World Forum in the News
World Forum featured on the Clinton Global Initiative Website - www.ClintonGlobalInitiative.org
"CGI Annual Meeting 2009 - New Partnerships Formed, New Projects Inspired"
All year long, CGI works to create partnerships that will change lives around the world. At the Annual Meeting, that process is accelerated, as members meet each other at panels, impromptu gatherings, and social events throughout the week.
For Roger Neugebauer of the World Forum Foundation, it was a game-changing event. "This has been the most important week in the history of the World Forum Foundation," he wrote to CGI. "What's been amazing is all the partnerships I have been able to cement here. This has exceeded my wildest dreams (and I have some pretty wild dreams)."
The World Forum Foundation organizes adults into Community Teams, which lead local campaigns to reconnect children with nature. Before CGI's Annual Meeting, Neugebauer used CGI Connect to send messages to organizations he thought would be interested in this work.
At the event, he was able to connect with the majority of those people, and many of them signed on to help. Fundacion Paraguaya, Paso Pacifico, and the SOUL Foundation, among others, have agreed to organize Community Teams. "It has been an awesome connecting experience," Neugebauer wrote.
Read more about this partnership on the CGI website.
The World Forum Foundation (WFF) is now a member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
On behalf of the WFF, Roger Neugebauer attended the 5th Clinton Global Initiative Conference with his $20,000 registration fee covered by CGI. The WFF has committed to reconnecting 2 million children around the world with nature.
The World Forum has drafted a report summarizing the commitment entitled "Raising Environmentally Passionate Future Generations." The oblective is to promote future generations of environmental stewards by recruiting, motivating, and training 236 professionally diverse Community Teams from 93 nations to lead local campaigns to reconnect over 2 million young children with nature.
Read the entire summary of this commitment.
Delivering quality services to children: Redmond foundation participates in world summit - Redmond Reporter, October 7, 2009
World Forum Foundation, headquartered in Redmond, recently joined world leaders at the 5th Annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), in New York City. Former President Bill Clinton, founder of CGI, presented this year's action areas: harnessing innovation, strengthening infrastructure, building human capital and financing an equitable future.
Roger Neugebauer, president and co-founder of the World Forum Foundation, was among 960 invited guests from 84 countries, including world leaders, top CEOs, heads of state, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.
The World Forum Foundation, a non-profit organization, was founded by Bonnie and Roger Neugebauer in 1998 to bring together early childhood practitioners from around the world to address issues in delivering quality services to children in diverse settings....
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2009 Arbor Day Awards - Nebraska, USA
Bonnie and Roger Neugebauer, on behalf of the World Forum Foundation, were presented with the Rachel Carson Award at the 2009 National Arbor Day Award Ceremony.
The World Forum Foundation was recognized for its work on Nature Education.
Read the article and learn more about the recipients of the Arbor Day awards.