RESULTS 2026 Grassroots Board Elections
Dear active RESULTS Grassroots Partners,
We urge you to vote for TWO of your fellow RESULTS volunteers to represent the grassroots volunteers on the boards of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund. This is a very important decision and we have great candidates.
We need your vote by June 15!
RESULTS needs to fill TWO Grassroots Director positions to serve a term of three (3) years beginning in July 2026. (There are four grassroots board seats in total.) Grassroots Directors represent the volunteers on the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors works with the Executive Director (Joanne Carter) to shape the direction of RESULTS. This work includes providing guidance on policies for the organization and fiduciary oversight. (Fiduciary oversight means monitoring finances and resources). The people elected will serve on the Grassroots Directors Committee, which meets monthly. They will also chair or serve on other Board Committee(s) and participate in fundraising. Grassroots board members represent grassroots perspectives on the board, which is a critical role.
Thank you to all who nominated dedicated volunteers as candidates! Your nomination recognized each candidate’s commitment and leadership skills. And thank you to the nominees who agreed to be candidates. We’re honored!
Find our grassroots board candidate videos and bios below:
- Allison Gallaher
- John Hornby
- Tiffany Tagbo
You may vote for TWO candidates (as there are two seats being voted on this year). Remember, voting ends Monday, June 15 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Check out each candidate below to view their online video statements and bios.
Learn more about the candidates!
Allison Gallaher (RESULTS Ohio)
My career as an academic librarian at Oberlin College immersed me in a community deeply committed to equity and justice, where I first discovered RESULTS. Much like John Green’s Everything Is Tuberculosis, which traces how a single disease intertwines with history, I’ve come to feel that ‘everything is RESULTS.’ My background as a research librarian provided me with tools to sharpen my advocacy. RESULTS’ laser talk techniques taught me the art of preparing and practicing for any public speaking opportunity. As a stepmother to four, grandmother to fifteen, and great-grandmother to two, I’ve seen the daily realities families face regarding affordable housing, childcare, healthcare, and food. RESULTS’ commitment to honoring lived experience has equipped me to bring that same empathy and curiosity into every relationship. Even my love of baseball has intersected with RESULT; I once lobbied then-Senator Mike DeWine on a microcredit sign-on letter at a minor league game.
I have been with RESULTS since the mid-1990s, when the partners of the Cleveland group declared that since I came to the monthly call, was a monthly donor, and regularly took action, I was officially part of the group. I thought I was just spending time with my friends and eating cookies! But the RESULTS model of partnership and support for continuous growth in leadership drew me in, as it has for so many of us.
Since then, I’ve been a partner, group leader, regional coordinator, trainer, and even a part-time staffer with the Grassroots Impact Team. Since 2023, I’ve been a grassroots representative on the RESULTS board. I’ve lobbied members of Congress, met with editorial boards, made community presentations, and written letters to the editor. I especially love to support advocates in finding their voices and stepping out of their comfort zones to take bold action.
It’s hard to pick a single ‘most proud’ moment, so I’ll share a favorite encounter. Ohio advocates have lobbied Sherrod Brown since his first days in the House. He and his staff were always responsive, championing our tuberculosis work and the Child Tax Credit. Yet, securing his signature on a 2024 GAVI resolution hit a wall. The usual channels weren’t working.
I tracked him down at his wife’s speaking engagement, request in hand. After thanking him for his leadership on the Child Tax Credit, I pivoted to GAVI. He promised to consult his staff. The next day, the aide I had been chasing called, apologized for the delay, shared his cell number for future requests, and confirmed the signature. I recognized that this success stemmed from years of relationship-building with the Senator. It taught me a vital lesson: never take champions for granted. Only persistent, personal attention sealed the deal.
RESULTS’ greatest strength lies in our emphasis on the essential humanity of every person. We advocate for vaccines and nutrition because every child, regardless of birth circumstances, deserves the opportunity to survive and thrive. We advocate for maternal health because no woman should die in childbirth. We take our lead from Experts on Poverty, recognizing that nobody knows better than people with lived experience what policies will support them. We may sometimes use economic or national security language to advance our positions, but those are not our ‘why.’ This same humanity guides how we treat each other and our members of Congress. Yes, every action feels urgent. But our real strength is taking time to nurture, empower, and call people into leadership on their own terms—not just crossing things off a list.
