2019 Annual Report
RESULTS is a movement of passionate, committed, everyday people who use their voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty. For 40 years, RESULTS advocates have pushed for support from policymakers on issues like child survival, education, tax policy, and more.
Even as the country and the world face unprecedented new threats, these grassroots advocates are showing what’s possible. Learn more below about our advocacy successes in 2019 – and over the past four decades!
Our Structure
RESULTS is a movement of passionate, committed everyday people. Together we use our voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty.
Our Work
Since 1980, RESULTS advocates have helped pass groundbreaking legislation and secure billions of dollars in funding to address poverty.
Our Campaigns
We work to advance health, education, and economic opportunity for all in the U.S. and globally.
A letter from the Board Chair and Executive Director
Dear friends,
Forty years ago, a dozen people gathered in a Los Angeles living room to write letters to Congress about poverty. They didn’t know that it would grow into a national and global advocacy network changing policies and unlocking tens of billions of dollars in government funding toward ending poverty. They didn’t know yet that they were launching RESULTS.
But the group of everyday people who gathered all those years ago believed a better world was possible and necessary. And they were ready to take action and use their voices to make that better world a reality.
Passionate, committed everyday people remain the heart of RESULTS, and their power to move policymakers into action remains the driver of our impact.
In 2019, these advocates launched a new campaign to tackle the U.S. affordable housing crisis. They secured a landmark investment in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, supporting this international partnership to save 16 million lives. They worked with Congress to stop devastating budget cuts from the White House and instead boosted federal funding for rental assistance, global education, ending the epidemic of tuberculosis, and more.
You’ll see more about those victories and about 40 years of impact in this report—how RESULTS’ advocacy parlayed modest sums of philanthropic support into tens billions of dollars of U.S. investment and more equitable policies.
But as we mark our anniversary as an organization, the job is far from finished. The United States is finally reckoning with centuries of systemic racism, and the global community is facing a pandemic that’s only widening the inequalities that have long existed. The most important part of our history is still in front of us.
These big challenges today require our biggest possible vision—and the action to match. We’re committed to ending poverty, tackling systemic oppression, and creating a more equitable and just world. We’re grateful for everything that our community of donors, advocates, allies and partners do to make it possible.
Dr. Joanne Carter
Executive Director
Kul Chandra Gautam
Board Chair
Thank you to our donors, volunteers, and supporters for making the stories in this report possible. By investing in RESULTS advocacy, you have an enormous impact. Every $1 you donate drives at least $100 in U.S. funding to fight poverty. You are making the end of poverty a reality!
Below we recognize some of the donors who have been with us over the last 40 years as well as many of those who supported our work in 2019.
Thank you!
Thank you to our donors, volunteers, and supporters for making the stories in this report possible. By investing in RESULTS advocacy, you have a huge, out-sized impact. Every $1 you donate drives at least $100 in U.S. funding to fight poverty. You are making the end of poverty a reality!
Thank you to our donors listed below whose generous, cumulative giving over the past 40 years has exceeded $100,000.
$25,000,000+
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$5,000,000-$24,999,999
Anonymous
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
$1,000,000-$4,999,999
Gordon Irlam and Manjula Jonnalagadda and The Gordon R Irlam Charitable Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
Open Society Foundations
Marshall+ and Pam Saunders
$500,000-$999,999
Anonymous
David Bodnick
Citi Foundation
Peter and Sharon Fiekowsky
Ford Foundation
Mary Martin and Roger L. Hudson
Uplift
$250,000-$499,999
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional
AGFUND – Arab Gulf Program
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Anonymous
Capital for Good USA
Carl Page
Eli Lilly and Company
Charles Gust and Lisa Lewis
H.T. Loevinsohn and Family
MasterCard Foundation
Nick & Debra Schatzki
Summit Foundation
$100,000-$249,999
Academy for Educational Development
Pankaj Agarwal and Sapna Mahwal
Roxanne and Kip Allen
The Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Bill and Paula Clapp
Kathleen H. Close
Corporate Donor
Nick Craig
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Deutsche Bank
Robert Dickerson, II+
Dubai Cares, part of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI)
John and Polly Ely+
Friedman Family Foundation
Galloway Family – in memory of Leon Galloway
Grameen Foundation
Green Children Foundation
Lois and Richard Gunther
Peggy Harvey and Paul Hornick
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Pritzker Children’s Initiative
Keating Family Foundation
Sarah Keenan
Ellen Kempler and Ken Rosen
Scott Leckman
Ludwig Family Foundation
Gail Neumann+
Alan and Ellen Newberg
Michol O’Connor
Frank Sanitate
Ken and Linda Schatz
Greg and Dionne Shaw
Fred and Courtney Steves
Chuck Sutherland and Marilyn Kodish Sutherland
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Wallace Genetic Foundation
Shirley and Sumner Williams+
Zions First National Bank
+ Denotes deceased donor
Thank you to our donors who generously gave $1,000 or more in 2019.
