Hillary Clinton

NEW YORK — The charitable foundation led by former President Bill Clinton will no longer accept foreign and corporate donations if Hillary Clinton is elected president and will hold its final annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in September regardless of the outcome of the November election.

Bill Clinton announced the changes in a staff meeting on Thursday.

The former president said the foundation would continue its work but refocus its efforts in a process that will take up to a year. Ahead of celebrating his 70th birthday today, Clinton said he would resign from the board and would only accept contributions from U.S. citizens and independent charities if his wife was elected president.

The changes aimed to address how the Clinton Foundation would function in the event of another Clinton presidency and push back against Donald Trump’s critique that the foundation had created allowed foreign governments to peddle influence.

Republicans said the changes fell short and urged the Clinton Foundation to immediately stop receiving foreign donations.

The sprawling charitable network, founded after Bill Clinton left office in 2001, has raised more than $2 billion for initiatives focused on global health, climate change, economic development and increasing opportunities for women.

While Hillary Clinton stepped down from its board after launching her 2016 campaign, her husband and daughter have remained in leadership roles. Some of the group’s funding has come from foreign donations and political donors to the Clinton family. Money accepted from countries such as Saudi Arabia drew scrutiny from both Republicans and Democrats.