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Smart Get-Out-the-Vote Organizations
One of the most effective ways to help Get-Out-The-Vote is financial support to organizations who specialize in it, but only if you give money wisely by focusing on the organizations that prove their effectiveness empirically.
It’s easy to waste your money if you give to ineffective organizations, or ones that don’t spend your money in a smart way, or ones that already have plenty of money.
Below is a list of proven organizations that have been found empirically to be effective at getting out the vote in swing states, with cost-efficiency. Every dollar you donate to any of these organizations will be used in a strategic and proven way to help get out the democratic vote.
Research methods these organizations use include: randomized control groups, media experiments, survey research, and advanced statistical analysis.
They answered the questions, "Who can I trust?" and "Which organizations really get out the democratic vote in swing states?"
Consider giving to organizations that use data science, neuroscience, and statistics to determine how to get out the most votes in swing states. Like all recent elections, this presidential election will be determined by a few tens of thousands of votes in a handful of states.
Smart Get-Out-the-Vote Organizations:
Politically moderate women will help decide the election, if they vote. Galvanize Action reaches this group through digital media in swing states. They test their ads experimentally before broadcasting them so they know what works.
To DONATE to Galvanize Action, click here
Two other significant groups of voters are young people and people of color. These voters cannot be taken for granted. Accelerate Change focuses on both. It is a sophisticated digital media lab that invests in emergent and established cultural media properties, builds influencer networks, and drives civic engagement campaigns. It has a huge reach on social media.
TO DONATE to Accelerate Change, click here
Freedom 2 Vote, by Civitech
They use advanced data science to create a direct mail program to identify and engage potential voters — and then make it super easy to register and vote. It targets likely democratic-leaning people who need a nudge and easy instructions to register and get to the polls. And they have a high success rate, which they can demonstrate!
To DONATE to Freedom to Vote: click here
This is an organization that unites working people who don’t have a union on the job. With over 4 million members in urban and suburban communities, they work together for good jobs, a fair economy, and a democracy that represents all of us. Founded in 2003, Working America ensures that the priorities of working people, their families, and communities are heard from state houses to the White House. They take action on issues like trade deals, workers’ rights, and healthcare, and help hold elected officials accountable. Their efforts include large-scale listening projects and advocacy for progressive policy issues12. 🌟
TO DONATE to Working America, click here
[To learn more about the research that led to the above recommendations, email me from the contact page.]
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GIVING:
Give what you can.
As one friend said to me: “Give till it hurts a little, because it’s gonna hurt a lot more if Trump wins.” That said, any amount helps when lots of people donate.
In 2020, the average donation to Joe Biden's campaign was $43. If you contribute $44 to Kamala in 2024, you'll be above average!
Give sooner rather than later.
🔵 Organizations need lead time to do research, and to plan and produce the messages that get out the vote. Money sooner is more valuable than money later.
🔵 A monthly recurring contribution is valuable because organizations need to plan, and in some cases hire and train staff. Knowing how much money they can depend on month-to-month helps them budget.