Founding Date: 1998

Objectives: The United Nations Foundation promotes a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world through the support of the United Nations and its Charter. Through our grantmaking and by building new and innovative public-private partnerships, the United Nations Foundation acts to meet the most pressing health, humanitarian, socioeconomic, and environmental challenges of the 21st century.

Main projects in globalisation studies: (a) the measurement of globalisation; (b) governance of global and regional economies; (c) globalisation, regionalisation and security; (d) social dimensions of globalisation and regionalisation; and (e) the relationship of regionalisation to globalisation.

Outputs: field-based studies; joint-publications with UN Agencies and other NGOs.

Staff numbers: 60 core staff (Senior Staff, Project Managers, Support Staff and Interns)

Director: Timothy Wirth, President; Kathy Bushkin, Executive Vice President

Funding: Core funding from Ted Turner $1Billion dollar gift to the UN and numerous third-party funders including Hewlett Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, DFID, DFAIT, SIDA, CIDA, UNA-USA, Reebok Foundation, Ford Foundation, etc.

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