Our vision is the end of extreme poverty in our lifetime.

We aspire to be a leader in the global movement to end extreme poverty, and we are mobilizing a growing alliance of public, private and nonprofit partners who share our commitment to sustainable development and scaling-up effective ideas. Our mission is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Together we are showing how the Goals are accessible and achievable, building momentum for success through advocacy, innovation and a practical, holistic approach to building sustainable communities.

Millennium Promise was founded in 2005 by philanthropist and business leader Ray Chambers and economist Jeffrey D. Sachs to advance the global agenda to meet the basic needs of the world's poorest people. In 2002, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan commissioned the UN Millennium Project, appointing Professor Sachs as director. The Project's final report, issued in 2005, provides a detailed roadmap for how the MDGs can be achieved through simple best practices and current technologies applied within the boundaries of the world's available financial resources. World leaders endorsed the Project's key recommendations at that year's UN World Summit, and made financial commitments to underpin the investments required to achieve the MDGs.

That same year, Millennium Promise was formally established to ensure that these major commitments and policy breakthroughs translate into action toward achieving the MDGs.

Since our launch in 2005, Millennium Promise has seen tremendous success in using a holistic and scalable approach to implement high-impact initiatives to fulfill our mission. These include:

• Developing dynamic partnerships. Our partnerships with UNAIDS, the World Food Program, and scores of corporate partners are several examples of the coordinated effort to fight poverty, hunger, and disease.
• Fighting malaria. At the White House in December 2006, Millennium Promise launched Malaria No More, an organization that now leads a major global advocacy, engagement and implementation campaign for malaria control across Africa.
• Improving smallholder agriculture. Helping farmers increase crop yields, manage climatic challenges, and develop sustainable businesses.
• Launching the Millennium Villages project. Currently reaching 500,000 people in rural villages across sub-Saharan Africa, this ground-breaking project is demonstrating that the MDGs are accessible and achievable.
• Advocating on behalf of those without a voice. Providing strategic guidance to governments and policy makers on how to meet the world's commitments to the most vulnerable communities.