United Nations Foundation

Established by R.E. (Ted) Turner in 1998, the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund promote a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world through the support of the United Nations and its Charter.   Through grantmaking, advocacy, and by building innovative public-private partnerships, UNF/BWF act to meet the most pressing health, humanitarian, socioeconomic, and environmental challenges of the 21st century. Programmatic priorities include children’s health, women and population, the environment, and peace, security, and human rights.