BRAD CARSON, AN AMERICAN HERO AND CHAMPION OF GLOBAL BUSINESS INCUBATION

BRAD CARSON:

It is the mission and purpose in this life for Brad Carson to help create safe communities by breaking the cycle of the repeat criminal offender and the intergenerational gang violence. How? By addressing the spiritual, social, and economic causes. It is my philosophy that through jobs and education the cycle of the repeat criminal offender and the intergenerational gang violence can be broken and the quality of life issues achieved.

As a Deputy Probation Officer for the past 21 years, Brad as helped create, develop, and implement numerous programs and services to help meet the needs of the target population. In 1987, Brad was selected to serve on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor Kenneth Hahn’s Gang Committee, which created the Gang Alternative Prevention Program (GAPP). In 1989, Brad was assigned to the “Venice Oakwood Project” where he was involved in community –base policing with the multi-agency F.A.L.C.O.N. unit. He initiated and mediated the gang truce in Venice/Oakwood (LA’s worst gang war) in 1994. He brokered the “Gang Cease-Fire” between the VSLC in Venice and the CC Boys in the Mar Vista Gardens Housing Project in 1997. Brad helped create partnerships, coalitions, and collaborations with political, corporate, faith-base, and community-base agencies, which serviced the Venice area.

In 2000, Brad was assigned to the “Probation –To- Work” pilot project program in the East San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. The “Probation-To-Work” pilot project was a public/private partnership between the Probation Department and Communities in Schools, SFV.Inc. and Mission College WorkSource One-Stop Center, and the Sun Valley WorkSource One-Stop Center. In 2002, Brad was given countywide authority in his current role as “The Employment Resource Coordinator”.

Since July 2002, Mr. Carson has been working as the Adult Field Services Bureaus Employment Resource Coordinator (ERC). The goal and the intent of the ERC position is to provide information and assistance to probationers in the form of referrals to vocational training and employment readiness programs, and to connect probationers to employers. In 2005, Mr. Carson conducted one-on-one Career Development Motivation Orientations to 332 new adult probationers from Probation Area Offices in South Central Los Angeles. Of the 332 probationers, 52 of them obtained employment within the next monthly reporting period. Mr. Carson completed the monthly “Job Talk” newsletter that was made available to the over 4,500 Probation staff. Additionally, Mr. Carson was the “driving force” behind the Countywide Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee’s four Ex-Offender Job and Resource Fairs, and the two Business/Employers Symposiums that were sponsored by the Inter-Agency Gang Task Force.


As the Board President of Venice Community Housing Corporation, Brad Carson helped expand the vision and policies of the non-profit organization in order to initiate local hiring, training, and education of high-risk offenders in the actual development of building affordable housing in their communities. Brad Carson developed a task force called “The Ad Hoc Committee to Enforce At-Risk Youth Employment on Proposition A” (now known as Jobs Create Peace Coalition). As a result of this effort, Brad was the first to bring together both Black and Brown Gang Truce Peacemakers to obtain a $54 million set-aside for “at-risk” youth employment on a major public works project. Accordingly, 21,346 “at-risk” youth worked 2,755,696 hours as of the “ Regional Park and Open Space District’s” report dated July 17, 2008.

Brad also negotiated the 10% set-aside for “at-risk” employment in the Project Labor Agreement at the Playa Vista development. The Playa Vista development is the largest ($7 Billion) private mixed-use development in the United States. Brad Carson is an original member of the Playa Vista Jobs Task Force. Brad played a major role in the design, development, and implementation of the PVJOBS program. Brad still oversees the implementation of the program as a Board member of the non-profit corporation PVJOBS.

Brad Carson is a licensed General Contractor. As a General Contractor, Brad builds affordable housing while at the same time employs and develops the life skills of the “at-risk/gang member”. Brad as a social-entrepreneur utilizes these projects for a pre-apprenticeship program, and then sells the house to low-moderate income homeowners or non-profit corporations for no money down and no closing cost. Brad is also a partner owner of the “At-Risk Youth General Labor Corporation (ARY)”. The ARY did a lot of the clean-up work at the Playa Vista Development and hired as well as trained/supervised most of the “gang-members” at the site.

