Advocacy Update: Your Actions Can Make a Difference!
For many of us, summer is the time to kick back and relax. But, hunger and illness do not take a summer vacation. Details
How We Advocate for Funding—The Appropriations Process
As Together Women Rise advocates, we mostly work on two kinds of legislation –authorizing legislation and appropriations legislation. Authorizing legislation creates and/or expands programs that have authority for multiple years and need to be reauthorized. An example would be the global nutrition bills that we’ve been working on recently, HR4693 and S2956. Details
Advocacy Update: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria
This month I want to talk about The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (Global Fund), for which the US is hosting its Seventh Replenishment Conference later this year. Together Women Rise advocates learned about the Global Fund on our Feb 15th webinar. Click HERE to see the webinar recording and slides. Details