Building Champions for the End of Poverty

RESULTS Educational Fund and RESULTS Annual Report 2007 From the Executive Director

RESULTS EDUCATIONAL Since I first became involved with RESULTS two decades ago, FUND AND RESULTS I’ve marveled at the quantum leaps RESULTS and RESULTS Rebecca Sullivan Educational Fund (REF) create, both in reducing poverty and BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dr. Joanne Carter, RESULTS/ in helping individuals transform into powerful voices for a RESULTS Educational Fund HON. SHERWOOD BOEHLERT more just world. 2007 was another year to celebrate our bold Executive Director Former U.S. Representative actions and successes.

SAM DALEY-HARRIS Our U.S. poverty‑focused activists fought hard to expand the children’s health Director. Microcredit Summit insurance program to cover more of America’s 9 million uninsured children, to Campaign strengthen the Food Stamp program, and to pass a strong Head Start reauthorization bill. We also achieved truly impressive gains for our international anti‑poverty NANCY DANIELS efforts, especially in the area of global health. Not only did we reverse proposed Grassroots Board Member budget cuts, we realized significant funding increases for tuberculosis control, basic MARION WRIGHT EDELMAN education, and microcredit programs for the world’s poorest people. President, Children’s Defense Fund Our track record depends on a number of strategies, but perhaps the most important VICKY GUZMAN de LUNA, M.D. are the collective muscle of our grassroots network and our focus on building leaders, ranging from grassroots activists to U.S. representatives. In this report, you’ll Director General, ASAPROSAR read about some of these champions, people like Collee Hernandez, a RESULTS VALERIE HARPER activist from Kansas who struggles to feed and provide health care for her children, Actress but found a way to make a real difference for others through RESULTS/REF. She DOUGLAS LICHTERMAN even had the chance to share her story at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (See profile on page 9). Grassroots Board Member “For the first time in my life, I feel like I have a say‑so in what happens in this SCOTT LECKMAN country,” she said recently. “I love how RESULTS motivates folks. Things you Grassroots Board Member couldn’t imagine yourself doing, you find yourself doing. I would never have ERNEST LOEVINSOHN imagined myself speaking to the National Press Club, but RESULTS gave me the Director General, Program Against opportunity. RESULTS fulfills dreams!” Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease, As Collee makes clear, RESULTS and REF’s greatest success is our individual and CIDA collective courage in being willing to speak, to act, to reach out to others (be they BRUCE UNDERHILL members of Congress, the media, or our neighbors), and ultimately in our courage to Grassroots Board Member be hopeful. This is the core of what we do and how we inspire success. HON. JAMES WALSH And, as the U.S. economy falters, it is even more critical. Over 17 percent of U.S. House of Representatives American children live in poverty, substantially more than 40 years ago when the “War on Poverty” was being fought. The number of uninsured Americans has MARIANNE WILLIAMSON grown, while more people go hungry (at home and abroad) as food prices rise. For Author the poorest, most vulnerable people around the world, the twin scourges of hunger PROF. MUHAMMAD YUNUS and inadequate health care too often mean death. Managing Director, Grameen Bank The work of RESULTS/REF proves that it is possible, even under challenging circumstances, to craft a positive collective response. We’re commied to making this time of change one of transformation with bold steps taken to fundamentally address social and economic inequities in this country and around the world. Thank you for being a part of this critical effort. Cover photos: Rebecca Sullivan (left photos), Ken Patterson (right) 3

S N O I (n) An ardent defender, advocate, or supporter P Champion: M A H

of a cause or another person. C

E H T

T E Rebecca Sullivan Champions for the end of poverty come from all circumstances, continents, and walks of life: E M A boy who felt powerless growing up hungry in Kansas, but, as an adult, finds the courage and conviction to persuade his reluctant representative to vote for an increase in food stamp funding.

An African woman who survives both HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) and becomes an international spokesperson for TB control.

A newspaper editorial writer who defies conventional beliefs about what readers (and advertisers) want and writes repeatedly about the reality of poverty and solutions to it.

A member of Congress who is unrelenting in getting support for legislation that could improve the conditions of millions of people.

Your neighbor who calls, writes, emails, and meets with her legislator until he, too, becomes a champion for the end of poverty.

These people aren’t born champions. They became champions as a result of life experiences, and mentors and allies who showed them the way. They become committed, energized, and empowered by a movement that stands with them at critical moments. By mentoring, training, and supporting individuals all over the world, RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund (REF) create profound changes in the lives of those inspired to become champions, and, consequently, in the lives of those who are given the means to climb out of poverty because of the actions of these champions.

In the following pages, you’ll read about the actions of RESULTS/REF champions and activists and what their unwavering commitment has achieved.

