About Us

The Business for Poverty Relief Alliance was formed in August 2006 when a group of leading and progressive Australian companies came together at the invitation of World Vision to consider the question "How can corporate Australia do more to address global poverty?"

The alliance was launched in May 2007 to overwhelming support around Australia. In October 2007, the alliance was rebranded as the Business for Millennium Development (B4MD) to bear a more accurate reflection of our focus on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

B4MD believes that Australian businesses have the opportunity to do much more to reduce poverty while developing business with the emerging markets of the Asia Pacific region.

We are supported by our founding members Grey Group, Insurance Australia Group, IBM, KPMG, Visy and World Vision Australia. We are further supported by the Australian Federal Government through AusAID, the Australian agency for International Development.