Bill Clinton delivers defence of his foundation’s ‘profound’ work

Clinton is expected to defend the Foundation’s philanthropic work.

Then, in the coming months, dozens of CGI employees are scheduled to lose their jobs at the end of 2016 – but some will get to stay, meaning more political problems for Hillary Clinton could be on their way.

Former President Bill Clinton arrives to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City Monday.

This week’s event was held under a cloud of election year questions fueled by Donald Trump, who is locked in a close race against Hillary Clinton.

The CGI is one facet of the larger Clinton Foundation and its premier event, a yearly CGI conference in NY, has become a high profile attraction where world leaders, Fortune 500 CEOs, philanthropists, academics, celebrities and athletes rub elbows and discuss ways to combat social ills from poverty to public health.

The 42nd president will say he believes that CGI has “helped redefine philanthropy”, arguing that “how the partnership model that is at the core of CGI will continue to play a vital role in solving global challenges”.

Clinton spent much of his address recalling specific people who have been helped by CGI commitments, including making life-saving drugs more widely available and expanding access to clean drinking water.

Some of it went to a unit of the Clinton Foundation in Haiti and some to a charity recruited for the project that works with the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, records and interviews show. He’s ending CGI regardless of the outcome of the election.

“The tone will be positive but it will be an inherent rebuke of critics and controversy about the foundation by highlighting how the Clinton Foundation improves lives around the world”, said one adviser.

Bill Clinton has announced that he will step down from the board, but their daughter Chelsea Clinton’s status has not been determined. The AP’s analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with USA federal employees or foreign government representatives. “And I trusted the State Department wouldn’t do anything they shouldn’t do, from a meeting to a favor”. Documents filed in 2015 suggest the foundation spent less than 6 percent of its budget on charitable grants in 2014, and “spent far more on overhead expenses like travel ($7.9 million)”, the Federalist reports.