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 a founding partner of the organization Malaria No More, with the stated goal of ending extreme poverty within a human lifetime. Its flagship initiative is the Millennium Villages Project. This project led to progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Background
The project focuses on food, health care, education, and infrastructure. The organization engages partners from the private and public sectors, national governments, and individuals. Among the Millennium Promise MDG Global Leaders are Tommy Hilfiger, the founder of Diesel, Renzo Rosso, 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. The organization is headquartered in New York, New York, with regional headquarters in Bamako, Mali and Nairobi, Kenya, and national affiliates in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Peter Neidecker is CEO of Millennium Promise. Prior to joining Millennium Promise, Mr. Neidecker served as the director of programs for the Children's Investment Fund Foundation in London.

In September 2006, the financier and philanthropist George Soros pledged $50 million to Millennium Promise to fund 33 Millennium Villages.

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. It is a case study in what is possible, even in the poorest places in the world."