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Blair spoke on development, and, particularly, the work of his Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) to support leaders on the continent.</i></span>"; bannerImg[3]="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/images/Invest/13_Audience for Start with a Girl Event 10.07.09.jpg"; captions[3] = "<span style='font-size: 11px;'>Geeta Rao Gupta, Farah Mohamed, Belinda Stronach, Melanne Verveer, Miriam Temin, and Rachel Vogelstein, at the launch of <i>Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health.</i></span>"; bannerImg[4]="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/images/Invest/5_carrying sticks.jpg"; captions[4] = '<span style="font-size: 11px;">Educating an additional 18 to 23 million young women annually would neutralize the impact of extreme weather events by the middle of this century. <span style="font-size: 9px;">(Source: "The Economics of Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events in Developing Countries" David Wheeler et al.)</span></span>'; bannerImg[5]="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/images/Invest/3_cgd_hillary_288.jpg"; captions[5] = "<span style='font-size: 11px;'>Secretary Clinton sharing her views on new directions in U.S. global development policy and its importance at home and abroad.</span>"; bannerImg[6]="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/images/Invest/10_cgd_hillary_296.jpg"; captions[6] = "<span style='font-size: 11px;'>Nancy Birdsall, Ed Scott, Fred Bergsten, Raj Shah, Jessica Einhorn, and Mark Malloch-Brown at Secretary Clinton's speech <i>Development in the 21st Century</i>, hosted by CGD on January 6, 2010.</span>"; bannerImg[7]="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/images/Invest/4_Start with a Girl Event 10.07.09.jpg"; captions[7] = "<span style='font-size: 11px;'>Effective communication is central to CGD's efforts to move ideas to action. In 2009, CGD hosted over 90 events, published more than 100 publications, and reinforced these efforts through this website, e-newsletters, podcasts, and social networks.</span>"; bannerImg[8]="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/images/Invest/9_cgd_dinner_14052.jpg"; captions[8] = "<span style='font-size: 11px;'>Patty Stonesifer, recipient of the Edward W. 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Invest in CGD. <br> <br/> </h1> </div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="930px" border="0"> <td width="250px" valign="top" style="border-right: 1px solid #ccc;" align="center"> <div style="padding: 10px;text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="margin-bottom: 2px;"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/donatenow">Contribute today</a><br/> or learn more about:</p> </div> <hr style="color: #ccc;height: 1px;width: 230px;margin: auto;"><br/> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/donate/hewlett_match"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/Invest/matchgraphic.png" alt="Hewlett Match" width="241" height="213" border="none"/></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/donate/partnerscouncil"><img alt="Partners Council" border="none" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/Invest/CGD_Partnership_Logo_small.jpg"/></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/donate/cgd_society"><img alt="CGD Society" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/badges/cgd-society.jpg"/></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/donate/legacysociety"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/Invest/legacy-sm.png" width="150" height="95"></a></div> </div> <div style="margin: 14px 0 20px 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/donate/embassy_dinner_event"><img alt="Embassy Dinner" border="none" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/EmbassyDinner/epd-hp.png"/></a></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px"> <p align="left" class="style3" style="color: #F33817;">Other ways to invest</p> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/donatenow">Give a recurring gift</a></li> <li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/donatenow">Make a gift in honor or in memory</a></li> <li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120107073303/http://cgdev.org/section/about/donate/supportinfo">Donate stock</a></li> <li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107073303/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about_enews/">Engage in other ways with the Center</a></li> </ul> <p>聽</p> </div> </div> </div> </td> <td width="570px" valign="top"> <div style="padding: 10px;"> <p align="left" class="style3" style="padding-top: 0">CGD cannot tell you that your investment will go directly for new schools, healthy children or thriving villages. What CGD offers instead is something more far-reaching: <span><strong><em>the assurance that everything CGD does supports change in the global system so that poor people have more opportunities to improve their lives</em></strong><em>.</em></span></p> <p align="left" class="style3">By working to change policies, CGD is changing the world. As you can glean from our website and the impacts we have had since our founding in 2001, rigorous research and active engagement in the policy process provide opportunities for remarkable leverage. 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