Pierre Virot Who We Are

RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund (REF) are sister organizations that, together, are a leading force in ending poverty in the United States and around the world. We create long-term solutions to poverty by supporting programs that address its root causes — lack of access to medical care, education, or opportunity to move up the economic ladder. Both RESULTS and REF play critical roles in our four strategic campaign areas: Healthy Families, Education for All, Economic Opportunity, and Empowering Citizens. RESULTS Educational Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization that: • Performs cutting-edge research on the most effective solutions to some of the world’s most urgent problems and oversight of U.S. spending related to poverty domestically and internationally. • Builds support for proven poverty-fighting strategies by engaging and educating the public, policy makers, and opinion leaders, leading educational trips, working in coalitions, and encouraging the media to report on solutions to poverty. • Supports powerful citizenship by training volunteers in public speaking, generating media, hosting community forums, and educating their communities and elected officials about issues related to our campaigns. REF houses important global initiatives that expand support for tuberculosis control (ACTION) and microcredit for the very poor (Microcredit Summit Campaign). RESULTS, Inc. is a nonprofit, grassroots advocacy 501(c)(4) organization that: • Empowers ordinary people to become powerful voices for the end of poverty with a unique training and support system. RESULTS has grassroots chapters in over 100 locations in the U.S. that form one of the most engaged and effective grassroots networks in the world. • Advocates for policies and legislation that create or safeguard effective solutions to poverty, make programs work more efficiently and effectively, and extend coverage to those who need it. • Mobilizes around key legislative opportunities that will have the greatest impact on the lives of low-income people. This can range from helping members of Congress generate bipartisan support for anti-poverty legislation to helping legislators craft bills that will benefit the poorest. RESULTS and REF work synergistically. They are two sides of one coin that leverages millions of dollars and more effective programs and policies that give low-income people the means to not only survive, but to thrive. Just one example: RESULTS and REF have played a critical role in increasing the U.S. share of funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which is now at $840 million. The grants and donations we received have leveraged tens of millions of dollars for medicine and health care that are saving the lives of millions of adults and children. What better investment could there be?

RESULTS Chapters 5

E R A

RESULTS and RESULTS E W

E R E Educational Fund H W

D N A

O

in the U.S. and H W around the world.

RESULTS International Affiliates ACTION Partners RESULTS International Affiliates and ACTION Partners Microcredit Summit Campaign Offices

RESULTS and REF Partner around the World for a Greater Global Impact RESULTS and REF work closely with affiliates in six other countries — Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom — who encourage their governments to create policies and funding for the end of hunger and extreme poverty. While each affiliate determines its own campaigns, actions are coordinated among countries for the greatest impact. The Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally (ACTION) project expands REF’s partnerships even farther. The 2007 ACTION coalition included local partners in India, Indonesia, and Kenya, and RESULTS’ affiliates in Canada, Japan, and the UK. Finally, with offices in three countries and projects spanning the globe, the Microcredit Summit Campaign is having a worldwide impact. The combined power of our efforts within the United States and around the world improves the lives of millions of people on almost every continent. RESULTS Chapters How We Create Champions for the End of Poverty

Building Champion Activists RESULTS RESULTS E F (REF) harness the voices of individuals across the United States who speak up in solidarity with all people who need basic health care, education, and the means to rise out of poverty. This nationwide network of volunteer activists — who choose to become champions for the end of poverty — is what makes REF and RESULTS truly powerful.

REF’s unique method of training, coaching, and supporting individuals not only helps them overcome resignation about their ability to make a difference, it inspires them to speak powerfully and take strategic and effective actions. REF’s training involves in‑depth instruction in the causes of and solutions to poverty, the legislative process, public speaking, and educating members of Congress and the media. REF trainings are so effective that we’re now presenting our model to organizations in the U.S. and even internationally, from the Children’s Defense Fund to health specialists at the largest annual meeting on tuberculosis in the world. REF also gives activists ongoing strategic support to organize community education events, generate media coverage, and influence members of Congress.

As a result, our activists are not only commied, they are able to inspire their communities, elected representatives, and the media to create a world without poverty.

The International Conference The capstone of our citizen training is the annual RESULTS/REF conference, which draws activists from all over the country and from our RESULTS affiliate organizations in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and the UK to Washington, D.C. In 2007, almost 300 people attended the conference to sharpen their advocacy skills, hear from some of the world’s foremost experts on poverty, and learn how to be champions for the end of poverty. Over and over, speakers — who came from as far away as Indonesia and as nearby as Capitol Hill — testified to the power of RESULTS and REF. “I want to thank you, because many Africans are alive today because of you,” said Alan Ragi, Executive Director of the While most Americans are intimidated Kenya AIDS NGO Consortium. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) told activists, “Although we are at the thought of speaking to their privileged to serve and write bills and have the vote, you have the power and what elected leaders, our activists embrace you do makes the difference.” their role in our democracy. “Meeting The conference culminated in two days with my member of Congress is not of meetings with over 300 congressional as scary as I thought it would be,” offices, led by RESULTS. We also leveraged said college student Lydia Spitalny the global reach of our network — (center). “I really feel empowered and participants from RESULTS affiliates met confident with how everything went with senior officials at the World Bank and I could go right back out and do and the International Monetary Fund to it again.” advocate for increased attention to TB, malaria, basic education, and microcredit. 7

