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Meeting with Congressional Staff to Discuss Financial Access Difficulties and Disinformation Attacks

In late March, InterAciton's Together Project team took to Capitol Hill to raise awareness on two key issues affecting civil society organizations: financial access difficulties and disinformation attacks

J.D. Killough

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Apr 9, 2019

U.S. Foreign Assistance

More Than 70 Organizations Oppose Proposed Cut-Off in Foreign Assistance to Central America

Cutting off poverty-alleviating and violence-reducing assistance in Central America runs counter to American values and interests.

InterAction

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Apr 1, 2019

Crises & Countries in Conflict

Why Trump wants to cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

"The root causes of these crises are in Central America. If we're addressing them at the southern border, it is too late." -InterAction CEO, Sam Worthington

PBS

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Apr 1, 2019

U.S. Foreign Assistance

Let’s Step Up on Foreign Aid to Fund Our Values

Despite the Administration’s repeated efforts to gut foreign aid, Congress has proven a bulwark against those dangerous proposals, restoring funding.

Noam Unger

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Mar 20, 2019

Crises & Countries in Conflict

US can halt new wave of humanitarian suffering in Syria

President Trump has made clear his desire to move on from Syria. But this would be a mistake. Disengagement now would condemn Syrians to a new round of suffering.

via The Hill

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Mar 19, 2019

U.S. Foreign Assistance

Leading Humanitarian, Development, and Global Health Organizations Urge Congress to Reject Cuts to Foreign Assistance

Leading humanitarian, development, and global health organizations are calling on Members of Congress to protect the International Affairs budget in Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) despite the Administration’s proposed 24 percent cuts.

U.S. Foreign Assistance

Choose to Invest FY 2020

Choose to Invest provides Congress, the administration, and other interested stakeholders with funding recommendations and justifications for 45 poverty-focused accounts and programs

InterAction

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Feb 1, 2019

U.S. Foreign Assistance

Aid Delivers: Foreign Assistance in the 116th Congress

Explore our guide to understand the basics of international development, humanitarian action, and U.S. foreign assistance programs.

InterAction

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Jan 11, 2019

U.S. Foreign Assistance

Q&A: A career spent advocating for effective US foreign assistance

Royce has received awards from InterAction, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, and the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition in recent ceremonies, at which many of his colleagues delivered tributes to his dedication to bipartisanship and getting bills passed.

U.S. Foreign Assistance

NGO Community Response to USAID Transformation

The proposed structural shifts have the potential to change how USAID engages with Congress, the NGO sector, and others.

InterAction

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Oct 22, 2018

A Case for Gender Equality on this Day and Every Day

Despite remarkable progress, gender inequality and disempowerment still persist and are a root cause of many barriers to sustainable development around the world.

Carolyn Miles

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Oct 11, 2018

Global Development

BUILD Act of 2018 Signed Into Law

On October 5, President Trump signed into law the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development (BUILD) Act of 2018. The BUILD Act creates an…

InterAction

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Oct 5, 2018

Insights. Reports. Featured Stories.

Meeting with Congressional Staff to Discuss Financial Access Difficulties and Disinformation Attacks

More Than 70 Organizations Oppose Proposed Cut-Off in Foreign Assistance to Central America

Why Trump wants to cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

Let’s Step Up on Foreign Aid to Fund Our Values

US can halt new wave of humanitarian suffering in Syria

Leading Humanitarian, Development, and Global Health Organizations Urge Congress to Reject Cuts to Foreign Assistance

Choose to Invest FY 2020

Aid Delivers: Foreign Assistance in the 116th Congress

Q&A: A career spent advocating for effective US foreign assistance

NGO Community Response to USAID Transformation

A Case for Gender Equality on this Day and Every Day

BUILD Act of 2018 Signed Into Law

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