RESULTS August 2025 National Webinar Captioning Transcript Live captioning by AI-Media Good afternoon folks, this is Jos Linn, director of advocacy -- Grassroots Advocacy at RESULTS will stop we will get started in just a second, just a note we will be putting all of you on mute and the call, unless there is a Q&A section for you to unmute, we do ask you keep your lines on mute so we do not get background noise during the webinar. Also note today since we did not meet last month we have a lot to cover today. We are extending today's webinar of the 15 minutes, normally we ended 2:15 PM, will go to 2:30 PM. We may not use the whole time but wanted to give you a cushion just in case. And I think we are good to go, so I am going to mute everyone. It the record button, and JoAnn can get us started. DR JOANNE CARTER: Welcome everyone, for those who don't know me I'm Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS. It's good to be with you all for the August National Webinar. Much has happened since we last came together. That includes the passage of the hugely damaging reconciliation bill that will take healthcare and food away from millions of people, and is the largest wealth transfer to the ultrarich in our history. So I want to acknowledge the pain, fear, anger, frustration of this, but I also want to deeply acknowledge this network for all the intensive, powerful advocacy that went to fighting that bill. The way this community rallied to stand up for healthcare, food assistance, and a more just tax code. In the way this community grew in doing that. There should be a source of strength and encouragement for all of us. You have held more congressional meetings already in the first seven months of this year than all of last year. And last fall, our broader action network took something like 1500 actions. This spring it was over a thousand. And I saw over and over again we've gotten Republican offices were a few others good or were willing to do, and I also know private conversations with lawmakers, many of you heard even members of Congress who ultimately voted for the reconciliation bill knew how immensely damaging it is, and they shared those concerns with many of you. But honestly under pressure of the White House, members fail to act to protect her constituents. You will hear more about this later, but we did use those openings to make some things better in the bill or less words, like protecting the Child Tax Credit and food assistance for millions more families. And we will create accountability in the media as you've been doing, and congressional meetings this August Recess and beyond. We will make real the harmful impact of this bill in our communities, and will also counter the toxic and oppressive misinformation and stereotypes being used to support harmful work requirements, because that's how this terrible bill is being justified. We will also use these congressional meetings and initiatives in media to drive future opportunities to try to undo some of the damage to Medicaid and SNAP, and even to drive progress. Like expanding the Child Tax Credit for families with the lowest incomes. This is a hard moment, but it's not a moment to give up, it's a moment to double down. We will not let seven months destroyed decades of advocacy and progress in this country and the world. I want to give a shout out to the fellows and other advocates from the Atlantic region they came together in DC in July to have over 70 hall meetings, and also built skills and community. Just say to our fellows, you are not the leaders of tomorrow, you are clearly the leaders of right now. I also want to thank everyone who contribute it to sustaining our movement through the recent urgent needs fundraising match. Thanks to so many of you, we exceeded our $50,000 challenge match, and raised almost $60,000 in a very short time with over 200 donations for the critically important work. Before I turn to our meeting guest and the next part of our call, I do want to take a moment to really have you understand the remarkable impact that you will have had in protecting global health programs. That we have seen in just the past few weeks. You will hear more later about the way your brick protected global health priorities in the Sidetes package, the passage of that bill was undeniably harmful, but it could have been so much worse for global health. But your advocacy over months, and frankly years, prevented that and protected funding for millions of people globally. And honestly, even more remarkably. The impact you've had on funding for global health and education in the fiscal year 2026 will that came from the house appropriation's committee for foreign aid just a few weeks ago. The president's budget request, remember the president's budget request called for slashing global health by over 60%. It zeroed out Vaccine Alliance, it cut Maternal and Child Health Bureau over 90%. And we knew FY 26 with Congress was a last stand. It instead of agreeing to those cuts, the house for need appropriations bill, the one that has come out so far, has higher funding for global health than they did last year. Your advocacy on appropriations was so key, and the bill is such a powerful rebuke to the trumpet ministration and their attempts/these saving programs. In fact the house bill maintains funding for all of the RESULTS global health priorities you been lobbying on, writing and doing media about. And that's extraordinary in this moment! And I would say we didn't just use the appropriate is process as a lever of democracy to get these outcomes. In the work you did we helped keep democracy alive, by showing members of Congress they had support to act. So congratulations on that, and we have to use those moments and those winds to keep ourselves moving forward, because we are making a difference in what is a very challenging time. Jos, can I check with you if Joia has joined yet? DR JOIA MUKHERJEE: I'm on! I'm here, sorry! DR JOANNE CARTER: No worries, fantastic. Now I am just thrilled to have with us today someone who is a really special guest. But your colic and inspiration, truly inspiration to me and so many, Dr Joia Mukherjee who is the Chief Medical Officer at Partners in Health. She has been at the forefront of driving action on health equity, supporting comprehensive health service delivery, and social programs in countries all over the world, where large majorities face poverty and marginalization and dire risks. She is a long time and amazing advocate, and she has been a leader in also situating global health in the context of colonialism and oppression, and really working to change that. Joia, it's so wonderful to have you, thank you for being here. Welcome. DR JOIA MUKHERJEE: Thank you so much. I just so agree with the things you are saying Joanne, that without the work of RESULTS and other people who were doing this grassroots work, we would be in such, much more difficult dire straits, so I want to thank you all so much. I can't tell you, I just learned from Vincent Lynn who many of you know was one of our leaders had PIH engage which is an important part of the RESULTS network. The great victories we have had over the last three weeks. For people like me, I believe in advocacy, I believe in this kind of progressive movement. I believe still in democracy. Still I was surprised at how stunning these wins are, to find the right Republican allies. This is painstaking work. And to show the people really do care. What I thought I would do with the time I have is just present something I have been thinking about. About where we are now. And I have some slides I can share. Anytime people, if you want to jump in or raise a hand, I can probably also monitor the chat. I think it's important to remember that global health, as we know it, is a relatively new phenomenon that came