In 2006, Brad Carson was a co-founding member of the United Job Creation Council which is a strategic alliance forged through the Anchor of Hope Ministry (Jean Franklin, under the auspices of Bishop Noel Jones, Senior Pastor of City of Refuge Church) and the Jobs Create Peace Coalition. On April 23, 2008, UJCC reached its two-year set goal when the historic milestone of the “CRA-LA Construction Careers Policy” was unanimously passed by the LA City Council and signed by the Mayor.

On October 21, 2008, Brad Carson was moved in order to help set-up and implement another first of its kind pilot program called “ The Day Reporting Center (DRC)”. The DRC is where male re-entry probationers 18-25 years of age, gang-members that are high-risk offenders, and resides in South Central LA, reports daily for “wraparound” network services.

Brad Carson has received numerous awards including “Employee of the Year” from the Chief Probation Officers of California. He received the first “Community Hero Award” from the Season for Nonviolence honoring the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King. He was honored at L.A. Dodger Stadium receiving the “Hometown Hero” award in memory of Jackie Robinson as a barrier breaker.

Brad Carson is the author of a meditative daily devotional book and CD called “Nothing But The Word”. He is a licensed credentialed ordained minister of the gospel certified under the “Western Evangelical Association”. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Southern California College. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. He has been married for 23 years, and has three beautiful children.

Experience and Qualifications:
• 19 years experience as a community base Probation Officer
• Demonstrated ability in gang prevention, intervention, suppression, and mediation.
• Demonstrated ability in community organizing, and coalition building
• Working knowledge base of non-profit, public and private sector management and policies
• Demonstrated ability to affect policies and outcomes at the local, state, or federal level
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement effective programs resulting in job creation and retention for the target population.

Brad Carson
http://jobscreatepeace.com
Email: jobscreatepeace@yahoo.com
Phone: (213) 368-6556

The Brad Carson Story - Parts 1, 2, and 3 (The Continuing Legacy of Dr. George Kozmetsky and GBI) as to the Revitalization of the Los Angeles Economy

Brad,

It was a pleasure speaking with you at length earlier today regarding production, promotion and management of “The Brad Carson Story” Parts 1, 2 &; 3, as discussed and described in previous pre-production meetings (copy and paste this link to browser: http://andrewwilliamsjr.blogspot.com/).

FUNDING OF “TREATMENT PACKAGES” FOR BRAD CARSON STORY 1-3

The most time- and cost-effective method for the City of Los Angeles to capture both Stimulus Package and Innovation Award funding PLUS revitalize travel and tourism so important for “Hollywood” “Inglewood/LAX” and the entire Southern California Region by engaging Sister Cities International communities worldwide is to fund “The Brad Carson Story 1-3” as its virtual, media and digital “Ambassador” is to subsidize the 3-part production into docudrama/reality tv/dvd/games, as quickly as possible.

CURRENT MOTIVATING FACTORS

The Brad Carson Story Part 1

According to investigations conducted by federal, state, county and municipal and private agencies and individuals, broadcasts by Los Angeles television stations, publications including “The Truce”, the issuance of numerous awards and commendations, and summarized in the “On The Air” show moderated by Tonia McDonald, with Paul McDonald as Executive Producer for Global Business Incubation Inc, Brad Carson, almost singlehandedly, forged a collaboration among “gangs” that brought to close a “race war” in the Oakwood section of Venice, California that, at its height, wounded almost 100 people, mostly non-gang members, over a 90 day period in 1994 – that is still in effect now – almost 15 years later.

From 1994 through 2008, Brad Carson, working with 100 other faith-based organizations (the “collective”) and the labor union, used “set-asides” to employ “at risk” youth aged 18 – 24 (Jobs Create Peace) that successfully processed over 1,000 ex-felons into well-paying union jobs, in major CRA construction contracts, including the $7 Billion Playa Vista project, and contributed to a reduction in the recidivism rate from 70% to 5% or less

Working through Jobs Create Peace (JCP), United Jobs Creation Council (UJCC), and his own construction company, Brad worked with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villagairosa and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo (using the city’s drug abatement process) to acquire, and employ, through the graduates of the JCP/Labor Union’s “at risk” youth training program to successfully re-model former “crack houses” that became “dream homes” for first-time home buying low income families, subsidized by the City of Los Angeles.

