Showing posts with label Clinton Global Initiative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clinton Global Initiative. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Bill Clinton Pleads For Donations After ‘Clinton Cash’ Chases Donors Away

As questions brought up by the blockbuster book Clinton Cash continue to reverberate around the world, this week Bill 


Clinton sent a panicked letter to donors pleading with them not to flee his foundation.

 
In an attempt to push back against the serious questions dogging his charity, Bill Clinton sent a letter to some 30,000 Clinton Foundation donors insisting that the allegations are “just politics” and saying that the campaign against him is just an effect of Hillary’s run for the 2016 Democrat nomination for president.
“As you all know, it’s the political season in America, so the purpose and impact of the efforts your support makes possible has largely been ignored in recent coverage of the Foundation,” Clinton wrote in his letter. “But we are and always have been a non-partisan, inclusive foundation with lots of support from and involvement by people across the political spectrum and governments from right to left, all committed to our creative solutions-centered work.”
“I am writing to you and our hundreds of thousands of other supporters in the U.S. and around the world to let you know how grateful I am for your support, and for our staff and our partners, and how determined I am that our work will continue,” Clinton added.
Clinton also tried to claim that his foundation is “looking for ways” to improve the reporting procedures that it has continually flaunted, and he once again promised that his foundation would “continue to strive for accuracy and transparency.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

DOCUMENTS: ‘HILLARY CLINTON SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM’ TRANSFORMED INTO NURSING SCHOOL

HRC Nursing
A former Clinton fundraiser committed $6 million dollars to the founding of the Hillary Clinton School of Journalism, made under the umbrella of the Clinton Global Initiative an offshoot of the Clinton Foundation — but the project was renamed”Hillary Rodham Clinton Nursing School” with no explanation a few years later.
Members of the Clinton Global Initiative are asked to make specific “commitments to action” around the world. In 2007, a charity run by former Clinton fundraiser and InfoUSA CEO Vinod Gupta committed to create a school of journalism named after Hillary Clinton in rural India. An explanation of the purpose of the school reads, “This program is expected to have a direct impact upon the lives of approximately 500 students graduating every year from the institute. The goal is to overcome the rural bias against educating young females.”
According to a description on the Clinton Global Initiative website, the journalism school commitment was for $6,000,000 over two years. Much of the money appears to have been directed toward the construction of a new building. A progress update from September 2007 reads, “Phase I of building construction started and targeted to be completed by July 31, 2008.”
2011 archive of the Vinod Gupta Charitable Foundation website shows the “Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Mass Communication” as one of the facilities being funded by the charity. However, later in 2011 the same building appears under the new heading, “Hillary Rodham Clinton Nursing School.” No explanation of the transition from school of mass communication to school of nursing is offered.
The Hillary Rodham Clinton Nursing School has its own website and is continuing to enroll students.
HRC Prospectus
According to the site the school features up-to-date classrooms, a laboratory, a well-stocked library and a residence designed to host up to 200 students including a kitchen and dining hall. HRC facilities
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Here’s the class of 2013-2014:
HRC 2013-2014

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