United Nations Foundation

 WebsiteWashington, D.C.

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Founding Year: 1998

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Staff: 45

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Budget: $101.2m

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Kathy Calvin (CEO)

It aims to “support the UN and serve as a strategic partner and resource in solving global problems”. To this end, it “focuses on mobilizing ideas, people, and resources to help the UN tackle the Sustainable Development Goals as well as some of the greatest collective action challenges of our time” such as climate change, global health, poverty eradication and energy access.

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United Nations Foundation contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals

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