Diabetes Advocates to Speak to Congress About Type 1 Diabetes Funding and Research at JDRF Government Day 2019

AUDIO: Stefanie Sonico, National Grassroots Advocacy Chair, JDRF
(Washington D.C., Monday, March 4, 2019) – JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. The nonprofit organization focuses on accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat T1D. Since 1970,...

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America’s D+ Infrastructure Report Card Provides Opportunity for Congress & President Trump to Work Together

AUDIO: Tom Smith, Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers
(Reston, VA, Friday, February 15, 2019) – Recent polling from POLITICO and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health said that increasing infrastructure spending is one of the top priorities for Americans for the new Congress....

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New Data from Bread for the World Shows Hunger and Poverty Rates in the African-American Community Are Not Increasing Fast Enough

AUDIO: Marlysa D. Gamblin, Domestic Advisor for Policy and Programs, Bread for the World Institute
(Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 12, 2019) – February is Black History Month, and while hunger and poverty declined among African Americans in 2017, food insecurity has still not dropped enough this past year to match the...

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New England Needs to Focus on Clean Energy in Order to Cut Climate Pollution

AUDIO: Greg Cunningham, Vice President and Director, Conservation Law Foundation’s Clean Energy and Climate Change Program
(Boston, MA, Thursday, February 7, 2019) – New England has enough power to weather even the most intense cold snaps. Rather than build polluting, expensive fracked gas pipelines – that will swiftly become obsolete – we...

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Comunidades Contra el Odio, una Iniciativa Nacional que Trabaja para Documentar y Abordar Incidentes de Odio, Recopila Historias Personales de Odio y Brinda Servicios de apoyo para Aquellos que lo Necesitan

Viernes 1 de Febrero de 2019 Estimado Director de Asuntos Públicos, Communities Against Hate (Comunidades Contra el Odio) es una iniciativa nacional que trabaja documentando e identificando actos de odio, colectando historias personales de odio...

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Communities Against Hate, a National Initiative Working to Document and Address Hate Incidents, is Collecting Personal Stories of Hate and Provides Support Services For Those in Need

Friday, February 1, 2019 Dear PSA Director, Communities Against Hate, a national initiative working to document and address hate incidents, collects personal stories of hate and provides support services for those in need. Hate incidents...

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Movement and Exercise are Key in Reducing Risk of Heart Disease: February is American Heart Month

AUDIO: Dr. Charlotte Pratt, Program Director and Deputy Branch Chief, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(Bethesda, MD, Wednesday, January 30, 2019) – Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. One in four people in the U.S. dies of heart disease each year. A risk factor...

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