State of the Union May 2023

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Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in April: 79
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2023: 172
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2023: 405

Advocacy Emails

  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in April: 4,081
  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2023: 15,693
  • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2023: 115,000
  • % of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 87%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

HR Team member, Rachel Cuthill meeting with MP Richard Fuller to discuss ODA. The meeting took place in North East Bedfordshire.

Meeting with Representative Scott Peter’s [D-CA-50] staff member, Sophia Garcia and Charlotte Izadi, Political Affairs Team member

Nonprofit Leadership Team member Elizabeth Popovich attended a bird-dogging/town hall event with Representative DeSaulnier [D-CA 10]

Updates from DC

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Recognition

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

      • Chief Closer Award (raised $1,000 or more):
        • Nonprofit Leadership Team: Emily Doneen
        • Political Affairs Team: Piroska Boland
        • Content Team: Junoh Seo, Christina Albrecht
      • Bird-Dog Award: 
        • Political Team: Lillian Lewis, Evan Sexton
      • President’s Circle Award (Mobilized 50+ people):
        • Political Team: Luigi Berinde, Matthew Giesecke, Olivia D’Ambrosio, Leah Haney, Emily Kutler
        • PR/Marketing: Kevalyn Boettner
      • Articles of the Month: The Great Work of Medical Ambassadors International by David Keenan

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

Getting the Word Out

Political Affairs Team member, Andrew Bruno, called into C-Span

Swarms

Political Affairs Team member, Jack Colbert and friends

HR Team member, Rachel Cuthill created this fun scroll poem poster for displaying around her hometown in Bedfordshire, UK,  in the hope of growing her ‘swarm’

 

Information Events

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

HR Team members

Sarah Challis in Tunbridge Wells, UK

Hanat Olatunde in Chelmsford, UK

Nishant Singh around Waterloo and South Bank in London

Cristiano Proietti implementing his 1-mile campaign in Italy

Yetunde Lana in New Jersey

 

Pramish Gurung in Kent, UK

 

Political Affairs Team members

Sofia Bertoli

Madison Tomaso in Jacksonville, NC

Cole Picca in Durham, NC

Nixi Hults in Saint Paul, MN

 

 

Lillian Lewis in Garner, NC

PR/Marketing Team Members

Brittany Amtman

Letters to the Editor

Political Team

Content Team 

PR/Marketing Team 

 

Outreach & Mobilizing Materials

PR/Marketing Team member, Salma Elmanawy

Content Team member, Luciana Mena Fernandez

HR Team member, Lawurosekani Zwandor

Content Team member, Bethan Marsden

Political Affairs Team member, Leah Haney held a tabling event on her campus to get people to email their leaders

Political Affairs Team member, Nora Conaway dressed a window

 

 

Fundraising

Political Affairs Team member, Emily Kutler held a wine night as part of her fundraiser. “We raised $159. We did two raffles, one for a $15 gift card to a wine store and the other for a box of cocktails.”

Content Team member, Hannah Naylor

Political Affairs Team member, Emily Greeley’s Murder Mystery Fundraising

 

TikTok

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

Videos


Content Team member, Dami Kalejaiye

 

State of the Union April 2023

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Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in March: 5
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2023: 93
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2023: 405

Advocacy Emails

  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in March: 4,889
  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2023: 11,612
  • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2023: 115,000
  • % of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 82%

 

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):
        • PR/Marketing Team: Carol Beyda
      • Chief Closer Award (raised $1,000 or more):  
        • Nonprofit Leadership Team: Paige Seuthe, Joshua Evans, Carolyn Burke, Elizabeth McConaghy
        • Political Affairs Team: Evan Sexton, Charlotte Izadi, Julia-Rose Neff Stanbrook
      • Bird-Dog Award: 
        • Political Team: Nixi Hults, Youn Seong Lee
      • President’s Circle Award (Mobilized 50+ people):
        • Political Team: Evan Sexton, Youn Seong Lee, Dylan Bradley, Mark-David Muego, Dylan DeMatteo, Emma Geoghegan, Mark Collins
      • Articles of the Month: WaterSchool Combats Water Scarcity in Uganda by Evelyn Breitbach

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

Getting the Word Out

Political Affairs Team member, Madison Tomaso’s dog supporting the cause!

