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...
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....
Nairobi, Kenya – January 13, 2012: The opening of the Columbia Global Centers | Africa in Nairobi and represented the culmination of the University’s impactful engagement with Africa spanning several years. Signing a Host Country Agreement with the Government of Kenya established the Center as an international organization, providing a...