November 2, 2024
With Election Day fast approaching, MVP's Director of Communications, Zo Tobi, outlines how we can help turn out every last vote in these crucial final days. Read this letter, take action, and share this with anyone who is itching to do more before it's too late.
October 10, 2024
This is the closest election in modern history. A few thousand unlikely voters could be all that separates a Blue Wave from a Red Wave. How do we turn out those exact voters? By funding the grassroots ground game.
September 24, 2024
To turn out the sporadic Democratic voters who can tip this election, we need an immediate intervention to fund the year-round voter organizing groups best positioned to reach them. Here is a sampling of current budget gaps.
September 9, 2024
The short answer: Unequivocally yes! While early, year-round, and multi-year funding is always best, donations in the months, weeks, and days before Election Day are still enormously impactful. Read the details and pass it on.
September 6, 2024
In the final stretch before the election, our most glaring vulnerability on the Democratic side is a deep lack of funding for independently-run, locally-based voter mobilization efforts. We can solve this if we act quickly and spread the word.
August 28, 2024
Spoiler alert: Local organizers are the best voter mobilizers – but with just 68 days until Election Day, they are deeply underfunded. We invite you to join us in changing that!
June 27, 2024
This election will likely be won or lost by 10,000 votes – the "margin of effort." Here’s our take on the political situation, the money situation, and how we rebuild our divided team. Our big play: An all-hands-on-deck effort to support hundreds of organizations to run the biggest (emotionally intelligent!) voter turnout and persuasion effort in history.
May 14, 2024
In Nonprofit Quarterly, fundraising consultant Marsha Davis just shouted out Movement Voter Project as a top vehicle for funding grassroots voter engagement, as a key strategy for maintaining and building on the human and civil rights gains of the last 50 years.
May 10, 2024
For those who’ve been procrastinating: If you or anyone you know hasn't yet sat down to figure out how much you plan to donate in this election year (and when), here are two tips.
April 17, 2024
The Uncommitted movement is a new force to be reckoned with in American politics, shifting the conversation around Gaza by leveraging primary votes in key battleground states like Michigan and Wisconsin. They have a four-phase plan that includes fighting fascism and securing democracy at the ballot box in November. MVP believes their work is key to addressing the biggest challenge of 2024: The “Biden Enthusiasm Gap.” MVP Executive Director, Billy Wimsatt, shares why MVP has been supporting this strategy.
January 31, 2024
Lukewarm enthusiasm on the Democratic side. A seemingly unstoppable Trump nomination. Is this 2016 all over again? Here is MVP’s analysis in a nutshell.
January 10, 2024
The premise of MVP is that investing in local organizing is the most effective way to win elections — and to build political power beyond any single election. But what exactly does this work *look like* in the lead-up to November? And why is early funding so crucial?
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