The Brad Carson Story – Part 2

In 2008, Brad, the Union, the “collective”, and several hundred youth held a Prayer Rally to influence the Los Angeles City Council to PERMANENTLY include a “set aside” for ALL CRA CONTRACTS awarded to implement the Jobs Create Peace paradigm throughout the City of Los Angeles.

The law was passed with a unanimous vote by the Los Angeles City Council, and is in effect for the CRA-LA/ULI-LA $5 Billion Jordan Downs/Watts redevelopment project (http://www.uli.org/sitecore/content/ULI2Home/News/ULI%20in%20the%20News/2009%20Archives/Content/May%202009/26%20May%20California%20Real%20Estate%20Journal.aspx)

The Brad Carson Story – Part 3 / Continuing the Legacy of Dr. George Kozmetsky / “Privatizing the Set-Aside through Community Wealth Creators Business Incubation Hubs”

Through his work with the Los Angeles County Probation Department (for the “South Los Angeles” area), Brad has actively championed and implemented many of the “Ten Smart Teams” and “Zero Time” principles and protocols developed by the late Dr. George Kozmetsky –[Chairman Emeritus of Global Business Incubation, Inc. Founder of Teledyne, and Founding Director of the world-famous IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin] and Dr. Raymond Yeh [Loyola Marymount University], through mentorship training still championed by Global Business Incubation, Inc.’s Chief Researcher, Paul McDonald, President, Tonia McDonald, and current Chairman, Lou Myers.

Mayor Anthony Villagairosa, the Los Angeles City Council and the CRA/LA are now working hard to capture Stimulus Package funding from the Obama Administration.

Faced with both the $2 Billion Hollywood Redevelopment Project and the $5 Billion CRA/LA South Los Angeles Redevelopment Projects, Brad intends continuing the Legacy of Dr. George Kozmetsky to support their efforts by replicating the successful Jobs Create Peace/Labor Union/CRA/Faith Based Institutions collaboration to capture “set asides” for “at risk youth” in “distressed communities” AND by employing Dr. Kozmetsky’s Community Wealth Creators Business Incubation Hubs to “privatize”, capture, monetize and sustain local tax rolls and community [residential and commercial property] ownership in targeted areas, utilizing new media, digital marketing and construction training programs, platforms and protocols.

GLOBAL BUSINESS INCUBATION

At the urging of Global Business Incubation’s Zero Time Solutions Facilitator, Brad will also be encouraging Mayor Villagairosa to activate and monetize Sister Cities International infrastructure to transmutate the benefits enjoyed in Los Angeles to empower communities worldwide with by replicating the “Community Wealth Creators Business Incubation Hubs” in NEW Sister Cities International relationships with cities as diverse as Dakar, Senegal (joining Washington, D.C.) and Hamilton, Bermuda (affording Los Angeles the opportunity to become the first “twinning” city, along with [proposed] Las Vegas], capturing worldwide attention and stimulating travel, tourism and Direct Foreign Investment in support of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals 2015 [hosted by Dakar, Senegal in 2009].

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Facebook Ambassador Andrew Williams Jr - United Nations Millennium Development Goals 2015 Campaign

Welcome all fans - ready to get busy? We need multi-lingual administrators willing to actively progress mission.

This is a bit "different" from most "fan" pages, however. Everybody's welcome, but what we're looking for are not really "fans" but co-evangelists willing to spend passion, dedication and commitment to progressing projects and programs important to your core values and life-goals with like-minded people from other places, languages and cultures to accelerate the manifestation of individual and collective goals and objectives.

How? Together or not at all.

All of us have "other" demands on our time and attention. Any work we do through relationships made on this site is "voluntary". Yet, I believe we can pull together ten smart teams people for each of the core competencies required for any "zero time" enterprise to succeed.

. The good news is that you can use it in your own lives and projects, whether you decide to use it as a team member here. The better news is that by working from the same blueprint, we accelerate progress "online" and "offline" for issues that matter to us.

