OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | BLACK LIVES MATTER | DONT FRACK ANYWHERE | NO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE | MEDICARE FOR ALL | LABEL GMO FOODS | MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR ALL | STAND UP FOR WORKERS RIGHTS | DONT BOMB IRAQ | END THE DEATH PENALTY | SAVE NET NEUTRALITY | HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY | REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT | STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN | RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE | WE STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD | DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS | STOP THE NRA | WALL STREET ACCOUNTABILITY NOW! | SUPPORT RENEWABLES | BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS | NO WAR WITH IRAN | END THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS | STOP ONLINE SPYING NO NUCLEAR POWER | OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BLACK LIVES MATTER | DONT FRACK ANYWHERE | NO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE | MEDICARE FOR ALL | LABEL GMO FOODS | SAVE THE BEES | MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR ALL | STAND UP FOR WORKERS RIGHTS | DONT BOMB SYRIA | END THE DEATH PENALTY | SAVE NET NEUTRALITY | HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY | REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT | STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN | RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE | WE STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD | DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS | STOP THE NRA | WALL STREET ACCOUNTABILITY NOW! | SUPPORT RENEWABLES | BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS | NO WAR WITH IRAN | END THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS | STOP ONLINE SPYING | OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | BLACK LIVES MATTER DONT FRACK ANYWHERE | NO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE | MEDICARE FOR ALL | LABEL GMO FOODS | MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR ALL | STAND UP FOR WORKERS RIGHTS | DONT BOMB IRAQ | END THE DEATH PENALTY | SAVE NET NEUTRALITY | HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY | REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT | STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN | RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE | WE STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD | DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS | STOP THE NRA | WALL STREET ACCOUNTABILITY NOW! | SUPPORT RENEWABLES | BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS | NO WAR WITH IRAN | END THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS | STOP ONLINE SPYING | NO NUCLEAR POWER | OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | BLACK LIVES MATTER | DONT FRACK ANYWHERE | NO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE | MEDICARE FOR ALL | LABEL GMO FOODS | SAVE THE BEES | MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR ALL | STAND UP FOR WORKERS RIGHTS | DONT BOMB SYRIA | END THE DEATH PENALTY | SAVE NET NEUTRALITY | HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY | REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | THE MINIMUM WAGE | WE STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD | DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS | STOP THE NRA | WALL STREET ACCOUNTABILITY NOW! | SUPPORT RENEWABLES | BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS | NO WAR WITH IRAN | END THE
ACTIVISM 2014
ACTIVISM 2014
Dear progressive friends,
Looking forward to 2015, the outcome of literally thousands
of fights will depend on what we can do together.
Thats because what weve learned in 2014 is the willing-
ness of President Obama and his fellow Democrats to
stand up for what is right often comes down to whether
progressives like us organize to hold them accountable.
In many ways, this past year has been a tough one for
those of us who care about social change. Democrats lost
control of the Senate in the midterms. Grand juries in
Ferguson and Staten Island declined to send to trial the
white police ocers who killed two unarmed African-Amer-
ican men. Our federal elected ocials continue to pursue
an all-of-the-above strategy on energy and as, a result,
arent doing nearly enough to stop the terrifying march of
climate change.
But its also been a year where weve seen our progressive
flank strategy work. Fighting for the change we want to
seenot merely compromise that often-cynical elites in
Washington, D.C. believe is possiblehas been key in
helping us win some crucial fights and lose less badly
in others.
The Keystone XL pipeline has still not been built as a
direct result of activism from coast-to-coast and along the
pipeline route, keeping some of the worlds dirtiest fossil
fuels in the ground. The presidents most recent public
statements are his strongest ever after years of avoiding
this topic. None of this would have happened without
intense local resistance backed up by nearly 100,000
activists who have pledged to risk arrest in peaceful civil
disobedience to stop this pipeline. One of the biggest and
most diverse climate marches in history was held in New
York City this fall and demonstrated the incredible
momentum our movement has. The White House could
not help but sit up and take notice.
After a year of intense pressure from activists, President
Obama came out in favor of the strongest possible rules
to protect Net Neutrality. And he finally announced an
executive order on immigration that protected five million
immigrants and their families from the pain of deportation
this was not all we asked for but theres no doubt that far
fewer would have been protected without the courageous
activism of those who would not give the president a pass
just because hes a Democrat. The president also took
steps to ensure that federal employees and contractors
couldnt be fired just because of who they love or their
gender identity.
