Challenge 2 has come to an end for the ONE Campus Challenge, and what an awesome success it was! Throughout October our ONE Campus Chapters served up everything from sweet potato soup to spicy sweet potato burritos to help raise awareness for the smart interventions that combat malnutrition. Of course there has to be a

President Obama visited the swing state of Wisconsin three times over a week-long period earlier this month. ONE members were there, front and center, braving the cold during each one of the President’s appearances, for the opportunity to remind him of the importance of fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease around the world and to

In the final days of the campaign, ONE members took time to hand-deliver more postcards to Wisconsin’s US Senate candidate Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin’s offices. These postcards have messages asking the candidates, if elected, to support poverty-based foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future – which helps train people how to modernize their farming

I attended an interesting political rally for Michelle Obama in Racine, Wisconsin recently. As I waited in the several-hour-long line of Wisconsinites excited to see the First Lady, I was able to recruit a new ONE volunteer! Michelle Irvin told me that this was her first time attending a political event and she was looking forward to

Vivian Onano, ONE Congressional district leader from Kenosha, Wis., recounts her experience getting a letter to her congressman, Paul Ryan, signed by three influential leaders in her town. When you are firm about what you want, then no door can be closed on you. I certainly learned that on Wednesday when I managed to schedule

The AIDS Walk Wisconsin is an event that has been making a difference for more than 20 years in the lives of Wisconsin residents living with HIV and AIDS, and I was honored to serve as a volunteer for ONE on Saturday. Our booth featured ONE banners, posters and literature, alongside ONE T-shirts and bracelets.

ONE members around the country are hitting the presidential campaign trail, engaging and educating the candidates on the fight against extreme poverty for ONE Vote. Did you know that Wisconsin produces more than one-quarter of the country’s cheese? Impressive, isn’t it? What’s just as impressive is the drive of Wisconsin ONE members to take action

ONE Regional Field Director Tzviatko Chiderov reports on a recent ONE event in Wisconsin: As a bipartisan advocacy organization, it is important for us to have strong presence at key political events for both parties as we engage political leaders from both sides of the aisle in support of effective development programs that are saving

I took a trip to Wisconsin this past weekend to meet with ONE members from Kenosha and Milwaukee. We discussed our plans as we continue to strengthen the ONE volunteer presence in the area. Meetup in Kenosha, Wi. In Kenosha, I met with four excited ONE members. We spoke about ONE’s priorities for 2012 and

On Tuesday, ONE volunteer Trevor Wiles and I headed to Kenosha, Wisconsin to attend one of Rep. Paul Ryan’s town hall meetings. After the town hall event, Trevor and I were able to meet the Congressman. He immediately recognized our ONE gear and was happy to see us at yet another one of his events!

On Monday, ONE volunteer Matthew Lowe and I headed to Mukwonago, Wisconsin to catch up with Rep. Paul Ryan at a town hall meeting. At the end of his presentation, Rep. Ryan fielded a question on foreign aid and its impact on the federal budget. The question was essentially, “Why bother?” and “Why should this

Hitting the campaign trail on behalf of ONE Vote 2010, longtime ONE supporter Bob Bowers, also known as “Da Pirate,” had the chance to meet with Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold on Thursday. Bob is a 26-year thriving survivor of HIV/AIDS and is a well-respected educator and advocate. Sen. Feingold was at Madison College for a

We had about 35 people show up for last night’s University of Wisconsin-Madison screening of “The Lazarus Effect,” which included students of a class working on an HIV/AIDS project. ONE member Shawn Alexander and the UW-Madison film team helped me prep and run the event. It was wonderful to have an HIV/AIDS professor there to

On Monday, my husband Wes and I joined other members of ONE to meet with Brad Smith of Congressman Ron Kind’s staff. Of the nearly 28,000 ONE members in Wisconsin, over 3,000 are in the 3rd Congressional District – a number we are looking to grow! We asked Brad to thank Congressman Kind for being

On Wednesday, ONE members in the Fox Valley area met with Amanda Dietrich, who serves on the staff of Congressman Steve Kagen (D-WI). Chuck Steinbach, Tammy Jo Berg, Mike Randerson, Stacy Mallette, Jackie Thiry and Susan Halverson talked to Amanda about ONE’s overall goals to end extreme poverty and how we believe Congressman Kagen can