Past Campaigns

Hillary Clinton''s Confirmation Hearing
January 2009
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.

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.

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. 

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.

The “EU Billion” for Food and Agriculture
July - November, 2008
With €1 billion of new funding to struggling farmers in developing countries on the line, European ONE members helped apply public pressure at the critical moment to win.

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.

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.

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.

“On the Record”
November 2007 - December 2008
In 2008, more than 60,000 U.S. ONE members got nine of the leading presidential candidates to make history by going "On the Record" with their detailed plans to tackle global poverty and preventable disease. 

IMF Debt Relief for Liberia
October - November, 2007
In 2008, ONE members around the world sent more than 48,000 emails calling on the International Monetary Fund to make good on its promise to relieve Liberia''s debt. 

"Stand Up" House Parties 2006
October 2006
For the 2006 Global Day of Action against poverty, more than 6,000 ONE members organized house parties across the U.S. -- joining 23.5 million people worldwide to set a world record and start a public conversation about global poverty.

Save the International Affairs Budget
March - May, 2006
More than 100,000 U.S. ONE members took action in just 6 days to urge senators to restore critical anti-poverty funding to the Fiscal Year 2007 International Affairs Budget, leading to a bipartisan majority of the US Senate asking Appropriations''

leadership to protect development assistance. 
Live 8
May - July, 2005
A series of free, simultaneous concerts in 10 cities was the climax of ONE''s part of a global movement resulting in an unprecedented deal to cancel debts, double aid, enhance trade and address multiple health, education and even peace and security challenges in Africa at the 2005 G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland.