Media Generated for RESULTS, UNICEF and Grameen Bank These are examples of volunteer media work I have done working with RESULTS, an international grassroots citizens' lobby focused on creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. RESULTS work works very closely with UNICEF and the Grameen Bank.
RESULTS identifies sustainable solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world and works to generate the resources necessary to make them succeed. It's volunteer partners meet with legislators and their aides; generate news, editorials, and letters to the editor, and work in their communities to educate and mobilize the public
My work with Results included generating media coverage in the local press and coordinating the production of media events for the annual release of UNICEF's State of the Worlds Children Report. Generating newspapers editorials by meeting with editorial page writers and getting their participation in issue briefing conference calls was an important part of this work.
This is not a simply a PR activity but part of very successful strategic plan. Local news stories, editorials and letters to the editors are delivered by constituents to congresspersons and key committee decision makers to demonstrate the political will and popular support that exists for legislation and Increasing budget levels for effective sustainable solutions to poverty. This media work is referenced on San Francisco RESULTS web site: http://www.resultssf.org/mediagen.html
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Sept 1998 Unity News Article written by Brian Webster "The Grameen Bank: Leading a growing trend of
communications and internet technologies being accessible to the 'other half' of our world"Generated Dec 23 1997 San Francisco Examiner Editorial "Children who die from hunger"
Generated May 10 1996 KQED-FM Forum Michael Krasny: Interview of Alex Counts*
*Alex Counts, former legislative director of RESULTS, wrote the book "Give Us Credit" about the success of microenterprise lending in helping poor women in starting small businesses and ending their own poverty.Generated Jun 12 1996 San Francisco Chronicle Editorial "UNICEF Shows the Way On Foreign Aid"
Generated Jun 30 1996 San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed Jon Stewart: "The Selling of Foreign Aid"
Feb 4-5 1995 Joel Rubinstein& Brian Webster half hour interview on SOWC 95 report
by Dave McQueen on KDFC-FM & KKSF-FM RadioApril 1995 Unity News Article written by Brian Webster "UNICEF Director Grant Dies at 72"
Produced Dec 11 1995 Media Conference for UNICEF State of the World's Children 1996,
speakers included Rep. Nancy PelosiGenerated Dec 11 1995 KDTV-TV 14 News Coverage of UNICEF press conference
Generated Dec 11 1995 KGO-TV 7 News Coverage of UNICEF press conference
Generated Dec 12 1995 San Jose Mercury News Editorial "UNICEF's Season:
Where world's children suffer, federal budget could help"Dec 12 1995 San Francisco Chronicle Article Aurelio Rojas: "Gritty Poems read for UNICEF"
Generated Dec 17 1995 Brian Webster San Francisco Chronicle Editorial "UNICEF at 50: 'A Terrible Symmetry'"
Produced Dec 15 1994 Media Conference UNICEF State of the World's Children 1995
Generated Dec 23 1994 San Jose Mercury News Editorial
"UNICEF works: Spending a little saves a lot of hungry children": good & bad news from SOWC 1995Generated Feb 12 1993 Oakland Tribune Letter "A new era of commitment" re: aid to Somalia
Generated Oct 7 1993 The Oakland Tribune Op-ed Brenda Payton:
"We're suffering from a poverty of spirit"Generated Feb 12 1993 Oakland Tribune Letter "A new era of commitment" re: aid to Somalia
Produced Dec 21 1993 Press Conference UNICEF State of the World's Children 1994
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