Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak, Board Director and Former Global Vice Chair, Public Policy: "A couple of years ago, Vice President Biden met privately with those of us working behind the scenes, and he sat down with us and looked us in the eye and he said, your companies can do what we government cannot and will never do. You have to change the world on this issue." "The PGLE Partnership for Global LGBTI Quality is a group that was formed in collaboration with the WEF. After five or six years of working behind the scenes with senior leaders at just a handful of companies, this organization was founded in January 2019 … In collaboration with them, we can use their channels of distribution and their brand … also working with the UN, trying to get these companies. You have to have signed on to the UN standards in order to join the partnership. How many companies have signed on to that now? 270."