Together Women Rise Advocacy Chapter (October 2024)

The final quarter of 2024 signals the closing of the year, and the end of the 118th Congress. Learn about critical actions we can take during the lame duck year, as well as how to write effective media to break through the noise and bring attention to global poverty issues during an election year.

• Recording
• Presentation (PDF)
• Sample hooks (this Google document will be updated regularly)
• The Op Ed Project List of publications
• Tips on writing LTEs – Remember your C’s
• LTE Templates:
  • • Tuberculosis: The House must pass the End TB Now Act
    • Education: Media: Every child deserves an education
    • Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: Media: Congress should support Gavi’s life-saving work
    • Nutrition & Nutrition for Growth: Media: The US must make a strong, early pledge to Nutrition for Growth
  • Submit through the RESULTS Action Center OR write and submit directly to your local publication (contact [email protected] for help)

Additional advocacy actions:

• Congress must deliver on Gavi! Sample email and phone script to contact foreign policy aides on  S. Res 684  (Senate Resolution), and H. Res. 1286 (House Resolution)
• Secondary Action –
  • Follow up with your Representative on the End TB Now Act (H.R. 1776), sample email to foreign policy aide.