March 2011
50 posts
“We’re not a fan of chain emails either, but signing & passing on this...”
February 2011
51 posts
Every Shot Counts (Announcing the Challenge #2...
Here at ONE, we know that when it comes to vaccines, every shot counts. So does the OCC Chapter at the University of Florida, who nabbed first place for Challenge #2 for launching their “Every Shot Counts” campaign to educate students and their community on the efficacy of vaccines. They tabled, signed up hundreds of new members, wrote more than 300 letters to Senator Marco Rubio, and even got...
(latent)TB or not (latent)TB, that is the...
Submitted by UMich’s Lesley Kucharski —
As a student of the social sciences, I focus primarily on the societal ramifications of infectious diseases. However, this semester, I enrolled in a biology class on AIDS and other infectious diseases and I have developed a scientific understanding of infectious disease. I want to share what I have learned thus far about the correlation between...
“Challenge 2 Ends Tonight.
Challenge 3 Begins on Monday.
You better rest up...”
SMART Aid
Here’s a post from California State University, Northridge guest blogger Taina Vargas:
In my research on sustainable development programs, I have always been interested in organizations that focus on efficient and effective aid strategies in their work. I was particularly impressed with The ONE Campaign’s clever acronym explaining what “SMART” Aid means to them:
S - Sufficient in scale to...
On Monday afternoon, ONE and Democrats of Clark held a women and politics event, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit Panel and Discussion. At the panel, we talked to the three influential women about ONE, got them to sign our proclamations and informed those attending about ONE’s missions and goals.
All the OCC News That's Fit to Post
Looks like a couple of campuses have been busy submitting articles & letters to their school/local newspapers — check them out below.
UT at El Paso shows vaccine documentary screenings
Vanderbilt gets the word out (look at how fancy their online newspaper is!)
Auburn gives a shout out to ONE
UF gets featured in The Gainsville Sun
U of Kansas asks Congress to consider...
ONE hits Winthrop
South Carolina’s ONE team along with several Winthrop ONE students supported Representative Jim Clyburn of District 6 in South Carolina.
He had great things to say regarding the federal budget ONE is currently fighting. Representative Clyburn supports ONE so why not support him?
Afterwards, we called Senator Graham and urged him to help us fight for the world’s poorest people by...
University of South Carolina’s ONE Chapter convened last night to appeal to the Senate—or more specifically Senator Lindsey Graham to oppose budget cuts in the 2011 Budget on Foreign Aid spending. Without the money promised, a cut of $450 million, contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis will be unable to provide:
10.4 million bed nets to fight malaria
6 million...
“48 hours until Challenge 2 ends at 11:59 PM.
48 hours to educate your campus...”
What You Don’t Know about US Foreign Aid
Here’s a guest post from a ONE supporter:
This week Congress has been debating next year’s budget, with the new leadership in the House of Representatives vowing to cut spending as much as possible. Included in those spending cuts is US Foreign Aid, or Official Development Assistance (ODA). Congress proposed up to 50% cuts in the funding of critical development projects, in areas such as...
“Union University’s OCC competitors say a prayer
as the Bulldogs add 100...”
““Here’s a snapshot of what reality will look like if we stop funding...”
– http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2011/02/22/public-pith-dont-cut-relief-funds-says-one
Clark OCC Partners with All Kinds of Girls (AKOG)
Members of Clark University’s ONE Campus Challenge partnered with an on campus group, All Kinds of Girls (AKOG), last Saturday. AKOG is a mentoring program in which female college students at Clark University mentor around 50-75 nine to twelve year-old girls in Worcester, Massachusetts every Saturday. The program encourages the young girls to build friendships, increases their self-esteem,...
Say no to budget cuts for the world's poor, help... →
House Cuts Will Deeply Wound Poverty-Reduction...
“We know that the U.S. government is going to have to do more with less. The point we’re making is, cuts to this part of the budget have an incredibly big impact on people who can least afford it,” said Tom Hart, director of government relations at ONE, an anti-poverty group. “There are very few places in the federal budget where funding translates into lives saved. And...
