Casina Pio IV, Vatican City- February 2-3, 2017: The second meeting of Ethics in Action (EIA) was dedicated to peace. Today, peace is being suffocated by “piecemeal” violence, threatened by wars in different countries and continents, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the rise of terrorism by non-state and...
Casina Pio IV, Vatican City- October 31-November 1, 2016: Ethics in Action (EIA) convened for the first time, establishing its goal of advancing “sustainable and integral human development through an effective collaboration among world religions for the purpose of articulating universal values and ethical imperatives and indicating how such values...
Los Angeles, California – August 2016: The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s Leadership Council brings together global experts on sustainable development from academia, business, civil society and the public sector. Its members include H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco; American business mogul Ted Turner; Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations,...
Casino Pio IV, Vatican City- April 15-16, 2016: Organized by The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, “Centesimus annus 25 Years Later” was not merely a commemoration of Pope John Paul II’s 1991 social encyclical, which itself marked the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo...
Los Angeles, California – 2015: Jennifer Gross met Robert Egger in 2012, when he was president of the DC Central Kitchen, the country’s first “community kitchen.” Inspired by his work, Jennifer reached out to Robert, and at their meeting she presented his first individual donation to help build L.A. Kitchen...
Casino Pio, Vatican City – July 22, 2015: Organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, “Prosperity, People and Planet in the Cities” was held at the Vatican with the goal of translating the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to work at the city level. The “Prosperity, People and...
Synod Hall, Vatican City- July 21, 2015: On one momentous day, “50 Mayors of the most important cities of the world” came together with Pope Francis at the Vatican’s Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences “to address two interconnected dramatic emergencies: human-induced climate change and social exclusion in the...
Mayange, Rwanda- July 16-20, 2015: In the first leg of the Documentary that Blue Chip and VII Photo are creating together was in Mayange with VII Photo Founder, Photographer Gary Knight. We happened to be there for the Millennium Promise end-of- year retreat, which helped the photographers get a larger...
Casina Pio IV, Vatican City- April 28, 2015: Organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, SDSN and Religions for Peace, the goal of this summit was to help strengthen the global consensus on the importance of climate change in the context of sustainable development....
Cura Orphanage, Cura, Kenya – February 2015: On February 2, 2015, Jennifer Gross traveled to Cura, 30 minutes north of Nairobi, to reaffirm her commitment to the orphanage Blue Chip Foundation had pledged to support a few years earlier. She had been working across Africa on a series of solar...
Africa – January 31, 2014: The African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government declared 2014 the Year of Agriculture and Food Security with focus on “Transforming Africa’s Agriculture for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods, through Harnessing Opportunities for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development.” The selection of this theme...
Los Angeles, CA –2013: In the Spring of 2013, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center opened its doors of it’s new surgical and interventional center in its Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion named in honor of the Gross Family. The Gross Family Foundation donated $20 million toward a building that allows brings research and...