$1,000,000+
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$100,000-$999,999
Anonymous
David Bodnick
Kathleen H. Close*
The Gordon R Irlam Charitable Foundation
$25,000-$99,999
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Anonymous
Anonymous
The Bainum Family Foundation
Dubai Cares, part of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI)
Gordon Irlam and Manjula Jonnalagadda
Ellen Kempler and Ken Rosen*
Open Society Foundations
$10,000-$24,999
The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation
Baird Craft
Carl Victor Page Memorial Fund
Friends of the Global Fight
Roger L. Hudson
Keating Family Foundation
Alan and Ellen Newberg*
Michol O’Connor
Ken and Linda Schatz
Singing for Change Charitable Foundation Inc.
Fred and Courtney Steves
Wallace Genetic Foundation
$5,000-$9,999
Pankaj Agarwal and Sapna Mahwal*
Roxanne and Kip Allen
Anonymous
Ajay and Ritu Banga
Becton, Dickinson and Company
Dixie Camp
Joanne Carter and Geoffrey Barron
Congressional Hunger Center
Global Partnership for Education
Scott Leckman*
Benjamin Loevinsohn
S. Rees and J. Winge
Stop TB Partnership
Harit and Reena Talwar
Gordana Vujec
$2,500-$4,999
Anonymous
Steve Arnold and Veda Stanfield*
Paul and Kathy Brindle
Anne Child*
Linda G Gochfeld, M.D.
Oscar Lanzi III
Cynthia Changyit Levin and David Levin*
Bill and Maud Lipscomb
Mary Martin
Kathryn Nelson
NETWORK
Lynne and Samual Patalano
Lydia Pendley
Prosperity Now
Rich Renner
Bob and Barbara Sample*
Share Our Strength
TB Alliance
Janice Twombly
Uplift
$1,000-$2,499
Alliance to End Hunger
Steve Andre and Diana Fertsch
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous*
Bryce Arghiere
Kirk and Georgia Baddley*
S. Ashish Bali
Louisa Barkalow
Jillian Barron and Jonas Simonis
Susan and John Beckett
Pat Behenna
Phyllis Bjorkman
Julia M. Bolz
Bread for the World Institute
Dolly Brenneman
Ted and Patricia Bruno
David Burns
George and Lynne Cantu
Caption Access
Center for American Progress Action Fund
Len and Phyllis Chorazy
Andy and Susan Clarke
Liz Clerkin
Mark Coats and Peggy Stoll
Alexander Counts and Emily Wainwright
Nancy and Denys Curtiss*
Sam Daley-Harris
Bruce and Karen Davidson
Suzanne Davis and William Hornby
Kathy DeLoach
Dining for Women
Lois Dodson
David and Deborah Douglas
Kathleen Duncan
EagleBank
Gerry Fairbrother, PhD
Feeding America
Amy Rossman and Christian Feuillet
Peter and Sharon Fiekowsky
Jim Ford and Melinda Lightsey-Ford
FRAC
Francis Beidler Foundation
Galloway Family – in memory of Leon Galloway
Nancy Gardiner
Kul Gautam
Mea Geizhals and Charles Plummer
Karen and Anton Gielen
Frank Gilbert
Global Citizen
Global Fund Advocates Network
Golden & Cohen
Hannah and Leonard Golub
Edgar Greville and Elaine Shell
Jim and Linda Hargrove
John Hatch
Hawkins Family Fund
Robert Heyl and Margaret Minogue-Heyl
Mr. & Mrs. William Jackson
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Martha Karnopp and James Chaput*
John and Patricia Kennish
Laura Linn
Ernest Loevinsohn
Jennifer Long
Ivan and Marian Lyddon
MadWolf Technologies
Keith and Dianne Marsden
Steve McGee
Barbara Mihm
Frances Moore*
Claudia Morgan
Susan Morrison
Ram Nagarajan
NFP
Bill and Tari Nicholson
Nutrition International
Susan Oehser*
PATH
Kelly Penrod and Michael Winters
Power of Nutrition
Carolyn Prouty
Melessa Rogers
Wendy Schaal
Judy and David Schubert
Steven and Katya Scordino
Rick and Marcie Sexauer
Kathryn Sherlock
Joan Shook and Jeffrey Starke
Anne and Tom Singley
Neiladri Sinhababu
Richard A. Smiley
Margaret and Colin Smith
James and Melinda Stephenson
Fritz and Jane Stinson
Peter Stoel and Karen Josephson
Eloise Sutherland*
Kyle Talkington
Madhavan Thirumalai/Cheryl Greene
Manisha and Gagan Toor
Cynthia Tschampl and Kimball Halsey
UNICEF USA
Susan Vanderberg
Ginnie Vogts
Wayne & Vicki Weilnau
Marty and Madeline White
Paul and Beth Wilson*
*Denotes member of the RESULTS Legacy Society
Testimonials
“I give to RESULTS financially now that I have the means to do so because RESULTS has done so much for my own growth and to create a more equitable nation and world. It’s an investment that goes far beyond what I could do with it myself. It supports all of us to learn, to gain skills, to take action, to strengthen and sustain a movement that will bring an end to poverty. Because RESULTS volunteers don’t go away, we persist.”
