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National Website: one.org

National Coalition: One

USA is supporting the Global Call to Action against Poverty.

Diaz One USA The United States coalition against poverty is called The One Campaign: ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans - ONE by ONE - to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE Campaign is engaging Americans through a diverse coalition of faith-based and anti-poverty organizers to show the steps people can take, ONE by ONE, to fight global AIDS and poverty.

The ONE Campaign seeks to give Americans a voice, to ring church bells and cell phones, on campuses and in coffee shops, for an historic pact to fight the global AIDS emergency and end extreme poverty. We believe 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.

ONE links directly to the international effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. 1% more of the US federal budget would help save millions of lives and be a major commitment towards achieving the internationally agreed upon United Nations Millennium Development Goals. If it is delivered, we would achieve 0.35% of national wealth going to Official Development Assistance - half way to the international commitment to achieve 0.7%. Longer term, so long as we can prove the money is working, the goal is for the US to continue to increase effective assistance until it meets the international commitment to give 0.7% of the national wealth. This is an appropriate goals for ten years time, or 2015, the deadline for achieving the Millennium Goals.

The following organizations are currently involved in the ONE Campaign: Save the Children, International Medical Corps, Mercy Corps, Oxfam America, CARE, World Concern, International Rescue Committee, Plan USA,World Vision US, Bread for the World, DATA, American Jewish World Service, Episcopal Relief and Development, the Episcopal Church, Global Health Council, the Methodist Church, Sojourners, Heartland Alliance, Citizens for Global Solutions, Church World Service, Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, NetAid, Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Organizations, World Conference of Religions for Peace, World Hunger Year, Heifer International, Working Assets, Concern Worldwide, United Nations Association - USA, Nazerene Compassionate Ministries, Operation Blessing International, Americans for Informed Democracy, RESULTS, A Glimmer of Hope, World Hope International, Better World Fund, Action Against Hunger, Mennonite Central Committee, USA for Africa.