As Congress moves into budget and appropriations season for fiscal 2016, advocates have the opportunity to encourage policymakers to continue U.S. leadership in helping people in the world’s poorest places to become independent and build sustainable futures for themselves and their families.
This week marks the launch of InterAction’s Choose to Invest in Development and Humanitarian Relief FY 2016. In a letter sent to Congress Tuesday — as lawmakers begin writing the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Bill — 168 organizations endorsed InterAction’s funding recommendations.
Choose to Invest FY 2016 is a rich resource for those who support building the foundation for education, health, and economic opportunity so that every person, regardless of where they are born, has the chance to reach their full potential. Specific recommendations are made across more than 35 international development and humanitarian response programs.
About the author
Mark Lotwis
Mark Lotwis is the vice president of policy and government relations at InterAction, where he helps shape important policy decisions on humanitarian, relief and long-term development issues. Prior to InterAction, Lotwis served as senior director of campaign advocacy at the Save Darfur Coalition. He also worked as executive director of 21st century Democrats, as a partner of two leading media consulting firms and as chief of staff to U.S. Representative Ted Strickland.
