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!10 Years On, Funding Crisis Threatens the Global Fund’s Effort to End AIDSBy Joanne Carter, Executive Director Read Joanne Carter's Huffington Post's article on the Global Fund to Fight, AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria's 10 year anniversary and the current funding crisis. Read More. Keywords: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, 0 Comments Media Call with Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Tedros GhebreyesusBy Crickett Nicovich, Outreach and Advocacy Associate It's the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria's 10th Birthday and while there are many successes to celebrate, now is a critical time for the Fund. This week, RESULTS' Executive Director, Joanne Carter, hosted economist Jeffrey Sachs and Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Ethiopia's Minister of Health and the former chair of the Global Fund, on a media call to bring attention the funding crisis the Global Fund faces. Joanne opened the call by speaking about the urgent need for the U.S. to lead on this issue. Read More. Keywords: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, Malaria, Tedros, Jeffrey Sachs, media calls, Global Fund0 Comments Yara and Her Race to End PovertyBy Cindy Changyit Levin Eight-year old Yara is in a race to end poverty. She has decided to join her love of running with a desire to make a better world for children without education by running a charity race for RESULTS. Read Yara's own words about why she cares about RESULTS and visit her own fundraising website. You can even make a donation to her page and help her make a difference in the lives of kids around the world! Read More. Keywords: Fundraising, Race, Poverty, Education, Children1 Comment 2012 January Global Call: Jeffrey Sachs on Ten Years of the Global FundBy Ken Patterson, Global Grassroots Manager We kicked the year off in style with Jeffrey Sachs, economist, adviser to UN Sec. Ban Ki-Moon, founder of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and one of the founders of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.Also on the this call were Joanne Carter, RESULTS Executive Director; John Fawcett, RESULTS Global Campaign Director; Ken Patterson, RESULTS Global Grassroots Manager; Cindy Levin, RESULTS Development Associate; Lene Hajeck, Volunteer with the South Kitsap/Gig Harber RESULTS group; David Schubert, Group Leader of the Houston RESULTS chapter; and Lisa Marchal, RESULTS Global Grassroots Associate. Read More. Keywords: Sachs, Global Fund0 Comments |