Low wage workers nationwide have been leading inspiring
strikes for a living wage and have actually won a higher
minimum wage in Maryland, Minnesota, Chicago and
Berkeley. And the president raised the minimum wage for
federal contract workers.
As we look forward to 2015, its clear that our progressive
flank strategy will be key to blocking the Republicans from
making things worse and convincing President Obama and
Senate Democrats to use the power of the filibuster and
the veto pen to stop the worst excesses of Tea Party
Republican majorities in the House and Senate.
Cuts to our social safety net. Attacks on a womans right to
choose. More wars of choice in the Middle East. Climate
change. Racial injustice. Economic inequality. Its all on the
table and much of it is up to President Obama and a
progressive minority of Democrats in the Senate willing to
filibuster bad legislation and sustain the presidents vetoes.
Together, well also be pushing back against corporations,
organizing to win local victories for change, and providing
progressives with ways they can make a dierence on a
daily or weekly basis.
Frederick Douglass wrote, Power concedes nothing
without a demand. It never did and it never will. Its up to
us to issue that demand. If we dont, we almost certainly
lose. But when we do, we sometimes win.
What follows is a brief summary of our accomplishments
in 2014 and some of the victories you helped make
happen. It provides us with a strong platform for pushing
for change in 2015 in the crucial fights that lie ahead.
Thank you for joining us in this fight.
Dear progressive friends,
Looking forward to 2015, the outcome of literally thousands
of fights will depend on what we can do together.
Thats because what weve learned in 2014 is the willing-
ness of President Obama and his fellow Democrats to
stand up for what is right often comes down to whether
progressives like us organize to hold them accountable.
In many ways, this past year has been a tough one for
those of us who care about social change. Democrats lost
control of the Senate in the midterms. Grand juries in
Ferguson and Staten Island declined to send to trial the
white police ocers who killed two unarmed African-Amer-
ican men. Our federal elected ocials continue to pursue
an all-of-the-above strategy on energy and as, a result,
arent doing nearly enough to stop the terrifying march of
climate change.
But its also been a year where weve seen our progressive
flank strategy work. Fighting for the change we want to
seenot merely compromise that often-cynical elites in
Washington, D.C. believe is possiblehas been key in
helping us win some crucial fights and lose less badly
in others.
The Keystone XL pipeline has still not been built as a
direct result of activism from coast-to-coast and along the
pipeline route, keeping some of the worlds dirtiest fossil
fuels in the ground. The presidents most recent public
statements are his strongest ever after years of avoiding
this topic. None of this would have happened without
intense local resistance backed up by nearly 100,000
activists who have pledged to risk arrest in peaceful civil
disobedience to stop this pipeline. One of the biggest and
most diverse climate marches in history was held in New
York City this fall and demonstrated the incredible
momentum our movement has. The White House could
not help but sit up and take notice.
After a year of intense pressure from activists, President
Obama came out in favor of the strongest possible rules
to protect Net Neutrality. And he finally announced an
executive order on immigration that protected five million
immigrants and their families from the pain of deportation
this was not all we asked for but theres no doubt that far
fewer would have been protected without the courageous
activism of those who would not give the president a pass
just because hes a Democrat. The president also took
steps to ensure that federal employees and contractors
ACTIVISM 2014
couldnt be fired just because of who they love or their
gender identity.
Low wage workers nationwide have been leading inspiring
strikes for a living wage and have actually won a higher
minimum wage in Maryland, Minnesota, Chicago and
Berkeley. And the president raised the minimum wage for
federal contract workers.
As we look forward to 2015, its clear that our progressive
flank strategy will be key to blocking the Republicans from
making things worse and convincing President Obama and
Senate Democrats to use the power of the filibuster and
the veto pen to stop the worst excesses of Tea Party
Republican majorities in the House and Senate.
Cuts to our social safety net. Attacks on a womans right to
choose. More wars of choice in the Middle East. Climate
change. Racial injustice. Economic inequality. Its all on the
table and much of it is up to President Obama and a
progressive minority of Democrats in the Senate willing to
filibuster bad legislation and sustain the presidents vetoes.
Together, well also be pushing back against corporations,
organizing to win local victories for change, and providing
progressives with ways they can make a dierence on a
daily or weekly basis.
Frederick Douglass wrote, Power concedes nothing
without a demand. It never did and it never will. Its up to
us to issue that demand. If we dont, we almost certainly
lose. But when we do, we sometimes win.
What follows is a brief summary of our accomplishments
in 2014 and some of the victories you helped make
happen. It provides us with a strong platform for pushing
for change in 2015 in the crucial fights that lie ahead.
