GVN and the GVN Foundation are excited to announce that the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has granted special consultative status to Global Volunteer Network (GVN) Foundation.
Consultative status opens the door for GVN Foundation to actively engage with the ESOSC and its subsidiary bodies, as well as with United Nations Secretariat, programmes, funds and agencies.
Colin Salisbury, GVN Foundation Chairman and co-founder says that it is a great honour to be recognised by the United Nations and granted special consultative status.
"Achieving NGO status marks a significant moment for GVN Foundation. We feel privileged to be given an opportunity to lend our expertise and contribute to the United Nations’ target of meeting the millennium development goals and ending extreme poverty by 2015,” Salisbury said.
Special Consultative status is granted to NGOs and non-profits that have a specialty in an activity area covered by the ESOSOC. GVN Foundation’s work to educate the global community about the possibility of ending extreme poverty in our lifetime, ties directly into ECOSOC’s millennium development goal work.
“One of the key focuses of ECOSOC is the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Six of the UN MDG’s are aimed at assisting children. GVN Foundation will address the same six goals through our continued work to assist children around the world,” said Salisbury.
Courtney Montague, Executive Director of the GVN Foundation, hopes to go to the UN in the coming weeks to speak with their NGO Branch about ways GVN Foundation can assist the UN, and vice versa. Meanwhile, we are all celebrating this huge milestone!
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