SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals

These 17 goals, unanimously adopted by all 193 member states of the UN in 2015, including the U.S., are the agenda for all countries to achieve cooperatively by 2030 to ensure all can fulfill their potential in dignity and equality, and in a healthy environment.

​The March 4, 2025 official rejection and denunciation of the SDGs by the U.S. government does not deter CCMP’s resolute endorsement, in solidarity with the rest of the 192 member nations of the UN that adopted this agenda in 2015, as necessary for the advancement of humankind.

A grid of the SDG icons in bright colors with little icons for each SDG and text like "Good Health and Well-being"

WE’RE FOCUSED ON…

Icon of SDG 1

SDG 1

End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

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SDG 2

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

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SDG 3

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

Comprehensive Healthcare Requires Sustainable Development

84M

American adults have pre-diabetes and 9 out of 10 are undiagnosed.

42+

The number of hospitals closed in New York State since the year 2000.

295K

U.S. deaths resulted from cumulative poverty (10+ years) in 2023.

CCMP is Acting Daily to Reverse the Impacts of Poverty, Hunger and Lack of Healthcare

NO POVERTY

CCMP volunteers at a migrant farm worker camp doing outreach.

SDG 1

CCMP works with membership associations of low-paid farm and service workers to take requests for medical care, dental care and advocacy, which we fill through CCMP’s preventive medical benefit program. The enemy of healthcare for poor people, in fact, of life itself, is not death. It is the overwhelming odds against which they must battle to maintain life. They lose the battle early because the effort to maintain good health is greater than that required for subsistence; because the battle for subsistence robs them of what health they started with.

Nearly 40 million people in the U.S. live in poverty, representing more than 10% of the population. Surveys show more than half of U.S. adults live paycheck to paycheck and face difficulty paying for housing, utilities, healthcare and food.
Why is this important?

ZERO HUNGER

A CCMP volunteer at a grocery store holding a bag of rice with the owner of the store.

SDG 2

One in four New York State residents are food insecure, with the Bronx reaching the worst rate in the state with two out of five. CCMP is on the road multiple times every week, picking up thousands of pounds of donated healthy food to distribute to benefit recipients, community fridges and other independent organizations as part of our organizing for good health. The U.S.’s profit-driven food and beverage industries, along with the pharmaceutical corporations, severely inhibit progress in prevention and long-term management of diseases such as diabetes. These obstacles to good health must be overcome in order to prevent and reduce pre-diabetes and diabetes within the U.S. population.

High rates of diabetes and high blood pressure in low-income communities of color in the U.S. are directly correlated to the lack of access to healthy food. Today, 60% of Americans have a chronic health condition; 40% have two or more. More than half of Americans take a prescription drug; the average person takes four.
Why is this important?

GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

CCMP medical professionals and volunteers update records after a CCMP medical session.

SDG 3

CCMP programs stand as an example of how much could be accomplished if we had a healthcare system that made services and resources available to those most in need, and did not deny access to healthcare due to one’s income or age. Our volunteers are organizing to demand a systemic change in government healthcare policies to fulfill the needs of the population versus the current reality that constitutes economic segregation and institutionalized inequality.

Of the 25 wealthiest countries, the U.S. is the only one that does not guarantee universal health coverage. It also has the highest maternal mortality rate, an infant mortality rate nearly double that of similar countries and the shortest life expectancy.
Why is this important?