Millennium Promise is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization is an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Examples of NPOs include charities (i.e. charitable organizations), trade unions, and public arts organizations. Most governments and government agencies meet this definition, but in dedicated to ending extreme poverty. Its flagship initiative, Millennium Villages, is an integrated, community-driven strategy meant to achieve the Millennium Development Goals The Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals that all 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include reducing extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership (MDGs) and provide communities with the basic tools and necessities to put themselves on the path toward self-sustainable development. Combining scientific and local knowledge, Millennium Promise believes in the need to attack the root problems of poverty—hunger, disease, poor education, insufficient infrastructure—simultaneously. The organization engages donor nations, corporations, and the public at large as stakeholders in the process.
Currently, Millennium Promise works in 80 villages across ten different countries—Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. Each Millennium Village has approximately 5,000 inhabitants and work spans approximately five years. Sauri, Kenya was selected to become the first Millennium Village in 2004.
Millennium Promise was co-founded by the economist Jeffrey Sachs Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became renowned for implementing economic shock therapy throughout the developing world and in Eastern Europe, and subsequently for his work on the challenges and the philanthropist Ray Chambers. The project work of the Millennium Villages are overseen by a Scientific Council composed of leading scientific and development authorities at the UN Millennium Project The Millennium Project is an initiative that focuses on research implementing the organizational means, operational priorities, and financing structures necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goals or . The goals are aimed at the reduction of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women and The Earth Institute The Earth Institute was established at Columbia University in 1995. The research institute's stated mission is to address complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor. The Earth Institute's activities are guided by the idea that science and technological at Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, and is the 5th oldest in the United States making it one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Columbia's, both of which are headed by Sachs. John McArthur is the C.E.O and executive director of Millennium Promise, which is located in New York City.
In September 2006, the financier and philanthropist George Soros George Soros (pronounced /ˈsɔroʊs/ or /ˈsɔrəs/,; Hungarian IPA: [ˈʃoroʃ]; born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz György) is a Hungarian-American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. He became known as "the Man Who Broke the Bank of England" after he made a reported $1 billion pledged $50 million to Millennium Promise to fund 33 Millennium Villages. This donation has received added attention as a departure from Soros' characteristic sponsorship of democracy building and good governance Good governance is an indeterminate term used in development literature to describe how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources in order to guarantee the realization of human rights. Governance describes "the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented ". The term-focused programs.[1]
Millennium Promise also supports independent projects to address factors that contribute to extreme poverty and is a founding partner of Malaria No More. Launched in December 2006 at the White House Summit on Malaria, Malaria No More brings together corporations, foundations, faith-based groups, grassroots networks, and the public to support a comprehensive approach to control malaria.
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