Global Citizen is the world's largest movement of action takers and impact makers dedicated to ending extreme poverty NOW. The voices of millions of Global Citizens around the world are driving lasting change towards sustainability, equality, and humanity by taking action every day. 

We post, tweet, message, vote, sign, and call to inspire those who can make things happen to act — government leaders, businesses, philanthropists, artists, and citizens — together improving lives. 

By downloading our app, Global Citizens learn about the systemic causes of extreme poverty, take action on those issues, and earn rewards with tickets to events, products, subscriptions, and more. 

Global Citizens have taken over 33.5 million actions since 2009. Today, these actions, in combination with high-level advocacy work, have led to over $43.6 billion being distributed to our partners around the world, impacting 1.29 billion lives in the fight to end extreme poverty.

You can learn more about our impact here: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/impact/

Global Citizen Festival is an annual music festival where fans take actions toward ending extreme poverty in order to earn free tickets. Our festivals bring together Global Citizens, artists, activists, world leaders, philanthropists, corporate leaders, and more, with one collective mission: end extreme poverty now. It’s a moment both to celebrate all we have achieved together, and all we continue to achieve together. 

The inaugural Global Citizen Festival took place on September 29, 2012, with 60,000 people in attendance on the Great Lawn in New York’s iconic Central Park. The festival featured live performances by Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, Band of Horses, K’Naan and more. Since then, artists like Rihanna, Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, Billie Eilish, and many more have performed on Global Citizen Festival stages around the world. 

Global Citizen Festival is timed to coincide with the UN General Assembly to leverage opportunities to get policy and financial commitments from government, corporate, and philanthropic leaders to defeat poverty, demand equity, and defend the planet. Tickets to Global Citizen Festival are awarded through points earned by taking actions to fight extreme poverty, such as signing petitions, calling your political representatives, participating in challenges, and more.

On Saturday, September 27, 2025, Global Citizen Festival will return to the iconic Great Lawn of Central Park in New York City.

You can earn tickets to Global Citizen Festival by taking action on the Global Citizen app or the Global Citizen website to help end extreme poverty now. With each action you take, you earn points that can go towards your entries into a draw for a chance to win Festival tickets. 

There will be six separate draws for Festival tickets, and you can find each draw on our app. Each entry into a ticket draw will cost a total of 60 points, and you can enter each draw multiple times, depending on your Global Citizen Level. If you don’t win in the first draw, don’t worry, you can keep trying and enter each draw as many times as you like! 

The five time periods you can enter the draws are as followed: 

• July 22 —  August 4

• August 5 — August 18

• SaveAugust 19 — September 1

• September 2 — September 15

• September 16 — September 22 

Please note, while you can take action on our site or app, you must enter the draw to earn tickets to the Global Citizen Festival on our app. Each draw closes at midnight EST. If you are a winner, you will be notified by email the next day. You can also check our app under “Entered Rewards” on your profile to see if you’re a winner!

Keep an eye on your inbox, turn your push notifications for our app, and follow our social media accounts (@glblctzn) for all of the latest news and updates.
You do have to be a resident of the US to enter the draw. You can view our full terms and conditions here.