 

Swarms

Political Affairs Team member, Fawzan Aslam

 

Information Events

Political Affairs Team member, Cierra Ray spoke at a bingo night in her town about The Borgen Project.

Political Affairs Team member, Nixi Hults gave a presentation at their university

 

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

PR/Marketing Team member, Arundhati Sharma, doing some great outreach work in Milan, Italy.

PR/Marketing Team member, Olivia Keer

Political Affairs Team member, Carmen Corrales Alonso with her friends implementing her 1-mile campaign in Irvine, CA

Political Affairs Team member, Hannah Massey

 

 

 

HR Team member, Anusha Kappatta

HR Team member, Kaylia Bailey

PR/Marketing Team member, Carol Beyda

Political Affairs Team member, Mohammed Farrash

HR Team member, Opeyemi Kareem implemented his 1-mile campaign in Bristol, UK

PR/Marketing Team member, Emme Whitehead

 

 

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Preeti Karthikeyan, in Granite Bay, CA

 

Letters to the Editor

Political Affairs Team

PR/Marketing Team

Regional Director

 

Fundraising

FABULOUS FUNDRAISER WITH FRIENDS AND FOOD

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Carolyn Burke from Little Eaton, Derbyshire in the UK completed a fantastic fundraising event:

The challenge to raise money for charity can be a daunting one, as not everyone is motivated to part with their cash with a cheeky Facebook ask. But a piece of advice from The Borgen Project – Fundraising 101 sparked an idea, that turned out to be not only productive, but fun too! They said, do something you enjoy AND give people something for their money. What better way to raise awareness, I thought, than to eat, drink and enjoy the company of friends. Remembering how lucky we are and how, by eating together, we can help others to be able to eat together too.  I had recently had the pleasure of having dinner at a friend’s house cooked by a chef called Louisa Ellis and thought perhaps she might do me a deal for charity. Cheeky phone call later and the amazing Louisa had said that she would provide her services free of charge. Yes! Free of charge, so that we could raise money together to help people less fortunate. And so, I invited a group of friends to come to my house to eat, drink and share great conversation…and of course to part with some cash! I asked them to donate what they thought the meal was worth to The Borgen Project via my fundraising page. Now, any chef cooking delicious food would be a treat, but Louisa is not just any chef. She won MasterChef UK in 2020 and was voted best chef of the year in 2022! I wish I could summon up the taste of her food for you on this page; you will have to take my word for it that her mackerel with wasabi emulsion, coriander and lime was delicious, and the Vairhona honeycomb petit fours, actual heaven! I want to thank Louisa from the bottom of my heart. For such a talent to give her time to our charity is honourable; she is truly a gem. We raised over £1,250 for The Borgen Project that evening and I know that money will be used so well, compelling Governments to act and help those that need it. Please join me in thanking Louisa Ellis by following her socials and sharing her talent, she sincerely deserves it.  @cheflouisaellis www.cheflouisaellis.com

HR team member, Sarah Challis held a quiz night on St. Patrick’s Day for her fundraising campaign

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Paige Seuthe abled on UT campus and offered rubix cubes for either donations or calls to Congress

Political Affairs Team member, Matthew Giesecke’s Instagram Bingo fundraiser

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Joshua Evans raised over $1000 by week 2 of his internship and dedicated this video to all his donors

Media Outreach

Political Affairs Team member, Elena Maria Puri

HR Team member, Anusha Kappatta

 

TikTok

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

Videos


Political Affairs Team member, Mohammed Farrash

Political Affiars Team member, Cole Picca

Political Affairs Team member, Becca Wasserman

 

State of the Union March 2023

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Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in February: 48
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2023: 93
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2023: 405

Advocacy Emails

  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in February: 3,811
  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2023: 6,723
  • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2023: 115,000
  • % of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 56%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

Kim Thelwell and Political Affairs Team
member Abigael Mullens, meeting with staff from Rep. Victoria Spartz’s office [R-IN-5]