“You’re everything we would S N

want you to be, those of O I P

us who need somebody M A

speaking to Congress for the H C

voiceless, somebody speaking E T A

to Congress for those things E R C

that make sense but don’t E have a big bankroll behind W

…Who Build Champions on Capitol Hill

them, somebody speaking to W

“I ’ ,” said Stephen Lewis, former United O

Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, “as this extraordinary, unsuspecting descent Congress for the people who H on your congresspeople.” Lewis was describing the convergence of RESULTS activists on need it.” Capitol Hill during the 2007 RESULTS/REF International Conference. — Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), speaking at RESULTS supports individuals in advocating for legislation that provides health care, the RESULTS/RESULTS Educational education, and economic opportunity to those who desperately need it. Our activists Fund 2007 International Conference showed their leaders that addressing poverty is important to Americans by meeting with hundreds of representatives, senators, and aides during the 2007 conference. The surge of support that followed was remarkable. One example: RESULTS volunteers and others advocated for an expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Weeks later, both the House and Senate passed bills to expand health coverage to nearly 5 million uninsured kids! But RESULTS activists don’t just speak up once a year — they take targeted actions all year long to build relationships on both sides of the aisle, support courageous legislators, and persuade those who are reluctant. “There is nothing more effective than that,” said Rep. Adam Smith (D‑WA), who consulted with RESULTS as he designed the Global Poverty Act, which declares it official U.S. policy to promote the reduction of global poverty and includes guidelines for a comprehensive strategy. The advocacy efforts of RESULTS groups, said Rep. Smith, “were invaluable in my efforts to move the Global Poverty Act out of commiee and through the full House.” Indeed, our collective efforts are leveraging the policies and funding necessary to help millions of people move out of poverty.

… And in the Media M for raising awareness and building public pressure for change. One of the most effective ways that RESULTS and REF elicit media coverage is by organizing editorial campaigns carried out by our grassroots network. For example, prior to a meeting between members of Congress and the president of the World Bank to discuss the Bank’s financing of microcredit, REF held a media conference call with microcredit pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Yunus was quoted condemning the Bank’s lack of investment in microcredit in such newspapers as the Washington Post and the Houston Chronicle. RESULTS’ media campaigns put the spotlight on the importance of strengthening critical Former Executive Director legislation such as the Food Stamp program and SCHIP. Our volunteers generated 40 pieces of Christine Naylor presented media on these two issues in October 2007 alone. Joe Copeland, editorial writer for the Seattle Post- By developing relationships with reporters and editorial writers, our activists and staff not Intelligencer, with the only encourage greater coverage of poverty issues, but build media champions as well. In 2007, Camercon Duncan Media REF gave the Cameron Duncan Media Award to the Seale Post‑Intelligencer for the paper’s Award. outstanding reporting on issues related to poverty, often in response to information shared by our activists and media team.

With RESULTS’ and REF’s support, our activists are well informed, passionate, and effective. From all across the country, they are sending a strong message to our leaders that a commitment to the well-being of all people must be paramount. They are democracy in action for the end of poverty. Empowering Citizens

A , said Robert F. Kennedy, “each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, [as] he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” He could easily have been describing the philosophy behind RESULTS and REF. Champions for the End RESULTS and REF’s unique power comes from our nationwide of Poverty network of volunteer activists. By speaking publicly about RESULTS Youth in Action solutions to poverty, organizing community education events, writing and inspiring media coverage, and pressing legislators “ say our generation can tip the scales to take positive action, we send out ripples of hope that create They politically, but we don’t really know powerful change. how,” said Bethany Weller, a student at Minnesota State We’re proud of how informed and empowered our activists are. University (MSU), Mankato, and leader of one of over a Much of their effectiveness comes from RESULTS/REF trainings dozen RESULTS’ student chapters started in 2007. and support, which include weekly statewide calls hosted by Like many of her peers, Weller volunteered at soup volunteer regional coordinators, monthly conference calls with kitchens and food banks, but was concerned that she all groups nationwide, regular email updates and action alerts, wasn’t making a lasting difference in the lives of low- and the annual International Conference. income families. While she realized that government We continued to build this grassroots network in 2007 by policies were part of the problem, “advocacy was scary starting 21 new RESULTS chapters and by engaging more young to think about — understand- activists and people of faith than ever before. Our staff trained ing how a bill is passed and thousands of individuals on how they can make a difference made law, talking to members of in bringing about the end of poverty. REF’s Midwest Outreach Congress.” Project alone held over 170 presentations and trainings. RESULTS’ Youth in Action Our activists engaged the public and leaders with: campaign is training young • 136 face‑to‑face meetings with U.S. representatives, people to become leaders in • 36 face‑to‑face meetings with U.S. senators, the movement to end poverty. Youth in Action coordina- Throughout 2007, we engaged • over 400 educational community outreach events tor Crickett Nicovich hundreds of students and nationwide, and spoke to the media on formed chapters on a dozen col- • 45 editorials and 296 other strategic media placements, World AIDS Day. lege campuses. including op‑eds, articles, leers to the editor, and radio and With RESULTS/REF training and support, students like TV spots. Weller have found advocacy not only easier than they More of our decision‑ anticipated, but empowering. “RESULTS training was makers now understand great because it broke it all down into easy steps,” she that Americans care said. “We learned we can do such simple things, like writ- about ending poverty. ing letters and calling editors and members of Congress. The dedication and It helps you realize that literally anyone can do this.” passion of RESULTS volunteers inspires Within two months of forming the MSU RESULTS group, others — from members the students published three letters in local newspapers of Congress to those calling for increased investments in the Food Stamp pro- who feel economically or gram and were featured in their campus paper. They also socially disenfranchised had a meeting with Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN), whom Weller — to become champions reports, “was really impressed with us.” as well. Having resources to expand this effort will be key. Clearly, we’re meeting a need: “Other campus groups raise money or awareness, but not much else,” says With the power of thousands of coordinated Jeff Steller, RESULTS’ group leader at the University of actions, RESULTS is making mighty waves. Kentucky. “The ability to take so much action is what makes RESULTS so awesome.” of P Champions f “ the new Farm Bill. to increase nutrition funding by $10.4 billion ov conference calls. Rep. Jim McGov in Iow Senate Stamp program. Senator Tom Harkin (D‑IA the reauthorization of the Farm Bill, which includes the Food congressional advocates for food stamps turned to us during our network’s ability to build bipartisan support, are going hungry. Recognizing restrictions, millions of outdated savings and eligibility only $1 per meal and woefully W growing needs. neither hav defense against pov program. Both are key lines of (SCHIP) and the Food Stamp Health Insurance Program for expanding the State Children’s widespread support among the public, press, and legislators coalition work, and champions in Congress generated ev the health and w A U.S. I also abletopersuade herlegislators. need f suppor thir success inr Health InsurancePr F medical billsbef began ha Kansas, Hernandez, health, wher mind andconfidenceinpr National Pr or o countries, want tointr ith a food stamp benefit of en more critical. The efforts of our grassroots activists, tunatel d, ver 9million e I, or incr choosingbetw a as he drafted the Senate’s reauthorization bill, while t, didn’ Agriculture Commiee, met with RESUL asapar Hernandezspok S ving un ty U y asocialw , ess Club ” RESUL educing then Hernandezwasabletoenr P e kept pace with t ha P eased funding. oduce y O American childr Colette Hernande R usual symptoms. or ent, or theEnd v T ern (D‑MA e healthinsurancewhenherdaughter ell‑being of low‑income Our advocacy helped to inspire Congress I e Emil N

