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Over one thousand people from across the country gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, California, October 27–28, 2006, to discuss ways to reduce global poverty at a national conference sponsored by several major Catholic organizations, including the University of San Francisco Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought and the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The conference, titled “Point 7 Now! Mobilizing American Catholic Faithful to End Global Poverty,” focused on the Millennium Development Goals and the need for fair trade, debt forgiveness and increased aid to poor countries in order to end extreme poverty, or, as keynote speaker Jeffrey Sachs explained, the poverty the kills.

The Episcopal Diocese of California and other religious bodies joined and helped organize the second Point 7 Now Action conference October 27, 2007, and soon we began to work on establishing ourselves as an ongoing organization.