Los Angeles / New York, September 2025
As the world faces rising instability and deepening humanitarian need, Novara Global Impact joined global leaders at the 2025 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York to contribute to discussions on how values-based collaboration can help address today’s most complex global challenges.
This year’s CGI brought together heads of state, business leaders, philanthropists, and civil-society representatives.Through sessions, participants emphasized the importance of authentic connection and shared purpose in confronting uncertainty, and the need to rebuild trust, foster inclusion, and empower local leadership as foundations for sustainable change, principles deeply embedded in Novara’s work.
A central session, “A Critical Moment for Humanitarian Response,” set the tone for this year’s humanitarian agenda. Participants underscored both the urgent need to support local humanitarians as global donors withdraw from critical programming, and highlighted the moral imperative of keeping humanity at the heart of humanitarian response. Speakers reflected that “we all need to be more in community with one another and in authentic connection,” emphasizing that compassion and cooperation across sectors are essential to addressing the widening gap between global aid and solidarity.
The discussion also emphasized that, while individuals and communities cannot always control what happens to them, they can shape their future circumstances by shifting toward gratitude, agency, and action. The call to recognize the “human” in “humanitarian” was woven into the fabric of the event as participants were reminded that progress begins when dignity and empathy guide global response.
These reflections echo Novara Global Impact’s mission and strategic vision, affirming that principled collaboration, moral clarity, and local leadership remain indispensable in addressing today’s interconnected challenges.Looking ahead, Novara Global Impact will continue building partnerships that transmute shared values into long-term impact, including upcoming engagements with like-minded institutions at the 2025 Aurora Prize Ceremony in November 2025.
