United Nations Foundation

The UN Foundation was founded in 1998 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner to support the UN and serve as a strategic partner and resource for the UN in solving global problems. Today, the Foundation focuses on mobilizing ideas, people, and resources to help the UN tackle some of the greatest collective action challenges of our time, including scaled collaboration to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the promise of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Through partnerships with the UN and others, the UN Foundation works to ensure that every girl and woman can achieve her potential. We support the UN’s efforts to tackle violence against women, we support targeted research to build evidence about women’s empowerment, and we work to empower the next generation of girl leaders. We also work to enhance private sector support for the UN’s Every Woman Every Child movement.

Primary Functions

• Funding
• Networking/Convening

Secondary Functions

• N/A

Geographic Scope

• Global / regional

Attainment

• Primary completion
• Primary enrollment
• Primary to secondary transition
• Secondary completion

Other skills

• Life skills/sexuality education
• Rights/empowerment education
• Social and emotional learning

Skills

• Literacy
• Numeracy

Website

United Nations Foundation

Headquarters location(s)

• New York, New York, United States of America
• Washington, D.C., , United States of America

Office location(s)

• United States of America