Global Poverty Project Inc

Programs: The global citizen festival - an advocacy event held in central park, new york. The 2014 global citizen festival was a free ticketed event that featured performances from no doubt, jay z, alicia keys, carrie underwood, beyonce and others; as well as addresses from united nations secretary general ban ki-moon and world bank president jim yong kim. The festival is global citizen's pillar event where ngo's, corporations and multilaterals can effectively come together and make announcements supporting the world's poor. The global citizen festival achieved 18 announcements from world leaders that are set to affect the lives of up to 259 million people by 2020.

live below the line - an experimental and fundraising campaign, the challenge is to spend 5 days living on the local equivalent of the extreme poverty line of $1. 50 per day for all food and drink. The campaign provides participants with an insight into the lack of choices and opportunities faced by those living in extreme poverty, and the way that broken systems can trap hard working people in extreme poverty. Since live below the line launched in 2009 through the end of 2014, 66,883 participants have raised us $13,788,853 for 141 charities and nonprofits across the world.

end to extreme poverty campaign - in 2014, global poverty project campaigned for tangible breakthroughs on the issues of sanitation, education, vaccines and health. We campaigned with partners to end open defecation and pass the water for the world act, and to fully replenish the global partnership for education and gavi, the vaccine alliance. We also campaigned to support women and girls, protect aid budgets in australia and the united kingdom, and for the post 2015 development agenda through the zero poverty 2030 campaign. In conjunction with the global citizen festival, together with partners we achieved commitments for the world's poor that are set to affect approximately 341. 5 million lives by 2020.