For Immediate Release: April 13, 2023
Contact: press@clintonfoundation.org
The Clinton Foundation 2022 Impact Report Captures a Year of Impact
Read the full report at www.clintonfoundation.org/2022-impact–report
NEW YORK, NY – Today, the Clinton Foundation released the 2022 Impact Report, detailing a landmark year of impact in working with partners to expand economic opportunity, improve public health, confront the climate crisis, and inspire citizen engagement and service.
Below is the text of the annual letter President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton shared with the Foundation community, sharing progress made and the work still ahead:
We have always believed in “putting people first” and that everyone plays a role in building a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world. Over the past year — as we’ve continued to grapple with the realities caused by a global pandemic, climate change, economic inequality, nationalism, and attacks to our fundamental human rights — we know it has never been more important to do the work of creating a better future.
In 2022, we were proud to come together with you and the Foundation’s partners to meet the urgency of this moment.
We reconvened the Clinton Global Initiative community with a simple mission: take action together. Partners from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors came together to announce 144 new Commitments to Action. These projects will drive measurable action on climate, health equity, economic inclusion, women’s rights, and humanitarian response for refugees — particularly those suffering under the atrocities carried out by Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine. They join a growing portfolio of more than 3,800 projects announced through the Clinton Global Initiative since 2005 that are making a meaningful difference in the lives of 435 million people worldwide. We’re looking forward to building upon that impact throughout the year, especially at our next annual meeting in September.
We launched a special exhibition called “Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes, Women’s Rights at the Clinton Presidential Center, exploring the risks women and their allies took and are still taking to win the vote, strengthen democracy, and elevate human rights over the past two centuries. These issues remain a priority across the Foundation, and each of us plays a role in defending and advancing the fundamental human rights of girls and women – once and for all.
Through CGI University, we engaged the next generation of leaders who are tackling pressing issues facing their campuses and communities. Together with the American Association of Community Colleges, CGI U grew its community of more than 11,000 student leaders and alumni dedicated to social impact learning, leadership, and action. We also announced we’d bring the meeting back together in person for the first time since 2018 at Vanderbilt University. (In case you missed it — we were in Nashville in March for an inspiring and unforgettable few days focused on the future).
As always, we continued to keep score and expand our programmatic impact through our unique, partnership-driven model:
- 1.4 million childrens books provided. Now in its 10th year, Too Small to Fail has provided 1.4 million free children’s books, toolkits, and early literacy resources to communities across the United States.
- 665,000 doses of lifesaving naloxone distributed. Together with partners, the Overdose Response Network has distributed more than 665,000 doses of overdose-reversing naloxone to recovery residences, high schools, universities, and community organizations.
- 479,000 students and educators reached. The Clinton Presidential Center has helped students and educators connect the lessons of the Clinton administration to the challenges of today through free educational and cultural programming.
- 160,000 farm workers supported. The Clinton Development Initiative continued work with farming communities in Rwanda, Malawi, and Tanzania to support 160,000 farmers with improved access to markets and economic opportunities.
- 3,500 administration and campaign alumni engaged. Through Project 42, we’re re-engaging alumni to help us in applying the enduring lessons from the Clinton administration to the challenges of today.
- 400 Presidential Leadership Scholars connected. The Presidential Leadership Scholars welcomed a new class from nonprofit, military, public, and private sectors to their 6-month leadership program – community of bold and principled leaders committed to working together despite their differences and driving progress on the issues they care about.
- 71MW of clean energy projects facilitated. These projects, under the Clinton Climate Initiative, serve the populations hardest hit by climate change and demonstrate what’s possible in the global fight to cut carbon emissions.
Last year also marked the 20th anniversary of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), which originally launched as part of the Foundation and has since grown into its own independent charity. Since 2002, CHAI has focused on saving lives and reducing the burden of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases for people in low- and middle-income countries around the world. Because of their work, 21 million people worldwide have received lifesaving antiretroviral treatments.
Additionally, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, founded as a partnership between the Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, is transforming the everyday places children spend their time into healthier environments that can help set them up for success. Unprecedented agreements brokered by Healthier Generation and the beverage industry reduced the number of calories shipped to our nation’s schoolchildren by 90 percent.
Your continued partnership, support, and engagement with this work has reaffirmed what has guided us from the very beginning: the simple idea that we can accomplish more together than we can apart.
Thank you again for all that you have done and continue to do to support this work and make our mission of “putting people first” possible.
With gratitude,
President Bill Clinton
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton
Chelsea Clinton
Check out the full report for more details on Clinton Foundation programs and partners here: www.clintonfoundation.org/2022-impact–report
About the Clinton Foundation
Building on a lifetime of public service, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation on the simple belief that everyone deserves a chance to succeed, everyone has a responsibility to act, and we all do better when we work together. For more than two decades, those values have energized the work of the Foundation in overcoming complex challenges and improving the lives of people across the United States and around the world.
As an operating foundation, we work on issues directly or with strategic partners from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors to create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service. Our programs are designed to make a real difference today while serving as proven models for tomorrow. The goal of every effort is to use available resources to get better results faster – at the lowest possible cost.
We firmly believe that when diverse groups of people bring resources together in the spirit of true cooperation, transformative ideas will emerge to drive life-changing action. Learn more at https://www.clintonfoundation.org/ on Facebook at Facebook.com/ClintonFoundation, and on Twitter @ClintonFdn.
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