Ask Americans how much of the federal budget goes to foreign assistance. Most guess a quarter. The real answer is less than one percent.

That gap is why USAID could be dismantled in a matter of weeks. Americans cannot defend what they never learned about.

The Alliance for American Leadership is working to change that. We are a grassroots movement with organizers on over 100 college campuses and in every congressional district.

We make sure Americans understand what six decades of foreign assistance built, and what its loss is costing in human lives.

Why now

The Lancet projects 14 million people will die as a result of cuts to foreign assistance programs. Numbers that large become invisible. Our job is to make them visible.

The Foundation documents the consequences of the cuts: the clinics closed, the programs ended, the people behind every statistic. We publish research. We tell stories. We provide nonpartisan education to students, journalists, community leaders, and policymakers who need to understand what is at stake.

We also invest in the next generation. The dismantlement of USAID did not just end programs abroad. It closed a career path for thousands of young Americans who planned to spend their lives in development. The Foundation keeps that path open. We run essay contests that ask students what American leadership could build. We host educational programs with the people who built American development policy. We train the young people who will one day rebuild it.

Who pays for this

No corporation or billionaire funds any part of our work. We rely solely on individual Americans who believe our country should do the right thing.

The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Your gift is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

Your support funds the research, the storytelling, and the education that keep this record alive.

The richest man in the world cut off food to the poorest children. Together, we are fighting back.

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