RESULTS Global Weekly Update — November 26, 2007

New In This Week’s Update New Priority Actions Payne-McCaul letter on TB: deadline extended to November 30 Build support for the global TB bill by getting media New Media Opportunities World AIDS Day media push New in “Have you heard?” Praise for RESULTS from the President of the Grameen Foundation Yunus: Bangladesh will have a poverty museum by 2030. New Grassroots Actions: Check out the Global Grassroots Survey results Look for a Network of Spiritual Progressives chapter in your area for partnership
Priority Legislative Actions: Do These First This Week 1. Ask Representatives to sign on to the Payne– McCaul TB letter to the World Bank — deadline extended until November 30.  Rep. Payne (D-NJ) and Rep. McCaul (R-TX) have written a sign-on letter to World Bank President Zoellick about the Bank’s underinvestment in TB in Africa. Please ask your representatives to sign this important letter. The deadline is November 30. Along with a copy of the letter, we have a new fact sheet on XDR-TB that you can pass on to your representatives to underscore the urgent need to do more to fight TB. Download a copy of the letter and look here for a copy of the new XDR-TB Fact Sheet!This action coincides well with the action taken at the TB conference in South Africa recently when our RESULTS team got thousands of conference participants to write post cards to President Zoellick.Current signers (11/20): McDermott, Gillibrand, Shuler, Barbara Lee, Heather Wilson, Corrine Brown, Jesse Jackson, and Engle. 2. Stop TB Now Act: Get Media and Cosponsors. In addition to asking your Senators to cosponsor the Stop TB Now Act (H.R.1567, S.968), it’s also critical to get media published to influence your members (staff will deliver it to their offices). Please see “Media Actions and Opportunities” for information. Secondary Legislative Actions: Do These Next 3. Child Survival Act will be Considered in Senate Committee Soon! Get Support!  The lead sponsors of the Child Survival Act (H.R.2266, S.1418) are trying to get the bill on the agendas of the Senate Foreign Relations and the House Foreign Affairs committees. Approval in these committees is the next crucial step in passing this legislation before the end of the year. Please continue to press your senators and representatives to cosponsor the bill, especially if they are Republicans on the committees. This is a great topic for Education and Action meetings. Use the November Action Sheet as your resource. 4. Domestic TB bill passes out of Senate Committee.  The domestic TB bill — the Comprehensive TB Elimination Act (S.1551, H.R.1532) — sponsored by Sens. Brown (D-OH) and Hutchison (R-TX), passed the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on November 14.If your members of Congress have indicated that they will support the global TB bill (either by cosponsoring or promising to support it on the floor), your next step is to ask them to support the domestic bill. Click here to see the fact sheet on our website.	Media Actions and Opportunities World AIDS Day  World AIDS Day is December 1, and many papers will be covering the global pandemic — even outlets that don’t normally cover international issues. With editors in a global frame of mind, now is a great time to pitch them on the link between HIV/AIDS and TB, and how your senators can make a difference by passing the Stop TB Now Act. A brand new editorial packet is available on the website to help you out. Or, use the packet to help you write an op-ed on this issue. We will be continuing our push for passage of TB legislation into December, so don’t be afraid to reach out to editors now!  Looking to 2008!  RESULTS will be revealing our 2008 campaigns shortly. After the new year, schedule a meeting with your editorial boards to let them know what we’re working on and to discuss how you and the media can work together in the year ahead. It’s a great chance to re-introduce yourselves to the editorial board as members of the community concerned about global poverty issues. Communications Officer Robyn Shepherd Is Here to Help! She’s ready to help you with media outreach. Please send her your media clippings/pieces (rshepherd@results.org).
Have You Heard? Praise for RESULTS from the President of the Grameen Foundation: Alex Counts, President of the Grameen Foundation (and long-ago Legislative Director of RESULTS), sent us the following note regarding the amazing work you’ve all done to get media around the Congressional World Bank meeting: “Thank you for sending me the recent editorial, op-eds and articles on the World Bank microfinance advocacy. I found them very uplifting. The Boston Globe piece was especially good. The work of RESULTS has been so important to building up the microfinance movement and keeping it focused on the poorest (to the extent it is). RESULTS volunteers are the unsung heroes of this movement — God bless them!”  Yunus: Bangladesh will have a poverty museum by 2030: Professor Muhammad Yunus recently reiterated his vow to create a “poverty museum” in Bangladesh by 2030. He thinks it is possible because Bangladesh is cutting poverty rates by 2 percent every year, and by 2015, Dr. Yunus hopes that half of the population will be above the poverty line.
Grassroots Building 1. See Results from Global Grassroots Survey: 101 of you filled out the survey! Thank you. You can see the results here: http://tinyurl.com/24d9y8 2. November Benchmark Reports Needed Soon: Use the 2007 Benchmark Reporting Form or contact your Regional Coordinator. Ask your RC to let you know which reports are missing for 2007. Outreach 1. If they don’t see you, they can’t join you. Unless you organize regular outreach opportunities in your community, how will people find your RESULTS group? Quarterly outreach meetings, Monthly Education and Action meetings, tabling, advocacy training, and public speaking are all great ways for people to find out about you. Inviting new people to Monthly Conference Calls is not a way to inspire. Think about it — what is your group doing to give people the opportunity to find you? 2. Network of Spiritual Progressives could be a good group to affiliate with in your town. See if there is a chapter in your town here. 3. MDG Outreach Packet Now Available. This is a great resource for outreach events. 4. Advocacy Training Resources. Think about doing advocacy training in your community. See Activist Milestone #11 for ready-to-use session outlines. 5. Other Outreach Tools ·  Networking Guide for Outreach (Activist Milestone #12) ·  Outreach Meeting Outline and Outreach Meeting Script ·  Organizing a Successful Outreach Event RESULTS Participation Form (Word document) ·  Steps to Becoming a RESULTS Activist ·  Individual Planning Sheet for New RESULTS Activists 6. Faith in Action Curriculum. Many people in the faith community are looking for a way to make a difference — reach out to them. Get ideas and resources from the Faith in Action section of our website and look for the new activism and faith curriculum: Turning the Ship: Creating Champions. New Group Expansion Sam Daley-Harris started a new global group in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 11/15 and will be starting groups in Las Vegas, NV; Wichita, KS; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Rapid City, SD. Send contacts: samdharris@microcreditsummit.org  Lisa Marchal (lmarchal@results.org) started a new group at Purdue University’s North-Central Campus. Lisa is looking for potential activists in Cincinnati, OH where she will be doing a RESULTS presentation on Dec. 2 and in Lexington, KY where she will be leading a global group start on Dec. 12th. She is also looking for leads in Lafayette, IN where one of Senator Lugar’s aides want to help get a group started, Indianapolis, IN; and Columbus, OH. Crickett Nicovich (cnicovich@results.org) is training her new groups in University of Georgia in Athens, GA; Philadelphia; and Lancaster, PA. Meredith Dodson (dodson@results.org ) is meeting with a new potential group in Hartford, CT. Ken Patterson is following up with leads from the APHA conference to start new groups in Greenville, NC; New Orleans, LA; and St. Louis, MO. Jos Linn started a new domestic group in Mason City, IA and is exploring other opportunities in the Midwest. Fundraising Please visit: Fall Fundraising Events to see what’s going on. "Give Away the Plate." Many churches select local charities to receive their collections once per month. Check with your local church.   GoodSearch Makes Us Money. RESULTS can earn money when you use GoodSearch as your search engine. Go to GoodSearch, type in RESULTS as your charity, choose RESULTS Educational Fund in Washington DC, and search.	Important Dates Not too late to get meetings during this Congressional recess! The current House and Senate Thanksgiving recess is November 17–Dec 4. There’s still time to schedule a meeting if you call now. November 29 (Thurs.) at 9:00 pm ET: Training on Navigating the RESULTS Website. There are many unexplored resources that you should know about. Join our undersea explorer, Allison Gallaher on this harrowing adventure. Call in: (800) 917-9796, passcode: 4632544 December 1: World AIDS Day. December 8: Joint National Conference Call. We’ll all be on the call—global and domestic groups, celebrating our successes for the year. Make it a big one. December 10: International Human Rights Day. July 12–16, 2008: Nearly finalized dates for the next International Conference. Make your plans! Resources 1. IMF Fact Sheet. Want to learn more about how IMF policies affect health and education spending in poor countries? Read our fact sheet. 2. XDR-TB Fact Sheet: New reports warn that XDR is a bigger threat then previous thought. Read this fact sheet and pass it on to your representatives and senators! 3. Interested in how many TB cases were reported in the U.S. in 2006? “Global Health: TB” resources page and look under “Domestic TB Statistics.” 4. MDG Resources on Our Website: The MDG section of our website has been updated with new resources, including a summary of the 2007 progress report, fact sheets and a brief but powerful video. 5. Microcredit Resources: Ingrid Munro video. 6. Basics: Review the 2007 Basics (particularly new people). Contact Ken for a copy of the Basics Test. 7. Recordings Available: Download and/or listen to RESULTS training recordings and conference calls on iTunes or listen to them on RESULTS Musings. November call to be available on 11/13. 8. Need Global Health Facts? Look here. 9. 2008 Mothers Acting Up Handbook and Calendar. Visit www.mothersactingup.org. 10. Legislative Links: Congressional Information available! View the congressional scorecard and bill fact sheets (updated on Monday) on the Activist Info page of our website and click on RESULTS Legislation for more info on bills we support.   11. Lobby Reports: Please fill out RESULTS lobby report forms for all of your meetings with members of Congress (from the IC and beyond). Send copies to Jen Maurer and Ken Patterson. Announcements Help Build RESULTS Through New Media: Facebook, MySpace, Etc.RESULTS now has an official presence on Myspace, Facebook, Razoo, and Google with more coming in the near future. Some of the main goals of this campaign include: reaching out to new demographics that traditionally are not involved with RESULTS and direct them towards the website; bolstering current Domestic and Global Groups as well as fostering interest in the creation of new groups, specifically campus groups; updating the “friends” on issues, actions, and activities in a more compressed but still effective way.  TAKE ACTION: If you are on any of these sites, please join and invite others: Myspace, Facebook Group, Facebook Cause, Razoo. Our basic 12-minute video about the work of RESULTS, Everyday Heroes, can be found on Google Video and YouTube, and we have a GoogleMap to help people find the closest RESULTS group. In addition, if you have other suggestions for ways we can build our presence online please contact our fabulous volunteer New Media Associate, Dave Ballinger, at dballinger@results.org.
RESULTS Contact Information Main Office: (p) (202) 783-7100 (f) (202) 783-2818 • www.results.org Main Office Global Legislative Staff: Joanne Carter, x109 or carter@results.org • John Fawcett, x107 or jfawcett@results.org • Jen Maurer, x130 or jmaurer@results.org Main Office Communications Staff: Robyn Shepherd, x120 or rshepherd@results.org Main Office Administrative/Bookkeeping Staff: x103 Main Office Manager: Cynthia Stancil, x115 or cstancil@results.org Grassroots Staff: Allison Gallaher agallaher@results.org • Ken Patterson (828) 398-4562 kpatterson@results.org • Heather Stein hstein@results.org Grassroots Fundraising Support: Stacy Carkonen at stacycarkonen@comcast.net or Davia Rivka at daviarivka@yahoo.com. Gwen Garcelon (970) 963-9182 or ggarcelon@results.org is on maternity leave. Monthly Conference Call-In Number: (800) 474-8920