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GGW 2021 One-Pager September 17-26, 2021 #GlobalGoals From September 17-26, 2021, Global Goals Week will mobilize 2020 Overview communities, demand urgency, and supercharge solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), whether it be digitally ● 63 million joined online or physically. Our shared future and the achievement of the Global ● 112 supporting partners Goals will be determined by our global solidarity – how we work together across borders, nationalities, sectors and generations. ● 164 events registered ● 17,500 people joined in person In 2015, 193 Member States of the United Nations made a universal ● Social media engagements: 527,000 promise to leave no one behind through the 17 SDGs. One year later, Project Everyone, UNDP and the United Nations Foundation came ● Social media impressions: 2.2 billion together to honor that promise by launching Global Goals Week, an annual week of action, awareness, and accountability for the SDGs. As the world still grapples with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, achieving the SDGs is more critical than ever - the Goals are the pathway to progress towards a safer and more equal world. As part of the Decade of Action to Deliver the SDGs, our coalition of over 100 partners will mobilize on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly High-level Week in September. This year, we will come together virtually and in-person to cultivate ideas, identify solutions, and build partnerships with the power to solve a wide range of complex global problems from poverty and gender to climate change and inequality. Join the movement. Get involved here. Global Goals Week events will engage people around the world in conversation and action. From September 17-26, 2021, partners from around the world will come together once again – under the umbrella of Global Goals Week – to support the #GlobalGoals. Become a partner today. Supporting Partners 2030hub Liverpool Hub Culture Save the Children 2030Vision Human Impacts Institute shift7 92nd Street Y Humanity Lab Foundation Skoll Foundation Access California Services Impact Hub +SocialGood Action for Sustainable Development Impact Hub New York Southern Voice Arapyaú Foundation IMPACT2030 Springer Nature Avanti Communications International Chamber of Commerce Stanley Black & Decker B Lab Islamic Development Bank Sustainable Development Solutions Barefoot College International Johnson & Johnson Network Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Junior Chamber International (JCI) SustainChain Bloomberg Global Business Forum Koyamada International Foundation TANTV BridgingTheGap Ventures Lion's Share TED Build Change Local2030 Together to Protect Human & the Business Council for the United Nations Madrasati Initiative Environment Association Business Fights Poverty Malaria No More UK #TOGETHERBAND Business in the Community Mashable Toilet Board Coalition CFA Society NY Milken Institute UNICEF The Climate Group Millennials Movement Unilever Climate Reality Project Mindful Education Lab (NYU Steinhardt) UNITE 2030 Climate Reality Project NY Metro Area MIT Solve United Nations Department of Global Co-Impact MY World Mexico Communications Coca-Cola National Agricultural Research Center in United Nations Development Commvault Jordan (NARC) Programme Concordia The New Division United Nations Environment Deloitte NIKE Programme Devex NTT United Nations Executive Office of the Every Woman Every Child NYC Mayor’s Office for International Secretary-General The Feminist Portfolio Affairs United Nations Foundation Freuds ONE Campaign United Nations Global Compact GIE Oxfam United Nations Office for Partnerships Girls Not Brides P4G United Nations Office of the GirlzFTW Partnering Initiative (TPI) Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth Global Blockchain Business Council Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and United Nations SDG Action Campaign Global Citizen Inclusive Societies (hosted by NYU-CIC) United Nations SDG Advocates Global Goals World Cup Peace One Day United Nations SDG Strategy Hub Global GoalsCast Prince's Trust International US Chamber of Commerce Foundation Global Partnership for Education Project Everyone Varkey Foundation Global Partnership for Sustainable PVBLIC Foundation Verizon Development Data (RED) We Are All Human Foundation Goal 17 Partners Responsible Investor WISE Initiative (Qatar Foundation) Goalkeepers Restless Development World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Google Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Scouts Green Africa Directory Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social World Benchmarking Alliance Green Generation Foundation Innovation World Economic Forum Guggenheim Partners Salesforce World Food Programme Hasbro The Salty Hands World's Largest Lesson Health Innovation Exchange Samsung WWF Heifer International SAP Next-Gen Created By Contact: Chrysula Winegar [email protected] globalgoalsweek.org.
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