Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) is an American nonprofit (Baltimore, Maryland) that empowers and equips young people in the USA to address global issues such as poverty, health care, climate change, peace and security through awareness raising, advocacy and action. The vision is for every young American to contribute to peaceful, healthy, fair and sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.

The AID network includes more than 20,000 students on over 1,000 university campuses, along with several thousand other young professionals. Many students have formed AID chapters on their campus.

Environmental issues focus on such areas as carbon emissions, green campuses, and urban environmental concerns.

Global developmental issues include potable water, maternal and child health, fair trade and HIV/AIDs.

Health issues include malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, health care worker shortages, access to medicine, and disease education.

Global peace initiatives focus on issues such as cross-cultural understanding, nuclear proliferation, democracy development, peacekeeping, and human security.

To increase awareness on global issues, AID sponsors conferences, workshops, film screenings, video conferences and op-eds.

For advocacy efforts, AID provides toolkits and training to empower young people to talk to their peers and policy makers.

To take action on issues, AID supports local and national campaigns that have positive impact.

More information on donating, hosting a film screening, launching an event, joining the AID network and other program details can be found on their website.