The Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) and the Wal-Mart Foundation recently announced the winners of forty-four student grants and two university grants through the CGI U Outstanding Commitment Awards. The grants, made possible by the Wal-Mart Foundation, will support innovative, high-impact commitments to improve communities and lives around the world.
CGI U is a youth-focused project of the Clinton Global Initiative, which was founded by President Clinton in 2005 to mobilize world leaders to take action on major global challenges. The CGI U Outstanding Commitment Awards are designed to support innovative, high-impact work that creates lasting and positive social change, most notably within CGI U’s focus areas – energy and climate change, global health, human rights and peace, and poverty alleviation. The awards recognize students and student organizations from a wide variety of graduate schools, historically black colleges, Ivy League institutions, religious and tribal universities, and state schools.
LendforPeace.org’s founding team, composed of two Palestinians and two Jews, reflects CGI’s commitment to diversity and cross-boundary collaboration in the pursuit of poverty alleviation and conflict resolution.
Check out the press release here.
We couldn’t be more excited to have the support of the Clinton Global Initiative and are looking forward to working with CGI U to make LendforPeace.org a success.
