One Vote '08

In December, we delivered our inauguration petition with more than 90,000 signatures to senior members of President-elect Barack Obama's foreign policy transition team. They accepted it, and were impressed by your passion and commitment on behalf of the world’s poorest people.

The petition asks Obama to make a clear statement, through his upcoming inaugural address and budget priorities, that he intends to fulfill his campaign commitments to fighting poverty and preventable disease worldwide.

ONE Vote ’08: This election, ONE members met the candidates on the trail, wrote thousands of letters to other voters through our ONE-to-ONE program, and got the candidates to go On The Record on global poverty – making ONE Vote ’08 a grassroots powerhouse. The candidates, media and voters across America took notice, bringing unprecedented attention to our issues and historic commitments to fight global poverty from both Barack Obama and John McCain. ONE Vote ’08 was also the winner of the prestigious Center for Global Development Commitment to Development Award for 2008.

ONE members accomplished so much in 2008. While we map out the next year, let’s take a minute to look back at our accomplishments by using the above link.

Michael H. Drucker
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