MassiveGood

MassiveGood
Focus Health: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis
Location
  • United States, UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain
Area served
Global
Method Innovative Financing
Website Official website

MassiveGood was the Millennium Foundation’s fundraising project which was launched in the United States on March 4, 2010.[1] MassiveGood was made available later in 2010 in Spain. On November 4, 2011, the Millennium Foundation decided to discontinue the program.[2] MassiveGood gave travelers the option to make a $2, €2 or £2 micro-contribution towards major global health causes when they bought an airline ticket,[3] reserved a hotel room or rented a car. Funds were used to provide drugs to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.[4][5]

Origin

MassiveGood was developed by the Millennium Foundation for Innovative Finance for Health, an independent, non-profit Swiss foundation.[6] The original idea was conceived by Jean-François Rial, the head of a French travel agency, after officials from George W. Bush's administration rejected the idea of a tax on airline tickets in the United States.[7] The Millennium Foundation was created in November 2008 to develop new ways to finance health systems in low- and middle-income countries and was aligned with helping to achieve the three health-related Millennium Development Goals[8] agreed to by the United Nations in 2000. The Foundation was headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Fundraising

Donations received by MassiveGood were used to provide support to UNITAID,[9] a global health initiative created in 2006 and hosted by the World Health Organization.[10][11] Additional funding was aimed towards improving maternal and child health in the developing world.[12] Supporters of the project included Bill Clinton, will.i.am, Samuel L. Jackson, Susan Sarandon, David Guetta, Spike Lee, Mary J. Blige, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Paul Auster and Brian Greene.[13][14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ UN News service (March 4, 2010). "UN urged travelers to do ‘massive good’ for global health". UN News Centre. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  2. ↑ "New direction for MassiveGood".
  3. ↑ Gumbel, Peter (September 18, 2009). "New Airline-Ticket Tax to Aid the Developing World". www.time.com. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
  4. ↑ Joshua Freed (September 23, 2009). "Buy an airline ticket, donate to UN health fund". www.usatoday.com. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  5. ↑ Peter Orengo (October 19, 2010). "Experts seek new options to fund health services". www.standardmedia.co.ke. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  6. ↑ "About the Millennium Foundation". www.millennium-foundation.org. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  7. ↑ Philippe Douste-Blazy and Daniel Altman, Power in Numbers: UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "The UN Millennium Development Goals". www.un.org. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  9. ↑ Associated Press (September 24, 2009). "Airline tickets to raise cash to help fight AIDS". www.foxnews.com. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  10. ↑ "About Unitaid". www.unitaid.eu. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Unitaid’s Mission". www.unitaid.eu. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  12. ↑ Stephanie Strom (September 22, 2009). "Travelers’ Fee Can Help Fight Diseases". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  13. ↑ Simona Rabinovitch (February 26, 2010). "Stars ask travelers to contribute to global health". www.theglobeandmail.com. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  14. ↑ Rachel Cernansky (March 5, 2010). "Bill Clinton, will.i.am, Ban Ki-Moon Launch MassiveGood". www.planetgreen.discovery.com. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
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