Subject: Re: CARE discussion
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Rob Walker" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Greg Hale" <[email-masked]>, "Robert N.McLarty" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 07:22:56 -0500

We definitely had advocates in that room and did a great job. If we don't get it it won't be because of anything we did wrong.  

Eric D. Schwerin
[email-masked]

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On Nov 9, 2011, at 3:07 AM, "Paul Neaville" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Jodee emailed tonight and said great presentation, they're process is "a bit crazy" but she's "trying to work through it."
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> I take it to mean she is an advocate. 
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> I told her we want it, and if they have concerns or want modifications we are open to visiting about it. 
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> I assume based on Rob's email that we are a bunch of white dudes that are the 1 percent and maybe diversity is an issue but could be reading too much into it. 
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> Anyway, thanks guys for including us, it was a fun pitch and hopefully something that will bear fruit for us all. We are very appreciative of the opportunity and look forward to hopefully winning it and more to come.
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> From: Rob Walker <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:48:02 -0500
> To: Eric Schwerin<[email-masked]>; Hunter Biden<[email-masked]>; <[email-masked]>; Paul Neaville<[email-masked]>; Robert McLarty<[email-masked]>
> Subject: CARE discussion
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> Greg, Robert, and Paul - Let me know which one of you guys is going to be on the call and which one is the backup.  I’m sure I’ll have a call-in number here soon.   I would imagine that we’d start off with an introduction of ourselves, and naturally, since we’re in attendance, let’s start with Hunter introducing RSP, then whoever from Markham is on the call, will introduce Markham.  Attached are just some thoughts and some questions that they wanted us to answer.  I incorporated most of Neaville’s thoughts too I think.    Also, here is some info on CARE to browse, but the most important things to know is that they’re in 87 countries, so it’s more than just Africa, and that they seem to focus on women:
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> CARE tackles underlying causes of poverty so that people can become self-sufficient. Recognizing that women and children suffer disproportionately from poverty, CARE places special emphasis on working with women to create permanent social change. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
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> Agriculture and Natural Resources
> CARE helps families produce more food and increase their income while managing their natural resources and preserving the environment for future generations. CARE works with farmers to increase their crop and livestock yields through activities such as planting new seed varieties, animal husbandry, home gardening and irrigation.
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> Cross-Cutting Initiatives
> CARE's cross-cutting initiatives span across the breadth of our program sectors to tackle the underlying causes of poverty, and place special emphasis on working with women and girls to create lasting social change. For example, the Sport for Social Change Initiative, uses the convening power of sports as a vehicle to minimize the effects of poverty on youth while working to advance gender equality, develop life skills, promote health education, provide psychosocial support and create income-generating activities.
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> Economic Development
> CARE's economic development programs assist impoverished families by supporting moneymaking activities, especially those operated by women. CARE initiates community savings-and-loan programs and provides technical training to help people begin or expand small businesses that will increase family income.
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> Education
> CARE is dedicated to securing basic education for all. Experience shows that learning attacks poverty at its roots. Educated people can make thoughtful and informed decisions that will positively affect their lives, their families, their communities and their world. Mothers are more likely to have healthier children and higher incomes. Today we work alongside communities, governments and partner organizations at many levels to address all aspects of basic education. Our inclusive approaches include training teachers and other school personnel to improve the quality of education; linking education programs to interventions in health, nutrition and livelihoods to better address reasons why children are out of school; involving communities in assessing and overcoming their unique barriers to learning; and conducting broad campaigns that promote the right to education for all people.
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> Emergency Relief
> The fight against poverty is never more difficult than in times of crisis. Our projects directly assist survivors of natural disasters and conflict through both immediate relief and longer-term community rehabilitation, including food, temporary shelter, clean water, sanitation services, medical care, family planning and reproductive health services, and seeds and tools. CARE also is increasingly focused on post-conflict rehabilitation programming in places such as Angola, Bosnia and El Salvador. Our Special Reports give detailed information about CARE's emergency work around the world, including India, Afghanistan and El Salvador.
