Our vision is of a world where the devastating impacts of poverty no longer cripple the ability of individuals and families to sustain themselves and contribute their talents to the world in which they live ? where all people have a fair chance at success. But it takes citizens pressuring their leaders for effective anti-poverty programs to receive the attention, policies, and funding they need. That?s why RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund (REF) stand out. Our mission is to create the public and political will to end poverty by empowering individuals to exercise their personal and political power for change. We combine the voices of our passionate grassroots activists with strategic grass-tops efforts to leverage millions of dollars for programs and improved policies that give low-income people the health, education, and opportunity they need to thrive. REF has initiated two major projects that ally with organizations in numerous countries: The ACTION Project and the Microcredit Summit Campaign. The Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally (ACTION) project is an international partnership of advocates working to mobilize resources to treat and prevent the spread of tuberculosis (TB), a disease of poverty that kills one person every 20 seconds, by using cutting-edge advocacy strategies to support country-specific and global solutions. The Microcredit Summit Campaign is working to ensure that 175 million of the world?s poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services, and that 100 million families rise above the US$1 a day threshold by 2015.
REF houses ACTION, a global health advocacy partnership of 11 organizations on five continents. Together they help mobilize billions of dollars and improve policies to fight diseases of poverty and achieve equitable access to health. ACTION conducts research, analysis, and oversight across a range of health issues including TB-HIV, nutrition, and maternal and child health. Last year ACTION conducted a groundbreaking study of the neglected TB-HIV co-epidemic, tracking the follow-through on major donor commitments to invest in vaccines, and launched scorecards tracking donor commitments to nutrition. In 2014, REF Executive Director Joanne Carter joined a blue ribbon panel of business and development experts to sharpen the focus of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on the goal of ending preventable childhood deaths. USAID has already embraced some early recommendations of the panel, including realigning $2.9 billion in spending and supporting countries to save an additional 500,000 lives. While ACTION has a formal presence in ten countries, its reach and impact on vaccines, nutrition, broader child health, and global epidemics like TB stretch across the global through a network of civil society organizations, political champions, patient advocates, health workers and community leaders.

In the last year, REF has helped mobilize billions of dollars for Gavi to ensure vaccines get to even the hardest-to-reach children and got the U.S. to more than double its historical annual commitment to the Global Partnership for Education. Earlier this month, REF and its partners attended the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa where they launched a report 'Who Pays for Progress?' on Domestic Resource Mobilization and Sustainable Development in Kenya. Additionally, REF developed an infographic on the importance of prioritizing global health equity in the Sustainable Development agenda.

REF also houses the Microcredit Summit Campaign - the largest global network of institutions and individuals involved in microfinance. The Campaign is committed to reaching 175 million of the world's poorest families with microfinance and helping 100 million families lift themselves out of extreme poverty. The Microcredit Summit Campaign project tracks the reach of microfinance to the extreme poor, collecting and verifying data from more than 300 of the largest microfinance institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America every year. The resulting report looks at not just how many people access microfinance, but how well it reaches those living in extreme poverty.




REF and its partner organizations in South Korea, Mexico, the U.K., Canada, France, India, Japan, Australia, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, and the E.U. focus on ending extreme poverty worldwide. Additionally, REF engages on key areas of sustainable development including education, micro-finance, and health - with a special focus on TB and HIV, nutrition, and maternal and child health. Leadership from REF and its partners hold formal oversight roles with some of the world's leading institutions addressing health, nutrition, education, and poverty including: the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, The Global Partnership for Education, UNITAID, The Global Financing Facility in Support of Every Woman Every Child, The Micronutrient Initiative, the International union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Stop TB Partnership, and the World Bank Group.
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Joanne Carter, Executive Director, RESULTS, Inc. and RESULTS Educational Fund, Ex officio, United States
Sam Daley-Harris, Founder, RESULTS, Inc. and RESULTS Educational Fund, United States
Vanessa Garcia, Grassroots Board Member, United States
Cindy Levin, Grassroots Board Member, United States
Ernie Loevinsohn, Issues Committee Chair, Executive Director, Fund for Global Health, United States
Lydia Pendley, Bylaws Committee Chair, Grassroots Board Member, United States
Jan Twombly, Audit Committee Chair, Treasurer & President, The Rhythm of Business, United States
Beth Wilson, Grassroots Board Member, United States
Pankaj Agarwal, Marketing Committee Chair, Deloitte Consulting, United States/India
Kul Gautam, Member/Advisor of the Nepal Development Council, Nepal
Valerie Harper, actress, United States
Roger Hudson, United States
Patrick Hughes, Founder and CEO, Inclusion Solutions, United States
Marianne Williamson, author and lecturer, United States
Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund, United States
Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
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