$4,800 = one village wellClean water
Boreholes, filters and repair crews in villages that walk hours for a bucket.
A Mikaelson Charity Foundation initiativeOne person.
One person.
One dollar.
One world.
There are 8.3 billion of us. If each one gives a single dollar, we raise $8.3 billion — enough to put water in every thirsty village, a book in every empty hand, and food on every empty table. You will never miss the dollar. The world will never forget it.
Raised so far
$12,480,913
0.150% of $8.3 billion6,568,901 givers in 193 countries
Amara gave $1Tomás gave $100Chidi gave $5Sofia gave $1Prime Horizon matched $25,000Yuki gave $20Adaeze gave $1Nia gave $12,400Liam gave $1Fatima gave $250Noah gave $1Zanele gave $1,000Amara gave $1Tomás gave $100Chidi gave $5Sofia gave $1Prime Horizon matched $25,000Yuki gave $20Adaeze gave $1Nia gave $12,400Liam gave $1Fatima gave $250Noah gave $1Zanele gave $1,000
The simplest big idea in the world, written as arithmetic.
Charity usually asks a few people for a lot. This asks everybody for almost nothing. The maths is the message.
8.3B
people alive today
$1
asked of each of them
$8.3B
if every one answers
100%
of your dollar to programmes
And the arithmetic is conservative. Not everyone will give — but many will give in the hundreds and the thousands, and companies will match their customers dollar for dollar. One in ten people giving an average of ten dollars gets to the same place. There are a hundred roads to eight billion. All of them start with one dollar.
How the chain moves
01
One dollar, no friction
Apple Pay, card, mobile money, crypto. Three taps, no account, any currency on earth.
02
You get a number
Every giver receives a permanent Giver Number and a place on the public wall. Number 1 through 8,300,000,000.
03
You pass it on
Every giver is asked for ten names. Ten becomes a hundred becomes a million. That is the whole engine.
04
You watch it land
Every dollar is tracked to a project with photos, receipts and a quarterly public ledger.
Where every dollar lands
Three programmes. Nothing vague, nothing invented. Each dollar is assigned to one of them and tracked until it is spent.
$4,800 = one village well
$18 = one child in school for a termClassrooms
Desks, books, teacher stipends and school meals that keep children in the room.
$1 = one hot mealEmergency relief
Food, medicine and shelter released within 72 hours of a crisis.
Your dollar doesn't feed a child.
It raises a leader.
Look past the well, the classroom and the meal, and see who is standing there. These are the futures your one dollar is building — illustrated as visions of what is possible, not photographs of real people.
Her classroom, funded by youThe Lawyer
The girl who walked an hour for water argues her first case — and writes the law that ends the walk for the next girl.
His school fees, paid in fullThe Pilot
The boy who carried a jerrican on his head now carries two hundred passengers above the clouds, and flies the relief flights home.
Her books, her desk, her futureThe Engineer
The schoolgirl with borrowed books builds the bridge, the grid and the borehole her own village once prayed for.
One hot meal, every dayThe President
The child who ate because you gave a dollar stands at a podium one day — and remembers whose dollar put him there.
Every president was once a child who needed a meal. Every pilot was once a boy with an empty water bucket. Every lawyer and engineer was once a girl with no desk. The dollar you never miss is the seed of a generation the world will celebrate.
Some will give one.
Some will give a hundred.
The dollar is the door. Everyone walks through it the same way, and those who can carry more simply carry more.
Give your dollar
One dollar is the ticket in. Give more and you carry someone who cannot.
Reaches an estimated 1 person · 100% of your dollar goes to programmes
The Dollar
$1
The entry every human can make.
- Your Giver Number
- Your name on the global wall
- Monthly impact dispatch
Most powerful
The Hundred
$100
You carry 99 people who cannot give today.
- Everything in The Dollar
- Named on the Hundred Roll
- Project photos from the work you funded
- Digital certificate of giving
The Thousand
$1,000+
You fund a whole piece of infrastructure.
- Everything in The Hundred
- A named well, classroom or clinic
- Annual founders' briefing
- Invitation to the field visit programme
A scoreboard between nations
Every country has a counter. Every city has a counter. Every school, church, mosque and company can claim one. People will not give because we asked. They will give because their country is losing.
That is the growth engine: pride, rivalry and a dollar nobody can refuse.
1Nigeria3,204,881 givers
2United States2,881,402 givers
3India2,410,553 givers
4Brazil1,204,118 givers
5United Kingdom980,554 givers
6Kenya744,320 givers
7Philippines690,117 givers
8Germany512,908 givers
Questions people ask first
Why one dollar?+
Because a dollar is not a decision. Nobody has to think about it, nobody has to afford it, and nobody has to be rich to be part of it. Scale does the rest: 8.3 billion people times one dollar is 8.3 billion dollars.
Who carries this movement?+
The Mikaelson Charity Foundation owns and fronts the movement, while Prime Horizon builds and operates the platform. The people carry its meaning: every person who gives becomes the symbol of what one shared dollar can do.
Where does my dollar actually go?+
Into water, classrooms and emergency relief. Operating costs are covered separately by partner and corporate support, so the giver's dollar goes to programmes.
How do I know it is real?+
Every quarter the foundation publishes a public ledger: money in, money out, project by project, with photographs and receipts, reviewed by an independent auditor.
Can a company give on behalf of its customers?+
Yes. The Corporate Dollar lets any business add a one dollar round up at checkout, or match its staff and customers. That is how the campaign moves from millions to billions.
It starts with your dollar.
Not the world's dollar. Not somebody else's. Yours, today, and then ten names after it.
Give $1 now