For over twenty years I have made a small monthly donation to Results, a nonpartisan grassroots political lobby whose mission is to end the worst aspects of poverty at home and abroad by influencing the national legislative agenda. My contributions to Results are not tax deductible because of its direct political lobbying. The Results Education Fund is set up in a way that allows me to support the work of the organization and claim a tax deduction for my charitable donation to the fund. The Results Education Fund educates the general public about legislative initiatives designed to achieve the Millenium Development Goals, among other things. I have learned a lot about the world we live in through my civic engagement with the Results Education Fund.
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Citizen Participation, Civil Rights, Economic Development, International, International Economic Development, Microfinance
Mission: Generating the will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty.
Programs: Action - the advocacy to control tuberculosis internationally ("action") program is part of an international partnership of civil society organizations that began working together to mobilize new resources against tuberculosis ("tb"). Action partners have helped influence leaders to contribute more than $1. 4 billion for the global tb fight through bilateral and multilateral funding including the global fund to fight aids, tb, and malaria. Building on its successes in fighting tb around the world, action has expanded its advocacy efforts to include child survival, particularly in the areas of vaccines and under-nutrition.
microcredit education and outreach - this program is aligned with the microcredit summit campaign ("mcs"), which brings together microfinance practitioners, advocates, educational institutions, and various other stakeholders to promote best practices in microfinance, and to stimulate the interchanging of knowledge and ideas. Mcs is working to ensure that 175 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by 2015, and that 100 million families rise above the us $1. 25 a day threshold adjusted for purchasing power parity between 1990 and 2015.
poverty outreach and advocacy - results educational fund, inc. ("ref") focuses on poverty outreach and advocacy. Ref identifies and promotes the most effective solutions to poverty by:performing cutting-edge research on poverty issues and programs and oversight of u. S. Spending related to poverty domestically and internationally; building support for proven poverty-fighting strategies by engaging and educating the public, policy makers, and opinion leaders, leading educational trips, working in coalitions, and encouraging the media to report on solutions to poverty; and supporting powerful citizenship by training volunteers in public speaking, generating media, hosting community forums, and educating their communities and elected officials about issues related to its campaigns.