December 2014 National Grassroots Conference Call

Global Campaigns

Theme: Our Gavi Work and Year-end Celebration

December 13, 2014 2:00 pm ETDial 888 409-6709

RESULTSthe power to end poverty

Guest Speaker:

Jay Evensen

Senior Editorial Columnist

Deseret News

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Agenda ideas for a group meeting

Tweet about the call and include our handle, @RESULTS_Tweets

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1. Share hospitality! Snacks and introductions go a long way.

2. Enjoy the call and encourage each other to participate in our open phones sections.

3. Strategize on the call to action: Who will be writing/pitching media before January 5?

4. Make some additional plans:

Consider setting your opening meeting for 2015 for Saturday, January 10 when the national conference call will be shorter (30 minutes) and designed to help facilitate group planning?

Who in the group could ask the state’s senators and representatives to write individual letters to President Obama about supporting Gavi?

Who in the group will request face-to-face meetings with your legislators in January?

Who will report any missing meetings with members of Congress? Other Monthly Advocacy Actions?

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Opening the Call

RESULTS Executive Director

Dr. Joanne Carter

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• What still left to do?• Amazing 2015 unfolding.• Power of face-to-face

meetings.• Own your power.

Legislative Update

John FawcettLegislative Director

Your Gavi RESULTS with Congress:

The Gavi House Resolution  H.Res. 688

95 co-sponsors

71 Democrats and 24 Republicans

The Gavi Senate Resolution S.Res. 578

18 co-sponsors

12 Democrats and 4 Republicans         

Resolution passed on of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has been hotlined to pass by Unanimous Consent

The House Republican led letter to the Administration – Led by Rep. McCaul and Rep. Reichert

5 signers to date: Reps. Schock, Ross, and Culberson. Open until 12/16

To sign on contact: Andy.Taylor@mail.house.gov in Rep. McCaul’s office

Individual Congressional letters to the President are still powerful.

3 individual letters so far from Reps Moran, McDermott and Eddie Bernice Johnson

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Appropriations Update: The “Cromnibus”

Holding steady across most accounts

Increases to Gavi & GPE – our two big 2014 campaigns!

GLOBAL HEALTH

$1.35 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria

$236 million for bilateral Tuberculosis

$715 million for Maternal and Child Health

Including $200 million for Gavi, the Vaccines Alliance

$115 million for Nutrition

EDUCATION

$800 million for Basic Education

Including $45 million for the Global Partnership for Education.

MICROFINANCE

$265 for microfinance OF NOTE: $5.4 billion in supplemental funding for Ebola, of which $2.5 billion will come from

foreign operations appropriations

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Your RESUTS with Gavi Media

YOUR media is GROWING! 119 pieces so far and counting…

•Editorials and columns- 9•Op-Eds- 15•LTE – 88•News and features – 5•Radio stories – 2

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Guest Speaker Section

Director of Global Grassroots Advocacy

Ken Patterson

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Guest Speaker interview Jay Evensen of the Deseret News:

•“What does it take to engage the editor?”

Guest Speaker: Jay EvensenSenior Editorial ColumnistDeseret News

Past RESULTS Cameron Duncan Media Award Winner!

Past work at the Las Vegas Review-Journal and United Press International in New York City.

Longtime champion for our issues in the opinion and editorial pages of the Deseret News.

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Grassroots Café9

Top Advocacy Actions

Ask Republican representatives to sign the McCaul/Reichert letter by Tuesday 12/16! It is easier than writing their own.

Generate editorials, opeds, letters to the editor through the holidays and into January.

Ask your representatives and senators to write directly to the President on Gavi

Submit face-to-face meeting requests now so you get meetings in January – March.

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Top Group Health Actions

Put the 2015 Conference Calls & Webinars on your calendar—second Saturday of each month. We promise shorter calls, more variety, more celebrations, more interactivity, more inspiration. Let Lisa Marchal and Ken Patterson know if you have suggestions for improvements

Start with January 10, 2015—we will have a short call (30 minutes) to support everyone to do group planning.

Report any missing meetings with members of Congress or other Monthly Advocacy Actions

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Call to action & open phones

Lisa MarchalSenior Global Grassroots Associate

Who will be submitting and/or pitching Gavi media between now and January 5?

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December Resources

December Action Sheet

December Laser Talk

Gavi Resources: Actions, webinar recordings, editorial packet & messaging, outreach guide

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EPIC Laser Pitch on Gavi Editorial

Engage: Thanks for your commitment to covering Ebola this fall. With the holidays coming up, I’ve got a bit of good news on global health that I’d love to discuss. Do you have two minutes?

Problem: Here’s the issue: even as we scramble to produce an Ebola vaccine, we’re still not reaching much of the world with vaccines we’ve had in [your city] for years. For lack of a shot to protect them, millions of kids die annually from things as basic as diarrhea and pneumonia.

Inform about solution: But this January, world leaders – President Obama included – have the chance to put a serious dent in that number by investing in Gavi, an international alliance for delivering vaccines in poor countries. We can help immunize 300 million kids, giving each one a chance at a healthy, bright, prosperous future. Right now Gavi is helping get basic vaccines to the kids who need them most, and as soon as an Ebola vaccine is ready, Gavi is who will get it, too, to the people who need it.

Call to action: That’s an opportunity we can all get behind. Do you think [name of newspaper] might take up this issue? I’d love to follow up with more information.

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Thank you for being extraordinary change makers!

Happy Holidays!!

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