from Grassroots Advocacy him – McGrath's advocacy, that came from you guys, from eight advocates, who felt -- people who felt the injustice of the quality was too tough. So I think about the road taken. We have taken an enormous road since the beginning. And I have now, in my head, I bring it up into three periods, and were of hissing what I call global health 3.0. I got that terminology from polymer syndicates, who appropriated that. We have a road, the straight road said we would have taken a very bad road. So when I first started doing work in Kenya, in Uganda, there was no healthcare at all. And that was normative. That was the straight path. And we diverged. We do verged because of Advocate system. That fork in the road is because of you, because of RESULTS. I always think of this Lewis Carroll quote. When Alice asks the Cheshire cat what road do I take? And the Cheshire cat says, "if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." Think there was the idea the status quo which is to provide very basic preventive services for poor people around the world. Vaccines, Vitamin A, weighing babies. But nothing else. So there had to be a new vision, and that vision came to the fore with the advent of AIDS treatment Access, not because of the advent of the treatment itself, but because of advocacy him and Grassroots globalization. So I think what I experienced, and Joanne and other people in the very beginning, this global health 1.0, was to do almost nothing for people. Countries tried. There was the imposition of what was called Obama co-initiative, user fees. And there was no delivery of health services. Only preventive services. And in HIV we were told prevention is better than cure, which it is not by the way. Over time we changed the paradigm. But we always hope it's a straight line, and it is never a straight line. We have wins and losses. So I think it is important for us to keep this into perspective as we go forward, because we are now here. And I will cling to you why. Global health 1.0 was from the 1970s, really until the early 2000's, it was a Cold War era fight between government provision of services that was promoted at the Alma otter conference, -- Alma Ata package, and the much more skinny selected from after Wachovia promoted by the Americans. And prevention was prioritized over treatment as I said. And there was no recognition or fight about the fact that countries are impoverished because of us. Because of colonialism, resource extraction, new liberalism, structural adjustment, the things that make us poor, we left it is given. As the straight path. We will keep extracting, we will keep winning. And whatever countries have international budget for health, which we created. By our constraints. That's what they would do. And we were told it's not sustainable on the country's income to do anything else. Use appropriate technology, and those appropriate technologies were essentially prevention. So in Alma Ata and I have dated what hundred 34 governments, the motto was healthcare for all by the year 2000. But it was really the public sector model won, and the idea that affluent countries should support this. It was in interregnum between World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. There was an idea there would be a peace dividend. As you can see this conference was in the USSR. So it was rapidly replaced by something we refer to as GOBI. Put the baby in the bucket, weigh them, put them on the road to health card. If they are hungry, don't feed them. Just teach their mothers how to feed them better. No recognition of the dire poverty. This was so popular there's even a stamp of it. Here is the growth monitoring, the O is oral, rehydration, makes of salt and water to prevent children from dying of dehydration. Infant vaccination, and promotion of breast-feeding. And that was in essence all you could do in global health. That was what was considered feasible, sustainable, appropriate and impoverished countries that had a few dollars to spend. And this is the reality of the cost of six months of tuberculosis medicine, $55. The cost of HIV medicine at that time, excuse me, $10,000. And so you can see how this fits this tiny package of vaccinations, ORS, and just the promotion. Keep telling people what to do, behavior change, etc. And that would be enough. In that period, that is Cold War, in that period USCDI was founded in 1961 foreign assistance act, as idea of soft power diplomacy, and support for American organizations, part of USAID is you cannot go to foreign governments commit us to go to NGOs. And the idea would be this would also open markets. So there was a very strong private sector support and scope of that. And it was a pretty small budget until 2000. The CDC on the other hand was formed in an era of multilateralism. It was formed at the time that we were supporting the UN. And it was always under the Department of Health and human services had initially a bigger budget than USAID. Whereas USAID was later organized under the State Department. This one was really more diplomacy, soft power. This one was always more of multilateralism. A kind of collaborative work. What USAID created in global health 1.0 is this. And if you talk, I get the bright -- I get the great privilege of getting to know a lot of ministers of health in my job. In Africa, Haiti, Latin America. This is what they experience. This is the schema I made based on talks with ministers. They have very little money available because of the constraints placed on them by the World Bank and IMF. Very few governments and not the US will give direct budgetary support. They make their national plan. With that national plan they have to pay human resources, have to procure medicines, have to do this and that. And very little gets actually into the health system. In the USAID model unfortunately, the American government had this idea that it should go to US-based NGOs, and really in large part goes to three things. PAIR one is the idea we can change people's behaviors. Their ill health is because they are doing the wrong things. So wash your hands, dig a latrine, cut brush, sleep under bed net. Firing of consultants who are not part of the government, people like me who get paid a lot of money to help write plans, etc. Then to train the health workers to do the right things. These trainings are often given a per diem for people to come and sit in a hotel and learn stuff. But they go back to their facilities and do not have the drugs, they are getting paid regularly because governments were impoverished. So global health 1.0 was a tough, tough thing to face. At that time, I started late 90s, started working with Partners in Health. And they had a different idea, which was just that our work should be really with solidarity with the poor. Not saying, "but here you are. Eat more, do better. This quote but what are the medicines. Here we see a young Paul Farmer Wayne a baby in one such campaign. This baby's name is Bobby Farrell. Bobby Ferrero is now a medical doctor, and Chief Medical Officer of the conch hospital. His mother almost died of malaria during pregnancy. And without the medicine she would've died, and he would have died in infancy as well. But we make a long-term commitment. In a case like Bobby, Bobby was there. We were there through him read his childhood, we help them go to medical school. Now he is a leader in his community. Similarly in Peru, we found a lot of drug-resistant TB and didn't say, sorry, it's too hard to treat, were going to treat it. We were told this is unsustainable, usable, appropriate. We do this with communities. Everywhere we work we have community health workers. We go deep into villages, whether in Siberia, this is my colleague Maryna gal move over, and Tom Sebero, during a tuberculosis follow-up. This is my colleague