RESULTS Blog  Follow us via RSS and Twitter!Keep up with RESULTS’ poverty fighting actions around the world! Subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter. Learn more. If you are using the Goole Chrome web browser make sure you follow our RSS with Google Reader! At any given moment, RESULTS staff and activists around the world are busy working with their elected officials, local media, or working within their communities to realize a world without poverty. Hear their stories here!Waking Tigers, Fighting TB: Atlanta’s World TB Day EventsBy Ben Herr, RESULTS Grassroots Activist from Atlanta, Georgia In Atlanta, Georgia we've formed quite the TB Team. We're a diverse coalition; passionate enough to organize a massive crowd in support of TB and rowdy enough to wake sleeping tigers. No, really! This past Saturday, all these great groups gathered at the Atlanta Zoo - RESULTS, the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association, Morehouse School of Medicine, Emory University, the American Lung Association, Cobb County Health Department, Fulton County Health Department, and the Center for Disease and Control - to put on the 5th Annual TB Awareness walk. Read More. Keywords: World TB Day, tuberculosis, Grassroots, events, Atlanta1 Comment Can’t get through? Tweet it!By Mary Peterson, Global Grassroots Associate for Expansion Learn how to use Twitter to help with advocacy! Read More. Keywords: 0 Comments March 2011 RESULTS Domestic Conference Call: Building a Movement to Help Families Build AssetsBy Meredith Dodson, RESULTS Director of Domestic (U.S. Poverty) Campaigns The RESULTS March 2011 RESULTS Domestic national conference call launched our month-long effort to build support for policies to end poverty and specifically help low-income families build savings and assets in America. Guest speaker Ted Richane of Cause & Effect gave an overview of the campaign around the March 31 nationwide release of the documentary To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America and RESULTS groups pledged to reach out to 1036 people to invite them to a local To Catch a Dollar screening or other local outreach event. The call also featured shares from RESULTS volunteers in Houston, Bernardsville NJ and Santa Fe sharing recent successes and the 73 participants tallied over 260 actions they've generated to protect Head Start, Early Head Start, and Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funding. Listen to the March 2011 RESULTS Domestic Conference Call for all the details! Read More. Keywords: 0 Comments FY11 Update: Another CR Until April 8By Jen Maurer, Sr. Policy Associate Congress passed another continuing resolution that will fund the government through April 8. It cuts $6 billion in spending. Read More. Keywords: 0 Comments |