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Our Corporate Partners are companies and organizations that are strong believers and champions of the mission of L.I.V.E. World Summit 2008. Corporate Partners’ contributions underwrite the production of the Summit. Thanks to our Corporate Partners, we can provide scholarships to leaders from the non-profit community, and to select graduate and undergraduate student leaders, so that they could attend the Summit and enrich the forum with their perspective.
Our Community Partners are non-profit organizations, professional associations, and networks of leaders that believe in the importance of championing collaboration, innovation, and partnerships towards solving the most pressing issues faced by America and the world.
Our Corporate and Community Partners are sending delegates to speak at the Summit, and to represent their organizations at the Best Practices & Career Fair.
Commitments for Community Partners
We work with a select number of Community Partners to help them launch, develop, grow, or propel initiatives and campaigns designed to solve a range of problems in America and the global society –from economic issues to social and environmental problems.
L.I.V.E. World Summit 2008 will be a platform for the audience to participate in making a year-long commitment: Summit Participants will have the opportunity to commit time or resources in working with Community Partners on innovative campaigns and projects.
We offer a platform for Summit participants to help transform society in partnership with world-class organizations. Summit participants have the opportunity to contribute their time, leadership, and skills in strategic advisory, marketing, fundraising, volunteering, operations, or strategic networking, to benefit a range of world-changing causes.
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ALL FOR AFRICA |
ALL FOR AFRICA is a non-profit organization that is poised to revolutionize development in Africa. We operate as a platform for individuals, corporations and other organizations to actively get involved in, design and coordinate economically sustainable projects in Africa. All for Africa believes that the quickest route to realizing Africa's true potential is through the effective collaboration between non-profit and for-profit stakeholders in Africa's future.
Founder & Chairman: Bruce Wrobel
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Art for Refugees in Transition (ART) |
ART provides curriculum and training programs to engage both children and adults in refugee communities in visual, performing and creative arts drawn from their own cultures. These activities provide local and international relief institutions with tools to help refugee communities recover from the trauma, terror and displacement of war.
Executive Director & Founder: Sara M. Green
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ARZU |
Arzu, meaning hope in Dari, is a not-for-profit organization that provides sustainable income to Afghan women by sourcing and selling the rugs they weave. Arzuhelps weavers and their families break the cycle of poverty by providing them above market compensation and access to education and health care.
Founder & Chairman: Connie Duckworth
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Ayala Foundation USA – GILAS Project |
Ayala Foundation USA creates opportunities to help the Philippines by facilitating meaningful contributions to social development initiatives. With over 100 projects supported in partnership with Philippine non-profits, AF-USA is able to address the country's greatest needs. Ayala Foundation works to nurture the Filipino's mind, body, and spirit through social development projects, environmental programs, information technology, schools, and initiatives in art and culture.
GILAS is a movement and a coalition of companies and people dedicated to advancing public education in the Philippines by providing PCs, internet connectivity, and hardware/software training to teachers and students in Philippine public high schools. Today, less than 10% of Philippine public high schools are connected to the Internet. In contrast, virtually 100% of public schools in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong are wired to the Internet. To become part of a global society, Filipino youth need to be connected to information, as well as be empowered to create information. GILAS aims to wire all 6,500 Philippine public high schools to the Internet within 5 years. To date, GILAS has wired 20% of all Philippine public high schools.
President: Vicky Garchitorena
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The Comedy Cures Foundation |
ComedyCures® is an award-winning national, 501(C)3 non-profit organization that brings joy, hope, laughter and therapeutic comedy programs to kids and grown-ups living with illness, trauma, depression and disabilities.
Founder: Saranne Rothberg
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Global Fund for Women |
The Global Fund for Women makes grants to seed, strengthen and link grassroots women's groups around the world that are addressing these social issues:
• Ending Gender-Based Violence & Building Peace
• Ensuring Economic & Environmental Justice
• Advancing Health & Sexual & Reproductive Rights
• Expanding Civic & Political Participation
• Increasing Access to Education
• Fostering Social Change Philanthropy
CEO: Kavita Ramdas
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Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) |
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity is the nation's premier summer internship program for talented students of color. Since its inception, SEO's Career Program has placed over 4,000 Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and Native American students in internships that lead to rewarding careers in the most competitive industries worldwide. For 44 years, SEO has also been recruiting motivated students of color in New York public high schools into the SEO Scholars Program.
President: William Goodloe
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