NGO DPI Executive Committee
December 6, 2007
Dear Friends, As the year 2007 draws to a close, we thank you all for your individual and collective generosity and wish to share with you our sense of accomplishment and anticipation. Year End Support Request
The NGO/DPI Executive Committee is moving into the
year 2008 with much to celebrate as it expands its
outreach by initiating public information projects,
organizing communication workshops and holding
special events for the global DPI NGO network it
represents at the United Nations.
As you know, the NGO/DPI Executive Committee partners with the UN Department of Public Information each year to bring the NGOs, Civil Society, the Private Sector, Governments and Academia together for a full exchange of views and actions on issues of primary concern to the United Nations. Your generosity in previous years has enabled us to provide eminent speakers, conference materials and special events at these annual conferences. This year your valuable contributions made a memorable occasion of the Annual DPI/NGO Conference on Climate Change held in New York from 5 to 7 September where a Declaration on Climate Change Threats was unanimously adopted that called for the implementation of an "NGO Framework for Action." We are now busy planning for the 61st NGO/DPI Conference which may be held outside UN Headquarters, as a consequence of the Capital Master Plan for the UN Premises, that will raise our global profile as a uniquely equipped body of the NGO community. Your participation in, and contribution for, that event will ensure its successful outcome. For the first time in its 60-year history, our Committee now has elected regional representatives from South Asia, Africa and South America as we continue to look for further representation from the Middle East and Central Europe. We expect them to assume the responsibility to make us more sensitive to the perspectives and concerns of the geographical regions they belong to and help us develop information materials that are of greater practical use to a civil society more actively engaged in promoting speedier attainment of UN's priority goals in a fast changing world. We hope to disseminate these information materials to the farthest corners of the civil society, especially in areas that remain outside the reach of the latest revolution in information technology. We recognize that the global population today has the world's largest number of youth in history and they are better connected, better informed and healthier than their predecessors. In our effort to draw renewed vigor from their aspirations and energies, we are putting greater effort in reaching out to the youth and getting them more actively involved in our events and activities. We seek your co-operation in providing more outlets for and receiving wider feedback from the world's youth. To serve the expanding needs of our growing NGO community and our new initiatives, we look once again towards you to consider adding a year-end donation to your ongoing commitment. Your tax-free contribution would be acknowledged appropriately to show our appreciation. To donate online, click here and enter UNITED NATIONS as the keyword, NGODPI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE as the charity; state: NEW YORK
We invite you to demonstrate your support as follows:
$5,000 - $10,000: Be an NGO DPI Angelfor which: a Platinum Full Page Thank You Notice will be placed by the Executive Committee in a 2008 DPI NGO Conference publication and noted in the NGO Reporter and in releases and notices during 2008; special mention will be made at the reception hosted by the Executive Committee as part of the 61st Annual DPI NGO Conference; and an article will be featured by the NGO Reporter on your NGO's efforts related to the focus of your activities. $1,000 - $4,999: Be a Gold Supporter, for which a Gold Full Page Thank You Notice will be placed by the Executive Committee in a 2008 Conference publication and noted in the NGO Reporter and in releases and notices during 2008. $500 - $999: Be a Silver Supporter for which a Silver Full Page Thank You Notice will be placed by the Executive Committee in a 2008 Conference publication. $150 - $499: Be a Supporter for which a Thank You Notice will be placed by the Executive Committee In a 2008 Conference publication. Other: Our sincere thanks for any level of contribution will be reflected in a notice with your NGO's name and web address posted on a list of all donors to appear in an upcoming issue of the NGO Reporter.
We thank you for your continued support of the NGO
DPI Executive Committee. Together we will keep the
voice of civil society strong at the UN. Photo, above: Sr. Joan Kirby, Richard Jordan and Jeffery Huffines met with Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, and Mr. Juan Carlos Brandt, Chief, UN DPI NGO Section (not shown in this photo) , on 20 September to present a copy of the 2007 Conference Declaration. Mr. Akasaka assured us that he would present the UNSG with a copy of the Declaration. Juan Carlos also informed us that they had submitted a talking point to the SG's office about the important role of civil society in combating climate change that included mention of the Declaration. To donate online, click here and enter UNITED NATIONS as the keyword, NGODPI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE as the charity; state: NEW YORK
To give online, go to www.networkforgood.org, type in
United Nations under keyword and "NGODPI
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AFFILIATED WITH UNITED
NATIONS" in the Charity Name box; state: New York.
NOTE: OUR
NAME MUST BEGIN WITHOUT A SPACE
"NGODPI ..." (A DPI NGO Conference Event, below) 
email:
jhuffines@ngodpiexecom.org
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