We're reaching out to multi-lingual "administrators" to obliterate lingual and cultural barriers that will otherwise prevent us from involving anybody on Earth willing to work together as a team to achieve the Millennium Development 2015 Goals - AHEAD OF TIME: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

Three assignments:
1. Please read the contents below (and the "linked" documents) to see if this is something you really want to do
2. post your replies on the "Wall", which will provide the "paper trail" for our decisions and progress; and
3. Introduce yourself by posting a link to your CV, Profile, 30-day to 12 month activity calendar, website and anything else you can provide to describe your talents, skills, resources, interests, goals, objectives and timetable.

I'm a workaholic insomniac, so feel free to call or email or skype me at any time of day or night.

Thanks!

Join activist and multi-lingual Delegates and Page Administrators http://linkth.at/rl to develop, activate, sustain, diversify and progress Facebook Ambassador Andrew Williams Jr “mission” and Fan Page(s): https://www.facebook.com/AmbassadorWilliams?ref=br_tf

ANDREW WILLIAMS, JR. MAY 2012 BIO

ANDREW WILLIAMS, JR. MAY 2012 BIO

Andrew Williams Jr. lives a life dedicated to impacting the global community for social justice. Best known for his heart for philanthropy, and wide network of global projects. Andrew brings out of the box solutions that engages partnerships to deliver strong outcomes for nations, peoples, non-governmental organizations, non-profits, businesses and communities of peoples.

For over a decade, Andrew has helped the non-profit and private sector reach tangible business goals, that offers long-term change. Recognized and awarded achievements from ambassador to international liaison around the world, Andrew continues to pursue his vision of making a difference both domestically and internationally through social justice.

Andrew was appointed in 2009 as one of first 187 Facebook Ambassadors (USA) to champion United Nations Millennium Development Goals and soon after elevated to International Relations Liaison on behalf of the organization. In 2010, he was appointed as International Coordinator for the Sanctum Think Tank (Bermuda) and 2011 leader of the AJ Action Team (http://ajactionteam.org) Ambassadors program.

Andrew's 2012 brief as Ambassador-Delegate for the International Academy of Humanitarian Works (Italy), includes developing international multi-lingual publicity campaigns on behalf of the Ambassadors throughout Europe, Asia, South America and Africa as well as helping the AIUO acquire U.N. Recognition.

On April 30, 2012, the International Human Rights Commission appointed Andrew as Goodwill Ambassador for Development of Undeveloped Countries, in line with his role as Consultant to The Rosenthall Group, Developers of Humanitarian and Infrastructure Solutions for Nations and Peoples

Andrew Williams Jr. pioneered the early transition by sales agencies from legacy management to virtual organization using a network of "personal adverting representatives" now being adapted in his role as Director, International Media Relations for The Revelation Network (http://trn.tv).

As International Sales Coordinator for World Intercom Technologies CEO Dennis Matthews, Andrew empowers governments, non-governmental organizations and nonprofits with livestreaming and pay-per-view income streams to reach a global audience via http://worldintercomtechnologies.com.

Andrew Williams, Jr. is a mature, intelligent, and personable professional, possessing both high-tech and people skills. Having owned and operated a personal computer since 1987, he credits his love of reading; continual self-motivated independent career and educational research; the ability to articulately communicate in oral and written English; and an indefatigable determination to confidentially and competently perform detail-oriented, time-sensitive, mission-critical, and multi-task functions as key strengths.

In the career field, Andrew has applied transferable communications skills, as a team player, to all phases of clerical, administrative, marketing, and management activities, in 25 years of work force experience, including 10 years in management and consultative capacities and 15 years as an executive assistant in the legal and finance industries. During that period, Mr. Williams has also accumulated over 15 years in the property management field. In the journalistic industry, Andrew has worked as editor, writer, proofreader, and reporter for private and community newsletters, newspapers, magazines and newzines

In the journalistic sector, Andrew has worked as editor, writer, proofreader, and reporter for private and community newsletters, newspapers, magazines since 1973 and is ideally suited to leverage media relations globally through his thousands of followers on Facebook, Google+,Twitter and dozens of social networking groups as administrator. These assets helped him to achieve honor roll status throughout elementary and high school, selection as President of BETA, Class President of the Student Council, election as the Executive Vice President of the Complex Council (5,000 students), and culminated in his graduating Summa Cum Laude (3.65 GPA, 1040 SAT), and representing the Class of 1975 as Second Speaker during Graduation ceremonies. His curricula included Latin I & II, French I, Spanish I, World History, Psychology, Public Speaking and Advanced English.

