An Invitation To My Friends and Colleagues:

An Invitation
To My Friends and Colleagues:

My career in the Oil and Gas Industry is an important part of my life. However, my new passion outside of my career is as a volunteer with RESULTS CANADA (www.results-resultats.ca), an organization which I will tell you more about further along in this e-mail. I have for years been deeply distressed by the state of the world. The cycle of poverty, death and violence keeps escalating, the problems seemed insurmountable and I felt helpless to do anything about it. Through my association with RESULTS I became much better informed about the issues and potential solutions. I was both shocked and encouraged to learn that we actually have the resources in the world to not only impact the worst global poverty, but to actually end it in our lifetime! What is missing is the political will to do so, and this is where RESULTS comes in.

RESULTS is a small but extremely effective and powerful advocacy group whose goal is the elimination of hunger, absolute poverty and debilitating diseases in our world. We are affiliated with RESULTS USA and have parallel organizations in the UK, Germany, Mexico, Australia and Japan. When Hilary Clinton chaired our World Microcredit Summit in 1997, she called RESULTS the most powerful volunteer organization she had ever encountered. We are on the steering committee for the White Band campaign www.makepovertyhistory.ca, and also STOP TB CANADA.

RESULTS CANADA has had many successes over the past several years. Please see the end of this e-mail for a summary of accomplishments from the past year.

Our RESULTS group here in Calgary is the most active in Canada, leading in letters to the editor, op-eds and editorials published in newspapers nationally and also in communications with our parliamentarians. We also raise the majority of the funds to sustain our group nationally, which has an extremely cost-effective budget of about $165,000 per year for the past several years. None of our funding comes from government and very little from business- we are almost entirely grassroots funded, with every dollar helping to leverage millions going to programs for the poorest.

I would like to invite you to the RESULTS CANADA 11th Annual fundraising Breakfast on Saturday November 12, 2005, from 9:00-11:30 AM at the Hyatt Regency Grand Ballroom, 700 Centre St SE. Keynote speakers are Calgary's own Rev Bill Phipps and, from Zambia, Winstone Zulu, one of Africa's leading TB and HIV activists.
We would be thrilled and honored if you would consider being our guest at the breakfast this November 12 and, if possible, bringing friends and colleagues to help us achieve our goal of filling 750 seats.

Tickets this year are $20 to cover the cost of the breakfast then we ask for tax receiptable donations at the event with cash, personal cheque, or credit card to finance our work for the next year. I look forward to hearing from you and will be happy to arrange for tickets. If you are unable to attend the breakfast but wish to make a donation, I would be happy to make those arrangements with you as well.

Thank you so much for considering this invitation.

Respectfully
Cathy

WE'RE TALKING RESULTS!

RESULTS Canada works to eradicate hunger and the worst aspects of global poverty.

So what has this small group achieved over the past 12 months, with its $165,000 annual budget from donors?

· · A $20 million grant from CIDA for bed nets for Africa, estimated to prevent 750,000 cases of malaria and save 30,000 lives a year.
· · Successfully lobbied the World Bank to fund a new global malaria prevention program worth at least $100 million a year for the next 5 years.
· · Worked alongside other groups to get a $140 million increase in Canada's funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
· · The Mayors of 6 cities proclaimed Fair Trade Weeks, encouraging the purchase of fair trade goods.

NET RESULT: each $1 donated helped to generate over $1,500 for global health programs.