How we'll stop Polio for Good
This fantastic TED talk from polio expert Bruce Aylward explains how we can be a part of seeing an end to polio - an issue that we'll be campaigning on extensively later this year.If you don't have...
View ArticleSumner M. Redstone Foundation Donates $1.5m
SUMNER M. REDSTONE FOUNDATION DONATES $1.5 MILLION TO THE GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECTFunds to Support End of Polio Campaign and Programs to Improve Health and Reduce Global PovertyNew York, NY – August 31,...
View ArticleNew Ambassadors of the East Africa Crisis?
Last night, the UK Conservative party relinquished its party political broadcast slot to make an unprecedented appeal for support in East Africa.After poking fun at traditional political broadcasts, an...
View ArticleBill Gates Annual Letter
I’m sitting in a lecture theatre at the London School of Economics, having just finished live-tweeting from the launch of the Global Poverty Ambassador initiative with Bill Gates and Hans Rosling.You...
View ArticleNiall Ferguson's Six Killer Apps
If developing countries could implement ideas as quickly as a smartphone downloads data, they may choose to upload historian Niall Ferguson’s six killer apps for prosperity. Ferguson’s “apps” are...
View ArticleWhat Makes Polio an Emergency?
Guest blog by Lauren O'Connor from The End of Polio. On the 25th of May, the World Health Assembly declared polio a programmatic emergency for global public health. We had a chat with Dr Bruce...
View Article$650,000 donation. Thank You!
We are very pleased to announce that the Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation has donated $650,000, to help us towards our vision of a world without extreme poverty! Mr Redstone’s total giving now...
View ArticleBehind the Global Festival
Today, our team at the Global Poverty Project announced our biggest ever event and campaign – the Global Festival.It culminates with a 60,000 person music concert on the Great Lawn at Central Park, an...
View ArticleWho are Global Citizens?
Global Citizens amplify their voices to speak for justice.We don’t get lost in crowds. We’re different from other audiences and music fans; and we will gather for the first time in September at the...
View ArticleService Above Self
As part of the Global Poverty Project’s commitment to ending polio, we are honoured to be working with Rotary International. Rotary was the first organisation who dared to take on the challenge of...
View Article$1.3b pledged at Global Citizen Festival
"The Global Citizen platform ignites a global movement, encouraging tens of thousands of people around the world to easily voice their support for children everywhere being free from polio and other...
View ArticleI am Malala
Last Tuesday, 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot by members of the Taliban while returning home from school in Mingora, northwestern Swat.Malala has been campaigning for girls to go to school in...
View Article$1.3bn, Foo Fighters and a Northern chick
In May this year, I made the decision to sacrifice a week of my relatively indulgent lifestyle to become involved in a worldwide pledge to put an end to extreme poverty. I'm sure you're probably...
View ArticleWristband, anyone?
Diane is a supporter of the Global Poverty Project. After watching the live stream of the Global Citizen Festival, Diane decided to take action in her community to bring an end to extreme poverty....
View ArticleAfricans donating radiators to Norwegians?!
We thought that we’d share some videos that have caused some discussion in the GPP office over the past year:We posted about the campaign to end the #FirstWorldProblems epidemic in November and it is...
View ArticleThe End of Extreme Poverty... within a Generation
At the beginning of a new year, we take time to remember why we are taking action to end extreme poverty.1.4 billion people in our world currently live in extreme poverty.These 1,400,000,000...
View ArticleHumanitarian Reporting Competition! VOTE NOW
Global Citizen has partnered with the Development and Aid World News Service to provide two $1,000 humanitarian reporting and storytelling grants. Now, we need your help to select our grantees.Global...
View ArticleCarrots, Sticks and Eating Your Veggies
What makes people do the right thing? What motivates people to buy Fairtrade, volunteer their time or help the homeless person on the street? Much more research has been devoted to the psychology of...
View ArticleExtreme Poverty Falls - now just 1.2 billion
The team here at the Global Poverty Project are thrilled to announce that the World Bank has just released an update to their figures on the numbers of extreme poor in the world.As of 2010, the world...
View ArticleCalling all Global Citizens
This week we announced that Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon, Alicia Keys and John Mayer will headline the second annual Global Citizen Festival, September 28, on the Great Lawn of Central Park in New...
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