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The capacity of the Secretariat has been enhanced significantly by the active support of a network of Council members, advisors, partner organizations, affiliates, and interns. By 2010 ECI had 112 affiliates in 66 countries. There were also 69 youth groups in 41 countries. By the end of the first decade, over 5,000 organizations and governments had endorsed the Earth Charter. Recent endorsements include the National Parliament of Portugal, General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the USA, and India’s spiritual and social leader, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (widely known as Amma). 2011 will mark a new phase in the Earth Charter Initiative. After ten years serving as a co-chair of the Steering Committee and the ECI Council, Steven Rockefeller will be stepping down from that position at the end of 2010. In addition, the Council is giving serious consideration to a reorganization of ECI’s governance structure in an effort to strengthen leadership at the regional level. Resource mobilization in support of the Secretariat remains a challenge, and ECI will have to give this challenge increased attention and broaden its base of support in order to pursue its future goals. In the years ahead, ECI will also have to address the questions that will periodically arise about the text of the Earth Charter and various current issues and about the relation of the Earth Charter to new declarations such as the draft Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth issued in 2010 by the Bolivian government. ECI remains committed to the goal of seeking United Nations General Assembly recognition of the Earth Charter, and Rio+20, which will take place in 2012, provides another opportunity to secure such recognition in some appropriate form. Keeping in mind its limited capacity and resources, ECI must continue to wrestle with the question of how to position itself in relation to other organizations and initiatives that are part of the global sustainability movement. These are some of the challenges that ECI will face over the next five to ten years. No intergovernmental or civil society declaration has to date replaced the Earth Charter, and those new documents that have emerged are not as comprehensive nor the product of the kind of inclusive, participatory, worldwide process that has given the Earth Charter its basic legitimacy as a guiding ethical framework. The decentralization strategy coupled with the new communications outreach is paving the way for the ongoing, rapid, worldwide expansion of Earth Charter-related activity. As an educational instrument, a source of inspiration and guidance for action, and a reference document for the development of ethics, law, policy, and standards, the Earth Charter remains profoundly relevant and continues to grow in influence. The major changes envisioned by the Earth Charter are ever more urgently needed as the risks associated with the consequences of inaction continue to grow. Earth Charter Initiative HANDBOOK |51|
ten X. Earth Charter Associates, Ltd. Since the ECI Council is not legally incorporated and, therefore, cannot enter into legal contracts and conduct certain financial transactions, Earth Charter Associates, Ltd. (ECA) was created in the United States in 2006 to provide certain legal, financial, and fund raising services in support of ECI. ECA is being registered in the US as a charitable (501c3) organization. ECA provides donors with a vehicle for making charitable contributions in support of ECI. For this purpose ECA contracts with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), a non-profit organization based in New York City that provides financial and philanthropic services to individuals, foundations and other nonprofit organizations. RPA has established and operates an Earth Charter Fund, which receives contributions and transmits the funds to the University for Peace in support of the ECI Secretariat or to other Earth Charter projects as appropriate. RPA’s services include the management of funds and bank accounts, provision of accounting services, and financial reporting. RPA also insures that all grants from the Earth Charter Fund conform with US federal law. ECA has the capability to enter other legal contracts on behalf of ECI when necessary. In this regard since 2006, it has secured international trademark registration , it has secured international trademark registration for the Earth Charter logo (dove design) and the title “Earth Charter Initiative”. The activities of ECA are overseen by a board of seven trustees, four of whom are ECI Council members. The officers and trustees of ECA are the following: Rick Clugston Song Li Nicholas Robinson, Vice Chair Steven Rockefeller, Chair Laurie Rockett, Secretary Harold L. Talbot Mary Evelyn Tucker Dennis Ryan, Treasurer |52| Earth Charter Initiative HANDBOOK
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