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Do not fill this in! == Clinton Foundation, ''Hard Choices,'' and speeches == {{Main|Clinton Foundation|Hard Choices}} [[File:Former Secretary of State Clinton Delivers Remarks at Groundbreaking Ceremony of the U.S. Diplomacy Center (14943786999) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Clinton standing behind lectern wearing a charcoal-colored suit, smiling and looking to her right|Clinton in 2014]] When Clinton left the State Department, she returned to private life for the first time in thirty years.<!--Since Bill started his second stint as Governor on January 11, 1983; note she did a lot of private sector things as First Lady of Arkansas--><ref name="reut-depart">{{cite news |author=Holland, Steve |date=January 16, 2013 |title=Hillary Clinton leaving world stage, but for how long? |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-hillary-idUSBRE90F0A820130116}}</ref> She and her daughter joined her husband as named members of the [[Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation]] in 2013.<ref name="a-p-cf">Allen and Parnes 2014, pp. 374–75, 382–85.</ref> There she focused on early childhood development efforts, including an initiative called Too Small to Fail and a $600 million initiative to encourage the enrollment of girls in secondary schools worldwide, led by former Australian Prime Minister [[Julia Gillard]].<ref name="a-p-cf" /><ref>{{cite news |date=September 25, 2014 |title=Hillary Clinton unveils $600m global female education plan |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/hillary-clinton-gobal-female-education}}</ref> In 2014, Clinton published a second memoir, ''[[Hard Choices]]'', which focused on her time as secretary of state. {{as of|2015|July}}, the book had sold about 280,000 copies.<ref name="auto5">{{cite news |last1=Berenson |first1=Tessa |title=Here's Which 2016 Candidate's Book Sold the Most Copies |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://time.com/3956146/ted-cruz-hillary-clinton-election-books/ |access-date=July 28, 2016}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=March 2024}} Clinton also led the No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, a partnership with the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] to gather and study data on the progress of women and girls around the world since the Beijing conference in 1995.<ref>{{cite news |author=Rucker, Philip |date=February 13, 2014 |title=Hillary Clinton launches global data project on women and girls |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/13/hillary-clinton-launches-global-data-project-on-women-and-girls/}}</ref> The foundation began accepting new donations from foreign governments, which it had stopped doing while she was secretary of state.{{efn|name=excf|During Clinton's tenure there were several cases where foreign governments continued making donations to the Clinton Foundation at the same level they had before Clinton became secretary of state, which was permissible under the agreement forged before she took office. There was one instance of a new donation, $500,000 from Algeria for earthquake relief in Haiti, that was outside the bounds of the continuation provision and should have received a special State Department ethics review but did not.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/foreign-governments-gave-millions-to-foundation-while-clinton-was-at-state-dept/2015/02/25/31937c1e-bc3f-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html |title=Foreign governments gave millions to foundation while Clinton was at State Dept. |first1=Rosalind S. |last1=Helderman |first2=Tom |last2=Hamburger |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 25, 2015}}</ref> The foundation's new stance {{as of|2015|April|lc=y}} and Clinton's presidential candidacy was to accept foreign governmental donations only from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/04/16/clinton-foundation-only-allowing-six-foreign-countries-donate/A2flfieY3giKysnZjlxqXJ/story.html |title=Clinton Foundation only allowing six foreign countries to donate |author=Braun, Stephen |agency=Associated Press |work=[[Boston Globe]] |date=April 16, 2015}}</ref>}} However, even though the Clinton Foundation had stopped taking donations from foreign governments, they continued to take large donations from foreign citizens who were sometimes linked to their governments.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dong |first1=Xiao |last2=Milholland |first2=Brandon |last3=Vijg |first3=Jan |date=March 20, 2015 |title=The Clinton Foundation and Conflicts of Interest |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/hillarys-campaign-is-built-on-a-shaky-foundation/388324/ |journal=[[The Atlantic]] |volume=538 |issue=7624 |pages=257–259 |doi=10.1038/nature19793 |pmid=27706136 |access-date=October 6, 2016 |s2cid=3623127}}</ref> She began work on another volume of memoirs and made appearances on the paid speaking circuit.<ref name="nyt-lucre">{{cite news |author=Chozick, Amy |date=July 11, 2013 |title=Hillary Clinton Taps Speechmaking Gold Mine |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/us/politics/hillary-clinton-hits-the-lucrative-speechmaking-trail.html}}</ref> There she received $200,000–225,000 per engagement, often appearing before [[Wall Street]] firms or at [[business convention]]s.<ref name="nyt-lucre" /><ref name="nyt-wall-ties" /> She also made some unpaid speeches on behalf of the foundation.<ref name="nyt-lucre" /> For the fifteen months ending in March 2015, Clinton earned over $11 million from her speeches.<ref>{{cite news |author=Gold, Matea |author2=Helderman, Rosalind S. |author3=Gearan, Anne |date=May 15, 2015 |title=Clintons have made more than $25 million for speaking since January 2014 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-earn-more-than-25-million-in-speaking-fees-since-january-2014/2015/05/15/52605fbe-fb4d-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html}}</ref> For the overall period 2007–14, the Clintons earned almost $141 million, paid some $56 million in federal and state taxes and donated about $15 million to charity.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 31, 2015 |title=Clintons earned nearly $141M from 2007 to 2014, tax returns show |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/hillary-clinton-tax-returns/}}</ref> {{as of|2015}}, she was estimated to be worth over $30 million on her own, or $45–53 million with her husband.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fontevecchia |first1=Agustino |date=September 29, 2015 |title=The Richest And Poorest Presidential Candidates: From Hillary's Millions To Marco Rubio's Debts |work=[[Forbes]] |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2015/09/29/the-richest-and-poorest-presidential-candidates-from-hillarys-millions-to-marco-rubios-debts/}}</ref> Clinton resigned from the board of the Clinton Foundation in April 2015, when she began her presidential campaign. 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