State of the Union November 2022

Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

Total # of Lobbying Meetings in October: 39
Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2022: 450
Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2022: 300

Advocacy Emails

Total # of Advocacy Emails in October: 3,627
Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2022: 71,787
Advocacy Emails Goal for 2022: 200,000
% of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 99%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

Political Affairs Team member Alex Contreras and Amy Pettigrew, Senior Program Manager, met with Ben Castagnetti, Legislative Correspondent for Senator Cantwell [D-WA]

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

- - Capital Achievement Award (raised $2,000 or more):
    - Content Team: Opal Vitharana
  - Chief Closer Award (raised $1,000 or more):
    - Nonprofit Leadership Team: Kerri ONeill
    - Content Team: Madison Stivala
  - Articles of the Month:
    - Global Humanitarianism: Running to Make a Difference by Kaylee Messick
    - Paul Pogba presents Charity: Water by Olivia Roy Fritsch
    - Isla Urbana Tackles Mexico City Water Crisis by Jordan Oh

Outstanding Team Member: HR Team member, Patricia Andrea Flores has gone far above the requirements of the internship program. Based in the Philippines, Patricia completed her program in 6 weeks and managed to:

Raise $500 amount of donations and counting
Write a book inspired by The Borgen Project, with dedications and mentions of the organization, with hundreds of copies distributed nationwide in the Philippines
Flipped her apartment as The Borgen House and was able to immerse in the humility of being a homeless person
Exposed to hundreds of universities and improved her professional affiliation and communication in recruitment and hiring
She was recognized as “The Outstanding Student Leader of the Philippines 2022” from the entire country which also became her platform for sharing The Borgen Project in different national NGOs, prominent leaders in the academe, and her blogs with about 100,000+ audience reach.

Discussion with Rotaract international youth in Sta. Cruz Laguna

Outstanding Student Leader of the Philippines

Meeting with Lawyer of Congressman Odie Tarriela, we discussed the poverty rates in our province. Patricia presented them our international project and she even lauded our initiative saying “Thank you, The Borgen Project, for being the Insivible hand of the government in fighting global poverty”.