ogram (SCHIP). m TS v . G

“One erty, y een pa H ou tother ork ust constantl y wasdiagnosedwithepilepsy olunteer ColetteHernandeztoldthe Americans umber ofuninsur E er andmotheroftw e atf o A , wher

viding f And withRESUL L et ying f T ) spoke twice on our national H orums andtothe mediaaboutthe en ar , Y RESUL Ittooktw e par F eality oftw or healthcar or theirchildr A y w DespiteMedicaidandSCHIP e stilluninsur M ents canha I or L oll intheStateChildr I TS’ Gary Hampton E r S y aboutm ed childr

o y z work to ensure I Americans is o vastl TS’ suppor N o fr

ears andapileof e andf ), chair of the T H en. v ed. om e peaceof E y diff er 10 y

en b

TS activists The second, U

y childr With REF’ ood. T . opeka, .S

t, , er Emil y one- shewas . ” ent ears in en’ y

en’ ,

s s

s commitments in 2007. TB ov the growing tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. Our work on confront the greatest killer diseases on the planet, including RESUL A elected leaders to do the same sav championing solutions to pov prev these programs, our allies in Congress would not hav W for three‑quarters of a million people. TB Drug Facility alone will provide a full course of TB drugs ($840.5 million total). The $15 million set aside for the Globa the Global Fund to Fight, RESUL As apersonwhoseesand liv Congr Hernandez isn’ v childr ad amount $35 billiono incr a r par activists, hundr actions ofHernandez, Because ofthepassionate etoed thebill. N ithout RESUL ditional eauthorization billthat D tners, eased SCHIPfundingb ailed.

A en hadthepr eds ofotherRESUL er the last decade culminated in historic financial ess thatuniv R TS REF TS hasgiv andourcoalition w O Congr ould U 3.8 The pow N v D er fiv million

t daunted,

ha ess passed T TS’ efforts to urge legislativ H v global TB control ($163 million total) and e e y ersal healthcar E esident not In June, Rep. Donald P en mesomething todoaboutit.

the largest funding increase ev Senate, Congress ultimately approv support from TB champions in the Rep. Ileana Ros‑Lehtinen (R‑FL cosponsorship of top‑ranking Republican vital to this victory, helping to secure the the country. Florida activists w volunteers in New Jersey and across with strong support from RESUL increase TB funding by $50 million, offered a successful amendment to co W erful combination of RESUL uninsur ears.

v er O though. R TS ed

This y L AIDS, T D ed an Health erty and supporting their

“W and studentthatshecanbe daughter canbethefullyfunctioningc lif “The diff e isimpor es po e uberculosis and Malaria es millions of liv , ” e’ saidColetteHernandez, r e finall er v er ence SCHIPmak ayne (D‑NJ) tant to y F momentum to ty e y sho e support for v TS activists wing amilies er Americans. er for ere also ). W es. yda TS es inm e . ” y

ith “is thatm ed ” ,

y l hild y 9 HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR 2007 CAMPAIGNS Education for All

