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Advancing the case of the Millennium Development Goals
These organizations are actively advancing the case of the Millennium Development Goals. Contact them to learn more about how you can make a difference.
ActionAid
ActionAid is an international development agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. In all of its country programmes it works with local partners to make the most of their knowledge and experience.
Bread for the World
Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian citizens movement seeking justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying decision makers in the United States of America.
DATA
DATA aims to raise awareness about, and spark response to the crises swamping Africa: unpayable Debts, uncontrolled spread of AIDS, and unfair trade rules which keep Africans poor.
CARE USA
CARE is one of the world's leading humanitarian organizations fighting global poverty through projects in agriculture and natural resources, economic development, education, food, health, water and sanitation, and emergency response.
Engineers Without Borders Canada
Engineers Without Borders Canada is an multiple-award winning aid organisation that enables poor communities around the world to improve their lives by helping them gain access to appropriate technologies. Our volunteers work overseas with partners, entrepreneurs, and communities to help them build capacity in areas like water and sanitation, agriculture and crop production, and rural energy and food processing. Closer to home, our 10,000 members undertake a number of outreach activities to promote global citizenship in Canada - which centers around how Canada can better help support the Millennium Development Goals.
The Hunger Project
The Hunger Project is a strategic organization and global movement committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.
Friends of the Global Fight
Friends of the Global Fight encourages public leadership to support the global fight, particularly the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria. Friends also aims to mobilize the actions and contributions of private Americans, whose support can make a difference to millions and whose voice will underlie public commitments.
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. As a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities, the Global Fund represents an innovative approach to international health financing.
InterAction
InterAction is the largest alliance of US-based international development and humanitarian non-governmental organizations.
International Medical Corps.
International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization that saves lives, relieves suffering and restores self-reliance through health care training and relief and development programs.
International Rescue Committee
Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee is one of the world's largest nonsectarian, nonprofit organizations providing relief, rehabilitation, protection and resettlement services for refugees, displaced persons and victims of oppression.
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
IUCN works to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a not-for-profit organization that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities.
Millennium Villages Project-The Earth Institute at Columbia University
The Millennium Villages Project is a new global approach to lift developing country villages out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide. The Earth Institute launched the Millennium Villages project in March 2005 and over the next five years, expects to expand the number of villages in Africa as well as adding villages in other parts of the developing world.
Oxfam America
Oxfam America helps poor and marginalized communities around the world harness economic opportunities and advocate for their rights (e.g., women's rights, labor rights, indigenous peoples' rights) through grant-making, campaigning, and emergency assistance.
Plan USA
Plan USA is a global partnership of caring people founded in 1937 to bring hope and help to the world's poorest children. Our community-based programs assist more than 10 million children in 45 developing countries.
RESULTS
is a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization, committed to creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty.
Right to Play
Right To Play is a humanitarian organization using sport and play programs to encourage the healthy physical, social and emotional development of the worldís most disadvantaged children.
Save the Children
For more than 70 years, Save the Children has created real and lasting change for children in need in more than 40 countries around the globe, including the United States
Transparency International
Transparency International (TI) is the leading global non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption. TI has chapters in 92 countries on every continent.
Water Aid
WaterAid is an international NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.
The Wildlife Trust
The Wildlife Trust empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystem and human health.
World Concern
A Christian humanitarian organization that provides emergency relief and community development in some of the most neglected areas of the world.
World Vision
World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty.
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