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Amazing Africa: The power of The Global Fund
In this week’s Amazing Africa, we’re paying homage to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, an organization that is severely at risk of being cut by Congress, although it has helped more than...
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Goals: They work!
Last week, I answered frequently asked questions about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – what they are, why they’re important, and what we want to see in the next round. This week, I want to...
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President Obama mentions extreme poverty in State of the Union address
As the nation watched President Obama enter the House chamber for his fifth State of the Union address Tuesday night, Americans from all walks of life waited to see if the issues they care about would...
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ONE Member of the Month: Becky Corbett
This week, we had the chance to speak to Becky Corbett, ONE member of the month for January. She told us why she got involved with ONE and how she spreads the ONE message in her community. Becky...
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Get down with P-Square
Paul and Peter Okoye are the names behind the mega-popular R&B duo, P-Square. These identical twins have crossed geographical boundaries, making them not only the most popular artists in their...
View ArticleONE Act a Week: Ask John Podesta a question about the MDGs
Action: 74. Time it takes to complete the action: 5 min. Difficulty of the action: Moderate. Next week, John Podesta, chair of the Center for American Progress and former White House chief of staff to...
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John Kerry warns of dangers of cutting foreign assistance
Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing to discuss the impacts of the looming sequester, the approximately 5 percent across-the-board cuts in all discretionary spending, set to...
View ArticleWhat We’re Reading: One answer to poverty
Huffington Post: Entrepreneurship: One Answer to Poverty – In Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, he “placed a spotlight on global poverty and the 1.2 billion people on the planet who stay alive...
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Lesotho’s steady progress in the fight to save lives
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation‘s President and CEO Charles Lyon shares his experience in the Kingdom in the Sky. I have just returned from the Kingdom of Lesotho, a country entirely...
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Nothing says unity like a pie in the face!
Michigan ONE Member Sara Issac explains how Michigan universities have set aside differences to work for a better world. There are few athletic rivalries fiercer than the University of Michigan-Ann...
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VIDEO: In Zambia, linking HIV services to cervical cancer screening
Janet Fleischman and Julia Nagel share the Center for Strategic and International Studies‘ video featuring the voices of women in Zambia talking about the importance of integrating cervical cancer...
View ArticleWhat We’re Reading: Mennonite upbringing prepared him for relief work
Guardian: Inequality is the biggest threat to the world and needs to be tackled now – Global inequality has become an increasingly pressing issue, and “discussions around the post-2015 global agenda...
View ArticleThe power of awareness: Ntuthu’s journey with HIV and a dream
Samantha Thornton details one woman’s personal struggle that effectively saved a community. This piece was originally posted at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and is part of a larger project,...
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A sweet way to save lives
Food blogger Jane Maynard discusses the luxury of food and our ability to share it. I am a food blogger, which means I think about food all the time. Even without a food blog, as a mother of three, I...
View ArticleWhat We’re Reading: Secretary Kerry makes case for foreign aid
The Telegraph: John Kerry threatens to bore the world to death with excruciating first speech as Secretary of State – Former Senator John Kerry’s first speech as Secretary of State was delivered at the...
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Amazing Africa: How development assistance is helping to end poverty
Lauren Pfeifer wrote up a great article outlining how programs like GAVI and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria have helped make progress on our poverty-fighting plan, the UN Millennium...
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A sweet potato recipe that will make you believe in magic
In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been talking a lot about the amazing nutritional benefits of sweet potatoes today. In fact, we got 25 other food bloggers from across the US to talk about ‘em, too –...
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