The mission of RESULTS is to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty and to empower individuals to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power. We rightly celebrate the victories won by passionate citizens—victories that have secured funding and bipartisan support for critical programs. However, in an era where progress feels threatened and legislative gridlock reigns, RESULTS has a vital opportunity to offer citizen empowerment as a remedy for the widespread discouragement and despair. We already do this as a strategy to achieve policy goals. Let’s remember to frame it as a goal in its own right—a source of hope regardless of the political outcome. One of my early mentors, Nick Arena, used to say to me, “Don’t wait to be inspired to take an action. Take an action and you’ll be inspired.” We can offer that to everyone.
When I was first elected to the Board, I was concerned that I didn’t have expertise that would be relevant. I’m not a master fundraiser, I don’t have governance experience, I certainly have no special financial acumen, and everything I know on the policy front I’ve learned from RESULTS. We’re fortunate that there are grassroots volunteers with many of these qualities, and I hope they’ll consider running for a seat on the Board. But what I’ve learned since being selected is that my experience as a volunteer IS my expertise. The Board is serious about wanting the perspective of the volunteer advocates who are executing our campaigns. What is working? What is missing? As a regional coordinator, I am in a great position to hear about your successes and frustrations nearly every week and convey them to the Board. I look forward to continuing to do this, should you decide to re-elect me.
John Hornby (SK/Gig Harbor RESULTS Group)
I grew up in a military family, living on both coasts, in the Midwest, and in Japan for three years. Adapting to many different schools and cultures has taught me early on how to live in a diverse world and to understand different cultures and points of view. I’ve been married to the same woman for decades, and we have two wonderful children, each with kids of their own. I’ve always identified as a Secular Humanist, but spiritually, I’m very active in a Unitarian Universalist congregation. I see many shared values between RESULTS and UU.
I discovered RESULTS in 2008 while participating in a fundraiser. I immediately connected with RESULTS’ anti-poverty mission and joined a group. I attended my first IC that same year, which cemented my commitment to long-term advocacy. It’s been a thrill to attend 11 International Conferences in DC. After my first few years as a RESULTS advocate, Bob Dickerson took me under his wing and encouraged me to take over as Regional Coordinator for Washington State. I’ve held that position for nearly 15 years.
As RC, I’ve organized and presided over 8 Regional Conferences in Washington state and have partnered with our longtime Canadian friends on 5 joint conferences in Victoria, BC. I’m proud we haven’t missed a single year of Regional Conferences and that I’ve been instrumental in their success.
The RESULTS model is so powerful. It brings together trained grassroots volunteers throughout the US who simultaneously educate our members of Congress about specific, timely anti-poverty bills and appropriations. Our staff provides the information needed to make our case and to lobby effectively using stories and facts.
The current dark period we are living in, marked by injustice and rising poverty both domestically and globally, has called many citizens to action. Protesting is part of that, but how can one bring about change now? Many of our volunteers are sharing with friends and family what we are doing to make change happen. There will be a significant increase in citizen involvement in the coming months. RESULTS has the opportunity to capture this desire to bring about change through volunteer outreach and staff facilitating the onboarding and placement of people new to RESULTS. It’s vital that we begin transferring leadership to a younger generation.
My strength as an RC has come from the dedicated volunteers in my region. Our weekly statewide online meetings bring us together as a family. The wisdom and learning we share in these meetings inspire us with renewed energy, determination, and hope. I would like to see all groups regularly reinvigorated with the energy and determination I see each week. I think the revival of singing is another source of inspiration I will promote.
Tiffany Tagbo (RESULTS Oklahoma)
I am Tiffany Tagbo, someone who understands struggle not as an idea, but as a lived reality.
Before the titles, before the advocacy, before the leadership, I was a person learning how to survive systems that were never designed to hold me. Poverty was not something I studied from a distance. I lived it and I’m coping with the aftermate of living poverty. I felt it in the quiet choices between what gets paid and what gets postponed. I felt it in long days that stretched into longer nights, where responsibility did not clock out.
But my story did not end there. It sharpened something in me.
