SDG 4: EDUCATION

#JoinTheMovement with Support the Goals

Support the Goals is an initiative to reward businesses for supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Join Support the Goals for free!

Your business will be awarded an SDG Rating to measure your contributions to the Global Goals. With this, you’ll understand how your actions advance the goals, and follow a roadmap of your next steps. You’ll also access to a growing library of resources, plus tools to help communicate your support and a programme to educate and involve your suppliers.

Global Africa Business Initiative

Under the leadership of the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed, the inaugural Global Africa Business Initiative is designed to place Africa in its proper spot on the world stage, bringing to focus a roadmap for Africa that is sustainable, inclusive, just, and managed by Africans for Africans. The conference will take place during the United Nations General Assembly week from 18-19 September 2022. There will be robust dives on how Africa offers a powerful business ecosystem when activated brings prosperity to all Africans and citizens of the world.

Reimagining A Fair Data Future: Launch of the Data Values Campaign

This side event, hosted by the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, will launch the Data Values Campaign, a global campaign centered around a manifesto for change that sparks dialogue, builds a movement, and catalyzes action to unlock a fairer data future for all. The campaign will be a movement that brings together diverse and often underrepresented perspectives, stories, and expertise on issues around data and power. The event will frame the need to critically examine the ways that power is distributed in the production, sharing, and use of data, and in how data use and governance can challenge or exacerbate existing power imbalances.

Youth4Climate: Powering Action

Youth4Climate: Powering Action, a global initiative co-led by the Government of Italy and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and co-shaped with youth and other strategic partners, will convene a flagship global event on 20 September 2022 in New York, on the margins of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Voices in Miami: College Thoughts

Voices in Miami is a Social Impact Movement podcast created in 2021 by two Miami change makers, Josie and Olivia, as a celebration of the anniversary of the SDGs. This year, we join Global Goals Week from our hosts’ college campus. By interviewing students while they walk into their classrooms, Josie and Olivia will look for answers to the question: What do you think is the biggest problem in the world today?

Publish your SDG Article during Global Goals Week

Join the fast-growing movement of young change-makers writing content and sharing articles about the Sustainable Development Goals. From your classroom, dorm, library, or just from home, choose your theme and start writing today!

SDGtalks.ai articles published during Global Goals Week will be highlighted on the Social Impact Movement website.

Generalist, specialist, or both? A new strategy for business action on the SDGs

Businesses need to take action on the SDGs. Is it better to be a specialist, focusing on a single SDG, or work towards all 17 in a generalist framework?

Learn more with B Lab Global’s Insights Team, a B Corp leader, and the authors of ‘Becoming a generalized specialist: a strategic model for increasing your organization’s SDG impact while minimizing externalities’.