We are still waiting for The Gazette to publish Kathy's op-ed on microcredit and Kate's LTE on foreign aid reform. I keep checking the paper every morning. One of these mornings I'm going to be oh, so excited to see us in print.
The House has passed SCHIP and the Senate is voting on it today. Of critical importance is the provision to cover children of legal immigrants who have not been in the U.S. for five years, as well as women immigrants who are pregnant and have not been here five years.
The Senate is currently debating the economic stimulus package that President Obama (doesn't it feel good to say that?) submitted. Chances are the Senate will pass a higher dollar amount than the House and it will go into conference committee for a final bill for each house to pass. I was quite pleased to see a story on ABC News in which they had three economists grade the various portions of the package. The increase in food stamps and unemployment benefits got an A from each of them. They realize that money given to the poor gets spent and into the economy quickly.
I am looking forward to March and doing some tv production in Iowa City. Jos said he would do a program on the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Credit. I would also like to do a program on microcredit, health care for all (one domestic program and one global program) and a program on the MDGs, as well as Education for All (a global campaign). I will take some more training in February so I'm "qualified" to run the equipment in the studio and edit booth. Mohammed is already trained so if he's free I'd like to use his expertise.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
RESULTS this week
I talked to our global regional coordinator on Tuesday night. The news (embargoed until next Monday) of microcredit reaching one hundred million people worldwide by 2007 is phenomenal! Kathy Hall agreed to attach her name to an op-ed on this news for The Gazette. I'm going to write a press release tonight to go to tv and radio stations. This could be the beginning of the end of poverty. Blows my mind!
Today I talked to our domestic regional coordinator. SCHIP has passed the House and is out of the Senate Finance Committee and ready for debate on the Senate floor. Monday night after our meeting I faxed 12 letters -- 7 to Senator Grassley and 5 to Senator Harkin, thanking them for their support of SCHIP.
Wednesday I put together information for the remaining pages of our website and sent it off to Mohamed Soliman. Soon we'll be able to reference our website in our letters, op-eds, press releases, the list goes on. We'll put the microcredit news on the website Monday.
If you haven't already done so, please go to the RESULTS website, www.results.org, and click on Donation Center. You'll be able to make your annual contribution of $35 to RESULTS there rather than writing a check and giving it to me.
Today I talked to our domestic regional coordinator. SCHIP has passed the House and is out of the Senate Finance Committee and ready for debate on the Senate floor. Monday night after our meeting I faxed 12 letters -- 7 to Senator Grassley and 5 to Senator Harkin, thanking them for their support of SCHIP.
Wednesday I put together information for the remaining pages of our website and sent it off to Mohamed Soliman. Soon we'll be able to reference our website in our letters, op-eds, press releases, the list goes on. We'll put the microcredit news on the website Monday.
If you haven't already done so, please go to the RESULTS website, www.results.org, and click on Donation Center. You'll be able to make your annual contribution of $35 to RESULTS there rather than writing a check and giving it to me.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
What's Going On in RESULTS This Week
There was no global call this week -- nothing legislatively going on for global issues. However, Sen. Clinton did a great job talking with the Senate committee which will approve her for Secretary of State in talking about revamping foreign aid to target poverty.
On the domestic call today we talked about group planning, which our group has already done. I just have to fill out the paperwork and get it to our Regional Coordinators.
On the media front, there was a fine letter in Sunday's Gazette about domestic poverty and a call to action to do something about it. So I submitted a letter Sunday night and it was published today, asking for people to call our Members of Congress on SCHIP reauthorization, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (known in Iowa as Hawk-I). This legislation was vetoed twice by President Bush and Senator Grassley was one of the prime movers on this bill. So now it's being voted on this week by Congress and we'll probably have two different versions coming out of the House and Senate, so we'll be making more calls when it goes to conference prior to going to President Obama's desk for a signature.
I also have an editorial packet on Microcredit that I think we should use to build an op-ed for the Gazette. I'll have that ready for you to read Monday night to see who wants to lend their name and photo to the piece.
Since Dad died, I haven't had much time to work on RESULTS. Been driving Mom to various appointments and doing various errands. She doesn't drive in bad weather -- and it's been nothing but bad weather since Dad died! No, I take that back. There was one day she took her car out and did an errand on her own. So I haven't done much work on Mohamed's website. The Diversity Task Force is going to help me in that, though. This weekend I'll have some time to get some things started. And once Spring gets here, we'll start television production in Iowa City.
I am so looking forward to our meeting Monday night at 7. I am always energized by being with you!
On the domestic call today we talked about group planning, which our group has already done. I just have to fill out the paperwork and get it to our Regional Coordinators.
On the media front, there was a fine letter in Sunday's Gazette about domestic poverty and a call to action to do something about it. So I submitted a letter Sunday night and it was published today, asking for people to call our Members of Congress on SCHIP reauthorization, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (known in Iowa as Hawk-I). This legislation was vetoed twice by President Bush and Senator Grassley was one of the prime movers on this bill. So now it's being voted on this week by Congress and we'll probably have two different versions coming out of the House and Senate, so we'll be making more calls when it goes to conference prior to going to President Obama's desk for a signature.
I also have an editorial packet on Microcredit that I think we should use to build an op-ed for the Gazette. I'll have that ready for you to read Monday night to see who wants to lend their name and photo to the piece.
Since Dad died, I haven't had much time to work on RESULTS. Been driving Mom to various appointments and doing various errands. She doesn't drive in bad weather -- and it's been nothing but bad weather since Dad died! No, I take that back. There was one day she took her car out and did an errand on her own. So I haven't done much work on Mohamed's website. The Diversity Task Force is going to help me in that, though. This weekend I'll have some time to get some things started. And once Spring gets here, we'll start television production in Iowa City.
I am so looking forward to our meeting Monday night at 7. I am always energized by being with you!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
RESULTS Conference Call this Saturday
The domestic conference call will be at 11:30 a.m. at Christ Church. The global call will be at 1 p.m. at Christ Church. We will meet in the library. The global call will focus on foreign aid reform, which is aimed at providing foreign aid based on human need rather than based on politics.
Since we have already done our group planning (in December) we will be ready to look over our plan at the January meeting and submit it to RESULTS.
Since we have already done our group planning (in December) we will be ready to look over our plan at the January meeting and submit it to RESULTS.
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