Updates from DC

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Recognition

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

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

Getting the Word Out

Swarms

Political Affairs Team member, Nixi Hults

HR Team member, Hitansh Shah

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

HR Team Member, Funmilayo Osinere completing her 1 mile campaign in Sunderland, UK

HR Team member, Rabia Nadeem

HR Team member, Angelina Li and friends

HR Team member, Oluwatoyin Abib, in Sunderland, UK

Content Team member, Freddie Trevanion

Content Team member, Florence Jones

 

 

 

Letters to the Editor

Nonprofit Leadership Team

Fundraising

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Cassidy Creighton created this flyer for her fundraising campaign

Political Affairs Team member, Cierra Ray designed these business cards as part of her fundraising campaign

Content Team member, Murathan Arslancan organized a birthday party and asked everyone to donate

Media Outreach

PR/Marketing Team member, Mubai Huang

HR Team member, Anusha Kappatta

Political Affairs Team member, Rebekah Augustine

HR Team member, Anusha Kappatta

Content Team member, Lydia Wigley

Political Affairs Team member, Riley Taylor

 

 

Political Affairs Team member, Elena Maria Puri

HR Team member, Ida Buusof

TikTok

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

Videos

Political Affairs Team member, Riley Taylor

Political Affairs Team member, Hannah Massey urging Senator Ron Johnson, Senator Tammy Baldwin, and Representative Mark Pocan to support the READ Act Reauthorization Act of 2023

Political Affairs Team member, Lucy Dale asking Sen. Sherrod Brown to support the READ Act Reauthorization Act of 2023

PR/Marketing Team member, Mubai Huang, supporting the Keeping Girls In School Act

PR/Marketing Team member, Mubai Huang, The Poverty Cycle

 

State of the Union February 2023

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Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in January: 45
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2023: 45
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2023: 405

Advocacy Emails

  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in January: 2,912
  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2023: 2,912
  • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2023: 115,000
  • % of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 53%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

Amy Pettigrew and our team members met with Senator Ron Johnson’s Legislative Aide, Danuta Pereira. (R-WI)

Meeting with Peter Engel, Senator Tina Smith’s Legislative Aide (D-MN).

Meeting with Senator Padilla’s Legislative Correspondent, Edward Adutwum. (D-CA)

Updates from DC

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Recognition

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

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

Getting the Word Out

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

HR Team member, Brice Riddell

Political Affairs Team member, Sharan Guria completed their 1-mile campaign from Deansgate to Northern Quarter, which includes the Piccadilly transportation hub.

HR Team member, Emily Drake in New Zealand completed her one mile campaign to spark the general public’s interest.

HR Team member, Justine Kuhnle

 

Letters to the Editor

Political Affairs Team

Nonprofit Leadership Team

 

Outreach & Mobilizing Materials

Content Team member, Emma He

Regional Director, Mary Kate Gruening

Political Affairs Team member, Chesapeake Dowdy

Fundraising

HR Team member Ashley Piscuc painted these beautiful pieces of art for her fundraiser

 

TikTok

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

 

 

State of the Union January 2023

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In 2022, thanks to your support we helped to pass two bills — the Global Malnutrition Prevention & Treatment Act and the Global Food Security Act! We are excited to hit the ground running this year and look forward to sharing more updates in the coming weeks! 

 

Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in December: 14
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2022: 497
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2022: 300

Advocacy Emails

  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in December: 1,933
  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2022: 76,555
  • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2022: 200,000
  • % of Congress Emailed 2022: 100%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

Kim Thelwell and Political Affairs Team member, Eric Kersten met with a staffer from Senator Lee’s office [R-UT]

Kim Thelwell and Isaish Pielak met with a staffer from Senator Grassley’s office [R-IA]

Amy Pettigrew and our team members met with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) Legislative Aide, Ben Lebowitz

Updates from DC

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Recognition

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

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

Getting the Word Out

Information Events

Content Team member, Aanchal Mishra’s Living Room Summit: It was a snack munching themed cozy winter party. They danced and munched on delicious Indian snacks and coffee. Aanchal also told them about their internship with TBP and the work TBP does. They all spoke about global issues and how people often avoid considering them.

