FY11 budget deal passes Congress
The Senate passed the 2011 US budget compromise by a margin of 81-19. This vote came just hours after the House passed it 260-167. We were very pleased to learn that this budget preserves nearly all key funding for programs fighting poverty in the developing world. Here’s a breakdown of how these programs fared in the FY11 budget:
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria– no cut, funded at $1.05 billion
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) — no cut, funded at $4.6 billion
Feed the Future Initiative (agriculture) (bilateral) — no cut, funded at about $813 million
Feed the Future Initiative (agriculture) (multilateral) — received $100 million appropriation for the first time
Development Assistance — no cut, at FY10 level of $2.5 billion (contains ag, ed, microfinance, water, etc)
GAVI – hard to determine, but most likely to be flat at $78 million, perhaps better
World Bank IDA — no cut, at $1.235 billion
As you know, ONE has been advocating for months now to maintain the aforementioned key programs at current funding, delivering a petition of over 150,000 signatures, making over 16,000 calls to members of Congress, and arranging hundreds of in-district meetings.
We anticipate that the 2012 budget fight could be even more intense that this year’s, and there’s no doubt we’ll once again need ONE members to step up to the plate and advocate for these important programs that are saving millions of live in the developing world. Stay tuned to the ONE Blog for further analysis and breaking news.
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April 15, 2011 at 11:03 am
Awesome awesome news. Congrats to all who have worked so hard on this!
April 15, 2011 at 11:49 am
Great news!! It shows what we all can do when working together as ONE.
April 15, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Wonderful news!!! Our God is so awesome. He knows who to put where to get the job done as it should be. Congrats to all who believe in ONE!
April 15, 2011 at 12:04 pm
This is such wonderful news! Kudos to the One campaign and all members for getting this done:D
April 15, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Great news! what a blessing!
April 15, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Glad to see that rational thought prevailed and lives will not be lost because of political agendas!
April 15, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Yes! Praise God!
April 15, 2011 at 12:20 pm
great news! but just the continuation, appropriations is always on going, the challenge is to keep the bar going higher
April 15, 2011 at 12:21 pm
praise God! I got chills! Our voices mattered this time!!
April 15, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Given that billions of federal funds go out as subsidies for Ag corporations, I’m wondering who/’what corporate entities are recipients of the Ag and Development programs which are funded.
April 15, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Thanks to all the other petition signers. It just goes to show what can be achieved if we all pull as one!
Now, I would like see more help in the stopping of Ryan’s bill to cut programs that benefit seniors & lower income citizens. Yes citizens, because no matter what some people judge, we are ALL not only American Citizens-but are also Children of God……….it’s time we started to ACT like it!!
April 15, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Thanks for the update. It is good to hear good news that our officials are not only thinking about padding their own pockets. Now I am curious how the budget covers our deomestic programs and how this effects our economy.
April 15, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Thanks to ONE, the poverty and hunger fight prevailed and federal funds will help those who need it most! I am so happy and grateful to Bono, to all the members and advocates that made our voices heard!
April 15, 2011 at 12:40 pm
That is so great and that funds ill help those who really need it. I am happy with it .
April 15, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I don’t think this is the right message to be sending after last night’s budget just passed…
What about poverty in this country?
Frankly, I don’t see how any progressive organization can claim any type of good news out of what happened yesterday.
April 15, 2011 at 1:01 pm
All glory goes to God. He knows what his people needs, so we have to continue to pray every day, to keep our prayers with God for the battles ahead. He said he will never leave us, and if we just call on his name he will show up. I also want to thank everyone, because we showed that we can stand together on many things in this world. I send blessing and good health to everyone who is a part of one. God bless you.
April 15, 2011 at 1:01 pm
If you can find a copy of the book, “Poverty Amidst Plenty…” which was published in the late 1960s by, and then look at the many attempts by conservatives to reduce funding for preventive and anti-poverty programs, it becomes clear that the Johnson “War on Poverty” was the focus of conservative’s “war against anti-poverty.”
April 15, 2011 at 1:10 pm
I am so glad , you and everyone involved with this program should be proud ..I WOULD SAY OUR NEXT STEP SHOULD BE HELPING OUT OUR OWN PEOPLE RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S.. I see and know to many people who call a doorway home . Sad and as Sad as it is I am greatful and blessed by being able to help everyone who needed it . We are all human and should care for one another . Which is why I love places like ONE and will always support them . Thank you
S.R. Connolly
April 15, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Praise God for this good news! Thank you also to all who fasted and prayed for this. May we continue to strive together for the good of all.
April 15, 2011 at 1:25 pm
That’s one for the world’s poorest! So many ONE volunteers and members made this happen with hard work and dedication. I am proud to work with you all!
