Past Campaigns
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It's Time to Invest in Agriculture
ONE members ask their senators to make sure the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations fully-funds the president's request for smart, targeted global agricultural investments that will stop hunger in its tracks.
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Water for the World
March - July, 2009
The Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009 (S.624) is stuck in the Committee on Foreign Relations, and it needs at least 20 cosponsors in order to get the attention of Senate leaders. Please help us improve access to clean water and sanitation for the world's poorest people by asking your senators to cosponsor this important legislation.
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Hillary Clinton's Confirmation Hearing
In just four days, hundreds of U.S. ONE members helped convince senators on the Foreign Relations Committee to make global poverty a focus of Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing to become Secretary of State, sending a strong signal that this should be a key priority for the Obama Administration. MORE
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Obama's First Inaugural Address
November 2008 - January 2009
More than 100,000 U.S. ONE members signed ONE's petition to Barack Obama, asking him to make a strong statement about global poverty in his inaugural address and follow up with a robust FY2010 budget request. And he did exactly that. MORE -
UN Summit: Fill the Funding Gap
September - October, 2008
In September 2008, before a High Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals, more than 50,000 European ONE members mobilized to urge world leaders to fill the worldwide US$1 billion funding gap to combat the food crisis. MORE -
Accra: Improve Aid Quality
August - September, 2008
ONE members from around the world sent tens of thousands of letters and made hundreds of phone calls to development ministers in donor countries, calling for increased aid effectiveness. The ministers responded with a new level of commitment to providing more predictable and transparent aid. MORE -
The “EU Billion” for Food and Agriculture
July - November, 2008
With €1 billion of funding to struggling farmers in developing countries on the line, European ONE members helped apply public pressure at the critical moment to help secure this new money.
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PEPFAR: America’s Response to the Global Emergency of HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
April - August, 2008
More than 150,000 U.S. ONE members took a leading role in helping to pass this historic 5-year, $48 billion dollar commitment to work with the world's poorest nations to treat and prevent AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. MORE -
Hunger Crisis
April - July, 2008
As prices for staple foods essential to the world's poorest people soared to record highs in 2008, more than 140,000 ONE members signed our petition to President George W. Bush asking him to work to get the hunger crisis on the agenda at the 2008 G8 Summit, and to secure additional commitments for all types of food assistance and increased agricultural productivity in developing countries. MORE -
Visit Africa
February - March, 2008
During President George W. Bush's 2008 trip to Africa, more than 103,000 ONE members called on the U.S. presidential candidates running in the Republican and Democratic primaries to pledge to, if elected, visit Africa in their first term -- and they all agreed to that commitment. MORE