We are still trying to reach our goal for the effort we introduced yesterday, but we have another new effort today, too. If you missed yesterday’s pst, here’s the thermometer and a link.
All Politics is Local (Down-Ballot Races and Reverse Coattails)
Our fund-raising efforts for most of 2021-22 were focused on smaller, but very impactful organizations, who often needed our help to expand their infrastructure – a field organizer for Voces in Wisconsin, interns for Promote the Vote in Michigan, startup funds for Four Directions in multiple states, boots on the ground for Voting Access for All Coalition, etc.
By August or September, that could no longer be considered “early money”, so we shifted gears. The goal was, and still is, to donate strategically, with targeted fundraising – not just to the big names or to the candidates we love – but trying to donate where there’s a chance of success and where our money is not like salt in the ocean! Trying, also, to protect voting access and trying to build firewalls against the election-deniers who are running for SOS and AG in multiple states.
Our most recent rollout is a combination of “trickle up” fundraising to increase turnout and giving a leg up to smaller state-level campaigns where $2,500 a person really could make the difference between winning and losing. Those folks aren’t spending thousands and thousands on TV ads; they are printing literature and door knocking and running targeted internet ads, and they can really put the last-minute money to good use.
Now we have one more fundraising effort to roll out.
WORKER POWER
Worker Power is a larger organization than we have targeted in the past. However, this close to the election, our money and efforts are best deployed to a “shovel-ready” organization (so to speak), with its organizational infrastructure already in place.
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