State of the Union January 2021

Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts

Total # of Lobbying Meetings in December: 3
Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2020: 1,137
Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2020: 710

Advocacy Emails

Total # of Advocacy Emails in December: 20,169
Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2020: 275,789
Advocacy Emails Goal for 2020: 120,000
% of Congress Emailed 2020: 100%

Congressional Office Meetings and Live Events

Our In-Office team met with Representative Derek Kilmer, who then Tweeted about the call.

Recognition

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

- - Chief Closer Award (raised $1,000 or more):
    - Content Team: Christopher Millard, Maryam Tori, Zachary Kunze
    - PR/Marketing Team: Sara Reid Lewis, Bridget Caffrey, Julian Bryant, Tyler Lu
    - Political Affairs Team: Christine Thomas, Maryam Khan, Jacqueline Zemba, Morgan Turner
    - HR Team: Rylee Perkins, Natalie Greetham
    - Nonprofit Leadership Team: Caroline Custis
  - Bird Dog Award:
    - Political Team: Rosalind Coats, Megan Goyer
  - President’s Circle:
    - Political Affairs Team: Noah Bray, Mollie Ping, Kyle Peterson
  - Articles of the Month: Foreign Aid in Congress’ December Stimulus Package by Bardia Memar

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

Getting the Word Out

Informational Events

PR/Marketing Team member, Mina Naziri, hosted an information event on Zoom attended by more than 40 people

One-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

Political Affairs Team member, Madison Routledge

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Hailey Foster

Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Meg Gonzalez

Political Affairs Team member, Lucia Grant

Political Affairs Team member, Morgan Turner

PR/Marketing Team member, Pilar Willis

Regional Director, Hieran Andeberhan

Regional Director, Kevin Grasell

PR/Marketing Team member, Mina Naziri

Political Affairs Team member, Claire Forsythe and her cat, George

Letters to the Editor

Political Affairs Team

Anya Dougherty in issuu

HR Team

Carlie Suggs in the Orlando Sentinel

PR/Marketing Team

Matthew McCormick in Finger Lakes Times

Outreach & Mobilizing Materials

PR/Marketing Team member, Erica Loy

PR/Marketing Team member, Yiyang Sun

PR/Marketing Team member, Mikayla Smith

HR Team member, Porscha Levi

Fundraising

PR/Marketing Team member, Sacha Coleman made sugar scrubs for a fundraising campaign

PR/Marketing Team member, Erica Loy, hosted a dog treat bake sale fundraiser

Media Outreach

Interviews and Media Features

-PR/Marketing Team member Reghan Callahan secured a shoutout for The Borgen Project on Watchable: An Entertainment Podcast. Listen here.

TikTok

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

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

PR/Marketing Team member, Ally Styers

PR/Marketing Team member, Mikayla Smith

Instagram

Social Media Outreach

PR/Marketing Team member, Trey Steckline, got a story reposted by @aaron_yacht (31k followers) on Instagram

PR/Marketing Team member, Tiana Oster, got a story reposted by @erinthumann (156 k followers) on Instagram

PR/Marketing Team member, Julian Bryant, got an influencer with 87k followers on Instagram to repost a graphic on their story

PR/Marketing Team member, Owen Whetstone, got a story reposted by an account on Instagram

PR/Marketing Team member, Adrian Ku, got a story reposted by @disneyfriendsclub (18.6 k followers) on Instagram

PR/Marketing Team member, Jabria Scott, got a story reposted by @lovesimplydave (34 k followers) on Instagram

PR/Marketing Team member, Sydney Norton got a story reposted by @novanationer (36.7 k followers) on Instagram

Regional Director, Julia Lupariello, got a story reposted by @activislam (98.2 k followers) on Instagram

Twitter

PR/Marketing Team member, Jabria Scott, generated a tweet from @Ebonie_QT (22.3k followers) on Twitter

Jabria also generated a tweet from @KeyshaMilana (10.1k followers) on Twitter

Videos

The Borgen Project President, Clint Borgen, on C-SPAN

The War on Global Poverty by Regional Director Matt Aston

The Borgen Project Kahoot by Writer Jillian Reese