Clinton Foundation water bottle - Collector's Item - 9" tall - 2.5"

Clinton Foundation water bottle - Collector's Item - 9" tall - 2.5" Diameter.
The Clinton Foundation
(founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation
,
and renamed in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation
)
is a
under section
of the U.S. tax code. It was established by former president of the United States
with the stated mission to "strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence."
Its offices are located in
and
.
Through 2016, the foundation had raised an estimated $2 billion from U.S. corporations, foreign governments and corporations, political donors, and various other groups and individuals.
The acceptance of funds from wealthy donors has been a source of controversy.
The foundation "has won accolades from philanthropy experts and has drawn bipartisan support".
Charitable grants are not a major focus of the Clinton Foundation, which instead uses most of its money to carry out its own humanitarian programs.
This foundation is a public organization to which anyone may donate and is distinct from the Clinton Family Foundation, a private organization for personal Clinton family philanthropy.
According to the Clinton Foundation's website, neither Bill Clinton nor his daughter, Chelsea Clinton (both are members of the governing board), draws any salary or receives any income from the foundation. When Hillary Clinton was a board member, she reportedly also received no income from the foundation.
Beginning in 2015, the foundation was accused of wrongdoing, including a bribery and
scheme, but multiple investigations through 2019 found no evidence of malfeasance.
reported in September 2020 that a federal prosecutor appointed by attorney general
to investigate the origins of the 2016 FBI
had also sought documents and interviews regarding how the FBI handled an investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
In May 2023 it was revealed that the Justice Department had continued to investigate the Foundation until days before the end of the Trump presidency, when FBI officials insisted the DOJ acknowledge in writing that there was no case to bring. History [ ]
Former
The origins of the foundation go back to 1997, when then-president
was focused mostly on
for the future
in
.
He founded the William J. Clinton Foundation in 2001, following the completion of his presidency.
Longtime Clinton advisor
became the CEO in 2004.
Later, Lindsey moved from being CEO to being chair, largely for health reasons.
Other Clinton hands who played an important early role included
and
. Additional Clinton associates who have had senior positions at the foundation include
and Laura Graham.
The foundation's success is spurred by Bill Clinton's worldwide fame and his ability to bring together corporate executives, celebrities, and government officials.
Similarly, the foundation areas of involvement have often corresponded to whatever Bill suddenly felt an interest in.
Preceding
's 2009 nomination of Hillary Clinton as
, Bill Clinton agreed to accept a number of conditions and restrictions regarding his ongoing activities and fundraising efforts for the Clinton Presidential Center and the Clinton Global Initiative.
Accordingly, a list of donors was released in December 2008.
By 2011,
was taking a dominant role in the foundation and had a seat on its board.
To raise money for the foundation, she gave paid speeches, such as her $65,000 2014 address at the
in Kansas City for the opening of the Starr Women's Hall of Fame.
In 2013, Hillary Clinton joined the foundation following her
. She planned to focus her work on issues regarding women and children,
as well as economic development.
Accordingly, at that point, it was renamed the "Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation".
Extra attention was paid to the foundation due to the
.
In July 2013, Eric Braverman was named CEO of the foundation.
He is a friend and former colleague of Chelsea Clinton from
.
At the same time, Chelsea Clinton was named vice chair of the foundation's board.
The foundation was also in the midst of a move to two floors of the
in Midtown Manhattan.
Chelsea Clinton moved the organization to an outside review, conducted by the firm of
. Its conclusions were made public in mid-2013.
The main focus was to determine how the foundation could achieve firm financial footing that was not dependent upon the former president's fundraising abilities, how it could operate more like a permanent entity rather than a start-up organization, and thus how it could survive and prosper beyond Bill Clinton's lifetime.
, a former Hillary Clinton campaign official and State Department deputy chief, was named to oversee a $250 million endowment drive.
The review also found the management and structure of the foundation needed improvements, including an increase in the size of its board of directors that would have a more direct involvement in planning and budget activities.
Additionally, the review said that all employees needed to understand the foundation's conflict of interest policies and that expense reports needed a more formal review process.
In January 2015, Braverman announced his resignation.
attributed the move to being "partly from a power struggle inside the foundation between and among the coterie of Clinton loyalists who have surrounded the former president for decades and who helped start and run the foundation."
He was succeeded at first in an acting capacity by former deputy assistant secretary, Maura Pally.
On February 18, 2015,
reported that, "the foundation has won accolades from philanthropy experts and has drawn bipartisan support, with members of the George W. Bush administration often participating in its programs."
In March 2015, former
in the Clinton administration,
, was selected to run the Clinton Foundation.
She left in April 2017.
In August 2016,
's editorial board suggested that the Clinton Foundation cease accepting donations. The Globe
's editorial board offered praise for the foundation's work but added that "as long as either of the Clintons are in public office, or actively seeking it, they should not operate a charity, too" because it represents a conflict of interest and a political distraction.
In 2016,
reported that the Clinton Foundation suspected that it had been the target of a
. As a consequence of the suspected cyber security breach, Clinton Foundation officials retained a security firm,
, to evaluate its data systems. The cyber security breach has been described as sharing similarities with
that targeted other institutions, such as the
.
In October 2016, The Wall Street Journal
reported that four
—in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, and Little Rock—had been collecting information about the Clinton Foundation to determine whether "there was evidence of financial crimes or influence-peddling". In a reported separate investigation, the Washington field office was investigating
before he became a board member of the Clinton Foundation.
CNN reported in January 2018, that the
is investigating allegations of corruption at the Clinton Foundation in Arkansas. Sources said that federal prosecutors are checking to see if foundation donors were improperly promised policy favors or special access to Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state in return for donations and whether tax-exempt funds were misused by the foundation's leadership. The Washington Post
reported in January 2020, that an additional Justice Department investigation into the matter, initiated after Donald Trump took office in 2017, was winding down after finding nothing worth pursuing. Board of directors [ ]
As of January 2018, the board members are:

