WE DID IT!!!
We hit our $15,000 goal. Thank you, friends.
With your help, we raised $15,045 to support advocacy on illicit financial flows. With $11,870 in donations through Indiegogo and $3,175 in direct donations, we have raised what we need to kick off our campaign.
The final day of this campaign was thrilling. You donated over $1,800 in just 18 hours. Thank you for answering the call and making this crowdfunding effort a success.
We are so grateful for all the things this community has done for ASAP. We look forward to launching with you a passionate campaign for financial transparency and tax justice. Let's make 2015 the beginning of the end for illicit financial flows.
CAMPAIGN UPDATE: $11,685 on Indiegogo and $3,175 as direct donations!
It ends today. We've come so far--help us make it all the way!
Friends,we have come a long way. $3,175 came in last week as direct donations, bringing us up to $14,860 We are so deeply grateful to all the people who've contributed to our campaign by donating and by spreading the word. We are humbled by your faith in us and you commitment to building a world that is more fair.
We have $140 and less than a day to go. Whether or not we hit $15,000, everything we raised will be put toward a passionate campaign for a more transparent global financial system. Please, join us today. And if you haven't seen it yet, check out our campaign update video and our two-page backgrounder on illicit financial flows.
Campaign update video
Backgrounder on illicit financial flows, by Mathura Mahendren.
INTRODUCING ASAP
Academics Stand Against Poverty. Insight and ideas to end poverty, ASAP.
ASAP is a global network of scholars using research, teaching, and advocacy to help bring about the end of poverty. Founded in 2010, the ASAP network has chapters in Canada, Germany, India, Oceania, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, with hundreds of members working and studying in universities, research centers, and NGOs worldwide. To learn more about ASAP, visit http://academicsstand.org/ .
WHY ASAP, WHY DONATE, WHY NOW
We are launching a global advocacy campaign targeting one of the most powerful structural forces keeping people in poverty: illicit financial flows.
Illicit financial flows play a key role in perpetuating poverty. Every year, roughly $1 trillion are spirited out of developing economies through corruption, criminal activity, and tax evasion. That means that for every dollar developing countries receive in foreign assistance, ten dollars go out. This massive theft is made possible by tax loopholes and a global network of tax havens. To read more about illicit financial flows, visit http://www.gfintegrity.org/ and http://www.financialtransparency.org/ .
ASAP has brought together a team of world-class scholars and NGO leaders, like Thomas Pogge (Yale University) and Raymond Baker (Global Financial Integrity) to craft a plan to curb illicit financial flows around the world, by closing down tax havens and bringing transparency to the global financial system.
Right now, we have an unprecedented opportunity to put those plans into action and put a stop to illicit financial flows.
UN agencies and member states are negotiating a global agenda for poverty alleviation, to be put into place in 2015, that will shape development priorities for the next two decades. Putting illicit financial flows on that agenda would catalyze global efforts to build a fair and transparent financial system.
To influence the post-2015 agenda, we need your help.
We need to put our proposal on the desks of UN decision makers before the end of the year; to do that, we need to raise $15,000 for an advocacy war chest. With that money, we can lobby UN agencies and member states and build an online campaign to build grassroots support for a fair, transparent financial system.
WHERE YOUR DONATION WILL GO
Every dollar helps. Here's where your donation will go:
- $1500 to build a campaign website
- $5000 to edit and publish financial transparency policy proposal and distribute it amongst important UN agencies and member states
- $6500 to cover transportation costs to bring ASAP team to high-level UN meetings
- $2000 to pay researchers to respond to unfolding UN development policy process in lead-up to 2015
ASAP is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and all donations will support our efforts to curb illicit financial flows.
The months leading up to 2015 are an indispensble opportunity to mobilize the international community to curb illicit financial flows, which are undermining the rule of law and security worldwide and keeping millions of people in poverty.
Please, donate today and join us in confronting the injustice woven into the global financial system and reforming it to ensure that people in developing countries retain what is rightfully theirs.
OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP
Together, we can make 2015 the beginning of the end for illicit financial flows.
With gratitude,
The ASAP Team.
