Goodwill Ambassador Foundation (Summary)
Goodwill Ambassadors, Inc. began in 1992 as an event hosting and planning organization in Washington, DC. In 2009 Globcal International adopted the name and idea to create "Goodwill Ambassadors" originally known as "Goodwill Ambassadors of the World" which set-out to form a highly-skilled social media diplomacy corps program made up of individual goodwill ambassadors from around the world advocating for social change.
In 2013 the program was reformed into the Goodwill Ambassador Commission, which was made up of individual goodwill ambassadors with a wide-variety of backgrounds occupied with the task of forming a policy institute for setting standards concerning protocol, transparency, defining identity, practical methods, presentation, developing legal recognition, international civil service, non-government organization representative rights, applying diplomatic law and professionalism for goodwill ambassadors. In 2021, the commission launched a Creative Commons website development with the domain and namespace [Goodwill-Ambassador(s).org] designating new standards and an international code of conduct based on a wide range of compatible principles and understanding established by the European Union, the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Nations and many well recognized states. Internationally and universally the organization's motives were recognized publicly when it established and designated international standards for encoding the United Nations goodwill ambassador titles.
All United Nations specialized agencies' goodwill ambassadors and advocates are explicitly recognized with the honorable title, by the Goodwill Ambassador Foundation which is made up of the members of the commission. The Goodwill Ambassador Foundation also recognizes other local, regional, state, national and organization's ambassadors based on a legal qualification and verification process. The organization is a fellowship of those who are already goodwill ambassadors and advocates, to become a member of the foundation a person must have been legally conferred the honorable title by a head-of-state or designated by an official chief.