UN Solutions Summit was initially co-created in 2015 by shift7 co-founders Megan Smith and Puneet Ahira, with the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) and the United Nations Foundation. The first UN Solutions Summit immediately followed the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by all UN Member States, demonstrating that people already have extraordinary solutions in progress to our most complex challenges - we just need to find them and help them to get the job done. More >>
Thriving Ecologies
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We have begun collaborating with Navajo and Lakota Sioux partners. Many Native American communities have unemployment rates that are among the highest in the country, and are working to build local economies that are self-sustaining, and not heavily dependent on extractive industries. Culturally cognizant, creative, patient business development support is needed to accelerate this transformation, with solution-making led by the communities themselves. More >>
