11 Facts About ONE Campaign

ONE Campaign is an international, non-partisan, non-profitable, advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support policies and programs that are saving lives and improving futures.

ONE Campaign was founded in 2004 by Bobby Shriver and Bono along with a coalition of 11 non-profit humanitarian and advocacy organizations; those organizations included DATA, CARE, World Vision, Oxfam America, and Bread for the World.

Name ONE Campaign was inspired by the belief that one voice, coming together with many others—the political left and right, business leaders, activists, faith leaders and students—can change the world for the better.

Since 2009, ONE has run a series of ONE Vote campaigns around national elections, including ONE VOTE 2010 in the United Kingdom, ONE Vote 2012 in both France, and ONE Vote 2012 and ONE Vote '16 in the United States.

In 2015, ONE Campaign collected signatures for an open letter addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa, respectively, in order to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that would establish new development goals for the generation.

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On International Women's Day 2017, ONE Campaign released a report that stated 130 million girls are currently out of school.

ONE Campaign uses a number of highly visible methods to reach out to the general public, promote its message, and encourage advocacy actions.

ONE Campaign members helped achieve this result by hosting events, signing and delivering petitions and tweeting their support to politicians.

ONE Campaign has worked with Publish What You Pay and a coalition of other non-government organisations around the Cardin-Lugar Amendment and the passing of extractives transparency laws in the United States and Europe.

ONE Campaign has been criticized for its response to a book by African economist Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, which was published in January 2009.

ONE Campaign's says that she is against only government aid, not "their kind of aid".