Andrew Williams Jr is a veteran advertising, sales and marketing executive based in Beverly Hills, California. His company, Wilcomnet LLC, pioneered the early transition by ad agencies from legacy management to virtual organization using a proprietary network of "personal adverting representatives" known as ParXTC (http://parxtc.com) .

He has spent the past two years building an international network of CEOs, academics and activists with a shared interest in humanitarianism. Andrew is now working as International Coordinator for the Sanctum Think Tank (Bermuda) to advance the use of social networks to promote "people's diplomacy", starting with the global campaign to progress the United Nations Millennium Development Goals #8, Global Partnerships for Development.. Andrew is ideally situated to connect companies, communities and countries with leading edge developments in policy, academia, sports, technology, and entertainment.

Email: parxtc@gmail.com / skype: andrew.williams.jr / USA: +1-888-802-8599
SPECIAL SKILLS

The development, coordination and administration of procurement programs, impacting all aspects of marketing communications: operations, sales promotions, publicity and personal selling.

The design, development and administration of multi-lingual, multi-cultural marketing programs to accomplish mission-critical and time-sensitive strategies, tactics and project-specific objectives.

The brainstorming, formulating, drafting, developing, analyzing and/or funding of administrative, operational, promotional, financial plans, programs, and materials to position, penetrate and/or expand company/venture in local, regional, national and/or international markets.

Review proposals, develop account requirements and procedures; coordinate tasks for multi-dimensional projects. Drafting, merging, and administration of editorial, legal and promotional documents from multiple authors and sources.

The production and supervision of communications material, programs and campaigns; newsletters, magazines, newspapers, press and news releases; print and broadcast appearances; interviews; direct mail campaigns and programs; audio/video taping and duplication; photography; employee manuals, etc.

The matching of professional and technical support services in financial, governmental, personnel, and management industries on an as-needed basis, to assist entrepreneurs, business owners, and home-based businesses achieve their goals and objectives.

Emergency and regularly scheduled legal word processing of complaints, forms, transcripts, responses, interrogatories, et cetera, from written drafts, dictation, diskettes, e-mail, or any other source - 24 hour availability, 365¼days per year

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Research and Development

Determine current needs and resources; goals and objectives; budget and timetable for the individual and overall operation. Surveys, studies, analyses, reports, etc.

Procurement Support 

Development, coordination and administration of procurement programs, impacting all aspects of marketing communications: operations, sales promotions, publicity and personal selling

Marketing Research 

Brainstorm, formulate, draft, develop, analyze and/or fund administrative, operational, promotional, financial plans, programs, and materials to position, penetrate and/or expand company/venture in local, regional, national and/or international markets.

Project Management 

Review proposals, develop account requirements and procedures; coordinate tasks for multi-dimensional projects. Drafting, merging, and administration of editorial, legal and promotional documents from multiple authors/sources.

Publicity & Public Relations 

The production and supervision of communications material, programs and campaigns; newsletters, magazines, newspapers, press and news releases; print and broadcast appearances; interviews; direct mail campaigns and programs; audio/video taping and duplication; photography; employee manuals, etc.

Information Management 

The development and application of corporate/non-profit/ entrepreneurial philosophy, marketing targets and opportunities; streamlined operational guidelines; and the coordination of all communications instruments, programs, and systems being used in English and other languages.

Network Marketing Plans & Promotions 

Review proposals, develop account requirements and procedures; coordinate tasks for multi-dimensional projects. Drafting, merging, and administration of editorial, legal and promotional documents from multiple authors/sources.

Emergency Legal Word Processing And Typing 

The production and supervision of communications material, programs and campaigns; newsletters, magazines, newspapers, press and news releases; print and broadcast appearances; interviews; direct mail campaigns and programs; audio/video taping and duplication; photography; employee manuals, etc.

