Check out this blog post from our friends at RESULTS:

Joanne Carter, our executive director here at RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund (REF), was recently selected for a two year term as the Board Member for the Developed Country NGO Delegation to the Global Fund Board.

While we couldn’t be more proud of Joanne here at RESULTS/REF, her appointment to the Global Fund Board presents a tremendous opportunity to all of us involved in this work. Sitting on the Board allows Joanne the opportunity to leverage existing North and South partnerships, while also building new partnerships, for the mobilization of resources to address the Global Fund’s funding gap of US $4-9 billion and providing support for high-quality proposals to the Global Fund.

Coincidentally, the Global Fund faces this multi-billion dollar funding gap in no small part because of its success — countries are now able to do more to tackle these disease of poverty, so they are asking for more. Filling the Global Fund’s multi-billion dollar resource gap will require a bold, coordinated resource mobilization strategy. While a seemingly daunting task, the more we’re able to collaborate in our advocacy efforts, the greater the chance that Global Fund receives the full funding that it needs.

Joanne brings to the Board over 17 years of experience directing advocacy campaigns that have mobilized billions of dollars for health and development programs, and I know that she looks forward to her continued partnership with many of you as she takes her seat on the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

-Blair Hinderliter, Communications Director, RESULTS