Partners

Government Partners
MCI worked with municipal, regional and national governments to inform MCI of each city’s pressing needs, provide relevant data and background information, facilitate studies and new initiatives, support the sustainability of programs and increase the likelihood of scalability to other Millennium Cities and within each country.

The Millennium City Municipal Governments of:
Mekelle, Ethiopia
Accra, Ghana
Kumasi, Ghana
Kisumu, Kenya
Blantyre, Malawi
Bamako, Mali
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Segou, Mali
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Akure, Nigeria
Kaduna, Nigeria
Louga, Senegal
Tabora, Tanzania

The Regional Governments, including these Millennium Cities

The National Governments of:
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Malawi
Mali
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Nigeria
Senegal
Tanzania

Other Partners:
MCI is also grateful for the partnership of the following multilateral, bilateral and non-profit agencies, corporations, foundations, individuals and educational institutions, including within our own Columbia University:

Multilateral Institutions:
Cities Alliance
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Poverty Unit of the MDG Support Group
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Agenda 21
United Nations – HABITAT
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
The World Bank (Washington, DC; Ghana)

Columbia University and Earth Institute Affiliations:
Center for Global Health and Economic Development
Center for Sustainable Urban Development
Columbia University Business School
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Mailman School of Public Health
Millennium Villages Project
School of Engineering and Applied Science
School of International and Public Affairs
Teachers College
Urban Design Programme
Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment

Major In-Kind Donors
Afrikaverein
Airtel Ghana
AmeriCares
Carter, Ledyard & Milburn LLP
Cravath, Swain & Moore LLP
DLA Piper
Ericsson
GlaxoSmithKline
Government of Israel, Office of International Cooperation (MASHAV), Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Kohn Pederson Fox Associates
KPMG
LitWorld
Physicians for Peace

School2School Partnerships (Including the following US schools, as well as dozens of Millennium City schools)
Arts & Technology Academy (Washington, DC)
Cushing Academy (Ashburnham, Massachusetts)
Los Gatos High School (Los Gatos, California)
MS 406 Global Technology Preparatory (New York, NY)
MS 104 Simon Baruch Middle School (New York, NY)
MS 250 West Side Collaborative (New York, NY)
New Heights Academy (New York, NY)
New York City Lab Charter High School (New York, NY)
The Park School (Brooklandville, Maryland)
Theodore Roosevelt High School (Washington, DC)
The School at Columbia University (New York, NY)
Sidwell Friends School (Washington, DC)
UN Association of the National Capital Region (Washington, DC)
Wilmington Friends School (Wilmington, DE)

Other Key Partners and Supporters
Mr. Gerald Abrams
The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore 
Anonymous (5)
Mr. Japhet Arikyu
Baltimore Community Foundation
Bank of America
Ben Gurion University (Israel)
Ms. Nancy P. Blaustein
Boulder, CO, Sister Cities Project (Sister City with Kisumu, Kenya)
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bowlus
Center for National Health Development in Ethiopia
Mr. Gary M. Cohen
Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
Community Lab
Connect To Learn
Cordaid (The Netherlands)
CyberSmart Africa
Mr. Douglas Durst
The Economist Intelligence Unit
Mr. F. Bruce Cohen
Ga Mashie Development Association (GAMADA), Accra, Ghana
Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center (Haifa, Israel)
Government of Finland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Government of France, l’Agence francaise de developpement
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Government of Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Hachette Book Group
Ms. Carolyn Herman
Himalayan Cataract Project

Housing the Masses (Accra, Ghana)
iEARN

Institute for Local Government Studies (Accra, Ghana)
International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (UK)
Johnson & Johnson
Ms. Ann Kaplan
Kinkaid School (Houston, Texas)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana)
Mr. and Mrs. Kase Lawal
The Lemmon Foundation
Columbia Global Center (Nairobi, Kenya)
MDG Centre, West and Central Africa (Dakar, Senegal)
Millennium Promise (New York)
Mount Carmel Training Center (Haifa, Israel)
Ms. Stacy Moscow
Mums for Mums (Mekelle, Ethiopia)
Network for Good
Ms. Cathy Neumann
New York Community Trust
Aharon Ofri International Training Center (Jerusalem, Israel)
One World Youth Project
People’s Dialogue (Slum Dwellers International affiliate, Accra, Ghana)
Ms. Bonnie Potter
The Sackler Institute (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Save the Children Ghana
Stevens Institute of Technology
Tides Foundation
University of Ghana – Legon campus (Accra, Ghana)
Vale S.A. Mocambique
The Weitz Center for Development Studies (Israel)
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory and Jacquelyn Zehner