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED STATES C backgrounds in the U.S. are those Luis Burguillo/NHSA Champions for the End who stand to benefit most from When funding for Head Start was early childhood development of Poverty threatened, “RESULTS was right programs. Head Start, which Mary Njoroge there with media strategies, was created to meet the need for with the right message, and days—that’s how long Mary comprehensive development with a group of activists who Njoroge, Director of Basic services for low‑income children, Three were ready to help send that Education at the Kenyan Ministry of Education, was has been a tremendous success for message, and that made all the given to incorporate one million enthusiastic new those lucky enough to participate. difference,” said Joan Lombardi, students into the country’s underfunded school But when Congress took up Head president of the Children’s Project. system one Friday in 2003. “It was a tall order,” she Start reauthorization in 2003, said. “We had no extra desks, no extra teachers.” its quality was threatened by a proposal to turn its jurisdiction Nevertheless, for Njoroge and the throngs of over to the states. Over the course of four years, RESULTS Kenyan children eager for an education, the activists generated hundreds of pieces of media and lobbied their government’s decision to abolish primary school members of Congress repeatedly. REF held a media campaign, fees was thrilling. The fees, part of International including a call joined by over 50 journalists. Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank debt repayment schemes of the 1980s and 1990s, have When the bill was finally signed into law in December of 2007, had a devastating effect on educational access for it included a number of victories. It maintains federal oversight, the world’s most vulnerable children. eliminates inappropriate standardized testing of Head Start children, and authorizes an increase in funding for Early Head In October of 2007, Start, the program for infants and toddlers. REF organized a multi- Head Start remains chronically underfunded, however, so we state tour of the U.S. for continue to press for adequate funding. Parents like Susan Njoroge to share the Collier aest to the wisdom of this investment: “Head Start tremendous challenges and really changed my life. It made me a beer parent and it really opportunities countries prepares the kids for school.” face as they attempt to provide universal primary education. The tour had ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION two goals: to highlight A , and spending the need to invest on basic education is rising, thanks in part to the efforts of U.S. resources in basic Kenyan education expert RESULTS/REF and our partners. But 72 million children still are education and to pressure Mary Njoroge at the 2007 not in school and many education systems lack basic facilities the IMF to relax policies RESULTS/REF International and trained teachers. More resources are needed, as well as more that constrain the hiring of Conference. robust oversight of funding for basic education. teachers. Throughout 2007, REF worked to bridge the $10 billion annual Njoroge visited RESULTS/REF groups in five cities, funding gap that keeps universal education from becoming a met with 11 congressional offices, addressed over reality. Activities ranged from training students in advocacy to 1,000 community members, and spoke to faith, supporting House Finance Commiee Chair Rep. Barney Frank government, and education leaders and the media. in sending a congressional sign‑on leer to the IMF, expressing “When you have a whole generation of people concern over wage ceilings that limit the hiring of teachers and health care workers. And after assessing how basic education who are not educated, who are not standing resources are being invested, we developed recommendations for on their own, they become a burden to the making our education assistance more effective. international community,” Njoroge told her audiences. Helping countries to establish their RESULTS activists complemented this work by lobbying educational systems now, she added, will “prevent Congress to invest in education. At the end of 2007, Congress us from asking for help forever.” approved a dramatic scale‑up in funding for basic education to $694 million, an increase of more than $200 million! of P Champions f Imagine work on page 12.) one of the worst slums of Keny Munro, who started a successful microfinance program in ev be reached with microfinance through media calls and Our campaign also stresses that the v is fully implemented. $1 a day). RESUL must be devoted to the v specified half of all U.S.‑funded microenterprise assistance need. W microfinance and ensuring its benefits reach those most in RESUL and other financial services to the poor around the world. to traditional financial systems, providing small loans Microfinance w at large.” RESUL revolutionary microcredit institution Grameen Bank, and Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel laureate, founder of the “P ,” R tors tomak to discussthe issue culating aHousesign-onletter toZoellickr Repr the besttoolsa onl Though the in micr W with membersofCongr imagine largest financialinstitutions. out ofpo o E orld Bank, ents with microfinance luminaries like Yunus and Ingrid A y atin ver C esentativ H ofinance f I , TS and REF hav TS/REF board member. “It is created by the system N the e supported groundbreaking legislation in 2004 that ty y fractionofitsr G v er

T e themeeting a priorityandtomak y tookactionb W Rober ty —butitmeantinfluencingoneofthew H es RushHolt(D-NJ)andJ orld Bank’ E to Inf Le vailable f

or theEnd or thev as designed to serv P O TS is now working to ensure that this law gisla t Zoellick, . RESUL O R E people withacrucialrungonthelad that y luence W S or r ess whoask s missionistoalle er e been key play T esour

tor ery poor (those living on less than y poor TS activistsencouraged theirlegisla y helpingtofillar W Ouractivistsnotonl educing po ou couldhelppr toincr I T s JoinActivists H ces inwhatisarguabl

a. .

M (Read about Ingrid Munro’s ed thepr I ease theBank’ C e those without access or R v O ohn Car ery poor can and must er ld Bank F ers in expanding I ty viate po N . equesting ameeting REFsuppor A o oom toca esident ofthe N vide millionsof C e boldr ter (R-TX)incir E y dar

v s in er says y oneof ty ed to v

estment equests. pacity orld’ , itin ted der W Repr s v ests orld Bankpr -

esentatives IleanaRos-Lehtinen(R-FL), - Lastly, our Make T Congress hav from RESUL are enrolled in financial education courses. W education, a house, or a new business while participants up to low‑income families by matching their savings for an IDAs are an exciting and effectiv Accounts (IDAs) from 50,000 to up to 900,000. would increase the number of Individual Dev support for the Savings for Working Families into law on July 24, 2007. W for an ov W Americans opportunities to mov RESUL M tions inthe w of thehead ofonethemostpo w f J action, “It wasastr Americans out of pov by supplementing w By decreasing the taxes that low‑w as the Earned Income T features of the tax code that assist working families, such t comm y finance ser per da in micr Legislators especiall oanne Car or h ear i er ith coalition partners, RESUL s O

esident Rober ts andr d , transf V e k i I a N unities. y l ofinance thatbenefitsthoselivingonlessthanadollar . o Bydoingso TS REF ‑ G ” saidRESUL g e

u erdue increase in the minimum w A y tobringingtheseissues totheattention orming theirliv e vices tose M

