The fight to end extreme poverty is within reach. 15 years ago countries banded together to address poverty with the Millennium Development Goals. Huge strides have been made, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.

As we all know, poverty takes many forms. It encompasses girls in Pakistan or Nigeria who fear retaliation for attending school, farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa hit hard by climate change, Indians without access to adequate sanitation and environmental refugees in Nepal.

Global Citizen advocates to address the root causes of poverty throughout the world--and empower people to shape their own lives. True advocacy is knowledge joined with action and implementation. In this mission, Global Citizen’s partners play a key role.

The 2015 Global Citizen Festival in New York City’s Central Park is central to the push to escalate the fight against extreme poverty. This year is particularly important because the UN is announcing a slate of new objectives to guide international development for the next 15 years called the Global Goals. The Festival is the opportunity to hold leaders accountable to make concrete plans to accomplish these new goals.

Global Citizen’s partners this year are varied and will play an instrumental role in helping the world achieve these goals by 2030. The list is in alphabetical order, so make sure you scroll down to get a full sense of the great organizations working on this gathering:

action/2015: action/2015 is a movement of 1800+ organisations, networks and coalitions from over 140 countries united by the belief that 2015 is a milestone for progress in the fight against climate change, poverty and inequality. action/2015 is mobilizing the public throughout 2015 to demand ambitious outcomes from key sustainable development and climate change summits in 2015 and hold decision-makers accountable for their delivery. To date, more than 22 million actions have been taken in over 100 countries - from rallies to flash mobs to online activity – to call for leaders to take ambitious action to secure a better future for people and planet.

CARE: CARE’s mission is to eliminate extreme poverty and fight social injustice. The organization works alongside women and girls because they are disproportionately affected by poverty and because we believe they are catalysts for change.

Concern Worldwide U.S.:  CONCERN WORLDWIDE was founded in 1968 by a small group of passionate people who turned their concern into action to address terrible starvation in war-torn Biafra. Today, it is a global community of humanitarians, innovators, partners, community members, and supporters, who share a common vision of a world where no one lives in poverty, where all can exercise their rights to dignity and a decent standard of living, and have access to the opportunities and choices essential to a long, healthy, and creative life.

The organization is a team of nearly 3,000, working in 29 countries, reaching more than seven million of the world’s poorest people. Together with those communities, it is saving lives and changing lives every day through emergency response programs and longer-term solutions that address the root causes of poverty and hunger. These solutions most often start with women and girls and include health and nutrition, climate resilience and disaster risk reduction, as well as primary education, water and sanitation, and livelihoods support.

The Earth Institute, Columbia University: The Earth Institute at Columbia University mobilizes the sciences, education and public policy to achieve a sustainable Earth. Through interdisciplinary research among more than 500 scientists in diverse fields, the Institute is adding to the knowledge necessary for addressing the challenges of the 21st century and beyond. With over two dozen associated degree curricula and a vibrant fellowship program, the Earth Institute is educating new leaders to become professionals and scholars in the growing field of sustainable development.

Every Woman, Every Child: By 2030 we want to see a world where every pregnancy is healthy and wanted, where every birth is safe, children survive beyond their 5th birthday, and women, children and adolescents are empowered to thrive and can realize their full potential."

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is an international organization dedicated to supporting country efforts to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to vaccines and strengthening national health systems.

Since its launch in 2000. Gavi’s support has contributed to the immunisation of an additional 500 million children and helped developing countries to prevent more than 7 million future deaths from vaccine preventable diseases. With Gavi’s support, countries have made great strides towards reaching the health MDG’s.

In January 2015, thanks in part to the support of Global Citizens, donors pledged USD7.5 billion so that Gavi supported countries can immunise another 300 million children, resulting in five-six million lives saved in the 2016-2020 period. These results will be a key contribution to SDG3.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: The Global Fund is an organization designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics.

Created in 2002 as a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and people affected by the diseases, the Global Fund supports programs in countries and communities most in need.

Working together, the group has saved millions of lives and provided prevention, treatment and care services to hundreds of millions of people, helping to revitalize entire communities, strengthen local health systems and improve economies.

