The original Purpose Statement of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health [NIGH] was included in the ?NIGH USA? by-laws (attached) and submitted to the United States Government in application for 501 (c )3 Charitable Status in 2005:

?The purposes of the corporation are: to raise public awareness of the importance of individual, community and environmental health; to educate health professionals and the public on innovative approaches to increase health; to organize nurses and caregivers nationally and internationally to advocate for better health measures by governments, businesses, communities and individuals and share best practices; and to promote the development of higher standards for public health.?

A related ?NIGH World? Purpose Statement was updated, as recently required by the Canadian Government, in 2015:

?To promote health through education regarding the global health concerns of all peoples at risk, worldwide, including mothers, newborns and children, by:

? convening health-related forums and events in communities and at regional, national and global levels to increase understanding of and commitment of health authorities and others to health, across the world;

? creating and sustaining participatory health education projects, through coaching, public speaking, writing, photography, radio, video, film and interactive digital and social media;

? engaging and training nurses, midwives, social workers, students, teachers and others concerned with health to participate in the design, planning, preparation, production and promotion of these projects, materials and events;

? creating and disseminating to the general public interactive multi-media projects and materials regarding health concerns, particularly of youth and school age children.?
Since its founding in 2004, the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) has developed and co-sponsored a series of campaigns to increase public concern for global health issues and to engage nurses, midwives and concerned citizens in this advocacy.

The first such campaign launched NIGH?s ?Nightingale Declaration for a Healthy World? that has since been endorsed by 22,000 people from 106 nations, especially nursing and midwifery leaders who represent millions in their member organizations @ www.nightingaledeclaration.net/the-declaration.

In 2006, NIGH team members served at the World Health Organization [WHO] at a Global Forum of Government Chief Nursing & Midwifery Officers at WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. In 2008, members of NIGH?s team collaborated with the then WHO Chief Nursing Scientist, Dr. Jean Yan, and the WHO Global Advisory Group for Nursing & Midwifery to co-produce a video featuring 60 years of Primary Health Care across the world for the WHO 60th Anniversary and the 30th Anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration for Primary Health Care. For this project, they contributed to meetings at WHO Headquarters in Geneva; at the WHO SEARO Regional Office in New Delhi; and presented the video?s premiere to a WHO WPRO Regional Nursing Meeting in Jinan, China. This video is available on WHO?s website @ www.who.int/hrh/nursing_midwifery/films/en/ and is featured in eight languages?with the story of its outreach?@ www.nightingaledeclaration.net/old-vid.

Since 2007, NIGH has been even further pro-active through an expanded development of its websites?and through related e-Newsletters shared with a 22,000-name data-base?by authoring feature articles, videos and photo-essays and collaborating with the Inter Press Service [IPS] News Agency. To increase online interactivity and wider availability to mobile devices and smart phones, NIGH has also developed new website, launched in May, 2015, @ www.NIGHVision.net, where a list NIGH?s creative online videos are featured on this Homepage.

Another strong feature of this new website has already begun to promote the new UN Sustainable Development Goals in the context of preparation for the upcoming 2020 Bicentenary of Florence Nightingale?s Birth?to globally appreciate Nightingale?s long-term advocacy for the social and environmental determinants of health; and to advocate for the health and well-being of all humanity as the foundation for sustainable peace, prosperity and happiness.

Between 2005 and 2009, NIGH team members presented NIGH?s mandates at international and regional nursing conferences in Beijing, China; Caracas, Venezuela; Durban, South Africa; Istanbul, Turkey; Lusaka, Zambia; and Mumbai, India. They have facilitated five related workshops at National Conferences of the American Holistic Nurses Association and initiated meetings at the United Nations Headquarters in both Geneva and New York City to prepare NIGH and related nursing organizations to participate in United Nations NGO activities. In 2009, NIGH was awarded UN DPI-NGO Status and has actively utilized this Status to provide information about UN mandates and missions ever since.

Across all these years, NIGH teams have promoted NIGH?s mandates, starting by co-authoring the award-winning textbook ?Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action? (2005) and following-up by authoring and co-authoring numerous related journal articles, periodical features and book chapters.

