What’s New in Faith In ActionWhen I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. - Dom Helder Camara
NewsWatch Bread for the World's New Video on Low-income Tax Credits
In addition to completing health reform, RESULTS Domestic volunteers will be advocating in 2010 for expanding tax provisions that helps reduce poverty. This campaign, Economic Opportunity for All, will focus on expanding poverty-reduction provisions like the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, as well as low-income savings initiatives like the Saver's Bonus. Fortunately, we will have a powerful ally in this work. Bread for the World, a longtime partner of RESULTS, is also focusing on the issue of low-income tax credits. As part of their 2010 offering of letters, they have created an informative and inspiring VIDEO on this issue to help educate their grassroots. Watch the video to learn more about tax policy and poverty and plan to seek out Bread volunteers in your community to work together to build support for these policies in 2010. Also, Monica Mills, Director of Government Relations for Bread for the World, will be our guest speaker for the February 13 RESULTS Domestic national conference call. Please plan to join us! New Faith-based Health Reform PowerPoint Presentation AvailableOnce again, our friends a Faith Reform and Health Care have provided a great resource in our work to pass health care reform. FRHC has created a PowerPoint presentation, "Health Care Reform 2010: What's at Stake for People of Faith", that provides a faith-inspired moral vision for health care, as well as an update on the current status of reform. This is a great tool to help educate RESULTS groups and your faith community on the moral imperative of health reform. Dr. Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund, Testifies Before House Committee on Foreign Affairs to Offer Support for Robust, Life-saving Funding Levels for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and MalariaRead about the vital importance of this successful fund and how we must lead in its support and add to the 4.9 million lives already saved. To take action and raise your voice for better funding for crucial global health initiatives as we mark World TB Day on March 24, go to our global campaigns March 2010 Action Sheet.
RESULTS "Turning the Ship" Faith-Based Curriculum MaterialsRESULTS has a newly created outreach and engagement tool for faith communities. RESULTS "Turning the Ship" faith-based curriculum is a multi-week study focused on social justice, advocacy and religion. RESULTS core values serve as a template for the study providing an excellent resource for congregations looking to get more involved in advocacy around hunger and poverty. This study can also serve as a great tool for outreach to faith communities about RESULTS and our work. Anyone is welcomed to download the curriculum from our Resources section below and use it in your local congregations. If you have any questions, please contact the Faith in Action Team: Jos Linn, Lisa Marchal and Crickett Nicovich. (Please note: These downloads are all MS Word documents)
FIA Action InsertsThe RESULTS Faith in Action Team will be posting action items here for you to use. Actions listed below are the most current actions needed. Faith communities are free to copy and paste them or download a Word version for use in newsletters and bulletins. LET'S FINISH HEALTH REFORMHealth reform in Congress is closer to being a reality than ever before, but some lawmakers are getting cold feet. Forgetting that health reform is about saving lives and not political careers, some want to slow down or scuttle it altogether. Fortunately, there are others, including House and Senate leadership, who want to see this through. But it is going to take a concerted effort by the grassroots, and particularly people of faith, to make reform a reality. With 45,000 people dying each year for lack of health insurance, meaningful health reform is literally a life or death issue. It is the moral issue of our time and our leaders must be reminded that, using Dr. Martin Luther King's words, the "moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice." TAKE ACTION: See RESULTS' latest Domestic Action Sheet urging Congress to expand health care for the poor as a prime component of health reform. Expansions of Medicaid and community health centers must be included in health reform so that our less fortunate brothers and sisters get the care they so desperately need and deserve. CREATE MEDIA TO SUPPORT A GLOBAL FUND FOR EDUCATIONWhat do a banker to the poor, a former president, and a religious leader have in common? They were all awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on August 12 - and they have all called for the creation of a Global Fund for Education. On June 30, 2009, in advance of the annual Group of Eight (G8) Summit, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, and Muhammad Yunus called on President Barack Obama and other G8 leaders to create a Global Fund for Education by the end of 2009. But the G8 - and the world - have yet to seize this opportunity to renew the hope of the 75 million primary school-aged children around the world who are not in school. It's time for the U.S. to lead. TAKE ACTION: Write a letter to the editor urging President Obama to create a multilateral, multi-donor Global Fund for Education. To take learn more and to action, see the latest RESULTS Global Action Sheet. Download MS Word versions of FIA Action Inserts
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