Doctor Jonas traveling in horseback. He's Haitian, he was leading our work in Africa for a time. Some of our community health workers. I could give you all their names, but it would take too long. So HIV was the thing, HIV and drug resistant TB with the thing that launched Partners in Health onto the international stage, and I would say created global health 2.0. This is a picture of our dear colleague,... and forgetting his name (Laughs). Dijon. Just having a moment. Anyway he came in like this, his mother carried him into the hospital. This was how he looked on six months of anti-(Unknown Term) therapy. Doesn't look like the same person. We were treating this patient and many patients like him in Haiti, rural Haiti, with an average overall since 1998. There was no antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa except for people who might pay for it in the private sector a $10,000 per person per year. Which is certainly not sustainable for a family. He lived a good life. He died and he was about 48. Prematurely, but was able to see his children finish secondary school. Was able to pass on land to his family. And he became an HIV advocate. The interesting about just of June, he also became the poster child for what was possible if we tried HIV treatment. He became an outspoken advocate, spoke at many HIV conferences. In Toronto 2006, tactical city in 2008. Every time he would go to the different conferences, people would say, "oh that guy, he's Canyon. That guy, he's from Botswana. Postcode no, no, he's Haitian. But he became the every man because he was on the cover of the WHO 3 x 5 manual to try to treat 3 million people in Africa by 2005. Started by my colleague and pH founder Jim Kim. That was when the dam broke loose. Activists said if they could do this in Haiti, we could do it in sweater, in Bangkok, people were trying to have small projects. The rest of the world was saying it couldn't be done. And we work together with results, physicians for human rights, (Unknown Term) in South Africa, TAG is a softer, in Washington DC. After -- and advocates around the world amended the treatment be afforded to poorer countries, where the pandemic was killing 95% of people who had HIV and lived in sub-Saharan Africa. 26 million people in that year in 2002 who had HIV, lived on the African continent, and none of that practically none of that -- practically none of them are getting a TB treatment. That launched global health 2.0, was a grassroots victory for the creation of PAP far, the Global Fund later President's malaria initiative, etc. Much of that was channeled through USAID, not all of it. The thing that went to the Global Fund so far is OK. We fought like crazy, including having congressional testimonies to have that money go under the CDC for reasons I showed you before. And in Haiti ours was one of the only grants that still goes through the CDC, not USAID. Why were we worried? Because of the political nature of aid. That is under the State Department, and can be so controlled politically. But! Regardless of where Pat FAR came from, USAID or CDC, it was massively successful with the Global Fund. 27 million people are in treatment now for HIV around the world. And like Joseph June, they don't pay any money for the medicines, for the monitoring, the testing, the testing of their families. And we have combined that with a lot of what we now call health system strengthening. To do this properly we need to reach the most vulnerable. It can't only be medicines. We have to look at the Social Determinants of Health. Running transport, food, mental health services. Whatever it is people need to keep them on medicines. Here you see an image from a Lima, Peru, where we worked for more than 25 years. With our community health workers, with PPE, going to do COVID testing in the same communities where we saw massive death early on from tuberculosis. So once you build that kind of system, you can continue to really make common cause with vulnerable people. So this outcome Is what I described with HIV. We had PIH and affirm our -- the late in order for Paul Farmer, had a lot of critiques of global health 1.0. We started something called the Institute for health and social justice, and wrote many books, critiques and monographs to say this is not the way to get to health as a human right. We also have a linkage with Harvard, and we wrote a lot of scholarly articles, and continue to do so, to show not only is it the right thing to do morally, but there's data that support this. You will see familiar names like Joel Curtin who I think you all know, of course Jim, Paul Farmer, myself. So Partners in Health is unique in the space, but we were not be able to do this if it were not for you. And there is no doubt in my mind Partners in Health would still be a small NGO working in college if it weren't for results and the Grassroots Advocacy that you've spearheaded. We are trusted researchers, we do social justice, we have no exit plan, part of the communities we serve. But without the works there would have been no global health 2.0. And that is very much based on international system, based on this movement for HIV treatment axis, the millennial development goals which join and I were very involved in. And changes at the world health organization, World Bank, and I do that was a smiley face because last time we gave this talk Jim Kim was in the audience. We also have the advantage of a globally strong economy. This is the change we saw with the movement of HIV treatment access, there was very little money. Here, this is about 6 billion total. In the early 2000's. And billions of dollars of money from the Global Fund, Farm, channeled through mostly NGOs, but also bilateral development agencies, particularly USAID. This is the old 3 x 5 I was mentioning that just of June is his name was the cover of. This is our very modest proposal. To get 3 million people on HIV treatment 2005. This was June Kim's brainchild, everyone thought it was nutty. And we did it. Not quite by 2005. Many of you have been involved in these different monographs to the WHO, Partners in Health, and others to help countries to do this. We needed to provide guidelines, figure out how to do this within the WHO system, which is the standard setter. But, he caught the car. Some of you know the statement, what happens when the dog catches the car, we got the car. He fought for this, critique of global health 1.0. We knew something more needed to happen, but we actually didn't have a plan of how are we going to get to every single person with HIV? That's where this new rubric came about, which we now call health system strengthening. When you hear the term health system strengthening, understand that the term that only comes out of global health 2.0. It only comes when we have the money for HIV, TB, malaria. And we said hey, it's not about these diseases, is about creating a platform where people can get healthcare. So we used our HIV money early on in Haiti to revitalize primary health care by hiring and paying public-sector workers to do the job they wanted to do but weren't paid, putting in primary care drugs, not only HIV medicines. Hiring and training an army of community health workers. Introducing user fees and barriers to care. Within months these clinics, public clinics across rural Haiti using money just became revitalized. With massive numbers of people coming every day, we were able to find every single person with HIV. In many places. In Haiti we had full coverage for years of people on HIV therapy. They are doing well, living longer. But when you have a full primary care clinic, then you can also do maternal health, you can also find typical losses. You can also make sure people are treated for malaria. Like Bobby's mother. So this health system strengthening narrative, this