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 that in perspective, $205,000 was raised in total for 2015.
Year-to-date stats look great for all aspects of the organization. I couldn’t be prouder of the work you’re doing!
In the final stretch of the year, we need strong mobilizing efforts, especially for the REACH Act and Education for All Act (passed the House in September). Ideally every leader is receiving seven or more emails from constituents. We have less than three months left to improve newborn health and get millions of kids in school. Let’s turn up the heat and make sure every member of Congress is aware of these bills and feeling pressure in their district to cosponsor them.
I enjoyed meeting our Champion Mobilizer last week. When Ayusha began her internship in mid-August, the competition to see who could mobilize the most people was already half finished. Undeterred, she utilized the 15-days she had left and mobilized 67 people to email their Congressional leaders. Watch the video below to learn her mobilizing strategy. – Clint Borgen
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Political Updates
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Lobbying Meetings
Total September Meetings = 19
Year-to-date Total = 290
Annual Goal = 340
% of Annual Goal = 85%
Advocacy
Total September Emails = 3,618
Year-to-date Total = 28,294
Annual Goal = 24,000
% of Annual Goal = 118% [ANNUAL GOAL EXCEEDED!]
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Key Bills: The bipartisan Reach Every Mother and Child Act now has 200 cosponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives! 25 Congressional leaders signed on to the bill during the month of September. The Senate version of the common-sense, life-saving bill now has 25 cosponsors.
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Warren’s Address
Listen to Warren with the latest updates from D.C.
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Lora Sniderman talks lobbying
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The Holy Grail!
After meeting with his representative, Michael Bukur receives confirmation that his congressman is cosponsoring the Reach Every Mother and Child Act.
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Content Team Updates
In September 64,789 people visited The Borgen Magazine. This is a massive increase compared to the same time period in 2015, with only 35,500 visitors.
borgenproject.org had 227,614 visitors. That’s our second highest month this year!
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HR Team Updates
A very big, warm welcome to all of our new Borgen Project interns and volunteers! We hope that you have a memorable experience as part of our team. Another incredible month of recruitment from the HR team, moving us ever closer to our goal of tripling our staffing levels for 2016 compared to 2015.
RD’s & Advocates
Content Team
Political Affairs
In-Office
HR Team
PR
Total Applicants
September
122
352
182
7
311
187
1161
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Recognition Awards:
This month 2 of our interns have managed the incredible feat of raising over $1,000. Well done and a very big thank you to Clay Haglund and Dean Sydnor.
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And the Winner Is….
In August, we launched our mobilizing contest, where the person who mobilized the most people to email congress won a trip out to the Seattle Office. Ayusha Shrestha, an exchange student from Nepal, won the Top Mobilizer Award. Ayusha attends Kennesaw State University and is a Political Affairs Intern for The Borgen Project in Georgia. In 15 days, Ayusha mobilized 67 people to email Congressional leaders in support of the Reach Every Mother and Child Act.
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Mobilize, Mobilize, Mobilize!
Political Affairs intern, Shine Kang tabling an event on campus whereby she mobilized the vast majority of her fellow students.
Political Affairs intern, Nicole Arata getting her friends in on the action and calling congress!
Kayla Mehl, a writer on our content team, came up with this simple but very effective mobilizing technique.
Maiya from PR team, who has currently raised $1,155, talks about her fundraising experiences with Amanda Warren.
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Political Affairs intern, Aurelia Carrillo hosted a fundraising event selling raffle tickets and sold beverages at a gathering in her home town.
Always a winner – wine tasting evening! Miki McClellan, editor, hosts a corker of an evening, bringing her fundraising total to over $500!
Summary: In the notes section of your tracker for this week, please summarize the monthly update.
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“I went on their website and looked for when they were going to meet. I knew from the site, but also from my dad, that they allow the public to give comments during part of their meetings. The meetings are open to the public and when you get to the meetings, you just sign your name on a sign-in sheet for city governance.” – Lester Stone II
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Guest Speaker from the Volunteer Team
Listen to Ajay’s tips on lobbying Congress and his overall experience as a Borgen Project Political Team member.
A very big, warm welcome to all of our new Borgen Project interns! We hope that you have a fantastic internship with us. August was another bumper month of recruiting for the HR team, seeing yet more recruitment records broken. In August 2015, we received applications from 201 candidates. Here’s the breakdown of August 2016, a very different picture. Well done team!
RD’s & Advocates
Content Team
Political Affairs Team
In-Office Positions
HR Team
PR Team
Total Applicants
August
279
419
285
10
389
350
1732
That being said, we are still struggling to recruit to the following states, so if you know of anyone in the area or have any bright ideas as to how we can reach out to these states, do let us know: Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nevada, New Mexico and Mississippi.
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Recognition Awards:
This month 14 of our interns have managed the incredible feat of raising over $1,000. Well done and a very big thank you to Mary Friedman, Carrie Clower, Leigh Scaglia, Lona Sniderman, Mark Rasmussen, Madasen McGrath, Kristyn Rohrer, Charlie Tomb, Connor Borden, Emma Foster, Madison Peterson, Abigail Szkutak, Maiya Weber and Amy Pettigrew!
Taking things one step further, Katherine Schauer achieves the Capital Achievement award, raising over $2,000!
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Mobilizing: It’s easy, it’s what we’re about, get to it!
