From that day in 1987 when RESULTS arranged for me to talk by conference call to editorial writers in dozens of US cities to the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, no other organization has done more to put Grameen Bank on the map than RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund’s Microcredit Summit Campaign. More importantly, no other organization has been as critical a partner in seeing to it that microcredit is used as a tool to eradicate poverty and empower women than RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund’s Microcredit Summit Campaign.
— Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize Laureate and founder of Grameen Bank
"Canadians have a deep-seated interest in the global struggle to end extreme poverty, but often don’t know where to start, or may question what they can actually do to resolve what often seems like a distant, intractable set of problems. Fortunately Canadians have RESULTS to provide the answers to their questions, and to guide them in their efforts to engage in resolving the most compelling issues facing our generation. RESULTS plays a critical role in building the movement and political will to tackle extreme poverty."
— Kevin McCort, President and Chief Executive Officer, CARE Canada
"Advocating for change and mobilizing Canadians to help end global poverty are important parts of the struggle to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. RESULTS Canada does both, and their efforts have played a key role in increasing funding to help save the lives of mothers and children around the world. RESULTS had strong analytical skills; a deep knowledge of how to advocate for positive change; and a commitment to working with others. All these attributes make RESULTS an important organization in Canada’s international development community"
— David Morley, President and CEO, Save the Children Canada
RESULTS Canada has been an instrumental partner in pushing forward the Muskoka Initiative at the 2010 G8. Their robust engagement with the Child and Maternal Health Coalition here in Canada helped secure more than $7 billion in pledges from world leaders for mothers and children globally. This will have significant impact for the nearly 9 million children under the age of 5 who die each year mostly from preventable causes, and the more than 300,000 mothers who die needlessly in pregnancy, and during or after childbirth.
The strength of the organization's volunteers is impressive, their commitment to poverty alleviation inspiring and their dedication to ensure that the fundamental things that make a difference in the lives of people really do happen is a motivator for all of us to continue pressing towards a world where children and their families are able to live life to the fullest. Canada's advocacy community is well served by such an effective and focused organization."
— Dave Toycen, President & Executive Office, World Vision Canada
One of the most effective advocacy organizations in this country is RESULTS Canada. It has a very small staff, but an extensive network of grass roots volunteers around the country. They choose an important theme and then mobilize to get the message out. While RESULTS works effectively on Parliament Hill, what most impresses me is their ability to reach out to Canadians at community level. Every day, day after day, somewhere in this country of ours, a newspaper publishes a letter from RESULTS on an important issue of public policy, or on Canada’s role in the world – for example, the contribution that Canada has made, and should continue to make, in helping to reduce global child death rates from eminently preventable childhood diseases. They not only inform, they stimulate Canadians to action. That is effective advocacy.
— Nigel Fisher, President & CEO, UNICEF Canada
When God looks at God’s world and sees all the awful events. . . . God weeps, and I think God says, ‘Gee, what ever got into me to create that lot?’ And then God looks down again and sees RESULTS, sees the incredible human beings you are, doing the kind of things you are doing, taking leadership in your communities for the betterment of human kind. And then a smile breaks over God’s face and a little angel goes up and wipes the tears from God’s eyes, because you have made God say, ‘Ah, you have created me. That is exactly why I created you. You are fantastic.
— Archbishop Desmond Tutu
I’ve had the pleasure of working with RESULTS Canada for many years. Thanks to RESULTS Canada, on visits to Canada I have met with Parliamentarians and decision-makers to tell them my story and the important facts about tuberculosis: it is a curable disease that we can fight if we have a collective global will to do so and commit the resources to accomplish it. The grassroots advocacy that RESULTS Canada volunteers and staff engage in on a daily basis is helping to increase awareness and spur action; they are important partners in the global fight against TB.
— Winstone Zulu, leading global advocate on TB and TB survivor
(Comments regarding a major new World Bank malaria initiative that was announced in April 2005, with funding of US$500 million to US$1 billion over 5 years.)
— Suprotik Basu, Public Health Specialist, Malaria Team, Human Development Network, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Over the past 20 years, RESULTS has emerged as by far the most effective, accomplished citizen's advocacy group to promote microcredit as a solution to poverty. What we now call microcredit there wasn't even a name for 20 years ago. It was just a little-known development success story in a handful of countries - Bolivia, Bangladesh - and RESULTS really put it on the map for the media, policy makers, and politicians.
— Alex Counts, CEO, Grameen Foundation
Having led the team which designed the Canadian International Immunization Initiative in close collaboration with UNICEF and WHO, and wrote the recommendation for funding to the Minister in 1996, I am well placed to know. Without the support of RESULTS Canada, there would not have been a turnaround in immunization and this major new immunization program at CIDA...
— Dr. Yves Bergevin, World Health Organization, Geneva
The Stop TB Partnership is grateful to RESULTS Canada for all they have done to advance the global fight against TB. Their network of grassroots volunteers, who speak with one clear voice, has been raising awareness about the impact of TB for many years. These volunteers have played a tremendous role in creating political will in Canada to address TB by increasing available resources in high-burden countries.
Together with the Canadian International Development Agency -- which last March made a new commitment of $127 million to TB control -- they have been key supporters of the Stop TB Partnership.
— Dr. Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership
Last year, in 2003, Canada, International Immunization Initiative (CIII), finished after 5 successful years, supporting routine immunization around the world, predominantly through the WHO and UNICEF. The $50 M invested had provided clear results, including helping avert 30 million measles cases of which 350,000 children would have died from measles.
At the same time, CIDA's support to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) was coming to an end. RESULTS worked tremendously hard with its network of volunteers across the country to ensure that both these programs were renewed. Through op-eds, letters to the editor, articles, radio commentaries and letters to the Minister of International Cooperation and other MPs, they succeeded in bringing attention to the issue. Working as I did in policy branch to persuade the Minister and others to renew this important program, having the force of public opinion behind us made the job easier. In fact, we were able to renew and increase both CIII and GAVI, a result that I believe would not have been possible without the support of RESULTS Canada.
— Andrew Jones, Public Affairs and Advocacy Manager, Anglophone Countries and the Pacific, The Vaccine Fund, Washington, D.C