is what African countries wanted. This is what they wanted. Not treatment for one disease. Not parallel systems. They wanted that money to go into the national plan to revitalize health systems from years of impoverishment at the hands of these structural forces. We documented as we did this health system strengthening, we saw massive improvements in civil things like childhood vaccination. This comprehensive healthcare, Partners in Health was invited to Africa, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, to do this thing. Use HEB money, use momentum of global health 2.02 build health systems. We costed out the model that became the national healthcare model in Rwanda and was also both. Social report for patients. Integrating disease focused programs into care. This is the model we use. We say there are 5S to this model. The first is staff. You have to have the staff, the staff have to be paid. That is a big steel difficulty. Because countries still don't have the money to adequately pay staff. Second is drugs. You can't assume poor people can pay for their own drugs. It is not only HIV, it's other drugs. Dignified space, we use money over years to revitalize spaces so they are dignified the systems, from inlet systems to financing systems. As social support for patients. Without this thing, that's a rubric at partners for health, to help system strengthening. Systems of care have been built around the world. This is just from my colleague. Who is not the minister in South Rwanda. This is from his PhD. Should the sparseness of HIV services in Rwanda, nine years later the plethora of places you can get ART, you can get voluntary testing and counseling. And each and every one of these is a primary healthcare clinic that's been strengthened by HIV. These are not vertical posts for HIV. These are healthcare facilities. What Rwanda showed us is with strong national planning and diverting the money away from the trainer, consultancies, to strong national plans. Rather than having people be trained in this per diem economy. Train people at universities to be doctors, nurses, public health specialists and managers. That health systems could improve massively. They are pictures of those of two from the national reform showing massive increase in ART enrollment in primary healthcare. Again it is strengthening primary health care. And massive increase in immunization through strengthening primary health care. This was mostly with HIV money. So what's global health 3.0? I don't know. We need you to think through. We have to think what it will look like if the US is not the player it's now. There are cons of the US in the way we do eight. One is massive overhead that goes to NGOs. The trainings that are one-off and remove people from their place of work. And parallel systems created. On the other hand, there are a lot of things we need to fight for. Particularly the drugs, the commodities. Also any payments to the workforce because people need to be paid. And we are worried about what the future of the Global Fund is. Right now we are in a precarious position. The fight you have waged to get the Global Health money at least somewhat pulled out of that position package is so critical. But we are in a place where we will need to reimagine how to move forward. We can't go back to Global Health 1.0, millions of people will die in a year. But can we try to rethink how to put governments in the driver seat? Put the public sector where it ought to be? And learn lessons from places like Rwanda, Zambia, and others that really show what strong governance and good planning can do for the health of populations. Luckily we know where we are going. We will always make preferential option for the poor. We are always going to be making long-term commitments to the people we serve, and will always act in solidarity with the people who need it most. I'll stop there. DR JOANNE CARTER: Joia, thank you so much. That was amazing. I think what you talked about in our history, what Partners in Health, what we hope to do together. We also have to remember that in the moment, because there was a time people said all of this was completely impossible. And we are facing big challenges, we can't forget those challenges. I think what we faced in those years and what you showed was possible. Unfortunately we won't have time for questions, but that was amazing. It made me think in a deeper way. Me as head of RESULTS but also as partners, we need to sit down with you and think... and we are doing it in separate pieces. But together to think about what is 3.0 look like? What do we protect? What do we sustain, grow? And what we put countries, especially those fighting for the health of the people in the driver seat? This is a moment to do it because the people and so much is broken, but would love to work with you. DR JOIA MUKHERJEE: Of course Joanne, always. When you asked me I was like, let's do it! Absolutely. We have a new Chief Medical Officer at PAH. After 25 years I've stepped down from the role, I'm not leaving PIH but I will now be the strategic advisor. On strategy, still doing clinical work. DR JOIA MUKHERJEE: Can think of a better person to be on this. DR JOIA MUKHERJEE: Let's work together more, I have little more time to work on strategy with you. Thanks everybody. And I will send my slides! DR JOANNE CARTER: Thank you so much. As always, thanks. Now I will turn it over to Lynne Patalano, amazing Grassroots Board Member and leader, and thanks everybody. Wonderful to be with you. LYNNE PATALANO: Welcome everyone. I hope you can hear me now. Thanks for taking time out of your Saturday to here. As you see there's a lot that we've done, there is a lot to do. Thank you for making their voices heard in challenging times, and continuing to speak truth to power. Right now in this section we want you to consider why community engagement for us isn't just important, it's essential. Especially right now. For over 40 years results foragers effort to improve global health, reduce child mortality and end poverty, both here at home and around the world. And we have seen real progress. We helped advance policies that are proven, cost-effective, and increasingly accessible to millions of people who need them. But in the past seven months we have seen many of those solutions to poverty being dismantled. Deliberately and needlessly. Programs that worked are being cut. People in need are being ignored. In the democratic process that once made our advocacy possible feels increasingly fragile. This is exactly the moment when community matters most. Historian Timothy Snyder in his book On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century. Encourages us to, "practice corporeal politics,". Shoben person in our communities. To organize, to connect. To speak up even when it's hard. He also writes, "for resistance to succeed, to boundaries must be crossed." "First, ideas about change must engage people about various backgrounds who do not agree about everything. Second, people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends." That's where we are now. Community engagement for RESULTS is not just a tactic. It is an active assistance. When we come together in living rooms, Zoom calls, and town hall meetings. We are doing more than fighting for policies. We are modeling the kind of democracy we want to reclaim. Now we want you to make eye contact and talk in the courtrooms as you consider answering three questions: First, when you aren't taking a RESULTS action, what are you doing? What are you doing in real life? Second, in 2025 we have faced unprecedented headwinds against our efficacy, so what are you and your group doing to keep up your morale? Third, what activities or actions would make you feel better? How could you share those activities and actions with others in your