Kathleen, an editor on the Content Team, has managed to turn a day out at the beach into a fundraising opportunity! Having reached out to members of her community to donate in exchange for her to clean up the local beach, Kathleen also then advertised the event by speaking about it and The Borgen Project on local radio.
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15 Minutes of Fame!
Tanya Thomas, an HR intern from Canada, has raised the bar wth her media outreach. During her 12 weeks with us, she appeared live on Canadian TV, was interviewed on the radio and could be found in print in her university’s online publication. This is what can be achieved just by reaching out.
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State of the Union October 2016
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Note from the President:
– Clint Borgen
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Political Updates
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Lobbying Meetings
Advocacy
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Key Bills: The bipartisan Reach Every Mother and Child Act now has 200 cosponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives! 25 Congressional leaders signed on to the bill during the month of September. The Senate version of the common-sense, life-saving bill now has 25 cosponsors.
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Warren’s Address
Listen to Warren with the latest updates from D.C.
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Lora Sniderman talks lobbying
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The Holy Grail!
After meeting with his representative, Michael Bukur receives confirmation that his congressman is cosponsoring the Reach Every Mother and Child Act.
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Content Team Updates
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HR Team Updates
A very big, warm welcome to all of our new Borgen Project interns and volunteers! We hope that you have a memorable experience as part of our team. Another incredible month of recruitment from the HR team, moving us ever closer to our goal of tripling our staffing levels for 2016 compared to 2015.
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Recognition Awards:
This month 2 of our interns have managed the incredible feat of raising over $1,000. Well done and a very big thank you to Clay Haglund and Dean Sydnor.
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And the Winner Is….
In August, we launched our mobilizing contest, where the person who mobilized the most people to email congress won a trip out to the Seattle Office. Ayusha Shrestha, an exchange student from Nepal, won the Top Mobilizer Award. Ayusha attends Kennesaw State University and is a Political Affairs Intern for The Borgen Project in Georgia. In 15 days, Ayusha mobilized 67 people to email Congressional leaders in support of the Reach Every Mother and Child Act.
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Mobilize, Mobilize, Mobilize!
Political Affairs intern, Shine Kang tabling an event on campus whereby she mobilized the vast majority of her fellow students.
Political Affairs intern, Nicole Arata getting her friends in on the action and calling congress!
Kayla Mehl, a writer on our content team, came up with this simple but very effective mobilizing technique.
Neil Decenteceo from the Political Team had his Letter to the Editor printed in USA Today.
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And in Other News…
Miss Washington USA getting behind the cause.
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Let’s Talk Fundraising!
Maiya from PR team, who has currently raised $1,155, talks about her fundraising experiences with Amanda Warren.
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Political Affairs intern, Aurelia Carrillo hosted a fundraising event selling raffle tickets and sold beverages at a gathering in her home town.
Always a winner – wine tasting evening! Miki McClellan, editor, hosts a corker of an evening, bringing her fundraising total to over $500!
Summary: In the notes section of your tracker for this week, please summarize the monthly update.
State of the Union for September 2016
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!]
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Role Reversal!
Normally it’s us Tweeting Congress, but Kyle Birns, from the PA team has been name dropped by his Congressman!
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Warren’s Address Update from D.C.
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Lester Goes to Town!
“I went on their website and looked for when they were going to meet. I knew from the site, but also from my dad, that they allow the public to give comments during part of their meetings. The meetings are open to the public and when you get to the meetings, you just sign your name on a sign-in sheet for city governance.” – Lester Stone II
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Guest Speaker from the Volunteer Team
Listen to Ajay’s tips on lobbying Congress and his overall experience as a Borgen Project Political Team member.
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Content Team Updates
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HR Team Updates
A very big, warm welcome to all of our new Borgen Project interns! We hope that you have a fantastic internship with us. August was another bumper month of recruiting for the HR team, seeing yet more recruitment records broken. In August 2015, we received applications from 201 candidates. Here’s the breakdown of August 2016, a very different picture. Well done team!
That being said, we are still struggling to recruit to the following states, so if you know of anyone in the area or have any bright ideas as to how we can reach out to these states, do let us know: Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nevada, New Mexico and Mississippi.
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Recognition Awards:
This month 14 of our interns have managed the incredible feat of raising over $1,000. Well done and a very big thank you to Mary Friedman, Carrie Clower, Leigh Scaglia, Lona Sniderman, Mark Rasmussen, Madasen McGrath, Kristyn Rohrer, Charlie Tomb, Connor Borden, Emma Foster, Madison Peterson, Abigail Szkutak, Maiya Weber and Amy Pettigrew!
Taking things one step further, Katherine Schauer achieves the Capital Achievement award, raising over $2,000!
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Mobilizing: It’s easy, it’s what we’re about, get to it!
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Day Out at the Beach or Fundraising Opportunity?
Kathleen, an editor on the Content Team, has managed to turn a day out at the beach into a fundraising opportunity! Having reached out to members of her community to donate in exchange for her to clean up the local beach, Kathleen also then advertised the event by speaking about it and The Borgen Project on local radio.
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15 Minutes of Fame!
Tanya Thomas, an HR intern from Canada, has raised the bar wth her media outreach. During her 12 weeks with us, she appeared live on Canadian TV, was interviewed on the radio and could be found in print in her university’s online publication. This is what can be achieved just by reaching out.
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