In 2005, five years after the Millennium Development Goals were established, an inspired group of people began to see it was time to help mobilize the global community to fulfill these promises. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the MDGs, teamed up with Raymond Chambers, a pioneer of private equity investing and a passionate philanthropist, to establish Millennium Promise.
Millennium Promise became the first international non-governmental organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the MDGs — and now the Sustainable Development Goals — with a specific mandate to translate the world’s goals into tangible results.
From 2005-15, Millennium Promise provided the operational platform and resource mobilization for the Millennium Villages Project which uses a holistic, science-based approach to benefit more than 500,000 people across sub-Saharan Africa.
Today we continue to build on this work to implement the SDGs through the Sustainable Districts Program, the Lead Farmer Program, Connect To Learn, the One Million Community Health Workers Campaign, and other initiatives.