Date | RESULTS Person | Medium | Item | Description |
January 28, 2009 | Bob Dickerson | San Francisco Chronicle | Letter | Microcredit offers chance to leave poverty (106 million of the poorest of the poor have been reached by microcredit loans and have new opportunities to leave poverty) |
February 4, 2009 | Sharon Solstice | Contra Costa Times | Letter | (pdf) Don’t forget needy (In tough times, don’t cut aid, but focus on the poorest, set targets, monitor progress) |
February 11, 2009 | Jim Driggers | Contra Costa Times | Letter | (pdf) Microcredit sets foreign aid example |
February 13, 2009 | B. Isabel Johnson | Contra Costa Times | Letter | (pdf) Microcredit works to free people from poverty |
March 5, 2009 | Diane Warren | Scotts Valley Press Banner Scotts Valley Times Aptos Times Capitola Soquel Times |
Letter | ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and the case for microcredit |
March 25, 2009 | S.F. TB Controllers | San Francisco Chronicle | Article | (pdf) Study finds a different type of TB patient (TB in San Francisco is infecting persons other than immigrants and the homeless and impoverished) |
March 25, 2009 | N/A | San Francisco Chronicle | Article | (pdf) Cepheid unveils fast, low cost TB test (a two-hour test that diagnoses regular and MDR-TB) |
March 25, 2009 | S.F. TB Controllers | World Journal (Cantonese) | Article | (pdf) Authorities concerned about high TB incidence rates in the Bay Area (English via Google Translate) |
March 25, 2009 | Gail Dolson | Oakland Tribune | Letter | (pdf) Fighting disease (U.S. must fund the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria) |
March 25, 2009 | N/A | San Jose Mercury News | Article | (pdf) Santa Clara County’s tuberculosis cases down (TB cases down in most Bay Area counties, but outbreaks continue and region remains a TB hot spot) |
March 26, 2009 | Bruce Preville | San Jose Mercury News | Letter | (pdf) U.S. must do its share in TB fight |
April 3, 2009 | Joel Rubinstein | Oakland Tribune San Mateo County Times Tri-Valley Herald |
Article | (pdf) San Mateo County clergy join fight against world poverty |
April 4, 2009 | Jim Driggers | Contra Costa Times | Readers’ Forum op-ed | (pdf) Biological weapons of mass destruction (AIDS, TB, and Malaria are destructive; the Global Fund addresses these diseases; the U.S. should fund the Global Fund at $2.7 billion.) |
May 26, 2009 | Tari Nicholson | Contra Costa Times | Letter | (pdf) Fund for education (A Global Fund for Education modeled on the GFATM should be created to educate the 75 million children not in school.) |
June 28, 2009 | Jim Driggers | Contra Costa Times | Sunday Perspective | All the world’s children should get a chance to learn (A Global Fund for Education modeled on the GFATM should be created to educate the 75 million children not in school.) |
June 29, 2009 | Jamie McGrath | KALW-FM Crosscurrents | Radio interview | Newsmaker: Eric Weaver CEO of Opportunity Fund (10-minute interview and story: Opportunity Fund has partnered with Kiva to offer microfinancing to borrowers and lenders in the U.S.) |
July 8, 2009 | Sue Oehser | Oakland Tribune | Guest commentary | My Word: Volunteers make world a better place (RESULTS partners lobbying to end poverty.) |
July 13, 2009 | Georgia Platts | San Jose Mercury News | Opinion | (pdf) Opinion: Educate world’s children; match their courage with dollars |
August 1, 2009 | Diane Warren | Scotts Valley Times | Article | Scotts Valley resident attends conference in Washington D.C. (lobbying for children’s lives) |
November 28, 2009 | Bruce Preville | San Jose Mercury News | Letter | Education funding is a global issue (Candidate Obama pledged $2 billion for Global Fund for Education, let’s create it) |