The Millennium Development goals are a set of time-bound targets for drastically reducing extreme poverty around the world, and for substantial improvements in health and education. One hundred and eighty-nine countries, the largest gathering of heads of state ever, endorsed the Goals and committed themselves to their achievement by 2015, at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. Since that time, organizations across the globe have convened and collaborated on campaigns to raise awareness of the critical importance of the Goals, and to compel world leaders to fulfill their promises of additional quality funding, trade reform and debt cancellation to achieve the Goals.