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Board, Investors and Key Partner Organizations, In a time when the stakes have never been higher, we are working day & night to ensure the public is properly educated on the key issues. Below you will find a sampling of our most recent successes in helping our allies with communications and new media. We are looking forward to seeing many of our friends at the upcoming Council on Foundations in Denver. Please let me know if you will be in Denver & available to meet while there. If you will not be joining us, please let me know when is a good time to connect in the near future. Best, Mike (303) 931-4547 - cell Here are updates and success stories from each of our partner states: CALIFORNIA / Courage Campaign Institute: Focus on ENDA The religious right is working hard to ensure that LGBT judges are prohibited from being nominated to the US Supreme Court. In view of this aggressive discrimination, we began rallying our members this week to remind President Obama that this kind of intolerance cannot be associated with the selection of the very panel of judges charged with upholding equal protection under the law. The other point we are making is that Focus on the Family and other such groups are really no different from Fred Phelps and other extremists. "This truly scandalous attempt to marginalize and dehumanize LGBT people, shared by countless others in this country, is exactly why we need legislation like the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And it is exactly why we need to draw attention to this discrimination. ... In the coming years, the Supreme Court will adjudicate several historic cases, including Perry v. Schwarzenegger -- the Prop 8 case that will soon be decided in federal district court. That's why it is so important that President Obama gets this decision right, no matter the sexual orientation of his nominee." Join us in writing to the President: http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/NotAFactor COLORADO / ProgressNow Colorado Education: Tax Day Messaging - ProgressNow Colorado Education has led efforts in Colorado to define and communicate a progressive message in response to the far-right Tea Party, anti-tax, anti-government efforts in this state. To counter the Tax Day protests, for example, we successfully injected our messaging into nearly all of the Tax Day coverage. We drafted and placed an op-ed on Tax Day in the Denver Post from one of our progressive allies, the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_14883383 We also were quoted in the Denver Daily News:http://thedenverdailynews.com/article.php?aID=8064 At the Tax Day protest at the Capitol, we were able to pitch two staffers from COFPI for interviews with Fox 31, 9 News, Channel 7, News 4, and KOA. In addition, we placed Kathy White from COFPI for an interview with Mario Solis Marich on AM 760's Progressive Talk during the evening drive time on Tax Day. Finally, we launched a new website for Tax Day that we will use in the coming months to tell positive stories about the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in Colorado as well as other stories about the positive role of government in creating opportunity and promoting the common good: http://www.stuffmygovernmentdoes.com Progressive Communications Capacity-Building - New in 2010, ProgressNow Colorado Education has launched a program to expand the overall communications capacity of our allied organizations that are fellow members of the Colorado C3 Roundtable. We are working with these organizations in the context of our issue education campaigns to expand their respective communications capacity. In May, we also will be hosting the largest-ever media training for organizations that are members of the Colorado C3 Roundtable. Media Watch - Also new in 2010, ProgressNow Colorado Education has launched a project to critique media coverage of important public policy issues in Colorado. For this project, we monitor all of the local network television news as well as every daily newspaper in the state. We also monitor right-wing radio as capacity permits. We already have produced over ten stories in two months highlighting errors and omissions in stories. FLORIDA / Progress Florida Education Center: Activism 101 After assisting in recent trainings with Wellstone Action and Equality Florida, In March, Progress Florida Education Center teamed up with The Public Interest Network, Repower America and the Sierra Club and co-sponsored a citizen activist training in Tampa Bay. The training was a big success with 58 participants from across the region from all walks of life, concerned about a broad spectrum of progressive issues. Participants learned the three cornerstones of community organizing: recruitment, coalition building and generating media. Feedback from participants was very positive and one local elected official who attended stated his amazement that such great turnout could have been organized just through internet organizing. (photo caption: Progress Florida Political Director Damien Filer runs a workshop on generating earned media (top). Director Mark Ferrulo conducts a group session on coalition building (middle). Participants introduce themselves by answering the intro question - "Name one issue that has you fired up!" (bottom) Standing up to "Drill Baby, Drill" Progress Florida Education Center played a central role in a large coalition of groups who organized the hugely successful Hands Across the Sand event. The event was organized to demonstrate widespread opposition to offshore oil drilling. Thousands and thousands of protesters, dressed in black to represent an oil spill, joined hands at more than 70 coastal locations across the state, sending an unmistakable message to our