When Rick Buss left his position as city manager of Maricopa, Arizona, to become the town manager of a 2,000-person, economically struggling town called Gila Bend in 2008, some people who know him personally and professionally wondered why.
But with a firm background in both technology companies and...
Posted January 21, 2009 | 13:43:03 (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...
Posted March 29, 2007 | 18:14:56 (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...
Posted February 1, 2007 | 14:16:37 (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...
Posted January 8, 2007 | 18:12:16 (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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