April 15, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Anything associated with the World Bank or other NGO money managers is suspect. Monsanto et al hide their monopolistic schemes in there. Food crisis, yes, but one that will be solved by Big Agri any more than the health crises will be solved with pills.
April 15, 2011 at 1:42 pm
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April 15, 2011 at 2:25 pm
I live and work in rural subsistence Kenya 6 months of the year. I know from our experience that some programs such as TB, Malaria, Pepfar etc. actually get to the ground. Much of the agriculture is pushing gmo and chemicals from America and that up to 60% of development aid never touches those who need help. The World Bank’s results are mixed. For real facts read Africa Doesn’t Matter by Giles Bolton. We want to support the funding but we also need to begin to ask how it is spent. Some hard questions.
April 15, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Yes! Billions of dollars go into subsidies for corporations like Monsanto et al. Mega farms and other ag-related corporations eat up a lot of $$$$, which donate millions of dollars into candidate’s PACs.
April 15, 2011 at 2:54 pm
I agree, we all need to begin doing more to start “HELPING OUT OUR OWN PEOPLE RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S”. Our educational system needs to do more to prepare our children for the future.
I’m a grad student at IPFW in Fort Wayne Indiana, and I’m currently working to begin my own non-profit. I want to help I want to reach out to children in our community and worldwide.
Furthermore, We as educators, parents and a community have an obligation to teach our students about Multicultural Perspectives. We have an Essential Obligation to educate our children of the great struggles, and efforts of this country and of the people who risked their lives in the exertion of its creation. This history of this land and its people is one full of turbulence and through this we have endured a total transformation in order to survive. The stories, culture, and way of life have forever been changed and yet few teach us the true story of us. Our nations struggle to carry on is our history and this story can help us to understand ourselves and others today. This history can be both the why and the how to teaching our children about Multiculturalism.
I would like any advice on how I can gain funding and begin working with the needy children in my own community then worldwide!
April 15, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Oh thank God !!
April 15, 2011 at 3:05 pm
WHOO HOO!!!! Great job, ONE!
April 15, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Sarah,
Re your non-profit startup, if you go to “Common Good Vermont” you’ll find a lot of no cost information about starting up and managing non-profits. In yesterday’s conference, we had an excellent presentation about “Building a ‘Logic Model’ to Monitor Performance and Evaluate Outcome.”
There’s a lot of other useful material on the Common Good Vermont site.
April 15, 2011 at 3:27 pm
good job, ONE
April 15, 2011 at 4:03 pm
La revolucion del DON NADIE…la terecera guerra mundial sera con piedras y palos.
April 15, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Aloha! Big Mahalo to all that protects the poor.
Lets celebrate and help even more people who are stricken by poverty!
Mahalo,
John Sydney Yamane
Kauai, Hawaii
April 15, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Developing world, you say? Charity begins at home. What I can’t believe is that “ONE” was able to convince the govt. to actually fund “developing countries” problems instead of serious problems here in America Ie: Medicare , under taxing those whom will never live long enough to get cloes to exhausting their stash of money. And as well intentionally allowing greedy companies to destroy our enviornment, kill innocent indiginous animals whose territory has been invaded by profiteers raising beef to slowly poison people at “fast food” joints. These indiginuos animals have to eat by hunting their food where they live . If “ONE” wants to do something honorable, lobby for laws to prevent Greed from destroying our wildlife and environment. Then help the rest of the world.
April 15, 2011 at 5:13 pm
The final as a merchant I am, I have a gift of sight to be budgeted for future and best entries, so the senator said a routine better than expected on the fund to support needy and poverty, and bring satisfaction to the American friend, was so faiz but once. Alessandro Soares.
April 15, 2011 at 5:15 pm
gracias a dios, y con la FE EN EL todo es posible , felicidades
April 15, 2011 at 5:28 pm
This is a huge victory: Both for ONE members who focus on Extreme Poverty (those who live on less than $1.25 a day) & Preventable Diseases, and for the millions of people who will not perish due to the maintenance of this 0.73% of our budget. Go ONE!!!!
April 15, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Great News! …..fruits of working together!
April 15, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Praise the lord! God hears those who join together and pray!!
Thanks to all !!!
April 15, 2011 at 6:55 pm
“God” is the problem, not the solution.
If you turn your blind eyes to your neighbors at home…in the dis United States….then your “God” is just your ego, tripping out.
Yes, working together is right on. But if you exclude all humanists and atheists from your efforts, what is your “multi-culturalism”?
April 15, 2011 at 7:52 pm
I begin to wonder how Americans can adapt to have comfortable living and grow in Indonesia community – indeed, the deepest problem is green and clean environment. Kenny, how are you? I like your duo appearances, hehe…
WORK ‘N PLAY HARD NOW.
