Your Role

You can get involved in lifesaving work in everyday ways, just like the United Nations. Every individual and organization can make a difference—what path will you take to help create a better future for the world? Join us and take action today!

Five ways you can make a difference right now:

Donate now to help fight poverty, disease & global warming
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ACTIONS

Urge President-elect Obama

Action Area: Better World Campaign

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Thank UN Peacekeepers

Action Area: Better World Campaign

Join George Clooney and thank 110,000 UN Peacekeepers in 17 countries for the hard work they put into making this a better and more peaceful world.

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Test Your Knowledge: MDG Quiz

Action Area: Better World Campaign

The UN Millennium Development Goals are important steps toward progress - take our quiz and see how you do.

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Sign the Say No To Violence Against Women petition

Everyone has the right to live free from violence. Join the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and its Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman in a call for a global end to violence against women.

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Sign the Responsible Traveler Pledge

Action Area: Friends of World Heritage

Signing the Pledge means you will come home with more than the usual album full of photos and memories, you will also leave behind a lasting legacy for future travelers and the local communities who depend on World Heritage sites for their livelihoods.

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Send in Your Ideas for On Day One

Action Area: Better World Campaign

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Send a net. Save a life

Action Area: Nothing but Nets

It just takes $10 to send a bed net to protect a child in Africa from malaria. Create a fundraising team with friends and family!

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Hear how technology helps save lives

Check out a podcast from a World Food Programme disaster deployment in Haiti.

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Go Green for the Globe

How many ways can you conserve energy and stop global climate change? We have some suggestions - check them out!

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Find out how to stop measles

Action Area: Measles

Dr. Samuel Katz, one of the team of doctors that created the measles vaccine, gives us the facts.

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Becoming a partner

Whether you're a corporation or an organization, you can change the world through a partnership with the UN Foundation.

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The Heroes of Virunga National Park

Virunga National Park is both the oldest and the largest national park in Africa, and it is the continent’s longest inscribed World Heritage site. However, years of armed conflict and poaching have not only put the site itself in danger, but also the lives of the park rangers that guard one of the last strongholds of the endangered mountain gorilla.

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Rebuilding lives and livelihoods in Mexico

When a category 5 hurricane devastated the mostly Mayan community of Sian Ka'an, Mexico, we appealed to our supporters and partners. The response was overwhelming to help rebuild this World Heritage site.