Better World Campaign

Issue Area: UN-US Relations

The United Nations is the only international organization with the legitimacy, respect and tools to tackle complex and borderless problems around the globe. And positive American leadership at the UN is essential to helping find the necessary global solutions to these problems. The Better World Campaign works to build a stronger relationship between the United States and the UN by connecting people—from everyday Americans to policy makers—with the important work of the UN. 

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STORIES OF IMPACT

  1. Young Delegates Turn to the UN

    Area of Involvement: UN-US Relations

    Ask Generation Y (20-somethings) to name one reason they get involved with international causes and likely, you will receive a host of varying but significant responses.  Specifically though, ask Model UN students and this will be their answer: “So that I can be an ethical leader in a global community.” 

  2. Urging U.S. Re-Entry into UNESCO in 2003

    Area of Involvement: UN-US Relations

    During the cold war era, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) became a cultural battleground in the East-West conflict.  The U.S. withdrew from UNESCO in 1984, but rejoined after years of reform in 2003.

  3. Securing another $1 billion for UN Peace & Security missions

    Area of Involvement: UN-US Relations

    The path to positive relations between the United States and the UN has not always been a smooth one, and U.S. debt keeps growing, in part from substantial increases in peace and security programs taken on by the UN.

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Connecting YOU and the UN

The United Nations Foundation connects your ideas, resources, and contributions with the efforts of the United Nations to achieve global goals of creating a better world for generations to come. By charting a new energy future, empowering women and girls, improving health and saving lives, assisting the UN in disaster response, and protecting world heritage, we are working together to solve the world’s toughest challenges. Join us in our efforts to raise awareness, donations, and hope for a more promising future. Visit www.unfoundation.org to learn how you can help.

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RESOURCES

  • »Poverty: Combating the Global Crisis
    Promoting international economic growth and improving people’s quality of life have long stood as pillars of American foreign policy. Unfortunately, nearly half of the world’s population does not share the benefits of growing global prosperity as almost 3 billion people are living in poverty and earning less than $2 a day. The next U.S. Administration should make eliminating absolute poverty a top-line priority and should work with the rest of the world to combat it immediately and effectively.
  • Celebrate, Innovate and Sustain: Toward 2015 and Beyond - The United States' Strategy for Meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals
    Obama Administration officials unveiled the U.S. Government’s strategy for advancing the Millennium Development Goals on July 30, 2010, with an emphasis on innovative and sustainable approaches to the world’s most urgent challenges, during a high-level working session hosted by the United Nations Foundation.
  • Religion and America's Role in the World
    The UN Foundation and Religion & Ethics News Weekly Public supported public opinion research that examined the role that religion plays in shaping people’s views about America’s role in the world and foreign policy priorities. The report explores how religion impacts Americans’ views on whether the U.S. should take an interventionist or isolationist posture on such key issues as the war on terrorism, humanitarian disaster relief and women’s rights around the world.