-About

The ONE Campaign, a part of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty movement (the largest anti-poverty coalition in the world), also known as Make Poverty History, is dedicated to the goal of energizing people in the United States to lobby Congress to increase humanitarian aid by 1% of the federal budget, specifically with the aim of fighting AIDS and extreme poverty in the developing world.

The group has made an effort to be bipartisan and inclusive to all sorts of public, private, and faith-based organizations. ONE was originally founded by a coalition of 11 non-profit humanitarian and advocacy organizations (such as DATA, World Vision, Oxfam America, and Bread for the World) and with the help of a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ONE now has over 100 partner organizations, and over 2.4 million people have added their voice to the ONE Declaration. Bono, Tom Hanks and George Clooney are some of the most recognizable public supporters of ONE.

The name of the campaign comes from both the organization's goal of a 1% increase in the budget and also from its goal to "act as one to end poverty". The group also sells T-shirts and white gel bracelets, which have the word "ONE" on them, to help promote ONE.

The ONE Campaign claims that a 1% increase in the budget could help:

• Prevent 10 million children from becoming AIDS orphans
• Get 104 million children into grade school.
• Provide water to almost 900 million people around the globe.
• Save almost 6.5 million children under 5 from dying of diseases that could be prevented with low-cost measures like vaccination or a well for clean water.