, chairman

, vice chair

, counselor to the chair

Programs and initiatives [ ] Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) [ ]
As of January 1, 2010, the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, became a separate nonprofit organization called the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).
Organizations such as the Clinton Foundation continue to supply anti-malarial drugs to Africa and other affected areas; according to director
, in 2011 more than 12 million individuals will be supplied with subsidized anti-malarial drugs. [ citation needed ]
In May 2007, CHAI and
announced agreements that help middle-income and low-income countries save money on second-line drugs. The partnership also reduced the price of a once-daily first-line treatment to less than $1 per day.
CHAI was spun off into a separate organization in 2010; Ira Magaziner became its CEO (he had been a key figure in the
).
Chelsea Clinton joined its board in 2011, as did
, former President of the Global Health Program at the
. Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and CGI U [ ]
President of Brazil
opens Clinton Global Initiative Latin America in
, 2013
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) was founded in 2005 by Bill Clinton.
, counselor to Bill, was integral to its formation.
Clinton has credited Band with being the originator of CGI and has noted that "Doug had the idea to do this."
Band left his paid position at CGI in 2010,
preferring to emphasize his
business and family pursuits, but remains on the CGI advisory board.
The overlap between CGI and Teneo, of which Bill was a paid advisor, drew criticism.
According to his attorneys during 2007 plea negotiations on sex offense charges, financier
also formed "part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative", though his name was not mentioned in any of the organization's founding documents.
Bill Clinton with
during CGI University Day of Service in
In 2007, Bill started CGI U, which expanded the model of CGI to students, universities, and national youth organizations. CGI U has been held at
, the
, the
, the
,
,
,
, and
. Panelists and speakers have included
,
,
, Bill and Chelsea Clinton,
,
,
, U.S. Rep.
,
, Salman Khan (founder of
), and U.S. Rep.
.
In September 2016, it was announced that the Initiative would be winding down to be discontinued and that 74 employees would be let go at the end of the year.
In January 2017, it was announced that another 22 employees would be let go by April 15, 2017, and that CGI University would be continued. Clinton Global Citizen Awards [ ]
The Clinton Global Citizen Awards are a set of awards which have been given by the Clinton Global Initiative every year since 2007.
The awards are given to individuals who, in the opinion of the Clinton Foundation, are "outstanding individuals who exemplify global citizenship through their vision and leadership".
Past recipients of the award include Mexican businessman and philanthropist
,
Irish billionaire
,
Moroccan entrepreneur
,
Rwandan President
,
Afghan women's rights activist
,
President
,
and Pakistani labor rights activist
. Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) [ ]
In August 2006, Bill Clinton started a program to fight climate change, the Clinton Foundation's Climate Initiative (CCI).
The CCI directly runs various programs to prevent deforestation and to rehabilitate forests and other landscapes worldwide, develop clean energy, and help island nations threatened by rising ocean levels.
On August 1, 2006, the foundation entered into a partnership with the
, agreeing to provide resources to allow the participating cities to enter into an energy-saving product purchasing consortium and to provide technical and communications support.
In May 2007, CCI announced its first project which will help some large cities cut greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating retrofitting of existing buildings. Five large banks committed $1 billion each to help cities and building owners make energy-saving improvements aimed at lowering energy use and energy costs.
At the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative, Bill Clinton announced the
campaign to accelerate bold federal policy on global warming.
The 1Sky campaign supports at least an 80% reduction in climate pollution levels by 2050.
