Objective: Fund existing organizations that reach and serve the world’s poorest families.
Goals: 2007-2008 School Year
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Provide grants for 3 organizations
Over the next 18 years, Alliance of Students Against Poverty (ASAP) intends to raise a fund of several billion dollars to be used exclusively on meeting the needs of the poorest of the poor in order to facilitate their gaining a foothold on the ladder of economic self-reliance. With its slogan of “$1/day for those living on less than $1/day,” ASAP plans to enlist two million Americans in the following triple commitment: (1) reducing their current consumption by $1/day; (2) donating this savings to those living on less than $1/day; and (3) sustaining this donation ($30/month or $360/year) until 2025.
At a time, when donors are demanding more transparency and accountability from those they support, ASAP is going to put in place a system that will help meet those demands. ASAP students will be intimately involved in the research, selection and monitoring of our funded organizations. They will ensure the ASAP fund is being used in the most effective way, and they will provide donors with on-the-ground footage of the stories and experiences of those individuals that ASAP is supporting on the road to economic self-reliance.
This last spring, one of the co-founders of ASAP spent 5 weeks traveling around the world researching programs that have been successful in reaching and serving some of the poorest families in the world. After this experience, ASAP intends to support the following organizations:
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