Note from the President: Good News! The Education for all Act passed in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee! We were also pleasantly surprised when the committee passed the AGOA Enhancement Act, which contains language pulled from the M-CORE Act. Good Work! I had lots of meetings with Senate offices in November regarding the Education for All Act […]
Note from the President: This session of Congress (two-year cycle) ends in mid-December. Any legislation that doesn’t pass this month or next will have to be reintroduced in 2017. Now is the time for a strong push! I love our new bill! Check out the Protecting Girls’ Access to Education in Vulnerable Settings Act. For those of us who’ve been […]
[hr_invisible] Note from the President: Great job fundraising everyone! We raised more in the 3rd Quarter (July 1st – Sept. 30th) than in Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 combined! Summer is usually a strong fundraising period, but to see everyone rally together and raise over $96,000 in a single quarter is extremely impressive. To put […]
Lobbying Meetings: ● Total August Meetings = 25 ● Year-to-date Total = 265 ● Annual Goal = 340 ● % of Annual Goal = 78% Key Bills: ● No new cosponsors for the month of August as the summer recess wraps up. ● Congress is back in session on September 6th, 2016 Mobilizing: ● Total August Emails = 4,696 ● Year-to-date Total = 24,676 ● Annual Goal = 24,000 ● % of Annual Goal = 103% [ANNUAL GOAL EXCEEDED!] We had over 3 times the number of people emailing Congress this month compared to August 2015. [hr_invisible] Role Reversal! Normally it’s us Tweeting Congress, but Kyle Birns, from the PA team has been name dropped by his Congressman! Great mtg with […]