 This U.S.-based NGO was formed in 1998 (as "The U.S. Committee for the United Nations Population Fund") to raise political and financial support within the United States for the work of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).During the Bush Administration, Americans for UNFPA advocated for the administration to restore United States funding to UNFPA, which President Bush had withheld for seven years for a total of $244 million.