Oxfam is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. We offer lifesaving support in times of crisis and advocate for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action. We demand equal rights and equal treatment so that everyone can thrive, not just survive. Inequality is the most pressing issue of our time. And for 80 years, people like you have fueled our mission to end poverty and injustice. From the highlands of Central America and the corn fields of Uganda to the shores of the southern Gulf Coast in the US, Oxfam and our supporters are fighting to guarantee a life of dignity for every person in crisis and to challenge billionaires, corporations, governments, and international financial institutions to do better. The story of our future starts with you. Join Oxfam today and let’s build a more equal future—together.

We acknowledge that Oxfam’s mission to fight inequality to end poverty and injustice is not going to happen overnight. Changing and rebuilding broken systems takes time, and people are experiencing crises and need help right now. We approach our mission in two ways: 1: Right now, we offer lifesaving support to help people survive crises, as we are doing amidst the conflict in Yemen and other humanitarian crises. And 2: In the long term, we tackle the root causes of poverty, such as the unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines and how it poses a major threat to poor countries fighting to end the pandemic. We believe the future is equal. We want equal treatment free from discrimination, equal rights under the law, and equal opportunities to build a life and thrive. For everyone.

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Goal One: To fight inequality to end poverty, focusing on systemic change in four areas: economic justice & equal rights, humanitarian response, climate action, and women’s rights and gender justice.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: To revolutionize how we work in open and humble collaboration with our partners, allies and supporters and leveraging the power of the US for good as we seek transformational change.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Goal Three: To become a feminist and anti-racist organization, supported by management systems and funding that enable us and our partners to be effective and adapt in a highly volatile environment.

Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).

Describe an investment in leadership

Oxfam America has committed to becoming an anti-racist organization. As earliest steps to advance this commitment, we first looked to build shared understanding and initial competencies for leadership at all levels. The executive leadership team completed a series of trainings and workshops on systemic racism, white supremacy and anti-racism lead by the Racial Equity Institute. The leadership team is continuing on-going coaching to deepen our understanding and practices. This was complemented by broader offerings to support diversity, equity, and inclusion competencies of all staff. We also formed a Racial Equity Advisory Committee, with leaders from all parts and levels of the organization, to deepen their skills and to help set our change agenda.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

• Policy Advocacy

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Engaging with external partners and audiences to advance Oxfam's mission is at the core of all of our work. Senior leadership regularly provides thought leadership in a range of fora, from high-level UN panels to business roundtables to virtual townhalls with Member of Congress. Leadership also plays an active role in building and strengthening partnerships with other NGOs, businesses, elected officials, universities, and community organizers. They do this through 1:1 cultivation with crucial partners and allies, participation in key coalition spaces (both within the INGO sector and across sectors), and amplification of both Oxfam and partner organization’s messaging on social media. For example, our President/CEO is, among other things, a principal participant in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and Vice Chair of the Board for InterAction, an organization all our leadership is actively engaged in.

Our 2030 strategic framework was approved in March 2020 just as the COVID-19 pandemic was hitting the US. With compass, we were able to pivot to respond to the rapid onset of COVID-19 and its global and US economic, social and political impact, as well as racial injustice uprisings and US political volatility through the 2020 elections. While all demanded rapid shifts, the marginalization and inequality that our strategy targeted only heightened in importance. Times of crisis are also when great leaps forward in social and economic justice are possible. Our strategy anticipated a highly volatile future; we had spent time on imagining different possible future scenarios – this helped us respond quickly. We rapidly accelerated aspects of our initial strategic horizons: Open and collaborative partnerships with US partners, allies, country teams, and supporters, and Rapid experimentation with digital engagement and virtual collaboration. We executed a COVID-19 strategy focused on two goals. 1) Support the rights of marginalized people to an effective and equitable COVID-19 response. 2) Support a fair economic response and recovery that meets immediate critical needs and addresses underlying drivers of inequality. Building from a longer-term effort to ground our work in intersectional feminist principles, we accelerated with a commitment to become an anti-racist organization. Our early focus was on identifying, learning from and amplifying racial justice allies and launching a racial equity journey that complements planned DEI initiatives. We responded with allies to increasingly existential threats to our mission –whether erosion of US democratic institutions or closing civic space globally. We complement specific advocacy work, like on the rights of refugees, with calls for voting rights and protection of human rights defenders. We have made permanent shifts to how we work, using virtual technology to collaborate globally in new ways.