The Global Fund strives for maximum impact and provides funding where it can achieve the best results, operating on the principle that the people actually implementing programs on the ground are the experts in knowing the best way to fight disease in their country and coming up with the most effective solutions. So whether it is distributing mosquito nets to protect families from malaria in Honduras, training peer counsellors who work with teenagers diagnosed with HIV in South Africa, or providing equipment for the diagnosis of tuberculosis to clinics in Kazakhstan, partners in each country fighting the pandemics find support from the Global Fund.

Global Partnership for Education: The Global Partnership for Education brings together developing country partners, donors, multilateral agencies, Civil Society Organizations, the private sector to achieve the common goal of getting all children a quality education

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative: GPEI works towards a world in which no child is ever again paralyzed by polio. The GPEI is led by national governments and spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Since its launch at the World Health Assembly in 1988, the GPEI has reduced the global incidence of polio by more than 99%.

Heifer International: Heifer International works with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the Earth. The organization believes in the power of the world’s 600 million smallholder farmers and herders to sustainably feed our growing population. We make a difference by providing livestock and training, connecting farmers to markets and helping entire communities lift themselves out of poverty.

The Hunger Project: The Hunger Project works to end hunger and poverty by pioneering sustainable, grassroots, women-centered strategies and advocating for their widespread adoption in countries throughout the world. Our programs in 17,000 communities throughout Africa, South Asia and Latin America are based on an innovative, holistic approach, which empowers women and men living in rural villages to become the agents of their own development and make sustainable progress in overcoming hunger and poverty.

Kiva: Kiva connects millions of people around the world through lending to alleviate poverty. As the first and largest micro-lending platform on the Internet, Kiva enables anyone to financially empower others with loans with as little as $25 in over 85 countries. To date, Kiva has facilitated over $700 million in loans to over 1,600,000 borrowers to help them start and grow businesses, improve their homes, go to school, and build brighter futures for their families.

The ONE Campaign: ONE is an international campaigning and advocacy organization of nearly 7 million people taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, because the facts show extreme poverty has already been cut by 60% and can be virtually eliminated by 2030, but only if we act with urgency now.

Cofounded by Bono, the organization raises public awareness and works with political leaders to combat AIDS and preventable diseases, increase investments in agriculture and nutrition, and demand greater transparency so governments are accountable to their citizens. ONE does not raise money itself to build schools, hospitals and the like, but does its work by advocacy and campaigning so that government funds continue to flow to programs that make a difference in people’s lives. ONE works closely with African activists and policymakers as they fight corruption, promote poverty-fighting priorities, monitor the use of aid, and help build civil society and economic development. ONE’s work is strictly politically non-partisan.

Opportunity International: Opportunity International is a global nonprofit organization fighting extreme poverty in 28 countries around the world. Through tailored and innovative financial tools and services such as loans, savings, insurance and training, we invest in nearly 12 million entrepreneurs, empowering them to support their families, create jobs and transform their communities.

Oxfam America: Oxfam America is a global organization working to right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice. As one of 17 members of the international Oxfam confederation, we work with people in more than 90 countries to create lasting solutions. Oxfam saves lives, develops long-term solutions to poverty, and campaigns for social change.

Pencils of Promise: Pencils of Promise (“PoP”) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2008 to increase access to quality education for children in the developing world. PoP works with communities across the globe to build schools and create programs that provide education opportunities for children, no matter where they were born or what resources they have available. PoP has built more than 300 schools throughout Laos, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Ghana, providing education opportunities to over 31,000 students and establishing itself as a leader amongst the innovative global nonprofits working toward sustainable social change.

RESULTS: RESULTS is a movement of passionate, committed everyday people. Together they use their voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty. Volunteers receive training, support, and inspiration to become skilled advocates. In time, volunteers learn to effectively advise policy makers, guiding them towards decisions that improve access to education, health, and economic opportunity. With every hour of their time, volunteers multiply their impact through the enormous power of advocacy — whether it’s helping change policy to support millions of families putting food on the table or helping raise billions of dollars for the world’s most vulnerable children. Backed by the in-depth research and legislative expertise of staff, RESULTS advocates realize the incredible power they possess to use their voices to change the world.