elected officials that Florida's shoreline should not to be sacrificed to Big Oil. The event garnered extensive press coverage statewide and has created numerous local networks of activists that continue to organize against the threat of offshore drilling today. In March, Progress Florida unveiled the "Resolved Against Drilling" map, a powerful illustration and visual reminder to lawmakers of the overwhelming opposition to legislation that would end Florida's ban on oil drilling in state waters. The map shows that at least 55 cities, counties, chambers of commerce, and local agencies around the state have passed resolutions opposing Speaker-Designate Dean Cannon's (R-Winter Park) and Senate-President Designate Mike Haridopolos's (R-Melbourne) effort to sell Florida's world famous coastline to Texas oilmen. From Key West to Pensacola, few other issues have met with such unified opposition from local communities. Although the main purpose of the Resolved Against Drilling Google map was for it to be a tool for legislative advocacy, website use and field organizing, we were able to leverage it for some great press in both traditional and new media outlets. MICHIGAN / Progress Michigan Eduction: Fighting Climate Change, Defeating Coal Progress Michigan Education's fight to stop a proposed dirty coal plant near one of Michigan's Great Lakes got a major media boost April 8 when an NRDC report we pushed out got major media coverage reporting that electric rates for consumers would jump up to $74 a year if the plant is built. Serving as the media hub for the Beyond Coal campaign, Progress Michigan Education has helped to defeat four proposed coal plants in Michigan but the biggest one-sited near Lake Huron-would saddle electric ratepayers with $1.8 billion in debt for a coal plant that isn't needed and would contribute to climate pollution. CMS Energy, which has ties to Massey Energy Company, is the target of Beyond Coal's corporate campaign. Building Partners' Communications Capacity More than 30 activists from over 16 organizations have undergone trainings during March and April in earned media and strategic messaging as part of Progress Michigan Education's Communications Capacity Building Project. The project, in partnership with the Michigan Voice civic engagement table, links larger group trainings with one-on-one specialized capacity building with the goal of training up to 120 individuals on earned media, new media, communications planning and online advertising. In addition, up to 10 organizations will receive comprehensive specialized and interactive communication analysis and training. MINNESOTA / Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund: Census Work with MN Civic Engagement Table Alliance for a Better Education Fund (ABMEF) is an active participant of the Minnesota Civic Engagement Table, which is part of the state voices network. In its role as communications hub for the table, ABMEF assisted the groups in messaging for their census work - reminding those residents in hard-to-count communities to turn in their forms. The result: early numbers show a significant increase in returns in these communities when compared to return rates in 2000. thanktaxes.org As the lead organization in Minnesota assigned to counter the TEA parties happening on April 15, Alliance for a Better Minnesota (ABM) provided citizens with a place to show their appreciation for the things taxes pay for. The campaign was centered around the website www.thanktaxes.org, and was continued through a twitter campaign (#thanktaxes). The result included hundreds of photos, thousands of tweets (and retweets) and every television in the twin cities featured our message - and the 20-foot-long moving billboard ABM featuring 20 different photos of people showing off their "thank taxes" sign in front of favorite public projects that circled the TEA party of tax day. NEVADA / ProgressNow Nevada Education Fund: ProgressNow Nevada organized the progressive response to Tax Day Tea Parties by creating alternative events that drew great media coverage. Our progressive tea parties focused entirely on revenue plans; reframing government and helped hammer the message narrative that "No is not a plan." Ironically, we made the top of the fold, front page of the conservative paper that is the subject of our media accountability project. http://www.lasvegassun.com/photos/2010/apr/15/70100/ We also worked with numerous C3 immigration partners in advance of the major Rally for America on message development and media relations. This included work with Democracia Ahorra, The Hispanic Institute, Reform Immigration for America and the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada. The event on April 10 in Las Vegas drew 10,000 people and resulted in immediately changing the political dynamic for immigration reform in Washington about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP-84ylRaXo We continue to expose the right-wing bias of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Our reporting led to this feature in Media Matters on March 22. http://mediamatters.org/research/201003220062 NEW HAMPSHIRE / Granite State Progress Education Fund: Brown Bag Lunch Granite State Progress Education Fund is helping coordinate rapid-response needs for the 2010 legislative session that runs January through June in New Hampshire. Each week we host a weekly Brown Bag Lunch for progressive organizations, State House leaders and other strategic community advocates to network and exchange important information about upcoming hearings, hot-button bills and conservative shenanigans. The weekly gathering has provided an opportunity for cross-collaboration and proactive messaging. For example, it came to our attention that conservatives were attempting to overturn a State