2. ABOUT THE FOUNDER
The founder is
Clint Borgen
Widely regarded as one of the most politically influential humanitarians in the U.S.
Clint Borgen is the Founder and President of The Borgen Project, an organization working to bring U.S. political
attention to global poverty. Borgen works nationally with Congressional leaders to build support for legislation
that improves conditions for people in developing nations. He is widely regarded as one of the leading poverty-
reduction campaigners in the United States.
Background: In 1999, while working as a young volunteer in refugee camps during the Kosovo War and
genocide, Clint Borgen recognized the need for an organization that could bring U.S. political attention to issues
of severe poverty.
In 2003, after graduating from Washington State University and interning at the United Nations, Borgen began
developing his project. In need of startup funding, Borgen took a job living on a fishing vessel docked in Dutch
Harbor, Alaska (the same location as The Deadliest Catch). From humble beginnings in one of Earth’s most
remote locations, The Borgen Project was born.
Now headquartered in Seattle, The Borgen Project has become an influential campaign platform aimed at
reducing global poverty through public mobilization and political advocacy, and serves as a testament that one
man and a laptop can change the world
3. WHAT THE BORGEN PROJECT DOES
*The BORGEN PROJECT is a non-profit organization that addresses the
problems about poverty and starvation and does its best to try to end it
4. WORLD WIDE ISSUES
• Almost 3 billion people lack access to toilets and almost 1 billion lack
access to clean drinking water
• “The poorest 20% of the world’s children are twice as likely as the richest
20% to be stunted by poor nutrition and to die before their 5th birthday.”
• 2.7 million newborns worldwide die within their first month of life
• Almost 200 million children under the age of 5 in developing regions are
underweight for their age
• 179 million infants in the least developed countries are not protected from
diseases by routine immunization
• 3.2 million children under the age of 15 currently live with HIV
• 161 million children do not attend primary school
5. KEY POINTS
*History has shown that as people transition from barely surviving into
becoming consumers, it opens new markets for U.S. companies and creates
American jobs.
*1 out of 5 U.S. jobs is export-based and 50 percent of our exports now go to
developing nations.
*From Germany to South Korea, nearly all of the United States’ top trading
partners were once recipients of U.S. foreign aid.
*Foreign Policy Magazine describes the world’s poor as the largest untapped
market on earth.