Daddy is home, horey! We are happy to see the sun rise and sun set together here, walking along beaches. Happy Easter – He is the reason why we live.
April 15, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Great news “…Programs that fight HIV/AIDS, malaria, and hunger will maintain full funding”
April 16, 2011 at 1:06 am
Because the Wealth of our Facts Stands in Contrast to the Poverty of our Meaning
April 16, 2011 at 10:34 am
Simply put, and many of you know this, it’s not about the budget at all. It’s about privatizing schools, Medicare, Medicaid, and removing safety nets for the middle class. They want to take away Medicare, instead giving small vouchers to our citizens, but you never hear them talk about reining in the abusive costs of the providers, pharmaceutical and insurance industries. It’s all about taking away from the poor and middle class. I just read that the government has given millions upon millions of taxpayer money to rebuild crumbling churches, but not public schools. Social Security is not part of the deficit; it’s a separate, independent fund that is borrowed from. Republicans would like to get their hands on all that money and “invest” it for huge fees and then lose it during the next deep recession while they get even richer. Imagine them in control of Social Security during 2008, the mess the Bush administration created. And for a group of people who hate government, they sure want to stick their noses in our personal decisions as to what we do in our bedrooms and whether we should have children we may not want. They are also the first, as evidenced by their proposed budget, to take away the safety net for those mothers and their newborns.
April 16, 2011 at 10:53 am
When I was a national leader in my profession’s membership organization, back in the 80′s, I spent a lot of time in WashDC and in my state’s capital reviewing health care issues and discussing the aggragate growing bureaucracies in the private health insurance industry. We were alo increasingly concerned about the stranglehold the industry was gaining over health care providers and organizations – all in the name of increased profits masquerading as health care accountability. We knew then that the system was dysfunctional and breaking down. Today, our health care providing and funding system is clearly broken.
In my state, we are moving toward a single-payer, universal health care funding organization which, when implemented in incremental stages, will guarantee health care for every resident.
April 16, 2011 at 7:28 pm
There are some comments here that seem to be urging ONE to take a stand against poverty in the united states. One problem with this is, of course, that ONE is not an American organization but an international one, concerned with poverty all over the world. It is located all over the world and has members all over the world. As such, it seems to me, it stands to reason that the campaign is focused on places in the world where poverty is MOST prevalent and where disease, famine and death reign MOST powerfully, and there is no doubt that the US does not make that short list. There are, of course, places in the United States that are pretty terribly bad in terms of poverty, but the reality is that the countries, in instance in Africa, that ONE is most focused on are like that EVERYWHERE. So as an international org concerned with the WORLD, it seems right that they act as they do.
Whether or not the American government should have sent money to Africa instead of to the poorest parts of the US is a more legitimate question to ask, perhaps, though money sent to poor parts of Africa can do much more, dollar for dollar, than money sent here in the US, and we already have many many many organizations working in the US fighting just that fight that ARE being subsidized and supported by the government.
This seems like a victory to me. I am glad that for whatever reasons, people, even continents away, will be eating rather than starving and living rather than dying.
April 17, 2011 at 10:46 am
Wonderful news finally past and saved some truly very important causes.
April 17, 2011 at 10:41 pm
I am very proud to be a part of one because together we can all make such a huge difference! Way to go everyone and keep the faith!!
April 18, 2011 at 1:26 am
Thank God and thanks to all of you ONE members. We did it!
Getting back to the budget, as an African and indeed the entire continent is happy to learn that we were not left out in the cold and all i ask from God is to help Africa make good use of all the funds towards the notable projects that will alleviate, curb or ease our beautiful Continent’s burdens and make us be productive in as many ways possible. Please our Honourable Leaders, make Africa pride, put the funds to the good use. Let’s join hands and start from within and let the whole World know that their every effort in kind or monetory to Africa is worthwhile.
April 18, 2011 at 4:24 am
Hallelujah. God’s answered our prayers. Thank you everyone for working together!
April 18, 2011 at 8:05 am
There is always a light to lead positive causes…proud to be part of this…CONGRATS to HUMANITY.
April 18, 2011 at 9:43 am
Thank goodness. I’m always excited to hear when something that SHOULD happen DOES happen. Well done ONE supporters and human rights activists everywhere.
April 18, 2011 at 8:44 pm
Muchas felicidades por ese logro, es importante para personas en el mundo entero que se verán beneficiadas.
Y, me podrían decir ¿cómo ser parte de su organización?
April 19, 2011 at 12:09 am
Amazing news! I called in on behalf of both ONE and Catholic Relief Services. You guys all do such great work! God Bless
April 23, 2011 at 7:05 pm
That’s great news…we have done it
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May 5, 2011 at 6:55 am
As a nigerian, am pleased with this development. There is hope for our rural children and youths. Keep the good work and channel these support to my country.