--- title: "The United Nations SDG's: Where They Stand Today" description: Vanderbilt is a proud United Nations Global Compact initiative member. 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Vanderbilt Financial Group is a proud member of the United Nations Global Compact initiative. This is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies to take action in support of UN SDGs. As a member of this organization, we keep track of the progress towards these goals and look into the positive steps that are being made to complete each of them.  Below are breakdowns of each SDG and some information on how far we are coming and what we have to overcome to accomplish these goals. 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