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We Join the White House for Service Day
Amb. Susan Rice, students from the UN Association's Global Classrooms join us in the United We Serve initiative. Read more

Boy Scouts spread the malaria buzz
To celebrate 100 years of service, the Boy Scouts of America are creating awareness about how nets save lives. Read more

Usher's Camp New Look
A Pledge to Fight Malaria: Kids will help send more than 40,000 anti-malaria bed nets to Ethiopia in 2009. Read more

Youth Act on Climate Change at UN
Students from global high schools organize and activate on climate change in the lead up to Copenhagen at the UN. Read more

How can we wire the world?
Engineers, health experts, and aid experts join forces to find technological solutions for humanitarian challenges. Read more

Commemorate World Population Day
This World Population Day, thank Secretary Hillary Clinton for championing women's rights around the world. Read more

 
Visit “A World Unto Itself”
See firsthand how we are conserving the Galapagos Islands’ unique biodiversity. Read more

Live from the UN: Talk Radio Day
Tune in to UN Dispatch for live coverage of the hottest topics from our 4th Annual Talk Radio Day. Read more

Ted Turner in TIME Magazine
The UN Foundation Chairman of the Board has been named on the TIME 100 Most Influential People list. Find out why. Read more

 
Thank Our UN Peacekeepers
This International Peacekeepers Day, support the 100,000 brave men and women in blue helmets. Send a letter now

Change the future of a young girl
This Mother’s Day, invest in The Girl Fund to provide a young girl the opportunity to better herself and her world. Read more

Find Tech Solutions to Global Issues
Help development experts and tech professionals create new tools in the first-ever Humanitarian Technology Challenge. Read more

Earth Day Signals Chance for Action
College students set example tackling climate change one campus at a time. Read more

Twitter Abuzz About Malaria
Stars like Ashton Kutcher, Larry King and Oprah are sending bed nets, you can too! Read more

Stars Create Buzz for Nothing But Nets
Singer Gavin DeGraw and actor Tom Cavanagh help save lives in Uganda. Read more

Enter to win a trip to Africa with us
Now it's your chance to see us in action in Africa or win a trip to the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. Read more

As seen on YouTube and CNN Youth, Ted Turner highlighted in online videos about grassroots effort to send nets and save lives. Read more

Join a Truly Global Debate! High school students in more than 80 countries participate in The People Speak Global Debates. Now, you can too! Read more

Covering African Refugees with Nets Our Nothing But Nets campaign is working with UNHCR to protect a vulnerable population from malaria. Read more

Supporting Childhood Immunizations Our new commitment with the Vodafone Foundation aims to help reduce measles deaths over the next three years. Read more

Expanding Mobile Health We are streamlining health data collection using PDAs in 22 African countries. Read more

Bed Nets for Burma The UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets Campaign contributed 10,000 life-saving nets to the Mae La refugee camp. Read more

A bed net's journey: Mali This is the story of how 2.8 million nets made their way to Malian children in need. View Slideshow

March 8 is International Women’s Day Honor a special woman in your life. Sign the Say NO to Violence Against Women petition

UN Environmental Program honors our President, Timothy Wirth, with the 2008 Champions of the Earth Award. Read about the award

Bangladesh: Cyclone Sydr death toll nears 3000. You can help Read the blog

World Heritage belongs to us all. But due to external factors, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has put 30 World Heritage sites on its "In Danger" list. Explore the Map and Learn How You Can Help.

Nothing But Nets teams up with VH1 to create a public service announcement (PSA) to spread the word about how easy it is to send nets and save lives. Watch PSA