MCN Member Organizations work to become more effective and sustainable in reducing global poverty by working together, leveraging resources, connecting with experts, and creating a community to share experiences and best practices. By becoming more effective and sustainable in reducing global poverty, MCN Member Organizations are working towards a world where the world’s most destitute communities have lifted themselves out of poverty in partnership with a united, effective, and informed community of university students and alumni.…

The MCN adheres to a set of core values we aim to see reflected in everything we do, and at every level--from the people we recruit, to the services we provide, and from our Board of Directors, to our summer interns. 1. The persistence of extreme global poverty is among the most pressing social injustices of our time. 2. Humanity has the technology and the resources to significantly reduce extreme poverty within our lifetimes. 3. The Millennial Generation has a unique role in the movement to end extreme poverty--they have the passion, the energy, and the opportunities for travel, study, and personal growth to make their efforts both effective and long-lived.  They care about global issues, and are committing themselves in large numbers to global public service.  And by working towards a world without poverty at this stage in their lives, they are not only making a difference today, they are laying the foundation for a lifetime of service. 4. Student groups working to end extreme poverty need proper tools, local knowledge, technical training, and a healthy dose of humility, not only to do the most good possible, but also to fulfill their responsibility to do no harm. 5. A deeply interconnected student movement is more effective than a fragmented one; only by working together can our generation end extreme poverty. 6. MCN staff, directors, advisers, and students can reduce extreme poverty most effectively and sustainably by working together, listening carefully, and valuing the agency of others.…

The Millennium Campus Network (MCN) envisions a world where no one struggles to survive on less than $1.25 per day; no child suffers from malnutrition, nor dies from starvation, conflict, nor preventable disease; where every child is afforded a primary education; where women and girls enjoy the same opportunities as men and boys; where no mother dies in childbirth unnecessarily; where deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases are significantly reduced; where human beings live in harmony with their environment; and where a global partnership for development—including a united, effective, and informed community of university students and alumni—worked together to make this vision a reality.…