Donate to RESULTS Canada
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RESULTS receives no government funding and relies entirely on the generosity of people who believe in the power of our work to champion the poor.
Please consider making a donation to RESULTS.
Donations can be mailed to:
RESULTS Canada
153 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario
KIN 1H5
or by phone by calling the office at
(613) 562-9240
Thank you.
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Join a RESULTS Canada Group near you!
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Results Canada is growing! We have groups across Canada that would love to welcome you.
Calgary
Edmonton
Gatineau
Ottawa - community
Ottawa - university
Montréal
Québec City
Toronto
Vancouver
Victoria
Click HERE to view the contact details for each city.
We are always looking to expand, so if you are interested in starting a new group, please contact us.
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National Calls
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Listen in to hear exciting guest speakers enrich our understanding of solutions to global poverty issues.
Sunday March 1
Sunday April 5
Sunday May 3
When:
All calls are at 4 pm PT,
5 pm MT, 7 pm ET
How:
613-482-4202 or toll free 1-866-512-0904
English code - 6732861
French code - 4406889
(Please note: in response to feedback from French-speakers, we will begin the call together on the English line. French-speakers who wish to listen to the remainder of the call in French will be signaled when to move to the French line as we all pause for the transition)
Who:
Anyone interested in putting an end to global poverty
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Save the dates for the International and National Conferences
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In 2009 we have two opportunities to join with volunteers from across the country and across the world. We hope that you can be looking ahead to make plans to join us.
RESULTS Canada National Conference -
Ottawa, ON, Saturday November 21 - Monday November 23, 2009 (tentative dates)
RESULTS International Conference -
Washington, D.C., Saturday June 20 - Wednesday June 24, 2009
More details on these events will follow. There will be some bursaries available for volunteers who are active in their local groups. Bursaries will only cover partial costs of either event. For application details contact Elizabeth Dove, Public Engagement Organizer. |
Who is RESULTS Canada?
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Our VisionA world free from poverty and needless suffering, where people thrive and contribute to their communities and the world. We see a world where citizens actively voice their concerns to their elected officials and thereby choose the poverty-related policies and priorities of their governments.Our Mission
To create the political and collective will to end the worst aspects of poverty, and to empower individuals to exercise their personal and political power.Our FocusWe focus on proven solutions to often neglected problems that perpetuate the cycle of poverty around the world. Currently our focus areas include tuberculosis, malaria, primary education, micro-credit, and sanitation.
How We Work
Grassroots volunteers from around the country meet atleast once a month in their local communities for Education and Action Meetings where they develop their knowledge on global poverty issues, strengthen their advocacy skills and take action.How To Get InvolvedSend an email to grassroots@results-resultats.ca. We'll help you determine the most effective way that you can join this powerful movement to put poverty on the political agenda!Our sister organization, RESULT:Educational FundRESULT:Educational Fund is a registered Canadian charity founded in 1991 and is committed to
advancing the fight to end global poverty and needless suffering
through research, education, and awareness-raising. Click HERE for more information. |
Meet staff member
Katy Kydd Wright
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This profile is the 1st in a series to allow volunteers and other supporters to get to know our staff team better.
Katy was drawn to RESULTS because at one time she was a parliamentary aid struggling on a bill to allow easier export of generic drugs. RESULTS was the only informed and connected Canadian group that could help her. Impressed, she jumped at a chance to work on staff.
Katy manages the ACTION project - Advocacy to Control TB Internationally. She stays on top of opportunities to push for more resources from the Canadian government to fight TB globally. Volunteers are essential to this work: "Our volunteers respond enthusiastically when I put advocacy opportunities out there. It's this willingness to 'spring into action' that made the ACTION project want to partner with RESULTS Canada. We have had increased TB commitments because of opportunities staff and volunteers were able to seize," explains Katy.
Katy invites volunteers to contact her, "I would love the opportunity to hear more from our volunteers. If you are hosting an event to teach people about issues that include TB, I have resources you can use. Even if you just have questions about TB, I'm happy to chat."
