SCOTT FIFER

GO Campaign Founder & CEO

A former US Senate aide, NYC Wall Street attorney, and Hollywood screenwriter, Fifer founded GO Campaign in 2006 to help 20 children in Tanzania, and since then GO Campaign has gone on improve the lives of thousands of children across the globe.

In 2005, Scott spent a month volunteering at an orphanage in Tanzania. He returned to Los Angeles unable to shake the emotive impact of the 20 children he encountered, knowing only that he needed to help them. From there, GO Campaign was born.

Scott didn’t just found a nonprofit, he spearheaded a movement that gives opportunity to children around the world, from East Africa to East LA. He cuts through the red tape, strategically investing in pioneering community leaders. Scott is living proof that anyone can be a part of real, sustainable change.

His selfless spirit inspired thousands, connecting them directly to hundreds of projects in 40 countries, changing over 440,000 children’s lives.

Over the last 18 years GO Campaign her emopwered 210 Local Heroes around the world, through grants to build schools and libraries, create job opportunities for children with disabilities, provide clean water to rural villages, support migrants at the border, empower victims of human trafficking, enable foster youth to live independently, and so much more. With Scott forging the trail, no dream is too ambitious for GO’s community to make a reality!

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