P&G announces new commitment and recognizes
partners at the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
P&G announced a new Commitment to Action today at the
Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting to help 100 million girls
and women build confidence. The global goal aims to help girls and
women boost and maintain confidence and avoid traps that create
negative feelings of self-worth. The Company also recognized Keep a
Child Alive and Walmart for being outstanding partners in helping
bring women, girls and others in need clean drinking water through
P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program.
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President Clinton joins Tina Brown,
Ashley Judd, Dr. Pasquine Ogunsanya, Sienna Miller, Michelle Nunn,
and Carolyn Tastad at the “Giving Girls a Chance” topic dinner at
the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting (Photo: Business
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“An estimated 50 million girls around the
globe enter puberty every year, experiencing transformative changes
as they transition into womanhood. One in two of these
girls experience a drop in confidence, and many never truly
recover it. As the brand with a 30 year heritage in educating and
empowering girls and women, Always was determined to do something
about it,” said Fama Francisco, President, Global Feminine Care.
“The #LikeAGirl campaign has fueled a powerful movement that has
inspired millions of girls and women around the world, but there’s
still so much to be done. That’s why P&G is committed to using
the power of our brands, including Always, Pantene, Secret and
Venus to make a difference and help girls and women live their
lives to their fullest potential, through puberty and beyond.”
"Building a better world where girls and
women are empowered requires all of us to do our part. I
applaud P&G for its leadership and for developing creative
partnerships like the one with PSI creating entrepreneurial
opportunities and instilling the confidence that help
women break down barriers,” remarked Ashley
Judd, PSI global ambassador and long-time advocate for human
rights, global health and social justice issues that affect women
and other vulnerable populations.
P&G is uniquely positioned to engage millions of girls and
women around the world by offering support and teaching confidence
building skills. Over the next year, P&G brands will address
the specific issues and shared experiences of building confidence
commonly faced by girls and women.
Always, expanding on the groundbreaking #LikeAGirl campaign,
will launch the Always Global Confidence Teaching Curriculum, a
program that will benefit millions of girls around the world. The
new confidence teaching curriculum, incorporating the latest
research on confidence-building, is being co-developed by Always
and education-thought leaders and experts. The curriculum builds on
Always’ 30 year heritage in puberty education. Additionally, TED,
the non-profit devoted to spreading ideas, has committed to
supporting Always in teaching confidence to young girls. In this
unique collaboration, Always and TED are working together to
develop and spread a collection of confidence-inspiring content
through TED-Ed, TED’s award-winning educational platform creating
lessons worth sharing.
- Secret’s “Mean Stinks” program is
dedicated to bringing an end to girl-to-girl bullying by inspiring
and supporting girls directly in their quest to end mean behavior.
Secret is partnering with Teen Vogue to encourage girls to join the
#ChainOfNice movement to pay kindness forward. Later this year,
Secret will initiate a scholarship program to reward girls for
their commitment to kindness and ending bullying.
- Venus launched the ”Use Your And”
campaign with the aim to inspire women and girls to stand-up
against one-dimensional labels and to #UseYourAnd to unleash their
innate potential.
- Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths program
inspires girls and women to help other women battling cancer feel
more confident by providing free, real-hair wigs. Pantene will
launch the 2015 Beautiful Lengths multi-media #8or8 campaign in
September with its partners to inspire other girls and women to
donate 8 inches or hair or $8 and join in their efforts to empower
those fighting cancer.
P&G and CGI co-hosted the “Giving Girls a Chance” topic
dinner which featured leading global advocates for girls and women
including Ashley Judd, Global Ambassador Population Services
International; Sienna Miller, Global Ambassador International
Medical Corps; Michelle Nunn, President and CEO CARE and Dr.
Pasquine Ogunsanya, Executive Director and Founder, Alive Medical
Services. Moderated by Tina Brown, the panelists shared their
perspectives on topics relevant to women and girls including family
planning, gender-based violence, health challenges, economic
development and education.
P&G’s newest CGI Commitment to Action builds upon 10-years
of participation in the Annual Meeting, and the Company just
renewed its commitment to providing clean drinking water to those
in need by announcing the Company will deliver 15 billion liters of
clean drinking water by 2020. Keep a Child Alive and Alive Medical
Services were recognized for providing comprehensive and
compassionate care and clean water to people living positively with
HIV transforming their health and turning obstacles into
opportunities. Walmart was awarded for raising awareness of the
global water crisis in Brazil and Argentina and providing more than
100 million days of clean water to children and families
globally.
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strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands,
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About the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton
Global Initiative (CGI)—an initiative of the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation—convenes global leaders to create and
implement innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing
challenges. CGI Annual Meetings have brought together more than 180
heads of state, 20 Nobel Prize laureates, and hundreds of leading
CEOs, heads of foundations and NGOs, major philanthropists, and
members of the media. To date, members of the CGI community have
made nearly 3,200 commitments, improving the lives of more than 430
million people in over 180 countries.
CGI also convenes CGI America, a meeting focused on
collaborative solutions to economic recovery in the United States,
and CGI University (CGI U), which brings together undergraduate and
graduate students to address pressing challenges in their community
or around the world. For more information, visit
clintonglobalinitiative.org and follow us on Twitter @ClintonGlobal
and Facebook at facebook.com/clintonglobalinitiative.
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