It made me someone who does not just talk about change, but pushes for it. I sit in rooms, on calls, in crisis spaces, and I refuse to let people be reduced to statistics. Whether I am speaking with a person on the edge of giving up or a policymaker holding power, I show up with the same belief: people deserve dignity, and systems can be better.
At my core, I am a builder.
I build pathways where there are none.
I build trust in moments where people expect to be dismissed.
I build bridges between lived experience and policy, between pain and possibility.
And I carry something else too. Not just resilience, but vision.
Because I am not just trying to survive the world as it is. I am working, every day, to reshape it into something more just, more humane, and more honest about who it leaves behind.
RESULTS gave me a place to turn lived experience into action.
I knew I wanted to do international work, and when I searched online and found RESULTS, I saw an organization doing the very work I felt called to do. I joined, and I have not turned back since.
I came to RESULTS because poverty was not abstract to me. I knew what it felt like to struggle, and I wanted to do more than talk about the problem. I wanted to help change the policies that keep people trapped in it.
Since joining, I have grown as an advocate and leader. I have met with congressional offices, spoken up on issues like SNAP, the Child Tax Credit, global health, and poverty reduction, submitted public comments, trained and supported other advocates, and helped lead the Oklahoma RESULTS chapter.
I already understood the power of my voice. RESULTS helped refine how I align that voice with strategy, policy, and collective action to create change.
I’ve had so many proud moments, from being asked to speak at the Texas/Oklahoma Regional Conference to becoming a RESULTS Expert on Poverty and Fellow, to winning the 2025 Bob Dickerson Grassroots Leadership Award.
Every moment with RESULTS has been a source or pride. Those moments remind me that my voice and leadership matter in this work. What empowered me most was realizing that I was not just participating. I was helping lead. RESULTS gave me space to grow as an advocate, but those moments showed me that my leadership could also encourage others to step forward, use their own voices, and believe they belong in rooms where decisions are made.
RESULTS’ greatest strength is its people.
The dedicated volunteers, advocates, staff, and leaders who care deeply about this work are what make the organization so powerful. People like Randy Russo, Anne, Craig, Joanna, and so many others have made this movement feel supported, intentional, and mission-driven.
What stands out to me most is that RESULTS does not just talk about poverty. RESULTS acts. Volunteers are supported, trained, and trusted to use their voices in meaningful ways. The organization invests its time, energy, and resources into making sure people experiencing poverty are heard, valued, and represented in the places where decisions are made.
That commitment to ending poverty globally and building a more just world for everyone is what makes RESULTS so amazing.
RESULTS has a powerful opportunity to grow by strengthening its global connections.
I would love to see deeper, more intentional engagement between U.S. volunteers and RESULTS’ international teams. For example, we have heard about Fellows in Canada through Yolanda, but many of us have not had the chance to directly connect with them. That feels like a missed opportunity to build relationships, share strategies, and learn from one another’s advocacy work.
This kind of connection does not have to be expensive. We have already seen how effective tools like Zoom can be, especially during the international conference. Expanding the use of technology to host regular cross-country conversations, collaborative sessions, or shared trainings could help bridge that gap in a meaningful way.
I would also love to see opportunities for deeper collaboration, such as joint projects between international teams or even sending one or two volunteers abroad to connect and work alongside other RESULTS members. We have already taken important steps by bringing in international speakers. Building ongoing, interactive relationships feels like the natural next step.
Strengthening these global connections would not only deepen the work, but also reinforce the shared mission of ending poverty worldwide.
I would contribute to the RESULTS Board by bringing a grounded, grassroots perspective that keeps the work connected to the people it is meant to serve.
As someone who has been deeply involved in advocacy and volunteer leadership, I understand both the power of lived experience and the importance of turning that experience into effective policy action. I would represent the voices of volunteers by making sure their insights, challenges, and ideas are reflected in board-level conversations and decisions.
I also see myself as a bridge between the grassroots and leadership. I would help ensure that communication flows both ways so volunteers feel heard, supported, and connected to the broader vision, while also helping the Board stay aligned with what is happening on the ground.
Most importantly, I would lead with the same commitment that brought me to RESULTS: making sure the voices of those closest to poverty are centered, and that our work continues to move beyond conversation into meaningful, lasting change.