Virginia Simmons has worked for the ONE Campaign since 2006, where she creates a daily log of the global poverty movement on the ONE Blog.

In 2005, Ginny created the first-ever blog written by a death row inmate, an online innovation that received national and international attention. Starting in 2003, she served three years on Amnesty International's National Steering Committee for their Program to Abolish the Death Penalty. In 2005, she coordinated the death penalty community's online campaign around the 1,000th U.S. execution.

Blog Entries by Virginia Simmons

President Obama Recommits to the World's Poor in First Address

Posted January 21, 2009 | 01:43 PM (EST)


After hours in the cold watching Barack Obama be sworn in and give his first address as president of the United States, I finally made it indoors and to a computer.

As a ONE member, I know I wasn't the only one thankful and inspired by President Obama's...

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Changing The Game

Posted March 29, 2007 | 05:14 PM (EST)


Last Friday, the ONE Campaign's 2.4 million members, and our many partner organizations, worked together to reverse a $2.2 billion cut to the 2008 international affairs budget. The full 2008 budget process isn't complete yet, but this vote was a critical first step, and an important victory for...

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An Unbelievable Turn of Events for Global Poverty

Posted February 1, 2007 | 02:16 PM (EST)


On January 8, I posted here about Congress' intentions to pass a continuing resolution. The plan would have kept U.S. funding at 2006 levels for all of 2007 and meant that extreme poverty programs would have lost an expected one billion dollar increase.

A few weeks ago, the ONE...

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A Billion Dollars At Stake

Posted January 8, 2007 | 06:12 PM (EST)


In December, Congressional leadership made it clear that they intended to extend the budget "continuing resolution" (CR) for the entire year. This means that U.S. federal funding will remain at 2006 levels for the 2007 fiscal year - and that the global poverty movement will not receive a billion dollars...

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