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

HR Team member, Ariel Bradford completing her 1 mile campaign in Spokane, WA

HR Team member, Maria Pirvulescu completing her 1 mile campaign in Coventry, UK.

Political AffairsTeam member Afzal Ahmed completed his 1 mile campaign near his MP’s (Neil Coyles, Independant Bermondsey and Old Southwark) office

HR Team member, Malaycia Sanders

Letters to the Editor

Political Affairs Team

HR Team 

TikTok

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

Videos

Political Affairs Team member, Alexandra Moran

Political Affairs Team member, Kerri ONeill

Political Affairs Team member, Sharan Guria

 

State of the Union December 2022

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Very Happy Holidays to all of our amazing team members from everyone at

The Borgen Project

Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in November: 32
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2022: 482
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2022: 300

Advocacy Emails

  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in November: 2,835
  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2022: 74,622
  • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2022: 200,000
  • % of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 97%

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

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

Getting the Word Out

Information Events

Political Affairs Team member, Mary Kate Gruening, gave a class presentation

HR Team member, Malaycia Sanders presented to her school about her experience working with The Borgen Project

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

HR Team member, Richard Emekagbor implemented his 1-mile campaign around Carol Monaghan’s Constituency Office in Glasgow

Political Affairs Team member, Mary Kate Gruening

HR Team member Natasha Hall-Trujillo with her fur buddy, Bennett

HR Team member, Liz Guenther of the HR team, with the help of her furry friend

Letters to the Editor

Political Affairs Team

Nonprofit Leadership Team

PR/Marketing Team 

 

Outreach & Mobilizing Materials

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Kerri ONeill

Political Affairs Team member, Mary Kate Gruening

HR Team member, Teresa Lopez

Advocate Lindsey Arrasmith

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Sankhepo Ndhlovu

Fundraising

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Kerri ONeill’s Thanksgiving Turkeys

TikTok

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

 

@chattygryffindor My 1-Mile campaign with the Borgen Project, a national campaign fighting to downsize global poverty by influencing US foreign policy! @The Borgen Project ♬ Footloose – Kenny Loggins

Political Affairs Team member, Mary Kate Gruening

@oliviasheen Please protect the International Affairs Budget Senator Duckworth!! #borgenproject #chicago ♬ Aesthetic – Tollan Kim

Political Affairs Team member, Olivia Sheen

Videos

Political Affairs Team member, Chesapeake Dowdy

Political Affairs Team member, Georgina Burt

State of the Union November 2022

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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

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Recognition

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

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”.

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

Getting the Word Out

Swarms

HR Team member, Nathan Victor

 

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

Political Affairs Team members:

Melissa Mercedes

Zachary Rousseau

Austin Martinez

Aadith Kannan

Letters to the Editor

Political Affairs Team

Nonprofit Leadership Team

 

Outreach & Mobilizing Materials

Content Team member, Ava Ronning

Fundraising

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Sankhepo Ndhlovu, baked these yummy muffins for her fundraiser

TikTok

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

Videos

Global Poverty Fast Facts

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Avery Evans

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Sofia Andreocci

Political Affairs Team member, Ho Ting Hung

 

 

State of the Union October 2022

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Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in September: 43
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2022: 411
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2022: 300

Advocacy Emails

  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in September: 4,770
  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2022: 68,160
  • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2022: 200,000
  • % of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 98%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

Anastasia Argat, PA team member, and Amy Pettigrew met with Betsy Dudley, the National Security Advisor for Rep. Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10)

Kim Thelwell and Advocate Lindsey Arrasmith, met with Connnor Stubbs from Representative Adam Smith’s office (Honorary Board Member) (D-WA)

PA team member, Alessia Mazuelos meeting with MP Neil Coyle of Bermondsey and Old Southwark, UK

Chelsea Komeyan, Political Affairs Team member, and Amy Pettigrew met with Peter Engel, Legislative Correspondent for Senator Tina Smith (D-MN)

Nonprofit Leadership Team members, Avery Evans and Brendan Fung, and Amy Pettigrew, met with Betsy Dudley, National Security Advisor from Representative DeGette’s office (D-CO-1)