House ban on guns and other dangerous weapons. House Bill 1693 would have turned the New Hampshire State House into an open carry zone, allowing guns and other weapons into places like the State House galleries, committee rooms, and Governor's office. Granite State Progress Education Fund alerted the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence and drafted a joint action alert and talking points. We then organized oral testimony for the public hearing, including having a former coordinator of Read Across America raise concerns about having large groups of schoolchildren in open carry zones. Other participants from the Brown Bag Lunch agreed to sign in opposition to the bill as individuals and organizations, and helped spread the word. In the end, the committee - and full House - defeated the bill. OHIO / Progress Ohio Education: ProgressOhio member Robert Letcher was at a Health Care Protest in March, when the Columbus Dispatch caught a Tea Party member on tape berated him. Mr. Letcher was holding a sign saying that he suffered from Parkinson's disease and wanted the Bill passed. In the Dispatch video one Tea Party member berated him and said "handouts are for the other side of town" while a second threw dollar bills at Letcher saying "I decide when you get a handout." ProgressOhio jumped on the story which was buried (the paper wasn't even aware of the video content) and through email and new media turned the issue into a national story on civility in the health care debate. PO was the number 1 non-profit on YouTube for a number of weeks and had over a Half-Million views of the video and subsequent interviews of Letcher. Letcher has a doctorate as a nuclear physics and also did many national interviews. PENNSYLVANIA / Keystone Progress Education Fund: The Keystone Progress Education Fund (KPEF) has set up a Technology Bank for other progressive 501(c)(3) organizations. Our vision is to have a stock of technology items that can be loaned at no or low cost to progressive groups. We will have items in at least 3 cities (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg). The items in our bank will be things that groups need occasionally, but cannot justify purchasing because of budget limitations. Our first purchase was six projectors. KPEF developed a template for organizations wanting to hold local versions of our highly successful Pennsylvania Progressive Summit. The template, called "Progressive Summit in a Box," is currently being used by activists in Berks County to hold the first local progressive summit in PA. KPEF is planning a series of webinars using presenters from the Pennsylvania Progressive Summit. The first webinars will be held in May. The first topic will be "Effective GOTV Strategies." The presenter is Regina Schwartz, Director of Communications and Outreach at the Analyst Institute. WASHINGTON / Fuse Innovation Fund: Fuse coordinated the progressive community's successful legislative campaign to raise new revenues in response to the State's financial crisis. The legislature adopted a package that raised $800 million in new revenues earlier this month. We organized a coalition of over 100 groups, with a combined field, lobbying and communications program. * Our campaign organized a coalition rally of 6,000 people at the state capitol on Feb. 15th, calling on the legislature to protect our kids and the environment, care for the elderly and invest in the future. We went head to head with the Teabaggers' anti-tax rally earlier in the day, and outnumbered them two to one. This show of force made a huge impression on legislators. * To open the session, Fuse organized a team effort that generated over 20,000 signed petitions and postcards urging the Governor and legislators to take a balanced approach to the state's financial problems. Four TV news stations and several reporters joined our team as we delivered the petitions to Governor Christine Gregoire, Speaker of the House Frank Chopp, and Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown. This link includes our own video, as well as KING 5's coverage highlighting public support for new revenues: http://www.fusewashington.org/page/content/petitionvideos/%20 WISCONSIN / Institute for One Wisconsin: The Institute for One Wisconsin has been assisting its Communications Capacity Building Project class of 2010 providing analysis and strategic communications advice. We've got eight energetic groups participating representing constituents across Wisconsin and serving a number of traditionally-underserved communities to increase the ability of these groups to communicate with their members, the media, decision-makers and donors. The early impact of our work in 2009 has show in the written feedback and reports the Institute has received from previous participants. These lower-capacity organizations were not only able to improve and professionalize all aspects of their communications program, but also they reported member growth of 14 percent for all of the organizations in less than one year. The Institute will continue to work with these 12 groups, as well as the enthusiastic class of 2010 to further our vision of a Wisconsin with equal economic opportunity for all. -- Michael Huttner Founder and CEO 1536 Wynkoop St. #203 Denver, CO 80202 303-991-1900 www.progressnoweducation.org CA: Courage Campaign Institute CO: ProgressNow Colorado Education FL: Progress Florida Education Fund MI: Progress Michigan Education MN: Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education NH: Granite State Progress Education NV: ProgressNow Nevada Education OH: ProgressOhio Education PA: KeystoneProgress Education WA: Fuse Washington Education WI: Institute for One Wisconsin To unsubscribe from these updates, please click here: http://progressnow.org/unsubscribe