Global Partners
BCIU
Launched in 1955 as a White House initiative under President Eisenhower, the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) is a non-partisan, results-focused facilitator of dialogue and alliances between the world’s businesses and political leaders.
Harvard Kennedy School: The Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative
The Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative seeks to study and enhance the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility. It is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder effort dedicated to:
- Research conducted by Harvard faculty, fellows, and students, in collaboration with external practitioner experts and organizations;
- Dialogues and workshops that convene leaders from business, government, civil society, academia, and the media around emerging trends and critical dilemmas in corporate social responsibility
- Education that builds relevant skills among the next generation of public and private sector leaders
- Outreach that shares research findings and conclusions from dialogues with policymakers, business leaders, academics, investors, and the media
Pinnacle LTD
Pinnacle Leadership & Team Development (LTD) started in 1992 as the brainchild of Grand Circle Travel Chairman, Alan Lewis and his wife, Harriet Lewis, Chair of Grand Circle Foundation. Pinnacle is built upon their philosophy of helping change people's lives and giving back to the community. By helping improve the performance of high impact social entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations, the people and communities they serve will be changed for the better.
IIT – Stuart School of Business: Center For Strategic Competitiveness
Today's globally competitive environment requires all individuals and organizations to be able to operate at maximum effectiveness. Continual improvement, constant innovation and creativity, coupled with leadership and effective decision making within an entrepreneurial mindset, is essential to benefit societies. The fundamental mission of the Center for Strategic Competitiveness is to enhance the ability of individuals, organizations, and governmental units to respond proactively, innovatively and exceptionally to global market challenges in today's and tomorrow's economy.
World Bank Institute
WBI's mission is to be a global facilitator of capacity development for poverty reduction, helping leaders, institutions, and coalitions address their capacity constraints to achieving development results.
WBI's strategy has been shaped by:
- Strong demand for global knowledge and learning on key development topics and customized to local contexts
- Rapid expansion of institutions worldwide that are capable of producing and disseminating knowledge
United Nations Office for Partnerships
The United Nations Office for Partnerships serves as a gateway for partnership opportunities with the United Nations family. It promotes new collaborations and alliances in furtherance of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and provides support to new initiatives of the Secretary-General. UNOP provides Partnership Advisory Services and Outreach to a variety of entities, as well as managing the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP), established by the Secretary-General in March 1998 to serve as the interface in the partnership between the UN system and the UN Foundation, and the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), established by the Secretary- General in July 2005 to support democratization throughout the world.