On May 19, 2009, CCI announced the global Climate Positive Development Program where it will work with the
to promote "climate positive" city growth.
Norway and Germany are among the countries co-financing projects with the CCI in numerous developing and third-world countries. Clinton Development Initiative (CDI) [ ]
The Clinton Development Initiative, originally the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative, was formed in 2006 as a partnership with Scottish philanthropist Sir
's Hunter Foundation to target the root causes of
and promote sustainable economic growth. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation [ ]
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a partnership between the Clinton Foundation and the
that was working to end the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States by 2010.
The
, which provided an initial $8 million to start the Healthy Schools Program, awarded a $20 million grant to expand the program to over 8,000 schools in states with the highest obesity rates.
At the industry level, the Alliance struck agreements with major food and beverage manufacturers to provide kids with nutritional options, and established nutrition guidelines for school vending machines, stores and cafeterias to promote healthy eating. Some of the companies involved in these efforts are
,
,
,
,
,
and
. Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative [ ]
Established in 2007 with Canadian mining executive
— founder of the petroleum company Pacific Rubiales (renamed
in 2015) — CGSGI describes itself as "pioneering an innovative approach to poverty alleviation."
Giustra's involvement with the Clinton Foundation has been criticized by the
, The Washington Post
, and the American Media Institute
because it was accompanied by a sudden reversal in Hillary Clinton's position while Secretary of State concerning the
, an agreement which she had previously opposed "as bad for labor rights." Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI) [ ]
In November 2012, Bill Clinton announced the launch of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI). CHMI is a national initiative, building on the Clinton Foundation's work on global health and childhood obesity, that works to improve the health and well-being of people across the United States by activating individuals, communities, and organizations to make meaningful contributions to the health of others. CHMI holds an annual Health Matters conference every January in the
. Disaster relief [ ]
The foundation has funded extensive disaster relief programs following the
and
in 2005. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit, President
asked former Presidents
and Bill Clinton to raise funds to help rebuild the
region. The two Presidents, having worked together to assist victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, established the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund to identify and meet the unmet needs in the region, foster economic opportunity, and to improve the quality of life of those affected.
In the first month after the hurricane, the Fund collected over 42,000 online donations alone; approximately $128.4 million has been received to date from all 50 states and $30.9 million from foreign countries.
Both the foundation and the Clintons personally have been involved in Haiti before and after the
.
Bill Clinton was named the head of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) in 2010 after serving as UN special envoy to Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. The Clinton Foundation itself raised $30m and played an important part in the creation of the
. The IHRC mandate was removed by the Haitian legislature in 2011. No Ceilings project [ ]
In 2013,
established a partnership between the foundation and the
to gather and study data on the progress of women and girls around the world since the United Nations
in Beijing in 1995.
This is called "No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project".
The project released a report in March 2015. Financials [ ]
The Clinton Foundation relies on donation from various groups or individuals, donors such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated over $25 million over the years
Throughout the years, donations have been varying from one year to the other according to their financial reports