t Zoellickhasagr r TS activists and others, ov E elationships withmembers ofCongr a ter ofthemeeting. e now cosponsored the act. R t Zoellic n ong demonstrationofdemocracyin I s C l a orld. A t e N y calledf , itcouldincr axes Fair campaign continues to support s Economic Oppor erty. S v

k (2ndfr ages, i

eral millionmor n O ” t o ax Credit and the Child T TS/REF Ex U es andtheliv

a RushHolt(D-NJ), T c our tax code can actually mov

or theBanktoprioritizein t om r O eed tomeetagain, i e also helped to create bipartisan o F n

ease thea P i ight) toin TS helped build momentum s O

e up the economic ladder. e w a V

R E age workers pay and E ecutiv R e v

ay to provide a hand es oftheirfamiliesand “Our activists’ef F T

Y i vest mor er er 100 members of m andJohnCar vailability ofmicr p y poorclientseach w e age, which w r e Dir erful institu a anden t e inmicr i ith prodding elopment v Act, which e . ax Credit. tunity ector ter (R-TX)urg

s v ocr u estment r e i edit. n o g ent

- - ess t - h a t ed 1 HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR 2007 CAMPAIGNS 1 Microcredit Summit Campaign

REF’ M S C on this belief: If we are clear about what we want to achieve and commied to achieving it, we will succeed. The Campaign has set a goal to reach 175 million of the poorest families in the world with credit and other financial services to start or Champions for the End expand small businesses by 2015. In our State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2007, of Poverty we reported that the number of microloans received by the Jamii Bora poor soared to 133 million, up from 13 million when the Campaign was launched in 1997. Dramatic progress was also Wairimu was once a beggar in the slums made in loans to the very poor — 93 million people living on Joyce of Nairobi, Kenya. Now she owns five less than U.S.$1 per day received microfinance services by the businesses and employs 45 people. While institutions like end of 2006. the World Bank debate whether the poorest people can be While microcredit loans may be small, their impact is reached with microfinance, the revolutionary microfinance enormous. With an estimated four family members for organization Jamii Bora, which gave Wairimu her first loan each client, almost a half‑billion people benefited from of $25, proves that it can. this intervention. By enabling the poor to create their own Jamii Bora was started in 1999 by Ingrid Munro and 50 businesses, microcredit builds self‑sufficiency in clients and street beggars, including Wairimu. It now has 72 branches the institutions providing financial services. in Kenya, serves over 170,000 people, and has given out Microcredit also works well with other interventions over U.S.$28 million in loans that promote health, nutrition, housing, education, and to the poorest of the poor — democracy. In 2007, the Campaign successfully completed beggars, former prostitutes, its ground‑breaking Microfinance and Health Integration thieves, and people with HIV/ project in India and is now planning for global expansion. AIDS. Jamii Bora offers its This innovative program spreads vital health information members a ladder that they can to microfinance clients through self‑supporting health use to climb out of poverty. The education trainers. rungs include a business school, As microcredit goes mainstream, however, it’s become even Jamii Bora microfinance loans, alcohol more critical to ensure its original focus of serving the very rehabilitation, and health and life Ingrid Munro (center) and Jamii poor. 2007 saw the Campaign’s expansion of its project Bora members celebrate receiving insurance programs. creating and promoting credible methodologies to measure a permit to build their own town. While on a speaking tour of the the movement of clients above the $1‑a‑day threshold. This U.S. sponsored by REF, Munro project, which shared the Jamii Bora philosophy: “We believe in the inner aims to provide strength and beauty of every human being and that they the microfinance have equal value. We also believe that it is possible to world with eradicate poverty.” vital statistics on poverty, has Munro added, “When you say it’s difficult to reach the begun work in destitute, I want you to hear that the most destitute Bangladesh, can do the biggest miracles.” India, Vietnam, The Microcredit Summit Campaign is helping to multiply Indonesia, and Sri stories like Joyce Wairimu’s 175 million times. When family Lanka, with plans members are added this will affect almost one billion people! to expand to Africa and Latin America.

The Microcredit Summit Campaign is a powerful force for expanding 1) Reaching 175 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the microcredit by setting ambitious goals and by sharing the most cutting- women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other edge breakthroughs and practices through reports and summits. Our financial services. Phase II goals for 2015 are: 2) Ensuring that 100 million families rise above the US$1 a day threshold. Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally (ACTION) 13

S

D , HIV/AIDS, E V I

and escalating drug resistance have combined to make tuberculosis (TB) a true global T A I T

emergency. As a disease that disproportionately affects the poor, TB has received too I N

lile aention and resources. This is changing in no small part because of the work of the I

R

ACTION project. O J A Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, M

ACTION (Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally) Other highlights of ACTION’s 2007 D N

is an innovative initiative of REF, advocacy partners in six accomplishments include: U F other countries, and RESULTS CANADA cultivated new TB champions within L A

leading experts from Parliament by engaging spokespeople like Stephen Lewis N O I

the World Health (former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa) and leading T A

Organization, the a delegation of parliamentarians to South Africa to witness the C U