Since the global economic crisis in 2008, NIGH has maintained an average annual budget of less than US $ 10,000 and has relied on significant pro-bono and in-kind contributions, modest levels of donations and full and part-time volunteers to achieve the above activities. An official ?Annual Report? is not required by the governments of the United States or Canada at this level of funding. While contributing to official Panel Presentations at two Civil Society Development Foruns related to UN ECOSOC ?Annual Ministerial Reviews? for ?Global Health? in Geneva [2009] and for ?Gender Equality? in New York City [2010]?NIGH?s team was advised by then UN ECOSOC Chief Nikel Seth and then UN DESI Chief Andre Abramov to engage NIGH?s global network to advocate for the UN MDGs. This advice was followed as NIGH and our partner nursing organizations dedicated the 2010 Florence Nightingale Centennial / International Year of the Nurse to achieving all 8 MDGs: celebrated across the world; featured during a Global Commemoration at the National Catherdral in Washington DC; and highlighted on an international website dedicated to this Year. [Now see: @www.nightingaledeclaration.net/2010-iynurse] During the 2010 UN MDGs Summit in NYC, NIGH co-sponsored, with CoNGO, a ?Raise Your Voice for MDGs 4 & 5? Concert at the Lincoln Center and with online videos @www.nightingaledeclaration.net/features/610-encore. During 2010, NIGH team members keynoted at related international, regional and national nursing conferences in Athens, Greece; Bangkok, Thailand; Beijing, China; Quebec City & Toronto, Canada; and Seoul, South Korea. Furthering this campaign, NIGH collaborated with USA Today?s ?Nursing Spectrum? to its 750,000 readers in the United States. In 2012, NIGH launched a campaign to promote MDG # 5 ?Improve Maternal Health??with ?Daring, Caring & Sharing to Save Mothers? Lives??and a global online outreach (2012-2014) that achieved 3.5 million hits from 90,000 unique visitors from 146 nations. This was highlighted at international nursing conferences in Yerevan, Armenia [2013], London, UK [2014] and, via Skype, to conferences in Aman, Jordan (2013) and Manilla, Philippines (2014). NIGH?s team received ?Media Accreditation? to cover the ?Global Summit for Maternal & Newborn Health? convened in Toronto [2014]. NIGH has been awarded with Membership in the ?WHO Partnership for Maternal and Child Health,? in Geneva and the ?Canadian Network for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health? in Ottawa. For the UN ?Post-2015 Agenda,? our NYC-based team?NIGH?s UN DPI NGO Representatives & Youth Representatives?co-sponsored a ?Global Health, Nurses & The UN: Education, Practice & Advocacy? Workshop?convened at the NYU Hospital [2014] for nursing educators, nurses and student nurses from across the Northeast. Following this Workshop, NIGH?s UN-NGO team developed a website @www.TheWorldNursesWant.net to feature an online ?Global Briefing? introducing the ?Post 2015-Agenda? to nurses, globally, and encouraging them to participate in the UN?s ?The World We Want? Surveys. This Briefing also provides continuing education credits for nursing re-licensure in the United States. Plus, our online Post-2015 Briefing was further articulated when NIGH?s UN DPI NGO Representatives made a Panel Presentation at the 65th Annual UN NGO International Conference at UN Headquarters [2014]?@www.nighvision.net/-nighs-united-nations-participation.html?and at three international nursing research conferences in Hong Kong & Jordan (2014) and Puerto Rico (2015). To prepare to advocate for proposed UN Sustainable Development Goal # 3 [to] ?Ensure Healthy Lives & Promote Well-Being for All at All Ages? and Target 3.8 to achieve Universal Health Coverage, NIGH has collaborated with the WHO Healthcare Workforce Development Department to produce a video??At the Heart of It All: Nurses & Midwives for Universal Health Coverage??premiered at the 2014 WHO Global Forum for Government Chief Nursing & Midwifery Officers in Geneva, and since featured online @www.nighvision.net/who-video.html. At the 2015 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, NIGH co-sponsored two official Panel Presentations focused on women?s health and mental health and related to the proposed UN SDG #s 3, 4 and 5. NO - NIGH?s Official Governing Bodies:

For ?NIGH USA? ? a 501 (c )3 Non-Profit Charitable Organization formed in 2004:

Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN ? Canada
International Co-Director
Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC ? United States
International Co-Director
Wayne Kines ? Canada
Director of Communications
Founding Director of Communications, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Betsy E. Lehrfeld ? United States
NIGH?s Legal Counsel
Swankin & Turner, Attorneys at Law, Washington, D.C.
Cynda H. Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN ? United States
Professor, Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Louise C. Selanders, EdD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University School of Nursing

For ?NIGH World? ? a Canadian Non-Profit Organization formed in 2008:

Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN ? Canada
International Co-Director
Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC ? United States
International Co-Director
Wayne Kines ? Canada
Director of Communications
Founding Director of Communications, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Phalakshi Manjrekar, MScN, RN ? India
Director of Nursing / Director, Board of Management (Trustees)
Hindjuja Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Mumbai
Cyril Ritchie ? Switzerland
President of the Congress of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations [CoNGO]
Dionne Sinclair, MScN, RN ? Jamaica
Director, Complex Continuing Care Program, Bruyere Continuing Care, Ottawa, Canada
Poonam Sharma, MScN, RN ? Canada
Acting Supervisor-Oral Health Program, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Division,
Region of Peel, Toronto, Canada
Jane Sun, MBA ? China
Beijing Nightingale Community of Culture

NIGH?s United Nations DPI-NGO Representatives:

Holly Shaw, PhD, RN
Director, UN DPI-NGO Executive Committee, 2013-2015
Associate Professor, Adelphi University School of Nursing, New York City
Gloria Chan, BScN
Graduate Student in Nurse Anesthesia, Rutgers University
Staff Nurse, Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn

NIGH?s United Nations DPI-NGO Youth Representatives:

David ?D.J.? Schnabel, BScN
Staff Nurse and Medical Spanish Interpreter, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York City
Darren Panicali, BScN
Staff Nurse, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City

In addition to these NIGH governing officials and UN DPI-NGO Representatives, NIGH?s network of Advisors and related colleagues are from and work / volunteer in the following countries: Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, Haiti, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malawi, Norway, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe; and from across the United States and Canada.
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