Annual Report 2019
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.
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.
Kul Chandra Gautam
Board Chair
Dr. Joanne Carter
Executive Director
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.
Lifetime Giving
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
2019 Giving
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
Meet our volunteers
"Civics is not just words that you memorize, or how many votes it takes to do this or that."
I never thought I could do anything about poverty.
"A year ago I never would have dreamed that I would be on a first-name basis with a member of Congress."
“Hi, Buke!” my representative said warmly, and greeted me with a hug at his Capitol Hill office. His staff also welcomed me by name. A year ago I never would have dreamed that I would be on a first-name basis with a member of Congress. How did we get there?
"It’s a matter of taking that first step. It goes beyond voting – you don’t have to wait for the next election."
Willie Dickerson’s white mustache twitches as he pauses for a moment, thinking hard. We have just asked him how many of his letters to the editor have been published around the country. He finally responds, “Around a thousand, but I’m not sure of exact numbers.”
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.
Click here for more stories and photos from 40 years of advocacy!
2019 Board of Directors
Board 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
Board of Directors
Pankaj Agarwal
Managing Director, ReCubed Consulting
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.
RESULTS Timeline
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Our advocacy is central to securing $60 million in funding for oral rehydration therapy, a simple treatment for children who might otherwise die from diarrhea-induced dehydration.
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Volunteers generate 42 editorials nationwide to help save the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
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RESULTS grows to 50 chapters in 33 states.
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Ninety-five volunteers gather in Washington, DC, for the first annual RESULTS conference.
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Fourteen members of Congress attend three forums on ending hunger organized by RESULTS.
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RESULTS’ very first newspaper editorial runs in the Los Angeles Times.
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12 people gather in a living room in Los Angeles to write letters to Congress urging action on global hunger. RESULTS is born.
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RESULTS affiliates take shape in Canada, Australia, and the UK.
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RESULTS introduces microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus to Congress and the U.S. media. Our advocacy helps pass the Self-Sufficiency for the Poor Act, a $50 million initiative to provide small loans to the world’s poorest families.
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Volunteers organize candlelight vigils to pressure leaders at the UN World Summit for Children to help stop preventable child and maternal deaths, reduce child malnutrition, and provide universal access to primary education. More than one million people attend vigils in over 75 countries.
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The World Bank agrees to increase the share of its lending targeted to health, education, and other investments to benefit the very poor after RESULTS gathers support from nearly 1,400 members of Congress and parliamentarians around the world.
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RESULTS launches its campaign focused on ending poverty in America and adds 15 local groups in the first year.
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RESULTS volunteers successfully support Congress to create a special account for global child survival and health programs, expanding these lifesaving efforts and protecting them from future budget cuts. The account receives $300 million of initial funding.
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RESULTS Educational Fund convenes the first global Microcredit Summit and then launches a campaign to reach 100 million of the world’s poorest families with small loans and other financial services.
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Our volunteers begin advocating for tuberculosis funding to address this major cause and consequence of poverty. At the time, the U.S. is contributing less than $1 million annually to fight TB worldwide.
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RESULTS volunteers help push Congress to increase funding for Head Start programs by $933 million and Food Stamps (now SNAP) by $1.6 billion.
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RESULTS is pivotal to expanding the Child Tax Credit to low-income families, lifting 500,000 American children out of poverty.
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RESULTS volunteers work with Congress to successfully pressure the World Bank to reverse its policy of supporting primary school fees in developing countries.
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Following a major advocacy push, Congress commits $550 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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RESULTS works with Congress to pass a new bill to ensure that half of all microenterprise funding reaches the very poor, mandating better measurement tools so we know if the poorest are benefitting.
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RESULTS helps protect critical policies governing Head Start so that comprehensive services — from education programs to dental screenings — continue for millions.
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RESULTS Educational Fund and its global partners launch ACTION, a partnership of advocacy organizations across five continents fighting diseases of poverty.
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RESULTS helps craft critical provisions to eliminate school fees and other barriers to education as part of legislation to protect orphans and vulnerable children in developing countries. The bill becomes U.S. law in November 2005.
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The Microcredit Summit Campaign achieves its goal of reaching 100 million of the world’s poorest families with microfinance loans and other key services.
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RESULTS volunteers secure dozens of cosponsors for the Stop TB Now Act, which is eventually incorporated into the historic Lantos-Hyde U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act. The legislation sets bold targets and reinvigorates U.S. support for all three diseases.
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RESULTS helps expand the domestic Children’s Health Insurance Program to cover 4.1 million additional American kids.
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Working with congressional allies, RESULTS helps boost annual U.S. funding for TB to a record $225 million.
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U.S. funding for child survival and nutrition programs passes the $700 million mark.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus accepts the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington, DC, citing RESULTS as having “built up tremendous momentum” for the microfinance movement.
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RESULTS plays a critical role in stopping proposals that would have slashed SNAP (formerly Food Stamps) funding and removed four million people from the program.
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RESULTS volunteers are instrumental in securing a landmark U.S. commitment of up to $5 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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RESULTS volunteers successfully pressure the U.S. government to more than double its annual contribution to the Global Partnership for Education to help the poorest countries get all of their kids in school.
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On its 10th anniversary, ACTION has grown to include 11 partners on five continents. Together they have helped mobilize billions of dollars for global health and nutrition.
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The Microcredit Summit Campaign secures its 65th commitment from international organizations and governments to help end extreme poverty, lifting more than 150 million people above the poverty line.
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Working with our ACTION partners worldwide, RESULTS Educational Fund helps Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, exceed its global goal of raising $7.5 billion from donor governments and others. The funding will support developing countries to save the lives of more than five million children.
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Through 225 meetings with members of Congress and 145 media pieces, RESULTS volunteers play a key role in Congress finally making permanent crucial provisions of pro-work tax credits that raise roughly 16 million people above or closer to the poverty line. This is one of the biggest anti-poverty legislative victories in twenty years.
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RESULTS launches the Right to Education Index (RTEI), a groundbreaking global report card that aims to ensure that all people, no matter where they live, are able to enjoy their right to a quality education.
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The READ Act was signed into law after years of persistent efforts by RESULTS volunteers and partners around the country. This legislation ensures that U.S. investments in global basic education are having the greatest impact, while also advancing quality education services for children affected by conflict and emergencies.
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With Medicaid under dire threat, RESULTS volunteers fought back with more than 250 pieces of media, hundreds of meetings with Congress, and thousands of calls, letters, and emails. Their work paid off — the plan to gut Medicaid failed in the Senate.
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From an op-ed in The Washington Post to an intensive storytelling workshop with The Moth in New York City, RESULTS’ Experts on Poverty are raising their voices and influencing policy discussions at the highest levels.
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The UN holds its very first high-level meeting on TB after decades of advocacy by RESULTS advocates and partners in the United States and around the world. Global leaders pledge to reach 40 million people with treatment by 2022 and secure $13 billion in annual funding.
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