Take Action
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
- Sign up for our newsletter and stay up-to-date on global issues
- Tell your friends and family—send an eCard
- Post a Web banner on your Web site or e-mail
- Take part in our latest action (below)
ACTIONS
Fight Climate Change
Action Area: Climate & Energy
Show your commitment to fighting climate change by using your personal, collective, and institutional power to bring the pledge from paper to the real world.
Test Your Knowledge: MDG Quiz
Action Area: US-UN Relations
The UN Millennium Development Goals are important steps toward progress - take our quiz and see how you do.
Connect in a crisis
Action Area: Technology
Take a tour of the places around the world where we use cutting-edge technology to respond in the midst of a disaster.
Hear how technology helps save lives
Action Area: Technology
Check out a podcast from a World Food Programme disaster deployment in Haiti.
Find out how to stop measles
Action Area: Children’s Health
Dr. Samuel Katz, one of the team of doctors that created the measles vaccine, gives us the facts.
Go Green for the Globe
Action Area: Climate & Energy
How many ways can you conserve energy and stop global climate change? We have some suggestions - check them out!
Be Part of the Social Movement
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Sign the Say No To Violence Against Women petition
Action Area: Women & Population
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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Send a net. Save a life
Action Area: Children’s Health
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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Send in Your Ideas for On Day One
Action Area: US-UN Relations
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