The easiest way to give is to click MASSIVEGOOD when you make a reservation online or tell your travel agent to do so on your behalf. Your $2 micro-contribution will be added to the price of your reservation. Our contribution platform is fully integrated into travel reservation software and is a completely secure transaction.

You can also make a one-time or repeat donation any time you want on our website. To take your involvement a step further, JOIN the MASSIVEGOOD community to share content about our movement. Update your Facebook status, tweet, blog, upload a video and spread the word among your social networks.

After all, spreading the word is just as important as your contribution. Just 2 dollars can save lives. It takes $2 to treat two children against malaria, $20 to cure an adult of tuberculosis and $100 to provide life-sustaining treatment for an HIV-positive child for a yar. But imagine what we can do with over 2 billion airline tickets sold every year.

By telling your peers, friends, family and community about your contribution to MASSIVEGOOD, you encourage others to do the same. Thanks to an exponential growth rate as travelers give and share, we hope to provide the millions needed to help bridge today’s gap in global health funding.

Your MASSIVEGOOD micro-contribution goes to UNITAID, an organization created in 2006 to increase access to treatments against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries. Additional funds will be used to improve maternal health and child health in the developing world.

Using market-based solutions to reduce prices of quality medicines and increase their availability in poor countries, UNITAID has achieved remarkable results in its short existence. Three out four children on HIV treatment globally are able to survive thanks to UNITAID funds. Many HIV-positive mothers in the developing world can give birth without transmitting the diseases to their children thanks to medication made affordable through UNITAID’s programs. UNITAID has supplied over one million people with insecticide-treated bed nets to protect against malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

Up until now, the bulk of UNITAID’s budget has come from a small tax on airline tickets in France, Chile, Norway, Korea and a growing number of African countries. UNITAID has raised over $1 billion in this way. Its operating costs are below 5% of expenditures and 93 countries receive UNITAID funding today.

MASSIVEGOOD can potentially double UNITAID's budget, while involving GOOD-doers in its life-saving work.

“We need scientific and technologic innovation, such as new medicines and vaccines, but we also need innovative ways to ensure that scientific progress benefits those who need it. That''s where UNITAID makes the difference.” Bill Gates, February 25th, 2008

Despite UNITAID''s exceptional successes in providing treatments to low-income countries, more funds will be needed so that it can continue and broaden its life-saving work. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria still kill millions every year, keeping many in the developing world mired in poverty, unable to live up to their full potential. Furthermore, inadequate health care for pregnant mothers and their newborns threatens an entire global generation.

To move forward, we need to re-engage people around the world that want change and offer them a simple yet powerful way to do so. We need to complement traditional government and humanitarian aid with a new model that reflects our interconnected world. By empowering individuals to make a huge difference through tiny acts, change can happen - one click at a time.

With the power of today’s social networks, micro-philanthropy has a bright future with MASSIVEGOOD. Every year, more than 1 billion people fly in the world, for a total of 2.2 billion flights sold either through airlines or travel agents. The potential for a new, additional and sustainable stream of funding is significant and the opportunity should not be missed.

MASSIVEGOOD is the flagship project of the Millennium Foundation for Innovative Finance for Health, a non-profit foundation committed to achieving the three health-related Millennium Development Goals  agreed to by the United Nations in 2000: to treat and fight life-threatening diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis; to reduce childhood mortality; and to improve maternal health.