Stop TB Partnership, impact of the country’s TB epidemic. D and Global Health RESULTS JAPAN and TB champion Winstone Zulu (pictured) Advocates. ACTION’s TS E goal is to mobilize new met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo and more effective Abe. This was instrumental in securing an-

investments in TB. nual pledges of over U.S.$180 million to the RESUL Coordinated advocacy Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and in donor and high‑TB‑ Malaria — exceeding a prior commitment by burden countries has U.S.$100 million. been instrumental to RESULTS UK coordinated the production our success. of Scaling Up the UK’s Response to the Global TB During our first three Epidemic: An Agenda for Action, a parliamentary report identified years (2005 to 2007), by the leading medical journal The Lancet as exactly the kind of ACTION helped high-level political will needed to address TB. mobilize over U.S.$400 KENYA AIDS NGO CONSORTIUM was instrumental in safe- million from Canada, guarding millions of dollars of critical TB funding by catalyzing Japan, the UK, and the a civil society advocacy effort to improve the government’s U.S. We also achieved ACTION partners led advocacy workshops management of its Global Fund TB grants. and organized a conference-wide action at critical policy reforms the Union World Conference on Lung Health in India, Indonesia, and ACTION INDIA’S efforts led India’s Phase III National AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa. Kenya, expanding access Control Program to commit to providing TB treatment to 2.8 to TB treatment for those million people living with HIV/AIDS. in need. By cultivating TB champions as spokespeople, COALITION FOR A HEALTHY INDONESIA (KUIS) helped ensure ACTION partners generated almost 2,000 media pieces the inclusion of TB in Indonesia’s National AIDS Plan in 2007. globally. ACTION has even impacted such influential bodies as the $841 million in FY2008), and increasing support for TB‑HIV World Bank. Building on a 2006 report by ACTION partners within the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief that pointed out the stunning gap in Bank investment in from $0 in FY2004 to $150 million in FY2008. TB in Africa, project partners worked with members of Congress and parliaments, the media, and patient activists ACTION has demonstrated that strategic to increase the Bank’s aention to and resources for the advocacy can mobilize substantial disease. In 2007, the World Bank announced a renewed resources from donor governments and commitment: it is now developing a plan to scale up its overcome constraints to effective TB support for TB efforts in Africa. control in countries with a high burden of the disease. With generous renewed REF’s grassroots volunteers are integral to ACTION’s support from the Bill & Melinda Gates success, generating media and educating policy makers Foundation for the next five years, about the importance of TB and its links to poverty. With ACTION is poised to make even greater gains their help, ACTION’s efforts have contributed to doubling against global TB. the U.S. investment in TB (to $163 million in FY2008) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (to 2007 Major Donors to RESULTS Educational Fund and RESULTS

VISIONARIES OPTIMISTS Marsha Hedrick Robert & Barbara Sample George Heidorn & Margaret Rothchild San Diego Indie Music Fest $200,000 and Above $1,000 to $4,999 Carolyn & Philip Heinz Linda & Ken Schatz Anonymous ACSI Paul Hoffinger Clifford Schmidt Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Kenneth Alhadeff Paul Hornick Barbara Scott Marshall & Pam Saunders Stephen Arnold John Steele Zink Foundation Kathryn Sherlock Louisa Barkalow John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Lindsey Simmons $100,000 to $199,999 Carla Barrow Lisa & Norman Judah David & Elizabeth Skipp Anonymous Susan & John Beckett Martha Karnopp Richard Smiley Johnson & Johnson Elizabeth Biliske Kavich Reynolds Productions Wayne Smith Phyllis Bjorkman Tanny Keeler Stephen St. Denis INVESTORS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Julia Bolz Sara Keeney Peter Stoel Betsy Bowie Alan Kipust Strake Foundation $50,000 to $99,999 Alexander Boyle Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Peggi Sturm Permanent Mission of the Principality Jeff & Susan Bridges Fellowship Charles Sutherland & Marilyn Kodish of Andorra to the United Nations Paul Brindle Howard Kramer Sutherland Citi Foundation Sherrod Brown Marc & Mary Deoreo Lackritz Eloise Sutherland $25,000 to $49,999 David Burns Laura Landsman Scott & Sheila Swearingen AGFUND Suzy Cameron Oscar Lanzi III William Taylor Glaser Progress Foundation Richard & Susan Carchman Jaqueline LaPlante The Ansary Foundation Ludwig Family Foundation Center for Anger Resolution Inc. Dorothy Larocque The Harvey M. Meyerhoff Fund Sylvia Sabel & Joel Rubinstein Marguerite Chandler Edward & Helen Law Karen Moyer & Coary Pollock Anne Child Scott Leckman The Moyer Foundation $10,000 to $24,999 Elizabeth Clerkin Douglas Lichterman The Williams Family Trust Connie Barnes Kathleen Close Maud & Bill Lipscomb Preston Thompson Bill & Paula Clapp Mark Coats Judith Livingston Three Swallows Foundation Crystal Springs Foundation Kathy Cochran Mary Martin Marjorie Trifon Equality Network Foundation Charles Conlon Harry Mason George K. Tsantes III Friedman Family Foundation Alex & Emily Counts Kevin McIntosh Sally Turner Robert Glaser Stephen & Laura Cox Thomas McLarty Bruce Underhill Grameen Foundation U.S.A. Glenn & Judith Hudgens Alice McVey Unitus Roger Hudson Crest Energy Karim & Julie Meghji Stephen Valk Lloyds TSB Bank Plc Daddy’s Girl Music Llc Nancy & Steve Mendelow Ginnie Vogts Richard & Lois Gunther Fund Sam Daley-Harris Stanton & Carol Merrell Jack & Lori Waters The Gordon R. Irlam Charitable Nancy & Don Daniels Donald S. & Jacqueline P. Michael Peggy Wheeler Foundation Dorothy Darling Troy Miller Richard Will Susan Vanderberg Bruce Davidson Grayce & Robert Mitchell Michael Winters Claudia Morgan Merelyn Worthy $5,000 to $9,999 David DeBiasi Betty & Gay Morrow Lester A. Wyborny II Anonymous Molly Decklever William Mundy Yvonne Wyborny A Chance Fund Mary DeCoster Tana Myers Claire Yang Academy for Educational Development John & April Delaney Christine & Jerome Nava Vernon & Joyce Yost Roxanne & Ward Allen Lois Dodson Christine Naylor Steven & Barbara Zick J. Todd & Nicole Andrews Geoffrey Drucker Gail Neumann Jeffrey & Mary Zients Austrian Development Agency Kathleen Duncan Bill & Tari Nicholson Katherine Brittain Bradley Michael & Valerie Eggers David Ninan Deutsche Bank Anne Ellsworth Thank you to all our Tanya Oemig John & Carol Dowd Diana Fertsch Gloria Page generous donors, including Alan Gold First Calgary Robert P. Parker Keating Family Foundation Flexcar those not listed here. Your Fred & Karen Pasternack Ellen Kempler Rosen FRBNY International Accounts Lynne Patalano financial partnership is Evelyn Krause Diane Friedman Brian & Kate Peace Eric McCallum Allison Gallaher essential to our collective Lydia & Robert Pendley Muse Elementary Leon Galloway III Joe & Doreen Perry work to change the world. Alan & Ellen Newberg Rebecca George Mark Powers Michol O’Connor Charles Goldstuck The many ways that Joellen & Scott Raderstorf Frank Preste Family Trust Stone Gossard and Liz Weber Marion Read you give — with your Frank Sanitate Vicki Gottlieb Rich & Reba Renner Schoenberg Family Foundation Government of Newfoundland & money, your time, and Research Capital Innovation & Exec Fred & Courtney Steves Labrador Douglas Richardson your dedication — bring Caroline Stoel Edgar Greville John Roberts Maryanne Tagney Jones Lisa Lewis & Charles Gust closer the day when all Robert Hart Thomas Rupp Thomas Hartnett Jean Rutherfoord people, everywhere have the Sue Hawes Kari Sagel opportunity to thrive.

