Spurred by a global call to action on the Millennium Development Goals, students at Carleton University in Ottawa successfully mobilized thousands of students to pass a university-wide referendum that would fund the Millennium Villages project. Student organizers collected thousands of signatures to first put the measure on the ballot, and then secured a majority of votes for its passage, ensuring that the $6/student levy will be applied toward efforts to end extreme poverty for more than ten years. Millennium Promise is proud to partner with Carleton and other universities throughout North America to raise awareness of the MDGs, and to develop tangible Calls to Action that can be readily embraced by student populations everywhere.

The Millennium Campus Network (MCN) is a national non-profit network of university student organizations working to reduce extreme poverty and achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The organization provides networking, funding, and national campaign opportunities for its member organizations.

Since its founding in 2007, the MCN has expanded to count 37 member organizations across 17 campuses in Boston, Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C. Leading advocates including Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, and musician John Legend serve on its Board of Advisors.

Agrium is a Canada-based major retail supplier of agricultural products and services in North and South America. Agrium is partnering with Millennium Promise to provide Urea fertilizer to the Millennium Villages of Sauri, Kenya and Pampaida, Nigeria. In addition to the in-kind contribution of fertilizer, Agrium is generously covering the cost of shipment and is working to mobilize its workforce around the Millennium Development Goals.

As the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators, Ericsson has committed to bringing voice and Internet connectivity to over 500,000 people in and around the Millennium Villages. Ericsson is also introducing mobile applications to support health, education and agriculture. In the area of health, Ericsson has provided cell phones and solar chargers for use by community health care workers in the Millennium Villages. Working with the local operators, it has also helped set up free closed user calling groups and toll-free numbers for emergency care services.

Working with African Ministries of Health, GE is committed to providing emergency obstetrical care equipment to all the Millennium Village sites, helping to reduce maternal mortality. In 2008, the Millennium Villages project worked with GE to conduct need assessments across all sites, complete documentation for the Ministries of Health in Millennium Village countries, and established plans for the distribution of equipment. This equipment was then delivered to referral hospitals serving the Millennium Village communities, and beyond, in 2009.

One of the world's largest plastic pipe manufacturers, JM Eagle has teamed up with the Millennium Villages project to provide pipes for improved drinking water across the Millennium Villages. In 2008, the company donated and delivered more than 100 kilometers of high-strength polyvinyl chloride (PVC) water pipe that was installed in Potou, Senegal. Through a partnership with the Government of Senegal, this initiative created a sustainable water distribution system that reaches more than 31,000 people (99 percent of the population in the region), dramatically improving access to safer drinking water. This partnership is now being widely expanded. JM Eagle is committed to donating pipes to provide improved drinking water in the Millennium Village sites in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda in 2010.

Mosaic is the world's leading producer of concentrated phosphate and potash, two of the primary nutrients required to grow the food the world needs. Our business engages in every phase of crop nutrition development in more than 40 countries around the globe. We employ approximately 7,500 people in ten countries. In 2010, Mosaic will bag and ship more than 2,600 metric tons of DAP fertilizer to Millennium Village sites in seven African countries. This equates to over 52,000 bags of fertilizer that will dramatically increase both crop yields and crop quality over traditional farmer practices. Mosaic's mission is to help the world grow the food it needs and we are proud to partner with Millennium Promise to achieve this goal.

Sony Ericsson has donated more than 2,000 mobile phones and accessories to the Millennium Villages Project since becoming a Millennium Promise partner. For example, Sony Ericsson mobile phones are the tools Community Health Workers use to access ChildCount+, an SMS (texting) based program used to monitor the health of children under five and pregnant women and identify risk signs to improve the child and maternal health and reduce mortality rates. Some of the mobile phones Sony Ericsson supplies are outdated models retrofitted for health sector activities including accessing toll-free emergency services, toll-free SMS for ChildCount+, closed user groups for community health workers and clinics, mLearning, and clinic-based support activities like telemedicine in select countries.

