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!Social Media & the New InfluenceBy Ashton Wingate As a group of individuals out to make a difference, RESULTS grassroots volunteers know how the power of one can add up to the power of many and how that power can change the world. Integrating social media into the way you advocate can make the work you do with RESULTS more impactful and ensure that we leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of our goals. Read More. Keywords: Social media, Advocacy, Half in Ten2 Comments A New(er) Activist on the Power of Advocacy and the International ConferenceBy Jill Gardiner, RESULTS Coastal Connecticut partner Think just because you're a teen you can't make a difference for the end of poverty? Think again. Read More. Keywords: advocacy, international conference0 Comments May 2011 RESULTS Domestic Conference Call: Strengthen Your Case for Head Start and Early ChildhoodBy Meredith Dodson, Director of Domestic (U.S. Poverty) Campaigns The RESULTS May 2011 RESULTS Domestic national conference call focused on our month-long effort to understand the importance of investments in early childhood development programs. Guest speaker and former Head Start parent Susan Stoker shared her perspectives on the impact Head Start had on her children and her role as a parent, we demonstrated a sample call to a Head Start program to set up a site visit, recapped the latest on the budget situation in DC, and heard from volunteers in OH, NM and CO. Read More. Keywords: Head Start, site visit, budget, conference call0 Comments UPDATED (June 6): Keep up the GAVI Media BlitzBy Crickett Nicovich, Outreach and Advocacy Associate It's countdown to GAVI Replenishment in June and RESULTS activists are on a roll getting media to support life-saving vaccines for children. Here are the RESULTS of our media push so far. What newspaper are you pitching this to? Read More. Keywords: GAVI, Vaccines, Media, GAVI replenishment, Letter to the Editors0 Comments |