Thank you for joining us in this fight.
Becky Bond
Political Director
Michael Kieschnick
President and CEO
$2,200,000ACTIVISM 2014
20,000,0002,000,000100,00065,00062,00046,000600
PETITIONS SIGNED
PHONE CALLS TO VOTERS
PLEDGED TO RISK ARREST TO STOP THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE
DOORS KNOCKED BY VOLUNTEERS IN THE 2014 ELECTION
PHONE CALLS TO POLITICIANS
DONATIONS TO THE CREDO SUPERPAC
DOLLARS GIVEN TO PROGRESSIVE NONPROFITSBRINGING THE OVERALL TOTAL TO $78 MILLION DONATED
PROTESTS, RALLIES, PUBLIC HEARINGS AND IN-PERSON PETITION DELIVERIES
ACTIVISM 2014
DELIVERINGOVER 20MILLIONSIGNATURES
At CREDO, we run hundreds of petition
campaigns each year with tens of millions of
total petition signatures. Once the petitions
have been signed, we take special care to
ensure that they are delivered to the appropri-
ate decision makers in the most eective way
possible.
Every single petition you sign is delivered to the targeted decision
maker.
This year, your petition signatures have been delivered by striking
Walmart workers to their bosses. They were handed-over in person at
a White House meeting on immigration policy. They were submitted as
public comments via the ocial comment delivery process at the FCC
and sent directly to every single Congressional oce, to major corpo-
rate CEOs and nearly all state capitals.
CREDO gives our activists a voice and an easy way to reach the key
political and corporate decision makers we need to reach to create
progressive social change.
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FIGHTINGFOR NETNEUTRALITY
In the fight for Net Neutrality, CREDO activists made more than 25,000
phone calls and generated more than 1.5 million public comments and
petition signatures to Congressional Democrats, the Federal
Communications Commission and President Obama.
CREDO activists successfully pressured
President Obama to call on the FCC to protect
the open Internet by reclassifying broadband as
a public utility under Title II.
In 2014, CREDO members funded Demand
Progress ($52,390) and Electronic Frontier
Foundation ($41,996), which are working to defend
Net Neutrality and end unconstitutional spying.
The Internet is facing an urgent and complicated fight,
and CREDO is an important ally for winning it.
Demand Progress
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STOPPINGKEYSTONEXL PIPELINE
CREDO organized more than 300 rapid-response protest vigils after
the State Department released its wholly insucient draft Final
Environmental Impact Statement. We submitted
more than 180,000 public comments during the State
Departments final Keystone XL comment period.
We grew the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance to
nearly 100,000 activists who are prepared to commit
civil disobedience to stop Keystone XL from being
constructed.
At the beginning of the year, we delivered a check to 350.org for
$66,141, a much-needed infusion of cash to help the organization lead
opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline during a crucial phase in our
fight. And we granted Rainforest Action Network, one of our key
partners in launching the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance, another
$65,132. CREDOs total giving to environmental groups in 2014 was over
$600,000.
CREDO has been an invaluable ally and leader in the climate fight,
regularly pushing boundaries, moving nimbly, and taking a firm stance
when others hesitate. Working side by side with them on the Keystone
XL fight has meant a great deal to the movement. 350.org
ACTIVISM 2014
FIGHTINGFORIMMIGRATIONREFORM
CREDO activists have made more than 5,000 phone calls to members
of Congress in both the House and Senate in support of meaningful
immigration reform.
Nearly 300,000 CREDO activists have taken actions in support of
comprehensive immigration reform.
Just hours before President Obama announced the executive actions
he would take on immigration reform, CREDO helped deliver 260,000
petition signatures to the White House urging the president to use his
executive authority to engage all legal means available to expand
deferred action to immigrants who would have qualified for a path to
citizenship under the Senates immigration reform bill.
"United We Dream's creative, eective, and inspiring organizing has
been immeasurably supported by CREDO, making a robust
immigrant youth movement not only possible but real."
ACTIVISM 2014
WORKINGTO ENDPOLICEVIOLENCE
Working with ColorOfChange in the wake of the police
killing of Michael Brown, CREDO activists generated nearly 200,000
petition signatures demanding the Department of Justice intervene and
hold local law enforcement accountable for biased and abusive policing.
When police started assaulting protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, CREDO
put a livestream in place in partnership with the African-American-led,
Washington, D.C.-based radio station We Act Radio before national news
crews hit the ground. This livestream helped document police
violence, generate mainstream media coverage of the abuses, and
highlight the voices of local leaders including Fergusons representative in
Congress, Rep. Lacy Clay. The livestream was viewed by more than
35,000 people for a combined total of nearly 500,000 minutes.
