RESULTS: Everyday Heroes Part II

Ending hunger and poverty through citizen action! Working in five areas: Healthy Families, Economic Opportunity, Education for All, Sustainable Development and Empowering Citizens, grassroots volunteers create the political will to end hunger and poverty in the U.S. and around the world.

For more information and ways to get involved go to http://www.results.org !

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• Poverty
• AIDS
• Tuberculosis
• SCHIP
• HeadStart
• Microcredit
• Hunger
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[ResultsOnline]

Amazing!

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What we do not hear much about is how ideas come into the organization, the processes by which the strategic messages are formulated, and the way in which the organization learns through the strategic planning process. In this, the concept of grassroots could seem to be middle-down and bottom-up as if the ideas came from god to the organization staff. Other videos like the Surfrider Foundation's stakeholder meeting address how constituent surveys are used and demonstrate how conflict...

[GRASocialMedia]

The three videos that ResultsOnline posts about results gets right to the concept of grassroots that apparently the organization embodies in practice. We hear of "grassroots volunteers," giving "voice to the voiceless," and about the grassroots training that volunteers receive. Categorically, they fall within the concept of grassroots advocacy. The organization creates change by getting ordinary people to interact with elected representatives on issues the organization wants addressed.