San Francisco Area RESULTS
Media Generated in 2009

Date RESULTS Person Medium Item Description
January 28, 2009 Bob Dickerson San Francisco Chronicle Letter Microcredit offers chance to leave poverty (106 million of the poorest of the poor have been reached by microcredit loans and have new opportunities to leave poverty)
February 4, 2009 Sharon Solstice Contra Costa Times Letter (pdf) Don’t forget needy (In tough times, don’t cut aid, but focus on the poorest, set targets, monitor progress)
February 11, 2009 Jim Driggers Contra Costa Times Letter (pdf) Microcredit sets foreign aid example
February 13, 2009 B. Isabel Johnson Contra Costa Times Letter (pdf) Microcredit works to free people from poverty
March 5, 2009 Diane Warren Scotts Valley Press Banner
Scotts Valley Times
Aptos Times
Capitola Soquel Times
Letter ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and the case for microcredit
March 25, 2009 S.F. TB Controllers San Francisco Chronicle Article (pdf) Study finds a different type of TB patient (TB in San Francisco is infecting persons other than immigrants and the homeless and impoverished)
March 25, 2009 N/A San Francisco Chronicle Article (pdf) Cepheid unveils fast, low cost TB test (a two-hour test that diagnoses regular and MDR-TB)
March 25, 2009 S.F. TB Controllers World Journal (Cantonese) Article (pdf) Authorities concerned about high TB incidence rates in the Bay Area (English via Google Translate)
March 25, 2009 Gail Dolson Oakland Tribune Letter (pdf) Fighting disease (U.S. must fund the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria)
March 25, 2009 N/A San Jose Mercury News Article (pdf) Santa Clara County’s tuberculosis cases down (TB cases down in most Bay Area counties, but outbreaks continue and region remains a TB hot spot)
March 26, 2009 Bruce Preville San Jose Mercury News Letter (pdf) U.S. must do its share in TB fight
April 3, 2009 Joel Rubinstein Oakland Tribune
San Mateo County Times
Tri-Valley Herald
Article (pdf) San Mateo County clergy join fight against world poverty
April 4, 2009 Jim Driggers Contra Costa Times Readers’ Forum op-ed (pdf) Biological weapons of mass destruction (AIDS, TB, and Malaria are destructive; the Global Fund addresses these diseases; the U.S. should fund the Global Fund at $2.7 billion.)
May 26, 2009 Tari Nicholson Contra Costa Times Letter (pdf) Fund for education (A Global Fund for Education modeled on the GFATM should be created to educate the 75 million children not in school.)
June 28, 2009 Jim Driggers Contra Costa Times Sunday Perspective All the world’s children should get a chance to learn (A Global Fund for Education modeled on the GFATM should be created to educate the 75 million children not in school.)
June 29, 2009 Jamie McGrath KALW-FM Crosscurrents Radio interview Newsmaker: Eric Weaver CEO of Opportunity Fund (10-minute interview and story: Opportunity Fund has partnered with Kiva to offer microfinancing to borrowers and lenders in the U.S.)
July 8, 2009 Sue Oehser Oakland Tribune Guest commentary My Word: Volunteers make world a better place (RESULTS partners lobbying to end poverty.)
July 13, 2009 Georgia Platts San Jose Mercury News Opinion (pdf) Opinion: Educate world’s children; match their courage with dollars
August 1, 2009 Diane Warren Scotts Valley Times Article Scotts Valley resident attends conference in Washington D.C. (lobbying for children’s lives)
November 28, 2009 Bruce Preville San Jose Mercury News Letter Education funding is a global issue (Candidate Obama pledged $2 billion for Global Fund for Education, let’s create it)

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