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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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This competition is the first in a series of Changemakers Collaborative Competitions in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). RWJF's intention for this competition is to find innovative solutions and to catalyse a community of changemakers to help eliminate intimate partner violence in the United States.

Your organisation can enter the competition by documenting your innovative activities and solutions on the Changemakers site where it will be posted, judged by leading philanthropists, reviewed by peers, and voted on by a community of changemakers.

The panel of judges will choose 12 finalists who will attend a Change Summit on violence prevention. The Changemakers community will select three overall competition winners who will each receive US$5,000. After the winners are announced, Changemakers will continue to host and connect a global community of innovators, investors, and supporters committed to ending abuse.

Click here for more information about the competition and the framework behind it.

Deadline for entries is March 28 2007. Enter before February 10 2007 and you will be eligible to be one of two organisations chosen to be profiled in a magazine or journal.

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Press release from Changemakers, January 17 2007.