greater community during the time we have left this summer? You are going to have 15 minutes in Breakout Rooms to talk to each other. There should be a Breakout Room link showing up on your screen now. Please click it, unmute, take off your video rooms – turn on your video cameras! Look each other in the eye, have a great conversation, we will see you in 15 minutes. Join now. [Breakout Rooms] JOS LINN: Hey Folks, Please Join your Breakout Room so we don't have folks in a room by themselves. ERROLYN GRAY: Jos, can you reassign me please? Sorry. SPEAKER: I was the only one in my group too. KARYNE BURY: I'm hoping to reassign some folks that I see are in a room on their own. SPEAKER: Sorry, is there a way to get reconnected to my old Breakout Room? Perfect, thank you. KARYNE BURY: I guess for folks who have not joined the chat, if they would like to unmute, would anyone like to share? Particularly the second question, what are some of the things that lift up your morale during this time? I would share first, so time with friends and family. And travel has been really energizing. Giving kind of purpose to the work we do when we connect with community. ALICIA STORMBERG: Mine is definitely community. If Congress is being difficult, I look to inspiration from others around me who are persevering and amidst this adversity. I feel less alone knowing there's so many other people with my values, and/or willing to put some skin in the game. That's really what I am holding two quite closely this year. KARYNE BURY: Anyone else want to share while folks are in breakout? And thanks Alicia, definitely. I look forward to continuing connection with community, especially folks who were kind of in the struggle with us (Laughs). Oh, and feel free to share in the chat. And feel better Angela. ALICIA STORMBERG: Feel better Angela. KARYNE BURY: Yes, being on calls like this to help. I love hearing from Dr Mukherjee, I remember the first time I heard from her was during international conference, I want to say it was 2020. That was a time when everyone was forced at home, and community was important. Just reflecting on that. JOS LINN: This is Jos, all share. The first question when I'm not doing RESULTS, what am I doing? I'm reading. Feels weird when I'm not reading a book. Most times and reading two or three at a time, which is not great. I like to watch television, go to movies. Wendy Moore movies the summers in the last few years which is nice. And I am taking guitar lessons. ALICIA STORMBERG: That's cool Jos, you've been doing that for a while now right? JOS LINN: I've been taking lessons for five years now. ALICIA STORMBERG: What's your favorite song to play? JOS LINN: I learned so many of them. Unable to move, make my way around the guitar, but I'm not – I wouldn't even say I'm all that good. I'm still very much, I feel very much like a novice. Right now I have been learning The Power of Love by Huey Lewis, so that. ALICIA STORMBERG: Cool! Awesome. Hopefully you learn U2 for Lisa. Just like I've been intentionally avoiding it. LISA MARCHAL: That hurts (Laughs). The Power of Love is my second favorite song of all time. So I am expecting a concert. Just make I don't know about that one. KARYNE BURY: That's really great, music is great too. I moved my piano into my apartment a few years ago. So it has been a very sort of therapeutic thing to go back to. Just have to be careful of the hours, I did get a noise complaint from the neighbor a few weeks ago. (Laughs) LISA MARCHAL: Ohno! KARYNE BURY: I was hoping they would enjoy it, it was late to be fair. I lost track of time. It was 10:30 PM, and there is a 10 o'clock cut off time. LISA MARCHAL: Oh dear! JOS LINN: If you moved your piano into your apartment, where did you play before? Outside? KARYNE BURY: At my mom's (Laughs). It was funny how it is phrased. Never outdoor. It was the last thing. I moved out for my mom's. Just may have to get you and Lisa's do concert. KARYNE BURY: Was going to ask about the movies. What was your favorite of the ones you've seen? JOS LINN: All the big ones. F1, Fantastic For, Mission Impossible, they've all been pretty good. F1 was entertaining just because of the way they filmed it was cool. ALICIA STORMBERG: The score was so cool. They had so many artists! JOS LINN: I was going to boycott The Naked Gun, because why were they remaking it? It was such a good movie originally. But it's getting such good reviews I have to go see it. KARYNE BURY: I didn't realize they remade it, the movie from the 80s? -- JOS LINN: Late 80s. KARYNE BURY: We are in the time of remakes. ALICIA STORMBERG: We are. I want to see Fantastic 4. -- JOS LINN: It was good, it seems marvelous getting back on track. Karen, what time do you want to pull folks? KARYNE BURY: I didn't see it either, it was 15 minutes. JOS LINN: Probably another five minutes. ALICIA STORMBERG: I think about 1:42 PM is when we started. KARYNE BURY: I am a huge Pedro Pascal fan. ALICIA STORMBERG: Me too. I get TikTok deep dives on his SNL skits and stuff (Laughs). SPEAKER: Great honorary cast member should for sure. ALICIA STORMBERG: He is. Did anyone watch Pappy Gilmore 2? KARYNE BURY: I have the same feeling says Jos. (Laughter) JOS LINN: Not as good as the first one, but it's a good distraction. ALICIA STORMBERG: I was laughing. JOS LINN: There were parts that were funny, the cameos are the reason to watch. ALICIA STORMBERG: The cameos make it. When Eminem came up (Laughs). I watched it on my birthday last week with some friends. JOS LINN: Anyone else want to share the things they do to keep themselves sane in these crazy times? LISA MARCHAL: I don't know if my answer is super different or interesting, stuff that I'm involved in. Other social organizations and other – things at my church. -- -- I am lucky the bulk of my family lives here. We all like each other quite a bit. So we hang out. Spent a lot of time with Matt. I don't know, just kind of chill. Hanging out with my friends. Nothing exotic or anything, but... yet. Just kind of relaxing and planning ahead. For a bit of travel. Because I haven't traveled as much recently. I don't know, stretching my legs out in the world. Appreciating what is out there. Not taking it for granted I guess. And then resting and trying to get back into it. Finding bits of joy. And watching Golden Girls. ALICIA STORMBERG: You can never go wrong there. LISA MARCHAL: I have a friend of mine, we paying each other, he invited me to ping him Miranda-lee with Golden girls quotes, because he's seen episodes multiple times and could reenact all of them. So I will reach out to him with non sequiturs. And we have moments together. Matt knows if I am sad, he quietly turns on an episode. And just let me watch it. So... (Laughs). It's a ball (Laughs). ALICIA STORMBERG: Whoever closed the rooms, you read my mind. I had my mouse hovering over the button. Then all of a sudden. LISA MARCHAL: Synchronized. JOS LINN: Gives a minute. LISA MARCHAL: That's a nice feature it does that, rather than cutting it off abruptly. JOS LINN: I will put the recording back on when we are ready. SPEAKER: It did take me a while to figure out I could leave the room. (Recording in progress) KARYNE BURY: Is Beth back in the main room? BETH WILSON: Alright, I hope you all had a good conversation. My name is Beth Wilson, I live across Puget Sound in Seattle, and I am both a group leader here in, somebody reorganized that, Gig Harbor/South Kitsap, and also Regional Coordinator for Southwest, not Southwest, this is interesting. I am Regional Coordinator for Intermountain West region for RESULTS. So the slide is a little bit wrong. Can we go to the next slide please? Thank you everyone for sharing your heart, your enthusiasm and strategies with each other. I would like to invite anyone who has one, that particularly struck them during their conversation, to