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https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/clinton-global-initiative/

Former President Bill Clinton and his longtime aide Doug Band created the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in 2005 in New York to serve as a networking platform for the Clinton Foundation.[18] Its events would coincide with the annual opening of the U.N. General Assembly.[19]

In order to attend the CGI, prospective attendees were required to pay $20,000 per person to attend and to make specific commitments outlining actions they planned to take that would further CGI’s left-leaning international economic and environmental goals.[20] [21]

CGI’s activities were managed as a part of the Clinton Foundation.[22] However, from 2009 through 2012, CGI was spun off as a separate entity while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State in the Obama administration.[23]

CGI created a number of notable of regional conferences such as CGI America, CGI Latin America, CGI Middle East and Africa,[24] and CGI Asia.[25] These regional meetings sought to generate a variety of progressive education, environmentalist, and public health policies in each specific region.[26] [27] For instance, the 2015 CGI Middle East and Africa conference included sessions that sought the development of environmentalist-driven energy sources and sought to expand public funding for “social and sustainable infrastructure.”[28]
Multiple commentators have noted that many of the commitments made at CGI were vague and nearly impossible to track. In 2005, Fortune wrote, “some of the commitments seem so vague as to be meaningless.”[34] Similarly, The Observer wrote, “Both the initiative’s mission and its own definition of what it seeks to accomplish are vague.”[35] Non-Profit Quarterly noted that “CGI fell under criticism for mixed results, as some commitments appeared to be more rhetorical than action-driven.[36]

Fortune pointed out that some of the major commitments that former President Clinton claimed were CGI-inspired, like Deutsche Bank’s $75 million microfinance fund, were created well before the conference even began.[37] Foreign Policy magazine acknowledged that it is hard to assess the true impact of CGI’s commitments.[38]

As of 2014, CGI claimed that its members had made over 2,500 commitments valued at $85 billion, but only 42 percent of their committed projects had been completed.[39] CGI’s analysis of commitments relied upon self-reported data from the respective CGI members “with very limited auditing by CGI staff.” [40]

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