Nearly 120,000 CREDO activists also urged the Department of Defense to
stop providing military-style equipment to local police departments. In
2014, CREDO members donated to groups including ColorOfChange
($49,323) and the Center for Constitutional Rights ($55,634) which is
working to end biased, abusive and militarized policing.
ColorOfChange has no better partner in the online organizing space
CREDO consistently step ups and speaks out on the critical civil
rights issues of our time. ColorOfChange.org
JUSTICE
MICHAEL BRO
WNfor
ACTIVISM 2014
DEFEATINGTEA PARTYEXTREMISTS
Last spring, CREDO SuperPAC launched a campaign to Save the
Senate. It was the first national campaign with oces on the ground in
key states focused on stopping Republicans. Through our ca,paign
oces we organized local volunteers to do thousands of volunteer
shifts, make 2 million phone calls and knock on over 65,000 doors.
Our campaign was powered by over 46,000 donations from CREDO
activistssome contributing every week in the final countdown to keep
these oces and organizers going. We did not want to wake up the
day after the election wishing we had done more. These local volun-
teers and donors from across the country helped put Democrat Gary
Peters over the top, and we held Michigan. But in North Carolina,
Colorado, Kentucky and Georgia it wasnt enough to close the gap and
now Republicans control not just the House but also the Senate.
ACTIVISM 2014
DEFENDINGWOMENSRIGHTS
More than 81,000 CREDO Action members signed a petition urging
National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell to take
violence against women seriously. CREDO activists also made more
than 700 phone calls to NFL headquarters demanding
that the league change its policy regarding
domestic violence incidents. CREDO members
have fought state abortion bans, challenged
local campuses and schools to hold students
accountable for sexual assault, and advocated for
equal pay for women.
Simply by paying their phone and credit card bills,
CREDO members generated $67,255 in donations to
NARAL Pro-Choice America, and also chose this year to support the
Ms. Foundation for Women with $64,557 in donations. CREDO also
funded Planned Parenthood and its aliates in 2014bringing our total
contribution over our entire history to more than $3 million and making
us the largest single corporate contributor to Planned Parenthood.
Thank you, CREDO, for always answering the call for womens
equality! Ms Foundation for Women
ACTIVISM 2014
SOLIDARITYWITHWORKERS
In 2014, CREDO activists generated more than four million petition
signatures in support of workers rights and a higher minimum wage.
This was part of a broader fight for higher wages that swept the
country in the form of fast food workers Fight for $15 campaign and
federal contactor walk-outs in the Washington, D.C. area.
In response to pressure from CREDO activists and
other local residents, Maryland, Minnesota, Chicago
and Berkeley raised the minimum wage in 2014.
After hearing from tens of thousands of CREDO activists,
President Obama issued an executive order requiring all
federal contractors to pay their employees a livable wage.
This year, CREDO members gave $61,269 to the Raise the Minimum
Wage campaign of the National Employment Law Project and over
$50,000 to OUR Walmart to aid in fights across the country.
CREDO is amplifying the voices of millions who work for a living,
and deserve to earn a living from work.
Raise the Minimum Wage campaign of the
National Employment Law Project
WORKERS
RIGHTS
STAND UPfor
ACTIVISM 2014
DEFEATINGFRACKING
For years, New York has been ground zero in our fight to ban fracking.
After CREDO activists submitted more than 400,000 petition
signatures and public comments, and made over 10,000 phone calls,
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in December that he
would implement a total ban on fracking due to health and
environmental concerns.
After this momentous victory, CREDO activists are putting Californias
Governor Jerry Brown on notice and amping up our campaign to ban
fracking in the Golden State.
ACTIVISM 2014
Together, we help lead the progressive movement.We generate activism and back it up with donations. We gave over $2,000,000 for change in 2014 and have given over $78 million since our founding.
When leaders in the progressive movement talk about the impact of CREDOs activism and funding, theyre talking about
you. Working togetherCREDO customers, CREDO Action, and the allies we supportwe are making a dierence on key
progressive issues. Thank you for everything you did in 2014 to be part of the change we want to see and for your continued
support in 2015 as we engage in fierce battles over the fate of our country and the planet.
CREDOs unique leadershipa combination of ontheground activism and resource supportis an incredibly valuable and trusted component of a strong and dynamic progressive movement.
Wellstone Action
When we know that we really need to make a big impact, we rely on CREDO.
League of Conservation Voters
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