New Advocate

What to expect as a RESULTS Canada Advocate

We ask our volunteers to do 6 things:

1. Attend a local meeting monthly and/or our monthly National Call.  You will learn facts about global poverty problems and solutions, often from guest speakers.  And you’ll learn and practice advocacy skills. To find a local group near you click here. Our National Calls take place in the first week of the month and provide greater insight into our Monthly Action – Sign up for Action Alerts to receive next month’s call-in information.
2. Take one or more of our monthly actions.  Our success comes from the actions we each take. The more actions we take, the more successful we are. And we rely on each other and support each other to do that.  You can find this month’s action here. Let your group leader know what actions you have taken or email us at grassroots@results-resultats.ca. Published letters to the editor and op-eds can be recorded on our website
3. Sign up for our Action Alerts to stay in touch.  Staff will send you relevant updates, news and actions you can take to end extreme poverty.  Click here to sign up.
4. Encourage others to join us.  Talk about what you are learning and doing, ask others to take our actions, to join us at our meetings and to donate to us.
5. Consider becoming a monthly donor.  We receive no government funding and rely entirely on friends and family – and a few foundations – to support our unique and essential role in assisting the very poor.  Even $5 a month donation is enormous support to us.  Click here to make a secure online donation
6. Lastly, and most importantly, be ready and eager to grow.  We are asking policymakers to change what they do and how they think.  To do that, we must learn new things too and do things we maybe haven’t done before.  Things that take us outside of our comfort zone, like raising a point at a public meeting where MP candidates are talking, or writing a letter to a newspaper, or inviting someone to come to a fundraiser. You’ll have the support of other volunteers and staff, as we’re all going through it too. The skills you learn with us are transferable everywhere and will make a difference in the lives of so many when used towards our issues.

You know that families living in poverty are counting on you. Once you see for yourself that through your individual actions or group successes you can actually create the political will to address extreme poverty, you will find you are compelled to keep acting on their behalf.

We’d love to have you join us.