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Mission


The Virtue Foundation is a nonprofit organization with Special Consultative Status to the United Nations. Its mission is to increase awareness, inspire action and render assistance through initiatives on healthcare, education, and women and justice programs, as well as innovative work in research and analytics. Composed primarily of volunteers, Virtue Foundation is guided by the principle that true global change must begin within each of us—one person at a time, one act at a time.

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Objectives


Virtue Foundation seeks to provide both impactful short-term and long-term sustainable development solutions to communities across the globe. Our goals are to remedy pressing, immediate community concerns while establishing lasting partnerships to create and implement initiatives for development and advancement in the areas of health, education, and empowerment.

In addition to our work in the field in countries around the world, we engage in significant research and analytics and have spent several years developing the Actionable Data Initiative, a data-driven machine-learning model that seeks to create an efficient market for healthcare delivery in underserved regions of the world.


Partners

Virtue Foundation collaborates with public and private sector partners to implement high-impact, evidence-based initiatives across the globe. Below are some of the past and present partners.

  • United Nations

  • UNESCO

  • UNICEF

  • U.S. Department of State

  • Cornell University

  • MIT University

  • Columbia University

  • Harvard University

  • The Rockefeller University

  • UC Berkeley

  • Mount Sinai

  • Asia Society

  • FilmAid International

  • iCivics

  • Moving Health

  • Refugees International

  • The Rockefeller Foundation

  • Apple

  • Avon

  • Carto

  • Databricks

  • DataRobot

  • Dun & Bradstreet

  • Microsoft

  • Standard & Poor’s

  • Toyota

  • CNN

  • NBC News

  • ABC News

  • The Daily Beast

  • Newsweek

  • Nickelodeon


Advisory & Executive Committee

The committee consists of experienced and dedicated individuals whose strategic insights and commitment are essential to guiding and supporting Virtue Foundation’s mission.

Kim Azzarelli

Kim Azzarelli is Co-Lead of the VFMatch/Actionable Data Initiative and a member of Virtue Foundation’s Advisory and Executive Committee. She is Partner at Seneca Women and serves as a Director’s…
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George C. Biddle

Senior Vice President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a leading non-sectarian, voluntary organization providing relief, protection, rehabilitation, and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict,…
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Michael Corriero

Judge Corriero is the Executive Director and Founder of the New York Center for Juvenile Justice. He served as the Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York…
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Ebby Elahi

Dr. Ebby Elahi is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Director of Fifth Avenue Associates. An oculofacial surgeon,…
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Joan LaRovere

Dr. Joan LaRovere is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Innovation and Outcomes and Attending Physician in the Division of Cardiac Critical Care…
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Joseph Salim

Dr. Salim is the Executive Director of Virtue Foundation working tirelessly to raise awareness of prevalent humanitarian issues and to motivate people of all ages and backgrounds to become actively…
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Reza Yassari

Dr. Reza Yassari is Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopedics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Surgical Director of the Montefiore Spine Center and Residency Program Director in Neurosurgery…
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