Concordia Summit
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| Founded | 2011 |
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Matthew A. Swift & Nicholas M. Logothetis |
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| Mission | "Concordia promotes effective public-private collaboration to create a more prosperous and sustainable future." |
| Website | www.concordia.net |
Concordia is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 2011, which seeks to build effective public-private partnerships to create a more prosperous and sustainable future. It is best known for its annual summits in New York City, which are global affairs forums that promote partnering between governments, businesses, and nonprofits to address the world's most pressing needs. In addition, Concordia engages in year-round programming, campaigns, and research to effect global solutions via public-private partnerships.
Concordia was founded in 2011 by Matthew Swift and Nicholas Logothetis. They had been best friends since high school, where they were business partners in a successful food purveyor enterprise. Both attended university in Washington D.C., and both had a background in journalism, media, politics, and international affairs. Noting the effectiveness of the formats of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council and the Clinton Global Initiative, they founded Concordia as a nonprofit organization that helps develop public-private partnerships (P3s), in the belief that the most effective and sustainable way to find solutions to pressing global issues is through cooperation between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
In light of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Swift and Logothetis formulated their first concept as "Building Partnerships Against Extremism", and focused the first Concordia Summit, in September 2011, on combating the root causes of extremism – failing states, poverty, and lack of education – through dialogue and partnering between businesses, governments, and NGOs.
Concordia continues to convene a large annual summit each fall in New York City during the week of the United Nations General Assembly, as a gathering place for world leaders, business leaders, innovators, and nonprofit personnel to discuss and foster cross-sector partnership to address the world's most pressing problems. Along with these annual summits and additional regional summits, its year-round activities include events programming in diverse areas, targeted social-impact campaigns, and research into public-private partnerships.
Concordia engages year-round in activities including programming, research, and campaigns. Its ongoing events programming, in which it partners with members, advisors, and other organizations to achieve meaningful solutions, encompasses areas including:
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