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Former President Bill Clinton plans big changes for this years Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting by necessity to address the changing landscape for global development and increasing needs driven by war and climate disasters. We need to redefine how we show up, how we work, and how we find ways to honor our common humanity, Clinton wrote in a letter to the CGI community released Thursday. This September, our goal will be to connect dots across issues, expose the consequences, and confront the complicated issues in front of us. Since its launch in 2005, the CGI annual meeting has served as a platform for political, business and philanthropic leaders to announce new initiatives or new financial support for existing programs addressing the worlds problems. At the 2024 meeting, former First Lady Jill Biden announced $500 million in new annual spending for womens health research, while Prince Harry outlined his plans to help children and their parents navigate cyberspace better. This years meeting held once again during United Nations General Assembly week and led by Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton will also include Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, as well as Gilead Sciences CEO Daniel ODay, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready, and Open Society Foundations President Binaifer Nowrojee. However, the focus this year will be on forging new solutions for economic, health, climate and humanitarian issues. The CGI community is built for moments like this, Clinton wrote. This year marks two decades of our community convening and responding directly to global crises. In previous years, CGI helped organize responses to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Caribbean hurricanes in 2017, and the COVID-19 pandemic. CGI estimates it has helped more than 500 million people in 186 countries over the past two decades. President Donald Trumps administration has swiftly dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development, arguing that many programs did not advance American interests. A number of philanthropic funders have stepped in to replace some support of humanitarian programs and public health initiatives, but many gaps remain. CGI hopes to close those gaps with a series of Leaders Stage Sessions, where representatives from a wide range of organizations including GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan, Center for Disaster Philanthropy CEO Patricia McIlreavy, AFL-CIO President, and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten — will work together to create new initiatives. Now is the time to stand up and roll up our sleeves and do our part to reverse the trend lines and begin charting a brighter future, Clinton said in a statement. On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of its Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. Organizers declined comment on what impact, if any, the subpoenas would have on planning for the CGI annual meeting. Former Secretary Clinton has been called to provide a deposition on Oct. 9, while former President Clinton has been called to offer a deposition on Oct. 14. ____ Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of APs philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy. Glenn Gamboa, AP business writer
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New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo recently unveiled a new campaign logo at a press conference that was designed like his pandemic-era briefings when he was New York governor, complete with a video screen he used for a PowerPoint presentation. The new logo is “supposed to symbolize a new phase of the campaign,” Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi tells Fast Company. The mark was designed to both evoke a rising sun and resemble the Statue of Liberty’s crown. Azzopardi says it’s no coincidence the brand’s blue-and-orange color palette is the same as the New York City flag. “Cuomo, to build a new NYC,” the logomark says in a sans-serif typeface with soft rounded edges that resembles Calibri, the font that Microsoft used as default on Outlook and Word until replacing it with Aptos in 2023. (Cuomo’s campaign could not verify the typeface used.) [Image: Cuomo Campaign] Cuomo’s new logo might not win any graphic design awards, but it’s an improvement from the nondescript, under-branded logo his campaign used in the Democratic primaries. What’s more, it signals Cuomo’s campaign has realized paying attention to its visual rhetoric matters in a race against New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, whose unconventional, well-branded campaign identity stood apart in the primaries. [Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images] Cuomo’s old primary logo, a blue block that said “Cuomo” stacked on top of a red outline of a rectangle that said “for Mayor,” was generic. Change the name and office, and it could be used for political campaign, and it relied on the candidate’s name instead any sort of interesting or memorable visual element. In a race where his opponents made clever use of typography as both a branding mechanism and tool to drive home campaign messages, though, it was clear Cuomo’s old logo also didn’t have much to say. Like a consumer packaged good brand that redesigns its packaging as a response to dipping sales, Cuomo’s new logo is a new wrapper over an established political quantity. It’s a new-look-same-great-taste sort of rebrand that was designed to look optimistic and fresh, even as Cuomo emphasizes many of the same talking points he did in the primary, namely his experience. At the press conference where he first used the new branding, Cuomo unveiled his plan for improving and reforming the city’s policing, and questioned whether Mamdani would be able to deliver on his promises. Cuomo suggested voters ask themselves which candidate would deal with the city’s “operations and the systems in a way that’s going to help me,” and not “just give me promises and slogans.” “We’re running a different campaign in the general election,” Azzopardi says, calling it “more nimble” and “affirmative.” Still he adds, “We never are going to out-Mamdani Mamdani.” Mamdani ran a bespoke campaign tailored to him that was well suited to reaching young people online. His logo was inspired by city street signs and vintage Bollywood movie poster type. That helped communicate and reinforce his campaign message of newness and change. Cuomo’s not that kind of candidate, but he is responding to Mamdani’s primary win with brighter graphics of his own, though with a boring font you might have found in old emails and PowerPoint presentations. That’s a far less exciting visual reference than those Mamdani’s campaign drew from, but it also reinforces Cuomo’s message of experience and getting stuff done. For a candidate known for his PowerPoints, it just might have been the smartest choice.
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Theres something fishy going on in the sky this week, but don’t worryit doesnt smell like when your coworker heats up their leftover tilapia in the communal microwave. Instead, it’s a feast for the eyes: The full moon will be on display this Saturday, August 9. This moon is also known as the Sturgeon Moon. Let’s bait our hooks with the meaning behind this name, as well as some aquatic facts, before we catch the knowledge of how best to see it. (Theres even some nighttime drama.) Why is August’s full moon called the Sturgeon Moon? Over time, full moons picked up cute nicknames, which were popularized by The Old Farmers Almanac. These monikers were influenced by Native American, colonial, and European cultures. The Sturgeon full moon name is inspired by the abundance of giant lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain during the month of August, which was a major food source for Native American tribes in the regions. Sadly, overfishing and environmental issues have greatly decreased the numbers of these freshwater fish. Are lake sturgeons still threatened? Thankfully, conservation efforts such as stocking programs and restoring habitat connections have increased the number of these prehistoric-looking creatures. In 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded they did not need to be listed under the Endangered Species Act. Despite their name, lake sturgeons can be found from the Hudson Bay to the Mississippi River. They eat small invertebrates like crayfish, snails, and leeches. These fish are known for their ability to live long and prosperous lives. Males can reach 55 years old, and females have been recorded at 150 years old. During those long years, lake sturgeons can reach six and a half feet and 200 pounds. It is easy to see why Native American tribes valued them as a food source. What is the best time to see the August 2025 full moon? To see the sturgeon-inspired full moon, you might have to stay up late or get up early. It reaches peak illumination on Saturday, August 9 at 3:55 a.m. ET. If losing out on sleep isnt your jam, the moon will still appear full on Friday night to the naked eye. What else is going on in the sky this month? The light from the Sturgeon full moon will actually interfere with another celestial phenomenon. The Perseid meteor shower began on July 14, and will continue until September 1. This annual summer event occurs when Earth travels through the debris of Comet Swift-Tuttle. Its peak comes on August 12 to 13, which means the moon will still be pretty bright, washing out some of the fainter meteors, according to NASA. Because of this, the space agency suggests holding out for the Geminids meteor shower instead, which occurs in December. So, this August, lets hear it for the Sturgeon Mooneven if it upstages the meteors.
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