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From the Chairman & the CEO

A Legacy Worth Celebrating

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Jason Carter
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Paige Alexander
The last year brought profound changes for The Carter Center. We bade farewell to beloved co-founder Rosalynn Carter in November. Just a few weeks earlier, we celebrated co-founder and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s 99th birthday. (For Jason, of course, these events were personal. He celebrated his grandfather’s long life and mourned his grandmother’s passing.)
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Carter Center co-founder and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter says hello to children in Tingoli, Ghana.
As tributes for both President and Mrs. Carter poured in, we were again reminded of the impact their lives have had on people around the world — from leaders to everyday citizens. You celebrated them with us, for theirs is a legacy worth celebrating.
Through their many achievements, the Carters personify empathy in action, support for human rights, compassion for caregivers and people with mental illnesses, the pursuit of peace, defense of democracy, elimination of diseases, and so much more.
As President Bill Clinton said in 1999 when he awarded them the Presidential Medal of Freedom, “Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have done more good things for more people in more places than any other couple on the face of the Earth.”
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Carter Center co-founder and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter greets a boy in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Now all of us — at The Carter Center and beyond — carry the torch they have passed to us.
At The Carter Center, we are moving forward boldly because Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter positioned us to do so. They created a strong organization that, while built upon its founders’ principles, is not dependent on their active involvement.
In 2023, the Center observed three elections, Mali eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, a new cohort of Rosalynn Carter journalism fellows started work, and 12 more cities joined the Center’s global Inform Women, Transform Lives project.
Great swaths of Nigeria and Uganda are now free of river blindness transmission; lymphatic filariasis is on its way out in the Dominican Republic and Haiti; and we are working to ensure honest, fair, and violence-free elections in the United States.
All the progress you will find in this report is inspired by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and made possible by your support. Our founders created this marvelous organization, and we know we can count on you to keep it charging into the future with the lofty goals they envisioned.
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Jason Carter Chairman Board of Trustees
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Paige Alexander Chief Executive Officer