As 2018 gets underway, the United Nations Foundation is turning 20, and we find ourselves reflecting on the world then and now, the values that drive our work, and the future that lies within our grasp.

We spent our first 20 years helping catalyze and incubate innovative UN initiatives and bringing together students, businesses, faith communities, digital influencers, and more to advocate for the UN and drive real progress for real people.

Through partnerships over the last 20 years, we’ve been able to invest more than $2 billion in UN causes to enable more people to move from poverty to possibility and embrace their futures in larger freedom and dignity.

In the coming years, we expect to continue to focus on supporting cross-cutting drivers to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals, like data, gender equality, and transformative business and finance mechanisms; strategic coalitions to meet some of the biggest collective challenges of our time.

What happens next is up to all of us. We will be pushing ourselves even harder to live our values, to resist the distractions of the daily churn, and to leverage partnerships for progress.

Read the full Letter of Reflection From the United Nations Foundation by Kathy Calvin at Medium