put it in the chat and I will read them out. Any strategy to keep your morale up, keep your group active, to stay engaged with our summer campaign. Let's see if I can do this. If I could walk and chew gum. Everybody like the breakout groups. So we are leaning on community. As you probably remember we are in the middle of our Summer Action Matters Campaign. This is kind of the focus on how do we reach out to our community and grow what we are doing, share our enthusiasm and concerns. Could you take me to the next slide? I will try to move this along quickly because we are a little behind in our timing. It's fiber to engage in community outreach, whether it's one-on-one, a conversation with your neighbor. It happens all the time I'm sure, from people in RESULTS. To finding new partners, I found a new one with Legal Women Voters local chapter, and I will be doing some training with them. And there are probably others that many of you. Church and faith-based focusing Lynne said. Personal time in nature. OK, John is saying our breakout talked about the intersection of faith-based community and RESULTS. It is interesting that keeps coming up. And prioritizing getting together in person. The pandemic kind of pulled us all into our homes and onto Zoom, but it's important at this point to be face-to-face with people and share your eyes, and your enthusiasm. It moves people, it's good for our groups and good for our outreach. So we are really encouraging everyone to try and have face-to-face meetings with your groups. Like the picnic held in Seattle just last week. We are going to have a big barbecue and invite everyone from Western Washington to come and be together in barbecue and make a contribution to RESULTS. And invite volunteers into action. Next slide please. These are things we want to encourage you to do. Go back to your roadmap you wrote in the beginning of January. Congratulate yourself and celebrate the things you have accomplished. Look at the things you have not yet gotten to, see if those are still relevant. Or see if you still need to update your roadmap. This is a great time to do that. Revisit the champion scale for all members of Congress and to set a goal. Given that it is August, trying get a face-to-face meeting with your members of Congress. If you get one, be sure to take any new members you have found since your last visit. Those folks have a real sense of what this means to be a RESULTS members. Face-to-face meetings with members of Congress and their staff. The members themselves or the staff are equally as important. I think I have said what I need to say. I am going to pass it on to Karyne. KARYNE BURY: Thank you so much Beth, I am so happy we could connect in community activity's webinar. Hope everyone make connections with their volunteer advocates to inspire your group's action matters activities for the rest of the summer. My name is Karyne Bury, I will share headlines from our recent Fellowship conference. The RESULTS organizing and advocacy fellowship seeks to inspire and train leaders in the fight for the end of poverty. This is an opportunity that is designed to broaden folks's experience, confidence, and knowledge of the operations of Congress while advocating for key poverty issues. This year's conference had fellow members and alumni percentages. For example, this year included Freedom Richardson who is a Hill staffer and a fellowship class of 2018. Hill Staffer who talked to fellows are building stronger relationships with MOCs and their offices. Fellows were joined by volunteers from the capital and Mid-Atlantic. Fellows held over 73 meetings adding to our 232 meetings this year. 146 Senate meetings and 186 House meeting with 59 of those meetings being face to face meetings with members themselves. Kudos and congratulate him on the call for your continued engagement in lobby meetings. I would like to pass it off to a fellow (indiscernible) and expert in property, Tiffany Tagbo. Tiffany will share her experience meeting with some of the toughest offices as well as (unknown name). I will pass it over to you Tiffany. TIFFANY TAGBO: Good afternoon everyone, coming together in Washington DC as a fellow with RESULTS staff and volunteers was something truly special. It reminded us how mighty we can be what is standing solidarity as a community, united in purpose, to injustice, and unwilling to back down. Some of us came into this Fellowship meeting on the hill with heavy hearts. As appointed, weary, and the nature of our efforts to speak to politicians would make a dent in the system that often feels unmovable. Especially with the reconciliation bill that recently passed. We did not let that stop us. Through the veil of disappointment, we found something deeper. Hope, faith, strength, love, and the will to carry on. We came together in DC, because poverty does not take a break. What became clear to me is, children cannot go to bed not being hungry, seniors do not stop being sick, and people do not stop dying on the street when politicians are slow to enact policies. Many of us have survived this, that is why we fight. The DC Fellowship gathering gave us tools to effect political change for lifetime. We were giving the entire (indiscernible). Getting a decent enough so they gave us a platform, it gave us a key to unlock doors we never thought we would stand in front of. A key to speak truth to power and the need to believe again back against the change, we can be the change. Sorry, we can't be the change even in the hardest of times. Some of us were afraid, angry, frustrated, some of us were angry. All of us were brave. Brave enough to step into a role where a world where all the odds are stacked against us. In this political climate, we hold fast to one another. We cling to the truth that we will not grow weary in (indiscernible). The what we are facing is hard, it will pass. Even as we move forward, we refuse to give quiet consent. We will not remain silent in the face of intestines -- it just is. We are RESULTS, we are not just advocates but amplifiers of the voices. We make the invisible visible. We speak not just for change, but as change in changemakers. To my fellows past and present, whether you are in DC, July or not, I say thank you. To each of you for your courage, fire, faith in what is possible, I say thank you. To the (unknown term) who showed up who help us know our strength. The freedom that helped us know what is possible to achieve. And all of our RESULTS volunteers, Joanne, all of our board staff, thank you for your leadership, encouragement, everything you provide to make the DC fellowship and the work we do possible. To everyone, our hard work is not in vain. The DC fellowship is just one example of fact. We will continue to mobilize collectively and stand in solidarity to raise our voices and fight for the world we know is possible. That is a world in which the medication of poverty in our lifetime is within reach. I will pass it back over to the host. KARYNE BURY: Thank you so much Tiffany and Yvonne for advocacy in this critical moment in our country and in the world. With that, I will deposit over to my colleague Colin Smith who will share of global poverty campaign updates. COLIN SMITH: Thanks Karyne and Tiffany. I am Colin Puzo Smith, not if you need me to tell you what a devastating year this has been for millions of people in communities around the world. Because of decisions happening in Washington. The last two weeks have been no exception to that. And two things can be true at the same thing. The second one is your advocacy is make a difference. Not just any rhetorical "Keep up the fight"kind of way, this is real. You heard Joanne and Joia talk about this at the start. We have been saying Congress to stand up, Congress has its last word (indiscernible). Many times Congress has left