*REF donors include those who gave gifts to the ACTION project and the Microcredit Summit Campaign. Financial Summary 2007 15

Y R

RESULTS Educational Fund RESULTS A M M SUPPORT AND REVENUE SUPPORT AND REVENUE U S Grants and Contributions 425,479 L Grants and Contributions 25,671,643 A I

Special Events 6,755 C

Conference Income 63,700 N Royalties 6,819 A Educational Events 96,103 N I

Interest Income 69,043 Other Income (387) F D

Other Income 36,752 N A

Total Support and Revenue $436,019 S R

Total Support and Revenue* $25,937,241 O OPERATING EXPENSES N

Total Unrestricted Support and Revenue $5,380,628 O Program Services 390,645 D

Support Services R O

OPERATING EXPENSES J

Management and General 200,964 A

Program Services 4,357,515 M Fundraising 49,179 Support Services Management and General 405,487 Total Operating Expenses $640,788 Fundraising 215,422

Total Operating Expenses $4,978,424

4% 8% 8% Program Services Program Services 31% Management & General Management & General 88% 61% Fundraising Fundraising

* Per generally accepted accounting principles, operating revenues recorded as being in excess of expenses are a result of multi-year grants being recognized in the year in which they are pledged, not when the revenues are received, while expenses are recognized as they are incurred over the course of the grant’s life. This timing of revenue and expense recognition may lead the reader to incorrectly conclude that the organization has excess unused revenue, when revenue includes funding for future years.

Thank you to our Duncan/McQuillan Legacy Members who have dedicated planned gifts to “I feel that a donation to RESULTS is one of RESULTS AND RESULTS Educational Fund the best contributions I can make. My check is Scott Baker Gail Neumann multiplied several times by RESULTS volunteers Carla Barrow Alan & Ellen Newberg Kathleen Horden Close Ellen Kempler Rosen & Ken advocating for the elimination of global poverty. Kathy Cochran Rosen Nancy & Don Daniels Robert & Barbara Sample I have developed my own one-sentence laser- Catherine D’Eramo Frank Sanitate Alan Gold Morgaine W. Sattva talk about RESULTS: RESULTS has more money Martha Karnopp Marshall & Pam Saunders available for the elimination of global poverty than Susan Keller Charles Sutherland & Marilyn Boyd & Elizabeth Kennedy Kodish Sutherland the Gates Foundation — the U.S. government.” Ron Schwind & Karen Kennedy Marjorie Trifon Scott Leckman Brigid Triggs — Darryl Swenson, Board of Directors, Jule Meyer Leslie Weinberg Barbara & Woody Moore Merelyn Worthy Water First Rebecca Moulthrop Know your power, knocking on doors, talking to members of Congress, letting them know about your priorities. Although we are privileged to serve and write bills and have the vote, you have the power and what you do makes the difference. — Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY)

What you are doing is about making a better world for all people. — Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE)

All of you who are engaged in the work of RESULTS, I beg you to bring every piece of ardor and intelligence, every part of your molecular structure to bear on consistent, tenacious, indefatigable advocacy because ultimately that’s what changes the world. — Stephen Lewis, former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

RESULTS/RESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND (REF) 750 First St., NE, Suite 1040 Washington, DC 20002 [email protected] REF: (202) 783-4800 RESULTS: (202) 783-7100 www.results.org