Blue Chip Foundation Commits to SDGs on Education

October 31, 2016

Blue Chip Foundation Commits to Global Fund for Education

 The Blue Chip Foundation and the Gross Family Foundation recently donated $300,000 to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) to help establish a Global Fund for Education within the next 5 years. This donation resulted from a successful first meeting of the Ethics in Action (EIA) initiative, which aims to deepen the world's religions' understanding of a "Moral Economy" and find solutions to end extreme poverty. EIA believes that providing universal access to healthcare, education, and basic infrastructure like water, energy, and sanitation is key to achieving this goal.

EIA is addressing the U.N.'s sustainable development goals, including stopping child labor, modern slavery, and discrimination against women, girls, and minority groups - all of which contribute to poverty. To help finance these initiatives, EIA suggests diverting up to 10% of global military spending (around $1.7 billion per year) and taxing anonymous wealth held in tax havens at up to 1% (potentially raising $200 billion annually). EIA emphasizes that this requires more than just financial support - it needs global solidarity and a "protective circle" to defend the basic human rights of the poor.



Jennifer Stengaard Gross, founder of the Blue Chip Foundation, is also a founder of EIA. The Blue Chip Foundation is committed to reviving ethical and moral decision-making in both national and global policymaking, and is working to ensure effective and predictable resource transfers from rich to poor countries to help alleviate poverty. EIA is calling on global religious and secular leaders to promote the Sustainable Development Goals and the ideas of Laudato Si' in a sustained effort to support human dignity, freedom, and peace.