Ideagen – “Where the World’s Leading Organizations Convene to Innovate and Collaborate"
NEW YORK, March 5, 2015 /3BL Media/ - The Ideagen 100, a cross-sector, collective impact member network where the world’s leading corporations, NGO’s, and public sector organizations convene to innovate and collaborate, hosted its latest quarterly summit at the United Nations today focused on the theme, Empowering Women & Girls - a 50-50 Planet.
Impact leaders convened at UN in New York to facilitate cross-sector collaboration, impact leadership, and collective impact. The theme, “Empowering Women & Girls” focused on the pressing needs and emergent strategies within four key topic areas within the empowering women and girls theme: Health & Wellness, Innovation & Technology, Economic Empowerment, Education & Workforce and the 50-50 Planet Initiative of UN Women.
George Sifakis, CEO and Founder of Ideagen, outlined the importance of empowering women together with Annette Richardson from UN Women and Gerton Van Den Akker from the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations. June Sugiyama (Vodafone), Chair of the Ideagen Impact Leader Council and Maurizio Vecchione (Intellectual Ventures/Global Good), Co-Chair of the Ideagen Impact Leader Council were formally introduced with their new role in leading the curation of Ideagen Summit topics.
“We are honored to announce the 2015 Ideagen Impact 100 List. Nominated by their peers in the Ideagen 100, individuals including the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Former First Lady Laura Bush, Bill & Melinda Gates, Arianna Huffington, Daymond John and organizations including Citi, Western Union, Amway, Intellectual Ventures, Lumina Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation are among many others on the 2015 Ideagen Impact 100 list. Today, we recognize the tremendous leadership and impact each of these individuals and organizations are demonstrating and their focused commitment to the empowerment of women”. –George Sifakis, Founder and CEO – Ideagen.“
During the ideation and strategy sessions, Ideagen members outlined ideas and emergent strategies to address the empowerment of women and girls as we lead toward a 50-50 planet with Ideagen’s commitment with UN Women.
A Collective Approach to Deliver a Collective Impact
Large-scale change to meet the unprecedented social, resource, business, political and organizational challenges of today requires broad cross-sector coordination. When organizations and leaders from different sectors commit to solving a specific problem through a collective approach, they can make a collective impact that far exceeds the potential of their individual agendas.
The 2015 Ideagen Impact 100 List
“We are honored to announce the 2015 Ideagen Impact 100 List. Nominated by their peers in the Ideagen 100, individuals including the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, First Lady Michelle Obama, Former First Lady Laura Bush, Bill & Melinda Gates, Arianna Huffington, Daymond John and organizations including Citi, Western Union, Amway, Intellectual Ventures, Lumina Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation are among many others on the 2015 Ideagen Impact 100 list. Today, we recognize the tremendous leadership and impact each of these individuals and organizations are demonstrating and their focused commitment to the empowerment of women”. – George Sifakis, Founder and CEO – Ideagen.“
America’s Charities
Amway
Ann Inc.
Apollo Group
Arianna Huffington
Avi Reichental
Girls Who Code
Bill and Melinda Gates
Causecast
Cengage/Ed2Go
Chelsea Clinton
Cherie Blair
Chevron
Christine Brennan
Christine Lagarde
Cindi Leive
Citi
Coca Cola
Covergirl
Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron/YWCA USA David Johns
David Stern
Dawn Sweeney
Daymond John
Debora Spar
Deloitte
Dignity Health System
Dilma Rousseff
Dr. Terry Neese
Emma Watson
European Union
Exxon Mobil
Farhan Akhtar
Global Communities
Global Health Corps
Global Impact
Grameen Foundation
Intellectual Ventures/Global Good
Indra Inooyi
International Olympic Committee
Irene Rosenfeld
Jamie Dimon
Janet Yellen
John Chambers
Kathy Calvin
Kim Nelson
Kyle Zimmer
L’Occitane Foundation
Laura Bush
Lloyd Blankfein
Lumina Foundation
Malala Yousafzai
Marilyn Hewson
Nike
Marriott
McKinsey & Company
Michelle Obama
Million Women Mentors/STEM Connector Morgan Stanley
Natalie DiNicola
Nelson Mandela (Posthumous)
Oprah Winfrey
Peter Thiel
Points of Light
Procter and Gamble
PwC
Reshma Saujani
Sheila Johnson
Sheri McCoy
Sheryl Sandberg
Shivani Siroya
Sunovion
Susan Wojcicki
Sylvia Matthews Burwell
Symantec
Tamron Hall
The Asia Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Tory Burch
UN Office of Partnerships
UN Women
Under Armour
Deloitte
Ursula Burns
US Chamber/US Chamber Foundation
USPAACC – US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Venture Philanthropy Partners
Verizon
Virginia Rometty
Vodafone
Walmart
Wells Fargo
Wendy Luhabe
Western Union
Whole Foods Markets
WNBA/NBA
Howard Schultz
Queen Rania of Jordan
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
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