What Oxfam America Believes
Our Vision
Oxfam America envisions a just world without poverty.
Our Mission
Oxfam America is committed to creating lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice.
Our Beliefs
Oxfam America believes that:
- The lives of all human beings are of equal value and all have equal rights.
- In a world rich in resources poverty can be overcome.
- Poverty makes people more vulnerable to conflict and natural calamity (including climate change).
- People’s vulnerability to poverty and injustice is increased by inequality based on, for example, gender, race, ethnicity, class, caste and disability; women are especially disadvantaged.
- Overcoming poverty and injustice involves changing ideas and beliefs, institutions, policies, and practices.
- Technology and markets are part of lasting solutions to poverty; but people must be empowered to harness them.
- To overcome poverty and injustice people must take control of their own lives.
- Working together as global citizens we can build a just and safer world.
Our Values
Oxfam America strives to be:
- Trustworthy
- Accountable
- Collaborative
- Creative
- Professional
- Results-driven
Stewardship
Oxfam America is committed to being a responsive, efficient, and effective steward of our donors’ resources; to applying these resources in ways that will achieve maximum impact; and to learning from our failures as well as our successes.
Oxfam America is committed to providing a humane, collaborative, creative, and caring work environment for its employees, and to ensuring they have the supervision, training, and tools to do their work. We are also committed to encouraging excellence, innovation, and risk-taking.
Finally, Oxfam America is committed to building a more environmentally sustainable world in all it does, both through its programming and through its own operations.