Driving economic opportunities and healthy lives in Africa
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The world’s biggest conversations don’t always begin in boardrooms or the halls of Congress. Sometimes they begin on a basketball court, in a locker room, on a soccer field, or through the voice of an athlete whose story reaches millions of people. That is why it is not surprising to me as a former college athlete that 94% of C-suite women played sports […] The post Sports Open the Door: Lessons…
At WNBA All-Star Weekend in Chicago, ONE co-hosted Court of Change, honoring women redefining leadership on and off the court. The post What WNBA All-Star Weekend taught me about sports, girls and leadership appeared first on ONE.org US .
African nations have made their mark on the World Cup for nearly a century. But Africa’s growing impact extends far beyond the soccer field. The post More Than a Match: Africa showcases its best at World Cup appeared first on ONE.org US .
Back in 2025, we documented some of the real life stories behind the dramatic foreign assistance pause and subsequent cuts to lifesaving humanitarian programs overseas. Since then, Congress has continued to fund many of these programs and much of the important work that the US has done for decades lives on. Although the administration requested […] The post The real cost of foreign assistance cuts…
I can still vividly remember watching the 2006 World Cup final between France and Italy, my whole family jammed into our living room. I have been a football or as my American colleagues insist on calling it, “soccer” fan, since birth. The World Cup means everything to many young kids in Africa in general and in Morocco in particular. Back in my hometown, Marrakech, everyone watched the World Cup,…
Amb. Mark Andrew Green (ret.) became President & CEO of ONE in May 2026, bringing decades of experience in public service, diplomacy, development, and advocacy. But titles only tell part of the story. From teaching in a village in Kenya to serving as U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, from helping advance landmark global health initiatives to leading some of the world’s most […] The post Meet Mark…
ONE's President and CEO urged policymakers to expand support for domestic resource mobilization. The post Amb. Mark A. Green on Domestic Resource Mobilization, Innovative Financing, and Global Health appeared first on ONE.org US .
The headlines are impossible to scroll past. The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak sweeping through the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a global health emergency. But with any rapidly evolving crisis, it is challenging to determine what is happening at any given moment. We asked Dr. William Menson, ONE’s Director of Health Financing for Africa, to help give us…
Some of the clothing, car parts, maybe even a specialty food product in your shopping cart, got to you because of AGOA. The post What is AGOA? Why Congress must renew it appeared first on ONE.org US .
Here's everything you need to know about how we're celebrating Africa Day here at ONE. The post Africa Day 2026: How to Get Involved appeared first on ONE.org US .
