Global Nutrition

The consequences of early childhood malnutrition are devastating and permanent, but they are also entirely preventable. RESULTS works to secure smart, sustainable investments in nutrition and nutrition policy that help break the cycle of poverty.

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Grassroots Spotlight

Grassroots Spotlight: Karyne Bury

Five years ago, I was sitting at home, feeling like I had no way of making change with my members of Congress. I was frustrated. I wanted to open up their perspectives and have conversations with them about issues I care about.

Grassroots Spotlight

Young advocates get their message through to Congress

“I never thought I’d actually be able to see my representative in person,” said Mercedeh Tavacoli as she sat on a stone bench on Capitol Hill and took a breath.

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Funding the Fight Against Poverty – Fiscal Year 2021 Appropriations (Updated Feb. 26)

RESULTS at 40 – with a new look!

This summer marks 40 years since a dozen people got together in a Los Angeles living room to write letters to Congress. The story of how that living room meeting led to the RESULTS movement of today is a long one: we couldn’t fit it into an email. And the truth is, it isn’t one story.

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Lots to Celebrate in Final Government Spending Bills

Before the holidays, Congress reached an agreement on spending bills and taxes and sent two packages to the president for signature. The good news is that the December 2019 deal includes an additional $239 million for global health programs and billions for housing assistance. And while the final package did not include critical expansions of tax credits for low-income workers and families, your hard work laid a strong foundation – including some bipartisan momentum – for when taxes are discussed again.

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Leadership on global poverty is again up to Congress

White House budget request tries to put health, nutrition, and education on the chopping block.

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Congress must reject harmful backdoor cuts to foreign aid

According to press reports, the White House is preparing to exploit a budget trick that would cancel funding for the fight against global poverty. This roundabout move would jeopardize $2-4 billion in aid that Congress has already approved and has been signed into law.

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White House budget would gut programs that fight poverty in the United States and around the world

The White House has once again jeopardized the futures of families struggling to put food on the table, kids around the world seeking an education, and millions more people facing poverty. The administration’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request proposes massive funding cuts to effective anti-poverty programs in the U.S. and around the world. Now the process and final decisions fall to Congress, where there is stiff opposition to much of this budget and where similar proposals failed last year.

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White House budget would strip health care, education, and economic opportunity from millions

With its first federal budget proposal, the White House has taken aim at families struggling to put food on the table, kids around the world seeking an education, and millions more people facing poverty. Proposing massive funding cuts to effective anti-poverty programs, the budget jeopardizes the futures of people across the country and around the world. Now Congress takes up the process.

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Budget Blueprint Threatens Millions of Families World Over

It falls to Congress to reject dangerous White House proposal.

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White House Budget Proposal Response

By proposing draconian cuts to funding for global development programs through the State Department and USAID, this proposal threatens the futures of millions of people living in poverty all around the world.

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1,000 Days that Decide Everything: Child Malnutrition and What the World Can Do

What our kids should eat has been the subject of every pediatrician’s visit, parenting class, and talk show in recent memory. The perfect answer is still up for debate, but in the meantime we’ve collectively, consistently failed to secure even the most basic nutrition for many of the world’s most vulnerable children.

Apr 08th 2016 | Global Child & Maternal Health | Global Nutrition

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Issue Deep Dive: Global Child Survival

Jan 16th 2020 | Global Child & Maternal Health | Global Nutrition | Global Poverty Budget & Appropriations

Policy Background

FY21 Global Appropriations Memos

Every year, Congress decides how to spend the money in the U.S. federal budget. RESULTS urges our lawmakers to support issues that build the foundation to end poverty – health, education, and economic opportunity. These are memos you can use to make FY21 requests of your members of Congress.

Webinar (U.S. and Global Poverty)