This year holds a lot of excitement for Katy. In addition to leading a parliamentary delegation to Bangladesh, May is an exciting month... "I'm getting married to the generous brilliant and funny man who keeps me sane and happy in this crazy world. Our wedding is in itself an economic stimulus package, but I'm looking forward to celebrating with friends and family," says a beaming Katy.
Katy can be reached at katy@results-resultats.ca or by calling 613-562-9240
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TAKE ACTION ON TB - the #1 infectious killer of women
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Worldwide, women bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, ill-health, malnutrition and disease. Not surprisingly, tuberculosis also disproportionately affects women. Tuberculosis is the #1 infectious killer of women with 900 million women currently infected worldwide.
This year, 1 million women will die from TB. 2.5 million, mainly between the ages of 15 and 44, will become sick from the disease. Studies have shown that TB is a leading cause of "healthy years lost" among women of reproductive age.
The tragedy is that TB is easy to cure for as little as $20 per person.
What is needed is the political will to mobilize resources. Canada should increase its funding to address the global TB crisis and show leadership in leveraging resources to en sure that basic treatment for TB reaches women in particular.
Click HERE to read our Action Sheet and the simple actions you can take to fight for the right of women to be free of TB
Woman taking DOTS treatment to cure her TB
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Obama: Feeding Hungry Minds
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As President Obama takes office and the contradictory undercurrents of hope and economic despair continue to swirl, it is interesting to consider the implications for foreign aid.
In his inauguration speech, Obama made this promise to the global poor:
"To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds."
The reference to feeding hungry minds is worth noting. Pre-inauguration, our RESULTS US partners had an opportunity to meet with the then President Elect's transition team. A key interest and plank of Obama's platform has been progress on education for all. In the US there has been talk of a new "Global Fund for Education" which would build on existing mechanisms and radically ramp up support for primary education in the developing world.
Education for all has long been a RESULTS issue. Over the coming year we will continue to work with RESULTS partners around the world - the US, Australia and the UK - on a coordinated global campaign to take advantage of opportunities and secure progress on behalf of the more than 70 million kids who remain out of school.
Meanwhile in Canada, we have faced our own version of swirling political tides, culminating in the January 27th, 2009 budget which was successful in putting immediate election possibilities to rest. Foreign aid was not highlighted, nor even mentioned in the budget. We have learned that the overall aid budget will continue to increase by a legislated 8 percent for the coming year - an increase of roughly $300 million. It is positive that aid is increasing - but we still have a long way to go if we're ever going to reach the internatinally agreed target for aid spending of 0.7% of GNI. In the face of an increasing domestic focus, more than ever citizens have an important role to play in reminding our politicians that foreign aid - including primary education - still matters to Canadians.
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Thank you note to you from Muhammad Yunus
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Article Subheading
Dear RESULTS partners and allies,
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write to you today with gratitude for all of your hard work to help
ensure that microcredit is available to the poorest. Without your
perseverence, commitment, and advocacy, we would not have been able to
make this ground breaking announcement of having reached 106 million
very poor borrowers with microloans.
I hope that you will join me in celebrations of this wonderful achievement as we work towards putting poverty in museums.
Muhammad Yunus,
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
January 26, 2009
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RESULTS celebrating 25 years of supporting the success of microfinance
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Article Subheading
2009 marks the silver jubilee of the association of RESULTS with microcredit. In fact, RESULTS in the US was already working with microcredit, Muhummad Yunus and the Grameen Bank before the first Canadian chapter was ever formed!
It all started with the first successful advocacy action of RESULTS: saving the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) from a potentially mortal financial crisis. One of the most interesting projects backed by IFAD at the time was a non-conventional bank called Grameen which supported very poor women in Bangladesh. This led Dr. Yunus to join the RESULTS board and to attend many parliamentary hearings and interviews. But it quickly became clear that if microcredit was to make a real difference it would have to be replicated on a macro-scale.