2012 PROJECTS

           

AJ Action Team is a humanitarian goodwill mission to promote "unity in the community world vibe, fighting with peace and not for it" based on the celebratory cultures of music, fashion and dance. The mission is inspired by the indigenous culture of Central West Africa in tribute to the legacy of global reconciliation that was precipitated by the Atlantic Slave Trade.

http://ajactionteam.org

Liaison with the Bermuda Sanctum Think Tank

http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20110624/BUSINESS01/706249968/-1

SANCTUM is creating greater social cohesion across Bermuda by promoting the values of unity in the community and fighting with peace, not for it. SANCTUM is conducting a combination of community-based programmes, research, and unifying events that engage the community, incorporate all points of view, bring groups together, and will lead to improved social policy and decision making.

Liaison with CEO Gail McKenzie

Contact International (CI) is a premiere business management firm specializing in trade and investment initiatives. The company was founded in 1989 with an established track record in executing major initiatives for governments and corporations, whose quest is to develop business opportunities, partnerships with various nations around the globe.

Liaison with CEO Alicia Hamilton

http///www.therevelationnetwork.org / http://trn.tv

The Revelation Network’s global communications center provides individuals, ministries, churches, and organizations with the resources and technologies necessary to stay in touch, reach out and grow.

Liaison with CEO William N. Byers

http://www.explorerstudios.com    / http://www.esi-films.com

A full service, professional video production company that help guide a client from concept to execution. Professional, Broadcast, or High Definition video.  In addition to providing turnkey productions, Explorer Studios also provide professional on-location production services across the country and around the world.

Liaison wth CEO Dennis Matthews

Http://www.worldintercomtechnologies.com  / http://www.livestreamers.com

World Intercom Technologies (WIT) offers its Internet Live Streaming Services to clients wishing to reach large audiences in the quickest and most effective way. Our unique Pay Per View capabilities allow you to generate income on a revenue share basis. Ancillary income for your Producing, Marketing and Promotional dollars and efforts.

Liaison with CEO Didier Grossemy

http://www.razorbrandagency.com

Razor Brand Agency is driven by an experienced management team encompassing branding, marketing and technology, allowing you to leverage from a company that can take an objective 360 degree view of your goals to provide you the ultimate solution.

Liaison with CEO Simon U. Ford

http://www.socialtraffic.biz

Social Traffic is dedicated to helping companies drive more traffic to their sites using social media. Consultation, marketing plans, training videos, workbooks, implementation services, you name it - it is a single source for all your new media knowledge and inquiries.

Liaison with Matt Fok, CEO

http://www.elearningzoom.com / http://www.ez-xpo.com

eZ-Xpo.com is the first to marry virtual event platform, learning management system, email marketing campaign into a single application that is driven by a powerful marketing automation engine.

Liaison with CEO Scott Morrison

Starr Merch |Productions

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/scott-morrison/11/b94/714

STARR MERCH PRODUCTIONS  has over 25 years of experience in creating, developing, manufacturing, marketing, client services, consisting of a wide range of client services result in new bottom line profit streams.

Liaison with Marion Shane Green, CPM

EasyOffice Network provides Accounting Services, Payroll Services and Tax Services and  assistance for all your IT and/or Accounting needs.

http://www.easyofficenetwork.com

Consultant for The Rosenthall Group

THE ROSENTHALL GROUP is an international development company that  forms coalitions with governments, companies, civil society groups, trading platforms, investors and  international organizations. We provide design/build, construction, engineering and funding opportunities for large projects ($100 million to $50 billion +) as well as humanitarian development for governments and private developments.

http://www.slideshare.net/andrewwilliamsjr/the-rosenthall-group-trg-asia

United Nations Global Compact Overview

The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary driver of globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere.

As social, political and economic challenges (and opportunities) — whether occurring at home or in other regions — affect business more than ever before, many companies recognize the need to collaborate and partner with governments, civil society, labour and the United Nations.

This ever-increasing understanding is reflected in the Global Compact's rapid growth. With over 8700 corporate participants and other stakeholders from over 130 countries, it is the largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative in the world.

Endorsed by chief executives, the Global Compact is a practical framework for the development, implementation, and disclosure of sustainability policies and practices, offering participants a wide spectrum of workstreams, management tools and resources — all designed to help advance sustainable business models and markets. (See How to Participate.)

