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The Interfaith Millennium Development Goals Coalition was founded in 2006 to mobilize public, political, and media support for the Millennium Development Goals and the United States providing its promised 0.7% of gross national income for official development aid.
Over one thousand people from across the country gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco on October 27–28, 2006, to discuss ways to reduce global poverty at a national conference sponsored by several major Catholic organizations, including the USF Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought and the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Point 7 Now Coalition expanded as an interfaith group and on October 27, 2007, organized the Point 7 Now Action Conference. There will be another Point 7 Now Action Conference in 2010.