She served as first lady from 1977 to 1981 and shes the author of five looks and a 1984 her bestselling memoir first lady from planes was released. This is carters subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. The subject shes championed throughout her life. Now from 2010 here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach ending the Mental Health crisis. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be here tonight and pleased to see so many people interested in my book. I have been on a book tour this week. I started on monday and i get the same two questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how to do you get involved in Mental Health and the second one is why did you write the book lacks im going to tell you how i got involved in the to help. I was campaigning for jimmy in florida. That does make a difference. I was campaigning, and telling you how i got involved with Mental Health issues. I
Infrastructure for electric and alternative fuel vehicles. Thats a reality of consumer desire, as well as dealing with the realities of Climate Change. We give local discretion for funds to initiate Emission Reduction strategies. That include simple things like providing alternatives for our cars, people who want to walk or bike rather than getting into our cars. Its a major commitment that we are going to provide resources and partnerships with local governments to deal with our realities and the responsibility in the transportation sector to reduce carbon emissions. I can tell you, mr. President , as i told my colleagues on the environment and public works committee, every day i face it every day, every day i community from baltimore to work and have to deal with the realities of congestion. Its been estimated that the delays caused by congestion and the excessive fuels that are used by congestion costs our economy over 300 billion every year. So theres not only a quality of life iss
to name a few the two men that will that will be featured in today s presidential speaker series event are exemplary of outstanding leadership in their own rights. first darren walker who i just had the pleasure of meeting right there president of the ford foundation who like me is a proud product of the american public education system. during his time at the ford foundation and international social justice philanthropy president walker led the ford foundation to become the first nonprofit in the us history to issue 1 billion dollars designated in social bond to us capitol markets to strengthen and stabilize nonprofit organizations as a response to the covid-19 pandemic. president walker has served on the independent commission on new york city criminal justice and incarceration reform as well as the un international labor organization global commission on the future of work. that is a lot of words. i m sorry. he co-founded both the us impact investing alliance and the presi
previous presidential speaker series events have featured supreme court justice sonia sotomayor and ruby bridges just to name a few the two men that will that will be featured in today s presidential speaker series event are exemplary of outstanding leadership in their own rights. first darren walker who i just had the pleasure of meeting right there president of the ford foundation who like me is a proud product of the american public education system. during his time at the ford foundation and international social justice philanthropy president walker led the ford foundation to become the first nonprofit in the us history to issue 1 billion dollars designated in social bond to us capitol markets to strengthen and stabilize nonprofit organizations as a response to the covid-19 pandemic. president walker has served on the independent commission on new york city criminal justice and incarceration reform as well as the un international labor organization global commission on th
right there president of the ford foundation who like me is a proud product of the american public education system. during his time at the ford foundation and international social justice philanthropy president walker led the ford foundation to become the first nonprofit in the us history to issue 1 billion dollars designated in social bond to us capitol markets to strengthen and stabilize nonprofit organizations as a response to the covid-19 pandemic. president walker has served on the independent commission on new york city criminal justice and incarceration reform as well as the un international labor organization global commission on the future of work. that is a lot of words. i m sorry. he co-founded both the us impact investing alliance and the president s council on disability inclusion in philanthropy and as a founding member of the board diversity action alliance, he serves on many other boards including the lincoln center for performing arts the national gallery of