Millennium Promise

Millennium Promise or The Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc., is an American non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware and is a founding partner of the organization, Malaria No More with the stated goal of ending extreme poverty within a human lifetime.

Among the Millennium Promise MDG Global Leaders are Tommy Hilfiger,[1] the founder of Diesel, Renzo Rosso,[2] and Senegalese musician and UNICEF ambassador Youssou N'Dour.

Millennium Promise was co-founded in 2005 by the international economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, and philanthropist and Wall Street leader Ray Chambers.

Prior to joining Millennium Promise, Mr. Neidecker served as the director of programs for the Children's Investment Fund Foundation in London.

[3] On May 30, 2010, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Village of Mwandama, Malawi, and stated: "I congratulate the leadership of the village and the whole community – especially the women of Mwandama – for their hard work and their commitment to a better life for their children and for generations to come... Today, I call[ed] on every country to look closely at this success.