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International Conference

        

                                                                                                                   

Hundreds Converged in Washington, DC for Our Annual Conference and Celebrated 30 Years of RESULTS!

RESULTS volunteers from across the U.S. and around the world came to celebrate our past and be part of shaping a future without poverty! Attendees were trained to be powerful advocates, heard from some of the world's foremost experts on our global and domestic issues, and met with members of Congress and their staff on Capitol Hill. This year we partnered with Citizens Climate Lobby, a RESULTS-style lobby organization working on global climate change. We hosted a reception on Capitol Hill and a party to celebrate our first three decades and envision the next. View photos from the conference.

Mark your calendar for the 2011 RESULTS/REF International Conference, June 18-21, at the Four Points Sheraton in Washington DC!

Conference highlights:

Special Congressional guests including: Sen. Bob Bennett, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Dick Durbin (read remarks), Rep. Bob Filner, Rep. Rush Holt, Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick, Rep. Nita Lowey (read remarks), Rep. Jim McDermott, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (read remarks), Rep. Adam Smith, and former Rep. Jim Walsh (read his tips on meeting members of Congress)

30th anniversary celebration, featuring this special powerpoint presentation.

Lester Brown, influential environmentalist and founder of the Earth Policy Institute. Watch his presentation.

Marianne Williamson, internationally-acclaimed spiritual teacher, New York Times best-selling author, and one of  Newsweek and Time magazines top influential people.

Kul Gautam, former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (read his remarks) and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health of Ethiopia and current chair of the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Carol Nawina Nyirenda, Zambian TB-HIV patient-activist who is a community representative on the Stop TB Partnership's New Diagnostics Working Group and a Global Fund board member running the Community Initiative for TB, HIV/AIDS, and Malaria in Zambia. Read the RESULTS blog about her.

To make sure that future conferences are as good as this one (and even better), please take a few minutes to complete our Online Survey about the 2010 RESULTS conference.

Helpful follow-up resources for conference attendees:

• Please fill out the Online Lobby Report Form for all your meetings on Capitol Hill.

• Global Legislative Handbook (pdf).

• Global Legislative Update Packet (pdf). This packet summarizes our requests and provides helpful background information for making those requests.

• Domestic Legislative Handbook (pdf)/(Word).

• Domestic Campaign PowerPoints. Summarizes our requests and provides helpful background information for making those requests.

• Health Care for All and Child Nutrition Power Point Presentation
• Economic Opportunity Power Point Presentation
• Early Childhood Power Point Presentation

• Domestic Leave Behind Legislative Request Letters

• House Economic Opportunity Request Letter (Word)
• Senate Economic Opportunity Request Letter (Word)
• House Health Care for All Request Letter (Word)
• Senate Health Care for All Request Letter (Word)
• House Early Childhood Request Letter (Word)
• Senate Early Childhood Request Letter (Word)
• House Child Nutrition Request Letter (Word)
• Senate Child Nutrition Request Letter (Word)

• Workshop and session materials

• Health Care Reform Workshop: What does it all mean? How can we build momentum for single payer plan? Led Mark Hannay, director of Metro NY Health Care for All and co-chair of the Board of the Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN): PowerPoint presentation and handout from session

• Joint Plenary: RESULTS/REF Partners Presentation

  RESULTS/REF partners from the U.S. and around the world presented on their work: PowerPoint presentation.

• Using the Champion Scale to move your members of Congress.

2010 Conference agenda.

2009 International Conference

• Watch video from the 2009 International Conference Banquet.

• View photos from the 2009 International Conference.