Sara Buckingham, Investor in Change
“When the tax cuts were enacted early in the current administration, my tax preparer told me I could contribute to non-profits from the Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) from my IRA as a way to reduce my tax burden. I arranged to contribute from my RMDs to the four organizations I gave the most money to on a yearly basis. The process of getting the necessary information for the person who handles my investments required a few phone calls, but that was more than worth it given the tax savings. And as a result of those savings, I was able to increase the amount I gave to each organization a bit.”
Steve Arnold and Veda Stanfield, Champions Circle
RESULTS was delighted to partner again in 2019 with Singing for Change, a foundation created by Jimmy Buffett that empowers people to make positive change in themselves and their communities. Singer Jimmy Buffett directs one dollar from every ticket sale to the foundation, so his concerts generate good vibes and social impact. Last year RESULTS was thrilled to be showcased in Singing for Change’s annual music video.
Executive Director Judith Ranger Smith said, “When I think of RESULTS, I admire how effective you are as storytellers, and that’s how you give individuals the skills and tools they need to make change happen.”
Meet our volunteers
Keerthi Samanthapudi
“Civics is not just words that you memorize, or how many votes it takes to do this or that.”
Bukekile Dube
“A year ago I never would have dreamed that I would be on a first-name basis with a member of Congress.”
Willie Dickerson
“It’s a matter of taking that first step. It goes beyond voting – you don’t have to wait for the next election.”
A look back at 2019
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Reason to celebrate
Thanks to your advocacy, congressional leaders committed to contribute $4.68 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the next three years – a full third of the $14 billion it will take for this partnership to save 16 million lives.
Reversing proposed cuts to global anti-poverty programs
When the White House proposed severe cuts to global anti-poverty programs for a second consecutive year, you once again fought back. After months of dogged advocacy, Congress reversed the extreme cuts and even increased funding for some programs, including bilateral funding to combat tuberculosis (TB).
Tax time is a big deal
By Aaron Carrillo
“I can’t imagine growing up without getting the absolutely critical refund check at tax time. The credit can mean that there’s food on the table, books for school, and the lights stay on. But there are a lot of people left out of refundable tax credits.”
My family had nowhere to go – now I’m fighting for fair housing policies on Capitol Hill
By Maureen Bowling
To have your own home is just one of those basic essential needs, like healthcare and food on the table. To not have that robs you a bit of your basic humanity. If someone is in a dire situation like I was, they shouldn’t be left in a state of homelessness because of circumstances out of their control.
The start of an experiment
By RESULTS founder Sam Daley-Harris
In October 1979, I moved to Los Angeles. I was off to get rich as a songwriter so I could have more time to speak to high school students about my passion, world hunger. It didn’t work out that way – but it did work out.
Testimonials
“RESULTS has had a huge impact on so many different issues. When you call members of Congress not only in the United States but all over the world, people listen. I just want to thank you for the work you do. I am honored to be a part of it.”
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
“RESULTS is an organization that has probably done more than any other nonprofit, any other NGO in Washington and way beyond Washington in addressing so many issues of poverty. You get results because you recognize that we do not move ahead without the kind of activism you bring. Continue to make it happen.”
Sen. Sherrod Brown
“I am so heartened that RESULTS advocates are continuing to work together to mobilize in unprecedented times. You are truly unsung heroes, making an impact in the lives of millions, both now and for years to come. So keep going; keep up the great work.”
Rep. Nita Lowey
Click here for more stories and photos from 40 years of advocacy!
2019 Annual Report Financials
FY2019 Total Budget: $10,044,525
2019 Board of Directors
Chair
Kul Gautam
Former Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
Executive Committee
Joanne Carter
Ex Officio
Executive Director, RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund
Sam Daley-Harris
Founder, RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund
Ernie Loevinsohn
Issues Committee Chair
Executive Director, Fund for Global Health
Maxine Thomas
Grassroots Board Member
Jan Twombly
Treasurer
Finance and Audit Committee Chair
President, The Rhythm of Business
Beth Wilson
Secretary, Grassroots Board Member
Qiana Torregano
Grassroots Board Member
Steven McGee
Grassroots Board Member
Willie Dickerson
Grassroots Board Member
Members
Pankaj Agarwal
Managing Director, ReCubed Consulting
Valerie Harper
Actress
Roger Hudson
Fundraising Committee Chair
Scott Leckman
M.D., F.A.C.S.
Marian Wright Edelman
President, Children’s Defense Fund
Professor Muhammad Yunus
Founder, Grameen Bank
Ashish Bali
Adviser and Consultant
All Board members are independent, voting members except for our executive director, Joanne Carter, a non-voting member and employee of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund.