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!World TB Day 2012: Bold Advocacy, Inspiring EventsBy David Bryden, Stop TB Advocacy Officer So what were RESULTS advocates and allies up to during the March 24th observance of World TB Day? Turns out, a lot! Read More. Keywords: tuberculosis, World TB Day0 Comments How to Save Money on International Conference Travel!By Cindy Changyit Levin RESULTS Grassroots Fundraising Coach We’re about two months away from the RESULTS International Conference in D.C. in July and many partners are making plans and reservations to get there. We appreciate that this is a significant financial commitment for many and are inspired by the dedication of so many of our volunteers to join us this summer. To make the conference as affordable as we can, we’ve put together some financial assistance and some tips on how you can help finance the trip with fundraising. Read More. Keywords: International Conference, IC 2012, travel, tips, money0 Comments Early Childhood Education on the Ground: Head Start Visit in North CarolinaBy Tavia Benjamin, RESULTS Hunger Fellow To get an on the ground look at child care and early childhood education, I decided to visit the Chapel Hill Training- Outreach Project (CHTOP) during a trip to my home state of North Carolina. I was fortunate that Mike Mathers, Executive Director of CHTOP, and Angela Wilcox, Director of Orange County Head Start and Early Head Start, took the time to meet with me and shared information about their program with me. The Chapel Hill Training-Outreach Project was started with federal funding in 1969 to provide educational services to children with disabilities. Read More. Keywords: Early Childhood Education, learning, Head Start, Early Head Start, 0 Comments What? Who’s Talking About Ending Preventable Child Deaths?By Ken Patterson The May Global Conference Call was quite amazing. A lead Health Administrator for USAID spoke about plans to create a roadmap for ending preventable child deaths in our lifetime. Child survival is where RESULTS started its work, so this conversation is coming full circle. Read More. Keywords: conference call, child survival, USAID, preventable child deaths0 Comments |