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As the region’s most innovative forum, the CNE Una Gran Causa Leadership Summit aims to energize and inform participants on global trends while simultaneously strengthening a core group of prominent NGO’s.
LUNCHEON WITH FAREED ZAKARIA
April 19, 2011
La Concha Hotel
- Host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS
- Editor-at-Large of TIME Magazine
- Washington Post Columnist
- Author of the international bestseller Post American World
Fareed Zakaria is internationally renowned for his ability to identify global currents and trends. Zakaria will identify the challenges and opportunities that Puerto Rico faces in the context of global politics and economics.
About the benefiting organizations:
Center for the New Economy (CNE) – The Center for the New Economy is an independent nonpartisan and non-profit institution dedicated to creating a new economy for Puerto Rico that is prosperous, balanced, and equitable. CNE is organized to function as a think-tank, producing independent research and policy on issues of economic development.
Niños Nueva Esperanza – Non-profit organization founded by the Franciscan Custody Friars of the Caribbean and created to assist children between the ages of 6 and 16 with much needed academic tutoring, psychological, and alternative programs, focusing on a preventive method that enhances the many strengths of the community.
Hogar Nuestra Señora de la Providencia – Non-profit organization providing the non-assisted elderly with housing, food, and medical needs. As of today, they have a population of 180 elderly. This entity is administered by Catholic nuns known as “Hermanitas de los Ancianos Desamparados,” an order founded in Spain in 1873 by Saint Teresa de Jornet.
The Scholarship Foundation for Hotel & Tourism Studies – Founded to provide educational opportunities to students from Puerto Rico to study at some of the top hotel management and culinary arts schools around the world.
Project H2O – Non-profit organization committed to educating on the impending global water crisis and advocating on ways to alleviate it. Their goal is twofold: footprint and helping reduce the vulnerability of affected societies by finding alternative solutions to their water problems. They are independent of any government, political ideology, or economic interest.