us down. This month we had a breakthrough on global health and one that was in no way guaranteed. I want to rewind a bit. And remember this spring, he did all of your annual appropriations work. It zeroed in on one of the highest impact parts of the federal budget. In the midst of that work, the White House released its own budget proposal. Here is what it looked like on the areas you are fighting for. Many cut in half for others zeroed out completely. Many people in DC including the Trump administration themselves expected that the Republican Congress would go along with us. Not slow down your advocacy, it went down to the wire. Our member Tiffany, who just heard from, was in a meeting with the head of the full Appropriations Committee in the house. Hours before the final vote. The House Republicans advance their answer to (indiscernible). All of our global health priorities were either fully restored or increased. Every single one that we are making asks on. The net difference between the White House proposal and the House of Representatives proposal was over 2 1/2 billion with a B, to half billion dollars for some of the highest impact things the US government does. I am going to repeat some of this because I want it to sink in. I say this again, not to pat ourselves on the back. When we see what we have done, gives us reason to keep going. Last month, the White House got on stage and said they would not fund (unknown term). Last week, the House side you will. That is supporting the vaccines for half of the world's children. In their proposal, the White House zeroed out nutrition billing. The house increased it. The White House paid lip service to the malaria, they tried to cut in half. The House put it right back to where it was. There are also some very very bad things in this bill that will do real harm. I have not minimize impact or saying this is a good bill. But this list on the screen, the stuff you worked on is extraordinary. The same week in July, the same week as of the House was proposing this funding looking forward for next year, the Senate was taking a separate issue looking backwards. Trying to claw back money the Congress had already set aside. The White House had used up a rare move call decisions to ask Congress to rubberstamp a set of harmful cuts across a bunch of issues. Even before voting on it, Saturday's insisted on moving away some of the dangerous Global Healthcare cuts. Here is the actual bill amendment passed on the Senate floor. No think about what is on the list of things to protect against cuts? It is a line by line of the global health priorities you had all been fighting for this spring. When push came to shove, senators on both side of the aisle drew a line. These programs are too important to cut. It does not happen by accident, this is advocacy. Do not get me wrong, this is not all good news. The rest of the rescissions package did pass. It got important programs that will create harm and set a bad precedent. Enjoy you sent a second precedent which is that Congress is drawing a redline saying hands off global health. Now we need them to go further. Before I turned to what is next, one final word on decisions. This package is done at a finite process, a line by line set of cuts opposed by the White House that are accepted or rejected. That one is done. But nothing stops the White House from initiating the same process again with a different set of cuts. The lots were targeted the work we do, but we also oppose the process itself. It takes bipartisan decisions that constituents like you have informed and unilaterally reverses them. We expect the administration to traffic and on other issues. It could be as soon as this month. There's nothing to do now, but we will stay alert on it. What is next? I just talked about how the house protected global spending in their bill. Now we turn to the Senate. They are writing their bill as we speak, we need them to follow the houses lead and do better on other critical issues. We need to House and Senate to make sure funding already satisfied gets used for the highest impact things. Second, you saw on Joia's slide she had (indiscernible) as part of global health 3.0. We have an action we can take all this now. The global fund is rallying the world to help save 23 million lives. The US should be helping find it. The partnership is in place, what is needed is a catch. The leaders in Congress making these decisions are inclined to do the right thing. They need to know their peers will have their back. Which means every member of Congress can make a difference. The final thing I want to say is on Gaza. The horrors are unspeakably awful as you know and so much worse that this is a man-made and preventable catastrophe. Documented war crimes, starvation, genocide that our government is allowing and enabling. The interaction in Congress is slowly finally starting to shift in both parties and it is too little too late, but still so needed. This is not our expertise at RESULTS, Louisville an -- but we know and end of the blockade, cease-fire, and return of hostages is needed. We are working with leaders in Gaza to find a path through Congress. We need to do that so that if and when there is a shift in Congress where RESULTS can make a difference, we are ready and you will be hearing from us. In the meantime I know many of you, myself included, have been working with other groups on this. If you are looking for something to do on a personal level, I was drunk -- I will drop a link in the chat. This is not our expertise as RESULTS, but we know this network cares so deeply and we encourage you to be in action. Thank you all and I will turn it over to Jos. JOS LINN: Hi everyone, if you do not know me I am Jos Linn. I will provide to our campaign updates. As you well know now, we have the time of the reconciliation bill in Congress that Joanne talk at the beginning of the webinar. The one they beautiful bill for months now. You have been stellar into advocacy against this disastrous bill. Sadly Congress narrowly passed the reconciliation bill in early July. You advocacy made a close, he passed by one vote in the Senate and four votes in the house. This will reverberate throughout our economy and communities to come. Here is what the bill means for those who need it the most. 17 million people could lose the health insurance, 12 million of them from Medicaid cuts alone. Many rural hospitals will start to close, they are already starting now. Millions of families—including veterans, foster youth, and people experiencing homelessness—will face harsh new work reporting requirements that will cut or eliminate their SNAP benefits and food assistance. As Joanne mentioned, 17 million children will remain shut out of the full Child Tax Credit because their parents cannot earn higher wages. Immigrant families will face devastating losses: more benefit cuts, and additional funding for cruel and often unlawful mass deportation efforts. I know there have been many questions among grassroots among certain cuts and other changes and when they will be going into effect. I am not sure members of Congress know when all these things are going to happen. Fortunately, the Center for American progress has created a detailed timeline for those revisions and when those will start. The link on the slide, we will also put in the chat. It is good to go to the timeline to figure it out. It would be way too exhausted to go through on today's call. The damage from this bill, is not collateral. It is intentional. It is a result of a deliberate choice to funnel trade and tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country while we the people bear the brunt. National debt will skyrocket anywhere from three and $6 trillion. As Joanna said, largest transfer of wealth from everyday Americans to the ultra-rich in