Updates from DC

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Recognition

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

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

Getting the Word Out

Information Events

HR team member, Patricia Andrea Flores, from the Philippines, presented to a class of indigenous children and teachers about The Borgen Project, including its mission and vision. She encouraged them to get involved because they can too. The title of her presentation was: “You can be a Borgen Hero”

HR Team member, Yatika Dhingra, presented to The Edinburgh Rotary Club, UK

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

HR Team member Patricia Andrea Flores

HR Team member, Blandiana Damoc, completed her 1 mile campaign in Hammersmith and Fulham, UK

Political Affairs Team member, Xavier Wisniewski completed the one mile campaign at Santa Monica College

Political Affairs Team member, Jasmine Weathers

Political Affairs Team member, Daniel Leite and his canine friend, Vera, spreading the word in Devon, UK

Political Affairs Team member, Omkar Kate

 

 

 

 

 

Letters to the Editor

Political Team

Nonprofit Leadership Team

Content Team 

HR Team 

PR/Marketing Team 

 

Outreach & Mobilizing Materials


Content Team member Evan Da Costa Marques

Regional Director, Sreyas Yennampelli

PR/Marketing Team member, FNU Khushboo

Advocate Lindsey Arrasmith

Fundraising

 

 

In August, former HR Team member, Affiz DinGabisi created this personalized one-of-a-kind jacket for his fundraiser, which raised a total of $1,046-57, in support of the MINDS Act. Affiz wrote the names of people who donated on the inside of the jacket and donated the jacket to The Borgen Project HQ. DIMM stands for Dancing in a Mental Maze.

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Amrit Bhangu, has teamed up with their employer, Jersey Mike’s for their fundraiser

TikTok

@chopchoplilonion♬ It’s Corn – Tariq & The Gregory Brothers & Recess Therapy

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Avery Evans

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

Videos

Political Affairs Team member, Haya Chaudhri in the UK, created this great video about the ODA and why it’s important to reach out to Members of Parliament

HR Team member Patricia Andrea Flores spreading the word in the Philippines

Another great video from HR Team member Patricia Andrea Flores

Political Affairs Team member, Austin Martinez created this great video for his leader, Representative Escobar (D-TX-16)

PR/Marketing Team member, FNU Khushboo

PR/Marketing Team member Ayda Hailu

State of the Union September 2022

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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

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

Letters to the Editor

Political Affairs Team

Nonprofit Leadership Team

HR Team 

PR/Marketing Team 

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

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

Videos

PR/Marketing Team member Xiarui Zhang

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

State of the Union August 2022

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Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in July: 80
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2022: 330
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2022: 300 – We did it! In July, we were able to meet our meeting goal of 300 meetings for the year. We couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you to everyone who helped out with these meetings!

Advocacy Emails

  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in July: 13,090
  • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2022: 54,919
  • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2022: 200,000
  • % of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 96%

Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

Political Affairs Team member, Aakil Visramhad had a lobby meeting with Meg Hillier, MP in support of Official Development Assistance.

Content Team member, Noor Al-Zubi from Jordan and Kim Thelwell, met with Senator Grassley’s (R-IA) staff.

Arnav Gunwani, Asumi Endo, Brittany Sedlak, Kerryn Lowry, Logan Ford, Maddy Flowers, Thomas Bogucki, Kelvin Nguyen and Amy Pettigrew, met with William Crouch, Legislative Correspondent from Senator Thom Tillis’s (R-NC) office.

Jennalise Olson and Amy Pettigrew met with Alexis Castaneda, a Legislative Assistant for Representative John Katko (R-NY-24).

Mihir Rahm, Mike DeVita and Amy Pettigrew met with Micki Werner, Assistant to the Chief of Staff in Senator Marsha Blackburn’s office (R-TN).

Florence Wang, Edmund Yamaguchi, Louis Asbury, Jordan Oh, Xavier Wisniewski, Sophia Perez, Katie LaBella, Grace Wang and Amy Pettigrew, met with Jenna Goosen, Legislative Correspondent for Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA).

Team members met with Senator Warren’s (D-MA) Staff, Alex Davidson.

The Borgen Project team met with Senator Cornyn’s (R-TX) office.

