International Projects

Current and recent projects

A Turning Point For Human Rights Campaign

Amnesty International USA, New York, NY

Founded in London in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. chapter of Amnesty International.

CCS is proud to advise and assist AIUSA with developing a more robust major gifts program and conducting a comprehensive campaign to secure five-year capacity-building pledges. This effort will provide AIUSA, the premier citizen movement for human rights, with innovative tools and superior strategies to meet the grave and emerging human rights challenges of the 21st century.

www.amnestyusa.org

Campaign SightFirst II

Lions Clubs International, Oak Brook, IL

Founded in Chicago in 1917, Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service organization with nearly 1.3 million members in 45,000 clubs in 202 countries and geographic areas around the world. Community-based clubs are united in a global effort to support Lions Clubs International Foundation’s (LCIF) flagship blindness-prevention program SightFirst. CCS is proud to have guided LCIF in Campaign SightFirst II and its predecessor, Campaign SightFirst. Combined, these global capital campaigns have raised more than US$300 million and helped Lions to save the sight of more than 50 million people, while improving eye care for hundreds of millions more.

Campaign SightFirst II Case Study

www.lionsclubs.org/

Securing the Future

International Crisis Group, Brussels, Belgium

The International Crisis Group is the leading, independent, non-government source of analysis and advice on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. Led by President and CEO Gareth Evans, the organisation is headquartered in Brussels, with 135 staff members on five continents covering between them over 60 countries or situations of actual or potential conflict. CCS was honored to serve as fund-raising counsel to the International Crisis Group for the initial phase of its $50 million capital fund campaign. In only the first six months of a three-year campaign, Crisis Group secured four cornerstone gifts of $5 million each. The campaign secured the unprecedented levels of support from world-renowned investor George Soros; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; as well as international businessmen Frank Giustra and Victor Pinchuk.

www.crisisgroup.org

NIGERIA HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION

New York, NY

In 1999, Nigeria returned to democratic rule, allowing its universities an opportunity to rebuild after years of neglect and decline. With this great opportunity came the need to mobilize alumni, friends, and non-governmental organizations. In 2004, the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) was created as a collaborative effort between the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Community Counselling Service. The NHEF is based upon the belief that strong universities and intellectual freedom are essential to developing and sustaining healthy democratic societies. The NHEF strives to increase global awareness for Nigerian universities, identify and bring in philanthropic resources, oversee the strategic planning for university development, and steward the dissemination of resources for the universities. The NHEF currently supports four universities: Ahmadu Bello University, Bayero University, University of Ibadan, and University of Port Harcourt. CCS is pleased to advise and assist the NHEF in these efforts.

www.thenhef.org

Hope Lives Here: UNICEF's Campaign Against AIDS

U.S. Fund for UNICEF, New York, NY

Created in 1947, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF is the oldest of 37 national committees around the world that support the work of UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund) through fund raising and public awareness efforts. The U.S. Fund launched the Hope Lives Here campaign to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS. The goal of the five-year campaign is to raise $100 million in support of UNICEF's response to this global crisis.

www.unicefusa.org

Classic and Historical projects

More Than Houses: Rebuilding Our Communities

Habitat for Humanity International, Americus, GA

Habitat for Humanity International was founded in 1976 and is now a worldwide grass-roots movement dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing. Operating in more than 80 countries, over one million people live in Habitat homes throughout the world. The More Than Houses Campaign, chaired by former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp, raised $593 million worldwide to help build the next 100,000 houses.

www.habitat.org

A Defining Moment In History

Human Rights Watch, New York, NY

With offices in four continents and a worldwide staff of more than 150, Human Rights Watch undertakes investigations in 70 countries around the world, bringing abuses to light and pressing governments to change. Doubling its original campaign goal, CCS helped Human Rights Watch raise $45 million to build its endowment, the most ambitious fund-raising effort ever undertaken by a humanitarian advocacy group.

www.hrw.org/

International Accounting Standards Committee

(IASC) London, England

CCS assisted the IASC in raising public and private funds to help underwrite the budget of the Foundation’s subsidiary, the International Accounting Standards Board, and establish international financial accounting standards. Over 130 multinationals, banks, stock exchanges, money managers, central banks and inter-governmental organizations from 31 countries have committed over $90,000,000 to IASC.

www.iasb.org/

Campaign SightFirst

Lions Club International, Oak Brook, IL

With 44,500 local clubs and 1.4 million members, Lions Club International is the world's largest organization of its kind. Lions Clubs International launched Campaign SightFirst to support the world's largest blindness prevention program. When Campaign SightFirst officially closed in June 1994, the initiative had raised $146,800,000.

www.lions.org/

POLIOPLUS: To Immunize The Children of the World

Rotary International, Evanston, IL

PolioPlus is one of the most ambitious humanitarian undertakings that a private entity has ever undertaken. By providing oral polio vaccine to newborns in the developing world, the PolioPlus program has protected more than one billion children to date. At the campaign's official end, Rotary more than doubled its goal, collecting over $247 million and raised $340 million for the program.