Overall, the Global Compact pursues two complementary objectives:

Mainstream the ten principles in business activities around the world

Catalyze actions in support of broader UN goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

With these objectives in mind, the Global Compact has shaped an initiative that provides collaborative solutions to the most fundamental challenges facing both business and society. The initiative seeks to combine the best properties of the UN, such as moral authority and convening power, with the private sector’s solution-finding strengths, and the expertise and capacities of a range of key stakeholders.

The Global Compact is global and local; private and public; voluntary yet accountable.

The benefits of engagement include the following:

Adopting an established and globally recognized policy framework for the development, implementation, and disclosure of environmental, social, and governance policies and practices.

Sharing best and emerging practices to advance practical solutions and strategies to common challenges.

Advancing sustainability solutions in partnership with a range of stakeholders, including UN agencies, governments, civil society, labour, and other non-business interests.

Linking business units and subsidiaries across the value chain with the Global Compact's Local Networks around the world — many of these in developing and emerging markets.

Accessing the United Nations' extensive knowledge of and experience with sustainability and development issues.

Utilizing UN Global Compact management tools and resources, and the opportunity to engage in specialized workstreams in the environmental, social and governance realms.

A more detailed analysis of the benefits of participation in the Global Compact can be found in The Importance of Voluntarism — which also focuses on the importance of the Global Compact as a complement rather than substitute for regulatory regimes

Finally, the Global Compact incorporates a transparency and accountability policy known as the Communication on Progress (COP). The annual posting of a COP is an important demonstration of a participant's commitment to the UN Global Compact and its principles. Participating companies are required to follow this policy, as a commitment to transparency and disclosure is critical to the success of the initiative. Failure to communicate will result in a change in participant status and possible expulsion.

In summary, the Global Compact exists to assist the private sector in the management of increasingly complex risks and opportunities in the environmental, social and governance realms, seeking to embed markets and societies with universal principles and values for the benefit of all.

Key Documents

UN Global Compact Brochure
After the Signature – An Introduction to the Global Compact
The Inspirational Guide to Implementing the Global Compact
Global Compact Annual Review – 2010
Global Compact Annual Review – Anniversary Edition
Global Compact Annual Review 2008
Global Compact Annual Review 2007
Letter to Global Compact Stakeholders (2010 – 2011)
The Importance of Voluntarism

Core UN Agencies

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Environment Programme
International Labour Organization
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG) 2015 AND YOU!

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG) 2015 AND YOU!
By Andrew Williams, Jr.

As the Director of International Media Relations, I am pleased to introduce and host TRN International News, our media program to be distributed over IPTV, radio, mobile and satellite. I will be leading an exchange in global communication that demonstrates the full capabilities of using technology to bridge the digital divide, employ online and offline multi-lingual, multinational, multi-cultural social media marketing strategies, tools, and resources to promote microfinance, social justice, economic empowerment, the environment, education, self-employment, and business incubation .

These objectives are in compliance with the Global Compact to progress the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals 2015 Project. The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

Upcoming shows will include live teleconference/webinars with simultaneous outputs utilizing the LCE Black Box on TRN.tv Portal #001, accompanying Twitter accounts, blog spots, Circles and Fan Pages for each MDG supporter to exchange with audiences and hosts globally.

We are asking all interested audiences, sponsors, producers and hosts to pick 1- 3 MDGs that matter most to you and support our efforts to improve results through this global partnership for development.

By joining, participating, and sharing we all can contribute to achieving and surpassing the expectations for MDG 2015. You can help make the world better for all of us here on Earth now and in the future.

Everyone is invited to participate. Please reply to awilliams@portalpoint.trn.tv with bios and introductions on your area(s) of interest in the Millennium Development Goals 1-8. See Page 5 for MDG descriptions.

Check back for my new blog coming soon.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
United Nations MDG:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/bkgd.shtml
AJ Action Team: http://ajactionteam.org
UN Global Partnership Information: http://globalcompact.org
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Ambassador Ayi Jihu, Friends of the United Nations and Global Flying Hospitals

United Nations Millennium Development Goal #8. Develop a global partnership for development

8. Develop a global partnership for development

A. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system

B. Address the special needs of least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states

C. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system

D Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt

E. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

F. In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

http://www.slideshare.net/andrewwilliamsjr/mdg-goal-8-fact-sheet-develop-global-partnership-for-development