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

      • Big Kahuna Award (raised $5,000 or more):Lily Clausen, Nonprofit Leadership Team member and Rebecca Lytle, Political Affairs Team member
      • Leader Board Award (raised $4,000 or more): Melina Stavropoulos, Content Team member 
      • Honors Award (raised $3,000 or more): Kaitlyn Evans, Nonprofit Leadership Team member
      • Capital Achievement Award (raised $2,000 or more): Jay Taylor-Raden, HR Team member
      • Chief Closer Award (raised $1,000 or more): 
        • HR Team: Marris Hoffee
        • Political Affairs Team: Jessica Heller, Maddy Flowers, Max Seigerman
        • Content Team: Finn Hartnett
        • PR/Marketing Team: Sophie Piacentini, Christian Schroeder
        • Nonprofit Leadership Team: Julia DiTota, Olivia Hennessy
      • President’s Circle Award (Mobilized 50+ people):
        • Political Team: John Kirkley, Mia Hackett
      • Articles of the Month:

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

Getting the Word Out

Information Events

Political Affairs Team member, Maddy Flowers gave a presentation to the Wakefield Rotary Club

One-Mile Campaigns, Mobilizing and Awareness

Political Affairs Team Member, implemented her 1-mile campaign near Senator Klobuchar’s Office

Political Affairs Team member, Lydia Yang asked her local Starbucks to hand out cups with The Borgen Project on them

Nonprofit Leadership Team member Arnav Gunwani

HR Team Member Nicola Larter

Political Affairs Team member, Alessia Mazuelos made this fantastic coffee mug – spreading the word!

Political Affairs Team member, Sarah Kuhns completed her 1-mile campaign in Milwaukee, WI

Political Affairs Team member, Timothy Peacock completed his 1-mile campaign in Tampa, FL

Political Affairs Team member, Sydney Coons completed her 1-mile campaign in Avon, IN

 

Political Affairs Team member, Grace Pullen completed her 1-mile campaign in Virginia Beach, VA

 

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Asumi Endo

Political Affairs Team member, Mary Burke posted flyers in her Congressional Leader’s office building

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Buyanlkham Munkhbayar

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Lily Clausen

 

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Atziri Santamaria

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Grace Andros

 

 

Letters to the Editor

Political Team

Content Team 

HR Team 

PR/Marketing Team 

Nonprofit Leadership Team

Fundraising

HR team member, Sabaah Mehmoodbaked cookies for one of her fundraisers and posted on Instagram

HR Team member, Nicola Larter made this prize for a raffle she is having for her fundraiser in Leicester, UK

 

HR Team member Affiz DinGabisi created this personalized one-of-a-kind jacket for his fundraiser in support of the MINDS Act. Affiz will write the names of people who donate on the inside of the jacket and will then donate the jacket to The Borgen Project HQ. DIMM stands for Dancing in a Mental Maze.

 

Political Affairs Team member, Mello Wilsted has been working on an art sale for their fundraiser

Political Affairs Team member, Abigail Farnsworth is selling earrings for her fundraising campaign

 

 

Media Outreach

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Vincent Pandey

Political Affairs Team member, Marlie Shaw

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Meghan Bell

 

A series of memes by Timothy Peacock, Nonprofit Leadership Team member

TikTok

The Borgen Project is now on TikTok! Give us a follow @theborgenproject.

Have an idea for a TikTok? Please email them [email protected].

Political Affairs Team member, Mello Wilsted has been utilizing TikTok for their mobilizing, other outreach and education! The entire page is dedicated to their internship and The Borgen Project!

Videos

PR/Marketing Team Sara Fikree asking for support for Official Development Assistance

PR/Marketing Team member, Hafsa Abdulla created this video about Official Development Assistance

How to divert funds by Xiarui Zhang of the PR/Marketing team

Emmanuel Kwizera Zawozoba of the PR/Marketing team, based in Rwanda created this video about global poverty awareness

Political Affairs Team member, Jonathan Main urging the Foreign Affairs Committee to Support the UK’s Overseas Development

Internship Summary

Kennedy Jester has put together a great series of photos of their time on the Nonprofit Leadership team.