{"id":20660,"date":"2016-09-19T20:38:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=20660"},"modified":"2016-09-28T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T21:42:44","slug":"forest-whitaker-emphasizes-role-of-philanthropy-in-achieving-the-sdgs-at-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/09\/forest-whitaker-emphasizes-role-of-philanthropy-in-achieving-the-sdgs-at-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Whitaker emphasizes role of philanthropy in achieving the SDGs at annual conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 September, SDG Advocate Forest Whitaker participated in the Southern California Grantmakers annual conference in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>In his keynote address &#8220;Peace, Justice and Inclusive Societies&#8221;, Forest emphasized that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals\u2014both at home and abroad\u2014requires the participation of ordinary citizens, as well as engaging the philanthropy leaders who already play a vital role in this global movement through their local grantmaking. After his remarks, he was joined by Berit Ashla, Vice President at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, for an in-depth conversation about the SDGs. They discussed how this inclusive movement\u2014which leaves no one behind\u2014requires innovative and groundbreaking approaches to address the economic, environmental, and social challenges facing our interconnected world.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition of the annual conference focused on the theme \u201cBe the Change!\u201d The purpose was to identify how philanthropists can act locally and have global impact on major issues like poverty, economic inequality, environmental injustice, education inequity, and health disparities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 September, SDG Advocate Forest Whitaker participated in the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdg-advocates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}