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> Health
> A family cannot be economically healthy if it is not physically healthy. CARE's health projects focus on mothers and children, who often are the most vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. We are particularly interested in increasing the capacity of our local partners to deliver quality health services. This includes training local health volunteers as counselors, mentors and monitors of community health. CARE is focused on interventions ranging from nutrition and education to birth spacing and clinical services. Our reproductive health projects encompass family planning, prenatal care, labor and delivery services, and the prevention, detection and treatment of STDs, including HIV/AIDS.
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> HIV/AIDS
> We believe that our HIV/AIDS programs must provide information and services to vulnerable groups while addressing the underlying factors that lead people to make choices that put them at risk of infection. CARE's HIV/AIDS programs link with our other sectors, including health, education and economic development. Through our HIV/AIDS programs, we help communities care for children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS; develop peer education and outreach in communities; and increase access to services such as condoms, voluntary counseling and testing, anti-retroviral treatment, and STI prevention and treatment. Advocacy on behalf of vulnerable and marginalized populations is also an important part of our work.
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> Nutrition
> CARE places a special focus on infant and young child feeding and related maternal nutrition practices and care. Proper nutrition is vital to a child's healthy development and an adult's ability to work and care for her family. We protect, promote and support optimal growth and development for children under the age of five to ensure their best chance for survival. Our projects focus on teaching techniques and practices that help prevent malnutrition, including proper breastfeeding techniques, educating families and communities about how to cultivate and prepare nutritious complementary food and strengthening local health systems.
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> Water
> CARE helps communities build and maintain clean water systems and latrines. Both directly and through local organizations, CARE provides training and subsidizes construction, but communities make significant contributions in cash and labor, and pay the cost of operation and maintenance. The goal of these projects is to reduce the health risks of water-related diseases and to increase the earning potential of households by saving time otherwise spent gathering water. Projects also include educating people about good hygiene habits to reduce the risk of illnesses.
> Where is CARE USA located?
> We are headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia; CARE has field offices in 9 U.S. cities. CARE also has offices in each of the countries where we work.
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> Where does CARE work?
> CARE worked in 87 countries in fiscal year 2010, implementing long-term programs to fight poverty, responding to humanitarian emergencies, and advocating for policy change to improve the lives of the poorest people.
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> Who supports CARE?
> Hundreds of thousands of individuals and dozens of U.S. corporations, foundations and other organizations support CARE each year. We also obtain funding and commodities from governmental agencies, the European Union and the United Nations. CARE USA's program expenses in 2006 totaled more than $589 million.
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> Where do my donations go?
> The majority of our donors want their gift to be used wherever the need is greatest. This allows CARE the flexibility to use resources as efficiently as possible. CARE's financial records are available to the public. Ninety-one percent of our expended resources support program activities. Nine percent of expended resources go toward administrative and fundraising expenditures. We conform to the highest accounting and financial standards.
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> Is my donation restricted to one country?
> Donations to CARE go to support our poverty-fighting programs in poor countries worldwide. This gives us the flexibility to channel funds to wherever the needs are greatest.
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> Why doesn't CARE provide assistance within the United States?
> While CARE is concerned with poverty and injustice everywhere, our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Since our inception in 1945, CARE has been a trusted vehicle for Americans to share their compassion and generosity with those who have no safety net.
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> CARE is committed to doing more than meeting immediate needs. We strive to address the structural barriers to overcoming poverty, such as patterns of discrimination and exclusion; corrupt or incompetent public institutions; lack of access to essential public services; conflict and social disorder; and major public health threats. While these can certainly be found to varying degrees in any wealthy nation, the scale doesn't compare to poor nations. Therefore, CARE believes we have the greatest potential for impact in developing countries.
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> Are you a religious-based organization? What is your stand on abortion? 
> CARE is a nonsectarian organization, meaning we are not affiliated with any particular religion or belief system. CARE does not fund, support or perform abortions, though we do assist women suffering complications of unsafe abortions.
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