Prahalad,
University of Michigan Distinguished Professor, to Address Attendees at
Day-Long Conference in San Jose, CA on Friday, September 23rd

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"The American India Foundation and the United Nations Millennium Campaign
are committed to promoting the ideals of sustainable development and
grassroots movements that are key to the long-term empowerment of the
underprivileged in India," says AIF President Lata Krishnan.

AIF awards
grants to education, livelihood, and public health projects in India -- with
emphases on elementary education, women's empowerment, and HIV/AIDS,
respectively.

About the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set out in the UN Millennium
Declaration in September 2000 are: (1) eradicate extreme poverty and hunger,
(2) achieve universal primary education, (3) promote gender equality and
empower women, (4) reduce child mortality, (5) improve maternal health, (6)
combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, (7 ) ensure environmental
sustainability, and (8) develop a global partnership for development.

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org. AIF also administers four programs: (1) the Service Corps,
which develops young American leaders by placing them with Indian non-profits
based on skills and need; (2) the Digital Equalizer, which bridges the
"digital divide" by providing computers, Internet, and training to
under-resourced schools; (3) League of Artisans, which creates sustained
livelihoods for underprivileged artisans -- particularly tribal, rural and
women artisans -- and thereby improve their economic and living conditions;
and (4) Donor Education, which trains donors to become strategic
philanthropists.

90-Year-Old Women's Peace Organization Sees Middle East Peace Water Resources as Key Issues: New Programs Launched on International Women's Day

WILPF has addressed the root causes of war
and called for negotiated settlements to end them since its founding at The
Hague in 1915.

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"National Volunteer Week is a celebration of volunteering ," said Deborah
Dinkelacker, president of VolunteerMatch.com/mediadrome/logo-wilpf_72dpi. Noting the link between the two
campaigns, Mary Day Kent, WILPF's Executive Director, said "Control and access
to water is as fundamental to the conflicts and violence in the Middle East as
control of oil, and more fundamental to sustaining life on this earth.

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I. PHILADELPHIA, Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is launching two new cutting-edge programs to mark
the celebration of International Women's Day, 2005." The program will educate and organize communities to address the
scarcity, misuse and rapid "marketization" of water with corporations taking
private control of this vital resource around the world.
"It's very important that more women get involved in foreign policy,"
declared Odile Hugonot-Haber, chairperson of WILPF's new campaign focused on
the Middle East.

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Titled Dialogue with Change Agents: Toward Implementing the Millennium
Development Goals in India, the Summit will bring together distinguished
philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, non -profit organizations, and corporate
leaders from across the globe to discuss innovative ways to address
development challenges in India. This year, the 31st
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Attendees will also examine how progressive
leaders in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors are working to
integrate social, environmental, and economic considerations into their
organizations . These key topics will be addressed in panel
discussions with leaders from both Indian and American foundations, grassroots
Indian NGOs, and academic and business leaders from the United States.
Detailed information and online registration is available at
http://www. Specific
targets of the MDGs as relevant to AIF's work are: ensure that all boys and
girls complete a full course of primary schooling , eliminate gender disparity
in primary and secondary education, and halt and begin to reverse the spread
of HIV/AIDS.
Each April, millions of Americans
volunteer their time during National Volunteer Week.
The second campaign "Women Challenge U. Policy: Building Peace on
Justice in the Middle East" will educate wider audiences to speak out against
United States' policies promoting war and violence in the region rather than
peaceful solutions to the Israel-Palestinian conflict , in Afghanistan and
Iraq.

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AIF and the UN Millennium Campaign Host the AIF-UN Bay Area Summit Titled Dialogue with Change Agents: Towards Implementing the Millennium Development Goals in

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K. Prahalad, University of Michigan distinguished
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The Summit will spotlight issues at the intersection of AIF and the UN's
development work in India, including the universalization of elementary
education, the use of microcredit to improve women's livelihood and the
HIV/AIDS epidemic in India .T, the Smithsonian Institution and most recently as the
Grand Prize winner of the 2004 Yale-Goldman Sachs Foundations nonprofit
business plan competition.

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"Real progress, whether in education , science, business, or even public
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WILPF members chose these priorities for work in the next three years.

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, (AIF), The American India
Foundation (AIF), in partnership with the United Nations Millennium Campaign,
today announced its third annual Summit in the Bay Area will be held at the
San Jose Convention Center in San Jose , California on Friday, September 23,
2005, featuring Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer of
Sun Microsystems Inc. AIF works out of New York and Silicon Valley in the US, and
New Delhi and Bangalore in India. With much of the
country focused on volunteer service, it is one of the most exciting times
of year to get involved in community activities. The organization offers a variety
of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and
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Noting that future wars to control the world's resources will be over
water rather than oil, Laura Santina, chairperson of WILPF's new "Save the
Water" campaign said "It's appropriate to announce WILPF's Save the Water
campaign on International Women's Day.

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Since 1915, WILPF has worked to achieve through peaceful means: world
disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all
forms of violence, and to establish those political, social and psychological
conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.

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About the AIF-UN Bay Area Summit:
The AIF-UN Bay Area Summit draws an audience of distinguished
philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and members of
academia and non-profit organizations. The
organization also offers professional business services to support
corporations committed to managing successful community involvement
programs.

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org or Mythili Sankaran at 408-421-4524 /
Mythili@mythicaleast. This begins its tenth
decade of organizing to end war. "We hope to affect the lives of women in the Mideast -- that
would be success, if we could see a difference in the lives of the people
there," she concluded.org

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All 191 United Nations Member States have pledged to reach goals
in each of these eight areas by 2015.

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By mobilizing people and resources across the United States,
AIF has raised over $25 million since its inception in 2001."

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