CGI，R.I.P.

Last week, for the seventh year in a row, I attended the annual meeting of theClinton Global Initiative, or CGI, in New York. This one understandably was different from the others, more poignant, because it was supposed to be the last such meeting. It was palpably sad to watch Bill Clinton, at the end of the three-day session, draw the curtain down on an initiative that has lifted countless lives around the world over the past 12 years and which, I am convinced, will go down with the perspective of history as a shining example of the most meritorious body of post-presidency work ever performed by a former American president.

Even in our poisoned political environment, I never thought it would come to this.

Just four years ago, Mitt Romney, as the nominee of the Republican Party, took the time in the middle of his general election campaign to come to CGI, where he lavished attendees with praise for their effective philanthropic work around the globe. But then Mitt, whether you supported him or not, obviously was then and remains now a good and decent man, thoughtful and insightful.

慈善事业政治化

这绝不会发生米特，我相信，政治化慈善事业，知道他会是谁也通过这样做是最伤害的人会处于不利地位的人，受虐待的妇女，生病和饥饿的孩子，绝望的只是一个机会。

Enter Donald Trump and his minions. That Trump himself, a man seemingly of little to no moral fiber but a bottomless wellspring of self-regard, would stoop so low does not surprise me.

但我奇怪他的各种代言人和代理人 - 他们不能全部份额特朗普的缺席核心价值观和共同的礼仪。他们丑化CGI和其母公司，克林顿基金会，尽管双方都从监测慈善机构和基金会的活动不同的独立监督组织收到的最高评价。这样做，是因为不故意无知还是无知无情？难道他们不关心的人谁都会受到伤害，当克林顿基金会的很多很多值得项目削减或消除军团？

有在地狱一个特别的地点为那些谁尝试在无奈的最终费用将比分短暂的政治观点保留，在其上可怕的影响可能是永久性的。

I don't know what to say to such people other than that I am convinced, as they say, that there is a special spot in hell reserved for those who try to score transitory political points at the ultimate expense of the helpless, the dire impact of which may be permanent.

Of course, the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative leveraged off Clinton's convening power and, even more, off his catalytic power. For some donors, access to the Clintons may have been their only motivation.

但我不想象，那些人历时长，因为CGI的唯一有效的前提是，如果你来到活动现场，你不得不考虑做点好事。如果你没有做一个实际的承诺，你没有得到邀请回来。如果你作出了承诺，但它没有落实，你不能指望一个回访。

这就是如何为我们工作：我们参加;我们承诺;我们履行了该承诺。

That pesky bipartisanship

在NRG能源，这在我以前带领的情况下，我们致力于在一系列的学校，孤儿院和社会企业在海地中部高原上安装太阳能电池板。我们的CGI承诺, amplified by a supplemental financial commitment from the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund (ah, there's that pesky bipartisanship from the good old days), took about two years to implement. It wasn't easy for us, being new to the country, but the Clinton Foundation showed us the way.

Substantial motivation to get the job done also was provided by the assurance that President Clinton himself eventually would come by to check on your work.

但是，这仅仅是个开始。让我告诉你一个故事。

在纽约以下CGI会议上，克林顿旁听会话集中在海地就像它的结论。正如人们所预料，他立即被好心人团团围住。我选择，但是，不同的策略。

我用他造成尝试通过较小（但仍然可观）一套谁已经包围了合作伙伴合生保农民好心人打破了骚动。我妻子想见见他（她的坚持下，"Mountains Beyond Mountains"需要阅读的起重机的孩子，因为它应该是为你和你的）。由于我不爱出风头，我失败了。我没有甚至渗透的农民风扇外圈的时候，从我的眼角，我看到克林顿总统打破了他的圈子，直接朝我大步。

我解决我的领带，检查我的呼吸，并尝试出现冷静和放松。毕竟，他实际上可能会走向有人对我的另一面;我不是很重要的人有时我觉得我，只是有人谁是挡住他的去路。

Alas, it is me he wants to talk to.

Bill Clinton looks me in the eye and says in that soft southern drawl of his, 'David, the hospitals in Haiti are in distress.'

He wastes no time on pleasantries. He puts one hand on my shoulder and the other on my wife's. He pulls us into his personal space, so we can't get away.

He looks me in the eye and says in that soft southern drawl of his, "David, the hospitals in Haiti are in distress. Funding from the Red Cross is being cut and they're burning their entire operating budgets on diesel for their generators. They're having to lay off nurses; kids are dying for lack of basic care. Can your team at NRG get some solar panels on the roofs of those hospitals ASAP?"

And so that was what we did. And while Trump and his people may not be able to understand this sentiment — we, and others, did it not to gain access to Hillary Clinton (access that, in our case, was neither sought by us nor offered by them) but to keep children from dying.

12年来,CGI已经存在,无数lives have been saved in many countries, life prospects for challenged communities have been improved and degraded environments have been remediated.

这些数字是巨大的 - 你可以看看他们 - 而是因为他们只注重收件人连这些可观的数字不这样做正义。他们忽略了CGI的精神和实际影响我们，于度外。

Even after our formal CGI commitments had been fulfilled, we continued to do pro bono solar projects in Haiti for the remainder of my tenure at NRG. We did them as volunteer projects, inviting NRG employees and guests of the company, to labor on the hot roofs of Haiti. Our intention in doing it this way was to infuse our employees and friends of the firm with the spirit of giving and community service and most returned from Haiti and got even more involved in their local communities.

事实上，我们的客人在海地之一是康纳·巴温, star defensive endforthe Philadelphia Eagles. He told me later that he had been so inspired by海地，和他认识一个人的力量，有所作为，他又回到了费城，开始了自己的基金会，让世界美好基金会（谷歌一下）。

Barwin和他的组织正在做出色的工作在市内费城改造退化公园。然而，这绝不会发生，除了CGI和克林顿基金会。他们就像一块石头在静水下降，从而在每一个方向慈善事业的积极的连锁反应。

12年后，CGI似乎有它自己的势头，才能让我们存活四个或八个年没克林顿家庭的参与。

我不知道在哪里克林顿基金会从这里去。他们被关停CGI，但它看起来不正确。12年后，CGI似乎有它自己的势头，才能让我们存活四个或八个年没克林顿家庭的参与。也许，这可能仅仅是“全球倡议”，并可以将所有生活前总统的主持下前进。

时间会证明一切，但是，在此之前，我对麦卡锡时代的最后表决“你没有羞耻时刻”特朗普是不是他在联邦法官的攻击，他对泰德·克鲁斯的妻子的暴行，他是媒体还是不敬的解雇符合教皇，可汗和金星母亲随处可见。正是这种羞辱 - 他的CGI和克林顿基金会的攻击。

特朗普先生和你的代理人，你有没有羞耻？