Millennium Promise

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Millennium Promise
Millennium Promise Alliance
AbbreviationMPA
Location
  • United States
Website www.millenniumpromise.org

Millennium Promise, officially Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc. (MPA), is an American non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, with the stated goal of ending extreme poverty within a human lifetime. It is a founding partner of the organization, Malaria No More, and its flagship initiative is the Millennium Villages Project. This project led to progress toward the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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History

Millennium Promise was co-founded in 2005 by the international economist and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs, and philanthropist and Wall Street leader Ray Chambers.

In September 2006, the financier and philanthropist George Soros pledged $50 million to Millennium Promise to fund 33 Millennium Villages. [1]

On May 30, 2010, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Village of Mwandama in Malawi, congratulating the people of the village and pronouncing it a success, "a case study in what is possible, even in the poorest places in the world." [2]

Description and governance

The project focuses on food, health care, education, and infrastructure.[ citation needed ] The organization is headquartered in New York, with regional headquarters in Bamako, Mali and Nairobi, Kenya, and national affiliates in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.[ citation needed ]

Peter Neidecker is[ when? ] CEO of Millennium Promise. Prior to joining Millennium Promise, Neidecker served as the director of programs for the Children's Investment Fund Foundation in London.[ citation needed ]

The organization engages partners from the private and public sectors, national governments, and individuals. Among the Millennium Promise MDG Global Leaders are Tommy Hilfiger; [3] the founder of Diesel, Renzo Rosso; [4] and Senegalese musician and UNICEF ambassador Youssou N'Dour.[ citation needed ]

References

  1. ↑ Dugger, Cecilia W. (September 13, 2006). "Philanthropist Gives $50 Million to Help Aid the Poor in Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
  2. ↑ "ban-ki-moon-visits-opportunity-malawi-mobile-bank". opportunity.org.
  3. ↑ "Earth Times: press/first-mdg-global-leader,1358099.html". www.earthtimes.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "RENZO ROSSO NAMED MILLENNIUM PROMISE MDG GLOBAL LEADER". Archived from the original on August 9, 2011.
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