State of the Union September 2022

Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

Total # of Lobbying Meetings in August: 38
Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2022: 368
Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2022: 300

Advocacy Emails

Total # of Advocacy Emails in August: 8,471
Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2022: 63,390
Advocacy Emails Goal for 2022: 200,000
% of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 96%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

The Borgen Project met with Senator Duckworth (D-IL), Senator Schumer (D-NY), Senator Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Senator Warnock’s (D-GA) offices.

Updates from DC

Listen in to hear all of the latest updates from DC.

Recognition

Congratulations to the following team members who have achieved Borgen Project Honors & Recognition

- - Bird-Dog Award:
    - Political Team: Rodrigo Torres, Julia Jakuboski, Varun Yelamanchi,
  - President’s Circle Award (Mobilized 50+ people):
    - Political Team: Nina Gulbransen, Debra Thomas, Larisa Lombardo,
      Sarah Akison, Kaitlin LaBella, Rodrigo Torres, Sam Suschland, Finlay Page, Varun Yelamanchi
  - Articles of the Month:
    - Akshaya Patra Foundation Addresses Hunger Among Children by Jacara Watkins
    - The Emmy Award Nominee Fighting Child Poverty by Ann Shick

Visit the Our Team Members page and read about success stories with our organization.

Letters to the Editor

Political Affairs Team

Delaney Maughan The Salt Lake Tribune
Jeremiah Harrington The Newtown Bee

Nonprofit Leadership Team

Florence Wang The Acorn.com
Vincent Pandey Daily Camera

HR Team

Chloe McKendry Tucson.com

PR/Marketing Team

Patricia Kaya Hadzinski Cleveland and Chicago Tribune
Libby Hale LJ World.com

Getting the Word Out

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

Vincent Pandey of the NPL team completed his 1-mile campaign in the area around Representative Perlmutter’s office (D-CO-7)

Political Affairs Team member, Nina Gulbransen

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Maddi Kalous

HR Team member, Kemmerly Chipongian

PR/Marketing Team member Gianna Bruno

Political Affairs Team member, Nina Gulbransen

Political Affairs Team member, Delmy Rodriguez

PR/Marketing Team member, Tara Boehringer

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Isabella Peitz completing her 1-mile campaign in Representative Malliotakis’ district (R-NY-11)

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Ellen Benson put up posters on the blocks in front of her Senator’s offices in downtown Milwaukee.

Political Affairs Team member, Henry Mitchell

Political Affairs Team member , Nina Gulbransen

PR/Marketing Team member, Sara Fikree

Political Affairs Team member Debra Thomas

Nonprofit Leadership Team, member, Aansh Raiyani

Fundraising

Political Affairs Team member, Larisa Lombardo

Media Outreach & Mobilizing Materials

Political Affairs Team member, Zachary Rousseau

Political Affairs Team member, Emma Benardete’s canine assistant supporting the cause!

A series of Memes by Political Affairs Team member, Asher Block

PR/Marketing Team member, Ayda Hailu

Two memes by HR Team member, Yusra Sohail

TikTok

A series of TikToks created by John Rivera, PR/Marketing Team member

@thelifeofthaddeuss We fight for the underdog. End extreme poverty now with @theborgenproject and make a difference in the world. The world needs heroes to fight for the weak. You can be that hero. #theborgenproject #endextremepoverty #charity #based #sigma #afterdark #fyp ♬ original sound – John

@thelifeofthaddeuss Help @theborgenproject, a nonprofit organization fight extreme poverty worldwide. The sick deserve a chance to heal, our children have the right to an education, and nobody deserves to go to bed hungry. We fight for the underdog. Visit www.borgenproject.org and act now. #theborgenproject #endpoverty #based #littledarkage #sigma #gigachad #sigma #fyp ♬ original sound – John

@thelifeofthaddeuss Embrace the indomitable human spirit and help fight extreme poverty to make a difference in the world with @theborgenproject, a nonprofit dedicated to helping the underprivileged. Nobody deserves to go to bed hungry. #theborgenproject #nonprofit #advocacy #endglobalpoverty #indomitablehumanspirit #fyp ♬ original sound – John

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Videos

PR/Marketing Team member Xiarui Zhang

Political Affairs Team member Rowshan Mahdiya Mizan, asking for support for Overseas Development Aasistance