U.S. history. The top 1% will get a staggering $1 trillion in tax cuts. But, despite the bill’s devastating impact, we fought to improve this bill no matter how bad it is. You are advocacy help do that. Thanks to your action, states will low rates of payment errors will not be forced to shoulder the cost of SNAP benefits. (Indiscernible) NAP work reporting requirements for parents with children will now start at age 10 of the child, instead of age 7 which was in the original proposal. This will help millions of families as well. Requiring families to “pre-certify” for the Earned Income Tax Credit. Getting approved ahead of time before the claimant is gone, it was taken out of the bill. It would make it much harder for low-wage workers to claim the EITC. Families who qualify for the Child Tax Credit will only need to show that one parent has a Social Security Number. In the original proposal, both parents have to do it. If it had gone through, 4.5 million US citizen children would have lost the tax credit. That number is now still high at 2.5 million, but it is better than 4.5. These are victories. While they may seem small in comparison to the terrible policies that did pass, they will make a big difference to millions of people. But that does not absolve Congress for the immense harm this bill will cause. Personally, this is the worst piece of legislation I’ve seen in my 20 years at RESULTS. And the way it was passed was a disgrace. Congress rammed through a $6 trillion bill in less than 2 months, with little debate and zero input from the public. Why? Because they were scared. They knew Americans didn’t want this. They know that despite the power they wield, voters remember. That’s why they put off some of the harshest provisions until after the midterm elections in 2026. It’s why states like Texas are trying to redistrict congressional seats. They’re running scared. And they should be. Because we’re not going to let them forget about this, we will not let our committees forget the harm this bill will cause us. That’s why we spent July generating media to thank those members of Congress who stood against this bill—and to call out those who voted for it. Thank you for everyone who submitted letters last month, keep it up. Lawmakers need to know: their votes have consequences. Holding them accountable now is how we’ll eventually reverse these harmful policies. It won’t be easy, but if we keep pushing, our collective efforts will pay off. Also remember, both the House and Senate are on recess until Labor Day. Meeting with them face-to-face, or attending public events, during the August recess is another way to hold them accountable. Recess meetings are also your opportunity to push lawmakers to start reversing the oncoming harm. There is one thing you can push for right now that would immediately help millions of families working in low-wage jobs. We feel it well, expand the child tax credit. The improvement in the CDC, the increase amount from $2000 per child to $2,200 per child. The problem is only wealthier families can get that money. Before this bill was passed, 70 million children whose parents could not earn enough were denied the full $2000 credit. This bill did nothing to change it. Before this bill, these working families never received the same amount as welfare families. After the bill, the gap is even bigger. There is talk of Congress perhaps doing another tax bill later this year to address some of the things left out of the reconciliation bill and that is our chance. It is Congress's chance to put money where their mouths are. If they truly care about families like they like to say, then they will give the full $2200 tax credit to all families, even those earning low income. This change alone would lift millions of children above the poverty line. So, when you meet with lawmakers in August, remind them: It’s never too late to fix a mistake. Expanding the CTC is a concrete, meaningful way to begin that process. Finally, as Colin mentioned, we anticipate more rescission requests from the Trump Administration, perhaps in the next few weeks. We do not know what will be in those requests. In your meetings, demand they reject these requests when he returned to Washington in September. Passing any more rescissions will not only undermine important services, but it will fuel more partisanship and dysfunction in DC. Vote no. I am sorry we do not have time for questions today on the webinar. We know a lot of you have been confused about what is going on because everything was going on at the same time there is a lot of things to juggle. It is easy to feel lost in all this fanaticism in Congress, we are here to help. We have scheduled a policy form for this coming Tuesday night, August 5 at 8:00pm ET. It will be available for 90 minutes. We will break down these complex budgets, how they affect our complex issues and help you navigate the path ahead. So bring your questions and hopefully we can do what Congress does not seem to want to do, which is make sense of this mass and move forward. I will close with this. As Joanna and others said, this year has been rough. t seems that when we think things can’t get worse, they do. But remember, we are not defined by what happens to us, but by how we respond to it. Despair, anger, and fear only hold sway when we refuse to move. But if we take just one step forward, their power dissipates. Despite what the media and internet tell us, every day millions just like you are doing acts of kindness and justice that will get us through this challenging time. It won’t be easy but we will win. So, let’s get moving. Let’s fight for the communities that need us most. And let’s keep pushing until we’ve built the fair, just, and compassionate world we all deserve. With that, I will turn it over to my colleague Lisa to close us out. LISA MARCHAL: Thank you, we want to launch our poll to make sure we capture everyone who is here. My name is Lisa Marchal senior manager in (indiscernible). We are open for goodbyes just yet, thank you for your enthusiasm in filling out the poll. Who is in the room with you? We almost there, half of you have participated in the poll. Let us know where you are seated. Whether it is a loan, and solidarity with the rest of us, or eight groups. Thank you for completing the poll. We want to alert you to a couple of other things that you can have on your radar for August. This month is National Make a Will Month. Making a planned gift to RESULTS is a great way to continue your commitment to ending poverty into the future. You can be supported by our staff to name RESULTS in your will or as a beneficiary of a retirement plan for any amount. You can find info on our website in the link that will be put in the chat. Melissa Strobel is happy to answer any questions you may have. Melissa can be reached at development@results.org thanks for putting that information in the chat. Do not forget the policy form that Jos just mentioned, is coming up quickly. August 5, the registration is there for you. It will begin the weekly update and it is on our events calendar. We will work together to make sense of where we have been and get clear on where we are going. If you scroll through the slides as you can see them on your screen and they will be posted on the website. Loads of opportunities for you to burn and the interconnection this month. We want you to report the fantastic actions you are taking, outreach media lobbying. You can do it on our website, we want to celebrate you and build this fantastic track record of success you are having. With that, we will be joining us next month. The webinar next month will be on Saturday, September 6. As we go into the late weeks of summer, feel free to come off mute, say goodbye and I hope everyone has a great weekend. Take good care. Live captioning by AI-Media