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Millennium Development Goals

UN Millennium Development Goals Gateway

MDG Monitor interactive map tracking the MDGs by goal, country, and year

DePaul University MDG page, with extensive links

Lobbies on the Millennium Development Goals, international development, poverty, and hunger

Bread for the World a nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world’s hungry people by lobbying our nation’s decision makers.

Global Health Council a U.S.-based nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving the quality of and access to health worldwide.

RESULTS a grassroots citizens’ lobby, creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and empowering individuals to exercise their personal and political power.

Foreign aid reform

Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), a reform coalition composed of international development and foreign policy practitioners, policy advocates and experts, concerned citizens and private sector organizations, with the goal to help build a safer, more prosperous world by strengthening the United States’ ability to alleviate extreme poverty, create opportunities for growth, and secure human dignity in developing countries.

Organizations and coalitions for international poverty eradication, disease control, and education

Alliance to End Hunger’s mission is to engage diverse institutions more deeply in an effort to win the shifts in U.S. public opinion, institutions and policy that could dramatically reduce hunger in the United States and internationally. The Alliance includes religious bodies, businesses, universities, civil rights groups and labor unions and others.

Basic Education Coalition is a group of development and advocacy organizations, urging greater priority and more funding for global early childhood and primary education programs.

Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation (EGR), a grassroots movement of connection and collaboration for creative ministry following Christ by heeding his call to seek and serve him in the extreme poor around the world. Neither a development organization nor a lobby per se, EGR helps Episcopalians to make connections and network in support of the Millennium Development Goals and global reconciliation.

Global Campaign for Education promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfill their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people; in particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society.

Global Campaign for Education U.S. Chapter, founded in 1999, brings together major NGOs and teachers’ unions in more than 150 countries around the world to promote education as a basic human right and mobilize public pressure on the international community and governments to fulfill their promises to provide free basic education for all people.

Global AIDS Alliance building a global action network to stop AIDS.

Global Health Advocates (formerly Massive Effort Campaign) catalyzing the emergence of a social movement against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases of poverty.

Health Global Access Project (Health GAP) U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts, fair trade advocates and concerned individuals who campaign against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions and fuel the spread of HIV.

Jubilee USA Network Continuing the work of Jubilee 2000 to cancel international debts of “poor” countries.

One Campaign a coalition believing that allocating an additional ONE percent of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food, would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation of the poorest countries.

Stop TB a global movement to accelerate social and political action to stop the unnecessary spread of tuberculosis around the world.

United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) Council of Organizations: organizations sharing the common goals of making the American public more knowledgeable about global issues, for informing and educating the public about the United Nations, and for strengthening the U.N. system.

U.S. Coalition for Child Survival a collaboration of organizations and individuals dedicated to improving the survival and healthy development of the worlds children, through increased public and private funding for child survival, sharing best practices between organizations in the field, and coordinating efforts to eliminate and eradicate diseases that kill children.

Women’s Edge a dynamic coalition of individuals and organizations that is giving women and families around the world an economic edge.

Microcredit

Grameen Bank provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral.

Grameen Trust providing training and technical assistance from Grameen and in some cases for financial support to start Grameen type programs.

Microcredit Summit created the goal of reaching 100 million of the world’s poorest families with microcredit by 2005; the goal was met by 2007 and there are new goals for 2015.

Virtual Library on Microcredit Everything you always wanted to know about microcredit.

HIV/AIDS

Health Global Access Project (GAP) an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists and concerned individuals who campaign against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions and fuel the spread of HIV.

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

Global AIDS Alliance a transnational alliance of partner organizations working to eliminate the AIDS crisis by mobilizing public opinion, more money, and better policies against HIV/AIDS and its causes, including extreme poverty.