The next key chapter in the history of microcredit was written at the 1995 RESULTS International Conference when John Hatch, the founder of another amazing microcredit organization, FINCA, proposed to launch a campaign to reach unprecedented numbers of the very poor with microcredit, a concept which became the Microcredit Summit Campaign with a goal of reaching 100 million poor people with microcredit. RESULTS Canada volunteers played a critical role in creating the political will for their government to not only be the key financial sponsor of the Microcredit Summit (in 1997), but also to fund the Campaign Secretariat, the initial Chair of the Microcredit Summit Council of Donor Agencies and the host of the Global Microcredit Summit of Halifax (in 2007).
In parallel, RESULTS Canada volunteers also encouraged the creation of RRSP-deductible investment vehicles at VanCity and Citizens Bank for people wishing to invest in microcredit.
On January 26, 2009 it was announced that the 1997 goal has been reached: 100 million very poor borrowers and their families have benefited from microfinance. At a 95% repayment rate, the poor are proving to be a solid investment in troubled financial times.
The most exciting chapter in the history of microcredit is now ready to be written: we need to build on this proven success and work towards the next goal of 175 million of the poorest gaining access to hope through microfinance. It is one of the surest ways to fulfill the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty on the planet! When you are writing your letters to papers and policy makers in the coming months, it is also this next chapter of history that you are beginning to write.
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Meet Volunteer Advocate Fran Beckow
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In an interview with RESULTS Canada's Public Engagement Organizer, Elizabeth Dove, Victoria group volunteer Fran talks about her voyage from cynicism to a firm belief that poverty will end and that average citizens will help make it happen...
How did you become aware of poverty issues and why did you choose to get involved?
I have always been aware of poverty issues. I took seriously what every parent of that generation said to their kids. "Finish your dinner. The children in China are starving." I can remember crying about that in the middle of the night when I was little.
My friend, Oliver Mark, invited me to a Results event about 8 years ago. I was an active Hunger Project Volunteer for many years and participated in the CARE foster child program so I was aware of the statistics, etc. but was a bit cynical about the possibility of the end of poverty.
What did you find attractive about RESULTS?
On my way into the Results event, I walked past posters and material about microfinance, a new idea to me. The fellow at the booth explained to me how microcredit works. I got it. It just made sense to me. I am a Mom and I know I would do anything to make sure my children were safe and healthy. For the first time I saw a way people could create a way out of poverty using their own ideas, efforts and needs. I believe that people need to make their own way, not be told how they "should" run their lives.
The other part of Results that appealed immediately was the letter writing. I like the hands on of sending letters to politicians and newspapers to influence the people who make the decisions. I also really appreciate the good research that goes into the action sheets. I feel confident that I am writing in good faith and not just ranting, which is important to me.
Click here to read the rest of Fran's interview...
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Featured Letter
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Every month we highlight a letter by a RESULTS Canada volunteer. This month we'll look at a published letter by Mark Brown of Calgary. Versions of this letter were published in at least 3 publications across the country - including the National Post, proving once again that forwarding a good letter to many publications pays off!
Budget Lacks Focus
The federal government's $35 billion deficit budget is broad but lacks the focus to truly meet Canada's international obligations. As part of the G7, we must take a leadership role in stimulating the world's economy. True. However, the most significant impact we can have is not through a slight boost to our economy, using vast sums of borrowed cash. For considerably less debt, Canada could provide a huge boost to the world's poorest, with ripple effects across the globe.
This economic crisis is founded on the West's poor investment practices. Let's not throw good money after bad; instead, we should invest in microfinance. This is perhaps the most powerful tool for poverty alleviation. It is a thriving industry, and with only 4% of worldwide demand being met, is truly a growth market.
Ask our leaders for a progressive, targeted approach to the future of the global economy and support microfinance yourself through Citizens Bank, Oikocredit and other microfinance-friendly institutions.
Mark Brown, Calgary
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