Save the Children Action Network: Founded by Save the Children in 2014, Save the Children Action Network is a new advocacy organization dedicated to mobilizing Americans around a commitment that cannot wait — investing in early childhood now. Save the Children Action Network engages our government, businesses, partner organizations and supporters to take bold action and to hold our elected leaders accountable for the youngest, and too often forgotten, global citizens — our children.

The United Nations Foundation: The United Nations Foundation builds public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and broadens support for the United Nations through advocacy and public outreach. Through innovative campaigns and initiatives, the Foundation connects people, ideas, and resources to help the UN solve global problems. The Foundation was created in 1998 as a US public charity by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner and now is supported by global corporations, foundations, governments, and individuals.

UNICEF: UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in everything the organization does. Together with their partners, UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere.

USA for UNHCR: USA for UNHCR helps and protects refugees and people displaced by violence, conflict and persecution. Supporting UNHCR – the UN Refugee Agency – and its partners, the organization provides life-saving essentials including shelter, water, food, safety and protection. Around the world, it helps refugees survive, recover and build a better future. Together, the world can give refugees the hope and dignity they deserve and help them rebuild their lives.

WaterAid: WaterAid is an international organization whose mission is to transform the lives of the poorest and most marginalized people by improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene. Since 2004 the organization has helped 18.1 million people get sanitation.

WaterAid enables the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water and sanitation. Together with improved hygiene, these basic human rights underpin health, education and livelihoods, forming the first essential step in overcoming poverty. WaterAid works with local partners, who understand local issues, and provide them with the skills and support to help communities set up and manage practical and sustainable projects that meet their real needs. The organization also works locally and internationally to change policy and practice and ensure water, hygiene and sanitation’s vital role in reducing poverty is recognized

World Bank Group: The World Bank Group is excited to partner with Global Citizen on building a popular movement to end extreme poverty. The World Bank Group is not a bank in the traditional sense, but rather a unique partnership of its 188 member governments, focused on the twin goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity by improving opportunities for the bottom 40 percent in developing countries.

For the first time in human history, it is possible to end extreme poverty within a generation thanks to remarkable development gains in the last 25 years. The number of people living on less than $1.25/day has dropped from 2 billion in 1990 to fewer than 1 billion today. By working together -- through a movement of citizens, activists and leaders prioritizing the needs of the poor – the world can achieve the goal of ending extreme poverty.

World Vision: World Vision has a vision for children - where every child grows up healthy & strong, is cared for & protected and has opportunities to flourish. The organization has a vision for change - both on a global scale and in individual lives through powerful one-to-one connections. They have a vision for life– where everyone cares for each other in a world full of promise and free of poverty. For six decades, World Vision has been engaging people of all cultures, faiths & genders to work towards eliminating poverty and its causes. It is a global Christian relief, development & advocacy organisation working with children, families & communities to overcome poverty & injustice, serving all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. The organization brings support in times of disaster, helps poor communities take charge of their futures, provides loans & training that boost family livelihoods and works with policy makers to change the way the world works for children. World Vision is a powerful force for good you can be a part of.

WSSCC: The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is at the heart of the global movement to improve sanitation and hygiene, so that all people can enjoy healthy and productive lives. Established in 1990, WSSCC is the only United Nations body devoted solely to the sanitation needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized people. WSSCC also operates the Global Sanitation Fund, which has committed $108 million USD since 2008 to transform lives in developing countries.

The Global Citizen Festival is a launchpad for action. Major commitments on poverty are made. The music of hope is played. And influential leaders become inspired by the energy of thousands of global citizens converging to lift the voices of the poor, marginalized and forgotten. On the crest of this momentum, change can be realized. A world without extreme poverty can be achieved.

The foundation of this momentum begins with the action journey, and begins now, with you. Go to the Festival page to take action and earn your tickets to a turning point in the global effort to end extreme poverty.