In 2006, Sumitomo Chemical donated more than 330,000 long-lasting insecticide treated Olyset bednets to Millennium Promise. Sumitomo Chemical and Millennium Promise are also partnering on collecting data on the utilization and effectiveness of bed nets in the reduction of malaria.

Millennium Congregations works with diverse faith communities in facilitating education, advocacy and outreach for a more sustainable world through advancing the Millennium Development Goals. The group's approach builds and integrates these three program areas to achieve results from the active engagement of congregations, and other faith groups, in reducing extreme poverty. Through their capital campaign, Rwanda Promise, Millennium Congregations is supporting the Millennium Villages in Rwanda.

The Gates Foundation supports Millennium Promise's outreach efforts, with emphasis on policy advocacy and public education, and partnership building for the MDGs.

The Eureko Achmea Foundation was established in 2006 as part of Eureko’s, an international financial services company, ‘social dividend’ concept. The Foundation’s objective is to actively contribute to a sustainable improvement of the socio-economic environment of groups of those in need in society, both within the Netherlands and abroad. Through their partnership with Millennium Promise, Eureko Achmea Foundation is supporting Katete village in the Millennium Village cluster Mwandama, Malawi.

In November 2008, Millennium Promise signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO ST-EP), Gyeongsangbuk-do Province to implement the Korean Millennium Villages Project (KMVP) in support of Mbola, Tanzania and Ruhiira, Uganda. The KMVP initiative supports four villages (two villages in each country).

OSI and SFN work to improve the lives of the world's most vulnerable people and to promote human rights, justice, and accountability. OSI is the largest supporter of Millennium Promise and the Millennium Villages project. Millennium Promise also partners with OSI and the SFN on its policy and business development efforts.

Table for Two is a non-profit organization committed to providing school meals for children in developing countries. Through a partnership with Millennium Promise and the World Food Programme, Table for Two contributes to the school meals programs in Gumulira and Mwandama, Malawi; Mayange, Rwanda; and Ruhiira, Uganda.

SNV partners with Millennium Promise on business development in the Millennium Villages. From November 2008 through end-2009, SNV supported MV business development positions at the regional-level in Africa and at the site-level in five countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. In addition to this grant, the SNV-MP collaboration is an important thought partnership on income-generation in the Millennium Villages, specifically for: identifying and launching new agro-business opportunities, introducing and expanding smallholder famers’ access to financial services, and identifying new markets for village agricultural output.

UNAIDS, Millennium Promise, and the Earth Institute are partnering to eliminate mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV/AIDS. The partnership, announced in September 2009, aims to create “MTCT-free Zones” in Millennium Villages where the coordinated, science-based application of emerging best-practices in the prevention of MTCT can be demonstrated in a cross-section of rural communities across the continent. MTCT is a persistent problem in sub-Saharan Africa, with only 10 percent of HIV-infected women receiving the antiretroviral treatment that is nearly 99 percent effective at preventing mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT).

Millennium Promise is partnering with the UN Global Compact, the UN strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. Millennium Promise is providing valuable support and input to the efforts of the UN Global Compact to catalyze private sector action in support of the Millennium Development Goals.

WFP is working with the Millennium Villages project to expand joint action to cut hunger and malnutrition across Africa. The enhanced partnership objectives, announced in September 2009, include ensuring universal school meal coverage for children in primary schools within Millennium Village clusters, finding the best way of meeting the nutritional needs of children affected by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other pandemics, and working with smallholder farmers to boost productivity and incomes. These objectives build upon earlier collaboration in the area of school meals.

In November 2008, Millennium Promise signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO ST-EP), Gyeongsangbuk-do Province to implement the Korean Millennium Villages Project (KMVP) in support of Mbola, Tanzania and Ruhiira, Uganda. The KMVP initiative supports four villages (two villages in each country).