WHY THESE NINE CAUSES?
The Onefluence™ Social Impact Causes are nine problems with a powerful effect on people’s well-being. These nine issues align with certain United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (a.k.a. UN “Global Goals”) that world governments, citizens and companies are tackling between 2015 and 2030. Whatever your personal passion, each of the nine Onefluence™ Social Impact Causes are urgent issues that can create a ripple effect on the other eight causes. For the first time in history, we’re on the brink of real solutions, or even eradication, for these nine problems…but only if the emerging generation takes up the fight.
We already make enough food to feed the entire world, yet 925 million people go hungry.
One organization whose work we love: Atlanta Community Food Bank
As many as 1.6 billion people in the world lack adequate housing.
Here are three organizations you can volunteer with to help those without a safe home:
Women and girls spend up to six hours a day collecting water; sometimes that water is not even safe to drink.
These organizations are doing admirable work on water:
We’re inspired by a 15 year old in Mozambique who is leading her village as a clean water champion. She embodies the Onefluence™ Leadership Habitudes®:
Read her story from Charity:water here
Every two minutes a teenager is infected with HIV and a young child dies of malaria. Both are preventable.
These organizations are doing inspiring work for health:
“Human rights are universal and inalienable; indivisible; interdependent and interrelated.” - UNFPA
This global organization, launched by refugee physicist Albert Einstein, serves the persecuted and displaced: International Rescue Committee
We’re also inspired by young leader Rene Silva. Not even 24 yet, he’s been a journalist more than half his life, bravely reporting on violence and social issues in his community, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
Sports Illustrated® told Rene Silva’s story here
Globally, 263 million young people of primary and high school age are not in school.
These organizations fight for every young person to have access to a quality education:
We’re inspired by Eva, a determined 15 year old who rallied the world and won her village clean water, so that she and others could have a chance to stay in school. Eva even wrote U.S. President Barack Obama, and he brought her plea to the United Nations.
See Eva’s Story
Restless Development
Right now over 20 million people on six continents are still born or trafficked into slavery.
These are a few of the groups fighting to abolish slavery:
Several million tons of wasted medical supplies and discarded electronics go to global landfills annually, with chemicals and heavy metals that harm the planet and people.
We love that these organizations can help both the planet and people in need:
At least 1 in 4 people globally will face a mental wellness challenge in their lifetime.
Use your leadership to support mental wellness and create community.
We admire this nonprofit’s dedication to encouraging others and defeating isolation: The World Needs More Love Letters