Posts Tagged ‘Bill Clinton’
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Mar
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration. Tagged: All Together Now: A Celebration of Service, Bill Clinton, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Cee Lo Green, Darius Rucker, five presidents, four presidents, Garth Brooks, George Bush, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Kid Rock, President Obama, Reba McEntire, Sam Moore, Sheryl Crow. 1 Comment
Tonight at 8PM, NBC will air All Together Now: A Celebration of Service, the first time since President Obama’s inauguration that all four surviving presidents will gather. Clinton, Carter, Bush & Bush will assemble at the Kennedy Center for the event sponsored by the Points of Light Institute to honor President Bush, Sr. for his [...]
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Aug
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration, Support, Uncategorized. Tagged: Bill Clinton, Ciara, Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber World Leadership Award, Leadership Academy, Moguls in Training, Powerd By Service, Service Legacy Award, Usher, Usher's New Look Foundation, World Leadership Awards. Leave a Comment
This Friday, August 6, is the evening when the World Leadership Awards will be presented. Crowds may come for the entertainment: Usher will be joined by Ciara and Justin Bieber and Bill Clinton will receive the “Service Legacy Award,” but this first-time award from Usher’s New Look Foundation is completely dedicated to the real stars, [...]
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22
Apr
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Environment, Inspiration, One click helping, Opportunities, Support, volunteer. Tagged: A bid to Save the Earth, Bill Clinton, Central Park COnservancy, Christie's Green Auction, Conde Nast Traveler, Conservation International, Dinda Elliott, dotherightthing.truth.travel, earth day, Hugh Jackman, Lexus, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oceana, Vera Wang. Leave a Comment
happy earth day Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, a chance to take note of where we stand with the planet (worth doing every day, of course). I’ve just returned from a conference with Condé Nast Traveler’s “World Savers” program, entitled “Doing the Right Thing Now.” It was a fantastic discussion about sustainability [...]
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17
Mar
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration, Support. Tagged: Beyonce, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Bono, Bowie, feeding hungry children, Jeff Bridges, Mario Batali, Soweto, The Lunchbox Fund, thelunchboxfund.org. Leave a Comment
The Lunchbox Fund is a charity founded in 2004 to aid school children in Soweto, South Africa. The students of economically impoverished Meadowlands School and, now, three additional schools, are directly impacted by the Fund. The cause is simple–feed the hungry. Even simpler is the methodology–provide a free nutritious lunch at school. For far too [...]
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25
Sep
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration. Tagged: Alicia Keys, Ashton Kutcher, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, Bill Clinton, Bono, Brad Pitt, Demi Moore, Eve Ensler, James Brolin, Jessica Alba, Juanes, Julia Ormond, Keep a Child Alive, Lisa Ling, Lower Ninth Ward, Make It Right New Orleans, Mira Sorvino, Philippe Cousteau, Powered by Service, Queen Rania, Quincy Jones, Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin Foundation, Usher, Waterplanet Challenge. 7 Comments
CGI-DAY 3 Today, Day 3—Thursday, seems to be celeb day, even more than the past two. I was in a press conference with Usher (who just donated a million dollars and is launching a new youth service program, “Powered by Service” www.poweredbyservice.org). Really Usher, you’re chewing gum for this? The new project aims to mobilize [...]
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24
Sep
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration. Tagged: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Clinton Global Initiative, Diane Sawyer, Women for Women International, Zainab Salbi. 2 Comments
CGI-DAY TWO Lordy I love Diane Sawyer—she is just so damn smart and so unpretentious. She lets you in on everything without making you feel stupid—no small feat at this event where we swim in statistics and stories of hardship (and eventual stories of victory and success) This morning’s plenary session of the Clinton Global [...]
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23
Sep
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Uncategorized. Tagged: 10000 Women, Anthony Edwards, Barack Obama, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, Bill Clinton, Bradd Pitt, Clinton Global Initiative, Demi Moore, Fran Drescher, Goldman Sachs, NGO, water.org. 3 Comments
CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE-DAY ONE Last night, Tuesday, was the opening plenary session and welcome for the Clinton Global Initiative fifth annual meeting. There were a thousand members of the press wedged into the basement of the New York Sheraton hotel, and a thousand special guests upstairs in the Metropolitan Ballroom…and at least a thousand more [...]
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