapers as a soft counterpoint to hard-edged architecture. It is a physical manifestation of interconnectedness and strength through resiliency.
In daylight the porous form blends with sky when looking up, and casts shadow-drawings onto the ground below. At night it becomes an illuminated beacon. The artwork incorporates dynamic light elements which reflect the changing effects of wind. Sensors around the site register fiber movement and tension and this data directs the color of light projected onto the sculpture’s surface.
“Here in Boston, I’m excited to visually knit together the fabric of the city with art,” said Echelman. “The creation of the Greenway was a seminal event in the unfolding of our city, so I’m delighted and humbled to be a part of its transformation into a vibrant cultural destination.”
The work invites you to linger, whether seen amidst the skyline from afar, or lying down on the grassy knoll beneath. It embraces Boston as a city on foot, where past and present are interwoven, and takes our gaze skyward to feel the vibrant pulse of now. It invites you to pause, and contemplate a physical manifestation of interconnectedness – soft with hard, earth with sky, things we control with the forces beyond us.
By the Numbers:
– The sculpture includes over 100 miles of twine
– Longest span is 600 ft
- Highest point of attachment is 365 ft
– There are over half a million knots (~542,500)
– The sculpture weighs approximately 1 ton
– The sculpture can exert over 100 tons of force
– Projected plan area of the sculpture is 20,250 sq ft, or almost half an acre
I had a great time leading three mini workshops at the Maryland Society for Educational Techology.
These notes are what one of the participants created during the workshop. The hand gestures here are from when he was explaining his project to a neighbor.
The title was "Visual Thinking For Educational Technology Project Planning." As always, I gave a big shout out to Dan Roam who has written my favority visual thinking book. If someone can write a book like "Back of the Napkin" for educators, they should. In fact I challenged the educators in the workshop to do so.
The center and first border of wonky stars for Bushfire Quilt Project..... planning to do a scrappy outside border.
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
The deconstruction process continues as Siskiyous Hall is torn down to make way for a new physical science building on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
Scientists say that the risks and consequences resulting from a two degrees Celsius increase in world temperature will be irreversible. Carbon dioxide emissions should be cut into half by 2050 from 1990 levels to prevent this from happening and stabilize world temperature below two degrees. The Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement supports the "Below 2 Degrees" global call and urges world leaders who will gather in Copenhagen this week to sign a treaty on climate change that will include deep and early cuts on carbon dioxide emissions.
Nikon D40 (EU Trainers Training and Project Planning Workshop, December 2009)
A monumental, aerial sculpture is suspended over Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway from May through October 2015 as the signature contemporary art installation in the Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program.
The sculpture for Boston spans the void where an elevated highway once split downtown from its waterfront. Knitting together the urban fabric, it soars 600 feet through the air above street traffic and pedestrian park.
The form of “As If It Were Already Here” echoes the history of its location. The three voids recall the “Tri-Mountain” which was razed in the 18th-century to create land from the harbor. The colored banding is a nod to the six traffic lanes that once overwhelmed the neighborhood, before the Big Dig buried them and enabled the space to be reclaimed for urban pedestrian life.
The sculpture is made by hand-splicing rope and knotting twine into an interconnected mesh of more than a half-million nodes. When any one of its elements moves, every other element is affected. Monumental in scale and strength yet delicate as lace, it fluidly responds to ever-changing wind and weather. Its fibers are 15 times stronger than steel yet incredibly lightweight, making the sculpture able to lace directly into three skyscrapers as a soft counterpoint to hard-edged architecture. It is a physical manifestation of interconnectedness and strength through resiliency.
In daylight the porous form blends with sky when looking up, and casts shadow-drawings onto the ground below. At night it becomes an illuminated beacon. The artwork incorporates dynamic light elements which reflect the changing effects of wind. Sensors around the site register fiber movement and tension and this data directs the color of light projected onto the sculpture’s surface.
“Here in Boston, I’m excited to visually knit together the fabric of the city with art,” said Echelman. “The creation of the Greenway was a seminal event in the unfolding of our city, so I’m delighted and humbled to be a part of its transformation into a vibrant cultural destination.”
The work invites you to linger, whether seen amidst the skyline from afar, or lying down on the grassy knoll beneath. It embraces Boston as a city on foot, where past and present are interwoven, and takes our gaze skyward to feel the vibrant pulse of now. It invites you to pause, and contemplate a physical manifestation of interconnectedness – soft with hard, earth with sky, things we control with the forces beyond us.
By the Numbers:
– The sculpture includes over 100 miles of twine
– Longest span is 600 ft
- Highest point of attachment is 365 ft
– There are over half a million knots (~542,500)
– The sculpture weighs approximately 1 ton
– The sculpture can exert over 100 tons of force
– Projected plan area of the sculpture is 20,250 sq ft, or almost half an acre
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
Using design thinking to think about how we might plan for project-based learning to achieve Curriculum for Excellence goals.
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
The Sunset Beach IRT station gets a touch of red paint. Installation of side guard rails has begun. The Project plans state the completion date of this particular station as 31 March 2010.
Marcy DuPraw (right), senior facilitator at the Center for Collaborative Policy, takes a question at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division’s collaboration summit in Sacramento, Calif., April 7, 2014. Representatives from the California Water Education Foundation, Friends of the River, Center for Collaborative Policy and other partners joined Corps staff for panel discussions on how collaboration and communication on Corps projects can be improved and how we can all better engage members of the public in our project planning process. (U.S. Army photo by Todd Plain/Released)
KUTTAWA, KY – Don Getty, acting chief, Project Planning Branch and project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition uses a bullhorn to speak to the group over the construction noise about progress of the Kentucky Lock Addition and flood control reduction operations, Aug. 11, 2011. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Mark Rankin)