As ONE members across the nation continue to take action and urge their elected leaders to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, we are exploring more and better ways to support ONE members in their own community.

If you live in New Hampshire or Vermont, please join us in the first of a series of local ONE Conference Calls to update you on important local actions, events, and opportunities. Your voice is critically important in making sure that our nation is doing all we can to help save millions of lives around the world.

Please RSVP and join us for these calls and look to the ONE blog for more local calls and actions in your community.

We hope to hear from you soon!

-Matthew Bartlett

ONE member Scott Simpson of Vermont, who helped make Vermont a State of ONE, made it down to his local Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Store in Burlington to check out the new ONE Cheesecake Brownie flavor and explore ONE’s new and unique partnership with the famous Vermont Ice Cream makers.

Scott told me that there was a lot of new excitement around the partnership and many people had seen ONE on Idol Gives Back. He even told me that they had already signed up many new ONE members at the store. Free Cone Day is approaching on April 29th and his local store has agreed to set up a ONE table too.

By uniting as ONE, and ONE lick at a time, we are spreading the word that saving lives in some of the most desperate places on Earth is not only possible in today’s world, it is a priority.

-Matthew Bartlett, ONE Regional Organizer

Historically, as we move closer to the general election, campaigns, media and electorate itself, tends to talk a lot more about the horse race and a lot less about the issues.

Today, with critical presidential primaries in four states, I and my many ONE member friends and colleagues must work that much harder to raise the profile for global poverty in this country.

Remember, you can look at the candidate’s plans for global poverty on ONE Action’s On The Record site. If you happen to live in Ohio, Texas, Vermont or Rhode Island, you could consider talking about global poverty while in the voting line.

And, as always, stay tuned for more urgent actions in the days, weeks and months ahead.

-Virginia Simmons