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thumb GO Campaign is a national nonprofit organization based in Santa Monica, California that raises awareness and funds to help orphans and vulnerable children throughout the world. The organization supports projects at the grassroots level that bring direct relief to children in need of education & vocational training, medical care, enrichment programs, and basic human rights. The grants are executed by partnering with local leaders on the ground who are delivering local solutions. These are often projects that would otherwise fall through the cracks that have not been able to garner the attention of larger grant-making organizations and where small grants can have great impact. Thanks to a private gift covering operating and fundraising expenses, 100% of all public donations to GO Campaign go to programming costs, and donors are allowed to choose the project they want to support. ==Background== Former attorney and successful Hollywood screenwriter (Scott Fifer ) founded the organization in 2006 after taking a volunteer vacation in Tanzania. Originally established to help Tanzania’s orphans and vulnerable children secure a better future, support for the nonprofit quickly outpaced its initial goals. In 2008, the organization officially changed its name to GO Campaign and expanded its reach throughout the developing world. Fifer is a contributing blogger to the Huffington Post. GO's Board of Directors includes Fifer, GO Campaign Co-Founders Jill Goldman, Victoria Strauss Kennedy, and Daryl Offer, and directors Rami Ghandour, Tony Horton, Alexandra Vorbeck, Julie Milligan, April Freitag, Katarina Hyde, and Linda Konner. GO has funded children's programs in over 25 countries ranging from Haiti and Peru to Cambodia and Vietnam to Kenya and South Africa, impacting over 57,000 children. GO also funds programs for youth in the United States as well. In 2010, Malawi's William Kamkwamba, author of ''The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind'', was one of four winners of GO Campaign's inaugural (GO Ingenuity Award ), a financial grant that allows inventors and artists to share ingenuity and invention with youth in developing nations. In 2013, GO Campaign became the first US nonprofit to directly partner with the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, headed by local hero Favio Chavez of Paraguay. GO is currently trying to raise funds for the youth orchestra, featured in the upcoming documentary ''Landfill Harmonic''. In 2014, one of GO Campaign's local heroes from India, Kailash Satyarthi, won the Nobel Peace Prize. GO projects around the world have recently been featured in Vogue (magazine)〔http://fairclothsupply.com/pages/press〕 and 60 Minutes.〔http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-recyclers-from-trash-comes-triumph/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GO Campaign」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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