2008 Austin Benefit for RESULTS

Monday, December 1, 2008, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

First United Methodist Church’s Schmidt-Jones Family Life Center

1300 Lavaca Street, Austin, TX

Keynote speaker: Dr. Bobby John

Seeds of Hope recipient: Dr. Charles Wallace

see DSHS Staff News report

RESULTS was honored to have the following tuberculosis experts as speakers for this year's event.

Dr. Bobby John is the President of Global Health Advocates, formerly the Massive Effort Campaign. Global Health Advocates is a global nonprofit organization that has been established to catalyze the emergence of a social movement against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases of poverty. Dr. John works closely with the numerous national governments in Southeast Asia to establish, fund, and manage transparent, comprehensive, national health and education programs aimed at eradicating AIDS, TB, and Malaria. He also serves as the high-burden country advocacy manager for the Gates ACTION grant managed by the RESULTS Educational Fund.

Dr. Charles Wallace MPH, PhD has worked with disenfranchised populations for over 30 years concerning infectious disease epidemiology, including HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis. He is the Manager of the Infectious Disease Intervention and Control Branch of the Texas Department of State Health Services. He is on the Board of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - North American Region. He is a researcher with the CDC Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Research Studies Consortium, on the Executive Committee, and chairman of the External Relations Committee. Dr. Wallace is also on the Board of the National TB Controllers Association.

The tuberculosis programs managed by Dr. John and Dr. Wallace are possible in part by the powerful advocacy of RESULTS to improve the health and well-being of people in the United States and around the world.

Building Champions to End Poverty

Planning Committee:

Anne Child, Mark Coats, Jim Comer, Laura Landsman,

Jeff Platzer, Elaine Robbins, Eloise Sutherland

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The Austin Domestic and Global RESULTS partners invite you to the

2007 Austin Benefit for RESULTS

Building Champions for the End of Poverty

Sunday, November 11, 2007 2:00-4:00 PM

First United Methodist Church Schmidt-Jones Family Life Center

1300 Lavaca Street

Locally baked desserts served.

The 2007 Keynote Speaker for this year’s RESULTS benefit is Austin based actor, writer and director, Turk Pipkin. In his 2004 documentary, Nobelity, Pipkin inspired audiences with his chronicling of the lives of Nobel Prize winners. Mr. Pipkin has recently returned from Bangladesh where he interviewed the most recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and the modern microcredit movement.

"...while there is no single action which will solve the world's problems, thousands or millions of people each taking action will be that many steps toward a better world for all our children."

RESULTS is proud to honor Whole Planet Foundation as this year’s recipient of the 2007 Seeds of Hope Award. Whole Planet Foundation is a Whole Foods Market foundation whose mission is to create economic partnerships with the poor in those developing world communities that supply their stores with product. Through innovative assistance for entrepreneurship — including direct microcredit loans and tangible support for other community partnership projects — they seek to unleash the energy and creativity of every human being they work with in order to create wealth and prosperity in emerging economies.

You will have an opportunity at the event to give a donation that is meaningful to you. Please come with a heart open to contributing at least $10 per month or an equivalent one-time gift to help us reach our goal of $25,000. If you cannot attend, your donation is still welcome. Your donations will be leveraged for proven approaches to ending hunger, disease and poverty in the U.S. and around the world.

Got RESULTS?

For 27 years RESULTS has been on the cutting edge of advocacy for solutions to poverty. The non-partisan, citizen-action network of RESULTS is leading the way in inspiring Congress to fund proven, effective, long-term strategies to end poverty in the U.S and throughout the world.

RESULTS is a strategically orchestrated network of volunteer citizen advocacy groups that work directly with Congress. RESULTS Educational Fund, a 501c(3) non-profit, focuses on creating the public will to end poverty through training and education.

These two nonprofits work together to seek out and expand sustainable, effective solutions to poverty. Our grassroots network powerfully mobilizes to focus attention on these solutions and to support legislators in making them national priorities.

Planning committee: Faye Bates, Jere Brewer, Laura Landsman, Anne Child, Mark Coats, Jeff Platzer, Elaine Robbins, Eloise Sutherland