Talk:Public-Private Alliance Foundation

Updates to Sections including: Seminars Convened, Communication, Leadership and Associations plus updated ReferencesJinkastillman (talk) 15:11, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Seminars Convened

PPAF has convened seminars at United Nations Headquarters and elsewhere since its establishment in 2007. In recent years these include the following:

In March 2018 PPAF and the United Nations Association of the USA, Southern New York Division (UNA-SNY) co-sponsored the seminar “Clean Cooking for Sustainable Development” as a side event to the 62nd annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). It was held at the United Nations Foundation (UNF) in New York.

In March 2017 PPAF and the UNA-SNY co-sponsored the seminar "Girls, Women, Clean Energy and Entrepreneurship, in Haiti and Elsewhere." It was a side event to the 61st Session of the CSW and held at the UNF in New York. In May 2017 the PPAF Executive Director spoke about the work of PPAF at the United Nations High-level Event on Public-Private Partnerships, held at UN Headquarters.

In June 2016 PPAF senior fellows with support from New York Medical College and Rutgers University School of Public Health held the seminar “Our Health, Our Environment.” This was under the auspices of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) START series (Skills and Technology Advancing Rapid Transformation), and held at UN Headquarters.

In March 2015 PPAF and UNA-SNY co-sponsored the seminar “Women and Innovative Approaches for Clean Energy Solutions” as a side event to the 59th session of the CSW. It was held at the UNF in New York. Also that March PPAF and UNA-SNY co-sponsored the seminar “Challenging Gender-based Discrimination across the Life Cycle: The Evolution and Revolution of the Beijing Agenda” as a side event to the CSW, and held at the UNF in New York.

In March 2014 PPAF was invited as the first Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to organize a briefing session jointly with the UN Department of Public Information (DPI)/NGO Section. It was a side event to the 58th session of the CSW and was entitled “Putting it Together: Bioenergy, Clean Cookstoves and Sustainable Development.” In August of that year PPAF led the seminar “Energy and Climate Action: Essential Tools for the Post-2015 Development Agenda” as part of the 65th DPI/NGO Annual Conference. Co-sponsors were UNA-SNY, the UNA-USA national office, the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development and the Batey Relief Alliance.

Communications PPAF communications efforts are accomplished mainly through its website, its newsletter, of which copies are also filed on its website, through social media, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and through the convening of seminars. In September 2017 PPAF was featured in the Solar Cookers International newsletter, and in December 2016 PPAF was the “Partner Spotlight” in the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves newsletter. See below for the links.

Leadership PPAF is led by a volunteer board of four women and three men, including the Executive Director. It relies on volunteers for nearly all its work. All board members have had extensive international experience and several speak several languages. They include an attorney working in international trade finance transactions; the former Ambassador from Madagascar to the United Nations; a nutrition and food science practitioner with an MBA and extensive experience with multinational corporations and with training women and girls in entrepreneurship; a public health and economic development specialist; a public health specialist and former career officer with USAID and the State Department; and a consultant in international public health with experience in non-governmental organizations, universities and international organizations. PPAF relies on its Senior Fellows (six men and four women), Interns (over 60 in the past ten years, from many countries, cultures and ethnicities), and Volunteers (eight women and five men) in its work. Board members, Senior Fellows and Volunteers are selected according to their special technical or experiential backgrounds, as needed. See the About Us section of the PPAF website.

Associations PPAF has consultative status with the UN Economic & Social Council, is associated with the UN Department of Public Information, and is a member of the UN Global Compact, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, the Global Gender & Climate Alliance, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials and the UN Association of the USA and its Council of Organizations. It participates in two technical associations, namely Solar Cookers International and Solar CITIES Biogas Innoventors and Practitioners. As seen on its website, PPAF has a Guidestar gold seal for 2018, is top rated by Great Non-Profits, and has published its latest (2016-2017) commitment of engagement to the UN Global Compact. References http://www.ppafoundation.org https://www.facebook.com/PublicPrivateAllianceFoundation/ https://www.guidestar.org/profile/71-1016293 https://greatnonprofits.org/whitelabel/reviews/public-private-alliance-foundation https://view.publitas.com/solar-cookers-international/digest-vol-20-2017/page/3 http://cleancookstoves.org/about/news/12-26-2016-partner-spotlight-public-private-alliance-foundation.html https://advancedbiofuelsusa.info/un-event-focuses-on-advanced-biofuels-development-in-dominican-republic-way-to-fight-poverty/

Jeanne Betsock Stillman Jinkastillman (talk) 15:11, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

@Jinkastillman:

1. That material needs independent sources, and written simply to document what others have noticed instead of glorifying the PPAF.
2. Posting links at the end of text is not the same as a proper citation.
3. The sources need to specifically support material in question. Citing the whole PPAF website for that text is like citing a book without giving the page number.

Ian.thomson (talk) 02:14, 18 June 2018 (UTC)