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American Voices in Support of Saving Lives
Washington, DC – As Congress makes difficult decisions regarding the United States budget, ONE members from across the U.S. are urging lawmakers to make careful choices, establish key priorities, and avoid drastic cuts to a tiny section of the budget that would save little, but cost millions of lives.
ONE, World Vision and broad faith-based coalition urge U.S. Senate on humanitarian aid
30 organizations call on Congress to reverse cuts to life-saving, effective international assistance in U.S. budget
ONE Statement Regarding FY 2011 and FY 2012 Budgets
Washington, DC – Sheila Nix, U.S. Executive Director of The ONE Campaign, a non-partisan advocacy organization dedicated to fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease, today issued the following statement
ONE: Budget Cuts Would Have Profound Impact on U.S. Global Health and Development Efforts
Washington, DC – Sheila Nix, U.S. Executive Director of ONE, the bipartisan anti-poverty advocacy group, issued the following statement on the impact of Congressional budget cuts to global health and development programs
ONE Names Joshua Bolten as Interim CEO, Succeeding David Lane
Washington, D.C. – ONE, the bipartisan anti-poverty advocacy group, announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Joshua Bolten, ONE board member and former White House Chief of Staff under President Bush, to serve as Interim CEO of ONE effective immediately. Mr. Bolten succeeds CEO David Lane, who is leaving the organization in order to accept a position in the White House as Assistant to the President and Counselor to the Chief of Staff. Mr. Bolten has agreed to serve as Interim CEO while the ONE board conducts a formal search for a permanent successor to Mr. Lane.
ONE Statement on Recent News Reports on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Washington, DC – Today, anti-poverty group ONE issued the following statement on recent news reports on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
ONE Statement on the Release of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
Washington, DC – ONE CEO David Lane issued the following statement on the release of the State Department’s Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR).
ONE Calls for Strong Support of World Bank’s “Fund for the Poorest”
Washington, DC – Today, anti-poverty advocacy group, ONE, urged world leaders to pledge strong support for the International Development Association (IDA), known as the World Bank’s “Fund for the Poorest,” when they meet in Brussels December 14th -15th for IDA’s next three years of funding.
American Voices Vital in Moving Poverty-Fighting Agricultural Policy Forward
ONE Hosts Panel on Importance of Advocacy from Iowa to DC to Africa.
ONE: U.S. Global Fund Commitment Solid, But Falls Short
Washington, DC – Sheila Nix, U.S. Executive Director of the anti-poverty group ONE, issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s announcement of a three-year commitment for FY 2011, 2012, 2013 of $4 billion – a 38 percent increase over the last three years – to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
STATEMENT BY ONE ON RECENT MEDIA REPORTS
Statement by ONE on recent media reports.
ONE Launches Cutting Edge PSA “No Child Born With HIV By 2015”
Washington, D.C. and New York, NY — ONE, the anti-poverty advocacy organization co-founded by Bono, today launched a cutting-edge PSA campaign featuring pregnant women calling for an end to mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015. Singer and activist Alicia Keys narrates the PSA, which is being released as part of a broader campaign this week to urge world leaders meeting in New York for the United Nations General Assembly to fully fund the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.