Two Dollar Challenge, Oxfam America, and RESULTS are teaming to ask members of Congress to fund proven, poverty-focused programs that provide opportunity in the world’s poorest countries and communities by investing in health, education, and food security.
Goals
Our goal is to ensure that the Foreign Operations Subcommittee protects programs that are designed to alleviate poverty. Specifically, our requests to the Subcommittee are to:
- Protect all effective humanitarian and poverty-focused development assistance.
- Ensure that the Subcommittee spending bill includes at least the following spending levels in the areas of food security and maternal & child health & nutrition:
Food Security & Global Agriculture:
- $1.2 billion for Feed the Future;
- $158.3 million for the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program Trust Fund;
- $80 million for Local and Regional Purchase food aid program
Maternal and Child Health & Nutrition:
- $850 million for the Maternal and Child Health account
- $235 million for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
- $200 million for the Nutrition account
Voice your support for life-saving effective foreign aid!
Step 1: Learn about the issues by reading this brief Overview
Step 2: Find your representative and senators, their contact information, their staff: http://capwiz.com/results/dbq/officials/
Step 3: Take action
- Call your member of Congress using our Phone Script
- Write a letter to your member of Congress using our Sample Letter
- Organize others to hand write letters and/or a petition letter to their member of Congress and then hand deliver them to your local congressional office. See the Sample Petition Letter.
- Meet with your member of Congress before, during, or after the Two Dollar Challenge and use our Sample Talk