ActBlue Helping County Parties

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Thursday May 31, 2007 · 10:30 AM PDT

2007/05/31 · 10:30

US Counties

Since 2004, ActBlue has helped Democrats raise over $22 million in online contributions. We are a Political Action Committee, not a business, so our motivation is getting Democrats elected instead of padding profit margins. We know how much of a hassle accepting credit card donations on the Internet can be, and we want to help.

One of the areas that ActBlue can help in is with your local County Democratic Party.

If your local county party or committee is in one of the 22 states where ActBlue is already active (minus some clean-elections states like Arizona), you can have all the ActBlue fundraising tools utilized by top tier House and Senate campaigns at the disposal of your county party. Several county parties are already using those tools to achieve success!

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Thursday May 10, 2007 · 11:05 AM PDT

2007/05/10 · 11:05

There are a lot of folks here at Daily Kos fundraising or giving passionate pitches for their favored presidential candidates. Whether it is in diaries, comments, or e-mails you are working hard to curry support for one of the many fine Democrats running for the Presidency. ActBlue wants to help you take it to the next level and aid your textual skills with raising dollars for your Democrat.

So are you fundraising for Presidential candidates but want to know how to get people to contribute? Need some tools and tips from ActBlue to support your preferred choice? Great! ActBlue is continuing our monthly "How-To" conference call series next week with a focus on presidential fundraising. We have two different calls scheduled.

May 15th, 07:00pm EST (Tuesday)
May 16th, 10:00pm EST (Wednesday)

Send an email to rsvp@actblue.com by Monday May 14th by 5 pm EST with your date preference to receive call-in information. We'd love to have you join us!

Sen. Kerry's Use of ActBlue

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Wednesday May 02, 2007 · 3:45 PM PDT

2007/05/02 · 15:45

At the ActBlue blog we've highlighted our ActBlue Democratic Nominee Funds a couple times before. These funds allow for the collection of money against Republican-held seats for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and even U.S. President which then get disbursed to Democratic candidates once there is an official nominee. Donors don't have to "pledge" to donate- they can do it directly and ActBlue directs it to the right people at the right time!

Some people have used them in conjunction with "Draft" efforts, others use them to start collecting funds for a candidate who is expected to enter the race shortly, while others make their 2008 contributions a year early since they plan to support anyone who wants to take more Republicans out of office.

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Tuesday May 01, 2007 · 2:51 PM PDT

2007/05/01 · 14:51

from the ActBlue Blog

Fundraising pages are the most important component of ActBlue: the vast majority of visitors to the site arrive directly on a fundraising page because a friend, an organization, or a campaign has channeled them there. We pride ourselves on these pages' simplicity: donors can show up, immediately understand what's going on, and contribute with no distracting bells and whistles.

But we harbor a dirty secret (or, not-so-secret if you've been with us a while).

Over the past three years, $22 million raised, and 200,000+ donors, these pages haven't actually changed all that much. For a bit of nostalgia, check out the DailyKos dozen page as it looked back at the end of 2004 (compare to the same page with today's look). Yeah, the site framework has changed a little, but the makeup of the fundraising pages is remarkably similar.

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Thursday April 05, 2007 · 1:48 PM PDT

2007/04/05 · 13:48

Now that the New Mexico legislature is out of session for 2007, we're happy to inform everyone that donating to New Mexico state candidates is now re-activated on ActBlue.

We've updated the directory, adding in all the Senators while updating websites and pictures for many candidates. So take a look through the New Mexico directory, add candidates to your fundraising pages (or create one), and donate at will! Federal offices are of course also available for New Mexico on ActBlue as they are at any time.

If you know of any new candidates or have more current information, let us know.

End-of-Quarter Blog Fundraising Asks

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Friday March 30, 2007 · 2:03 PM PDT

2007/03/30 · 14:03

cross-posted from the new ActBlue Blog

On Monday I made a post about how ActBlue fundraisers could spice up their fundraising pages by embedding video into their 'asks'. This can be very powerful when the asker and audience have an existing relationship.

Over at Calitics, a great community blog in California, they've taken that suggestion and run with it. Here is a screenshot of this. Here are some of the successful elements they have included in their blog ask.

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Monday March 19, 2007 · 1:45 PM PDT

2007/03/19 · 13:45

Crossposted at MyDD

With as many friends as ActBlue has in the Democratic blogging community, it's about time we joined the party with a blog of our own. So today we are launching our official ActBlue Blog where we look forward to bringing our donors, candidates, campaigns, fundraisiers, and bloggers interesting resources, analysis, tips, and other information to more effectively raise funds to elect Democrats!

Here's a sampling of topics-

Case Studies on some of the most creative ways ActBlue has been used
Analysis on how and why people donate
State Reports that highlight successful state level campaigns
Tips & Tricks about ways to use ActBlue you may not have known about
Page of the Week where we will highlight our favorite fundraising strategies
Monthly ActBlue Zeitgeist to explore trends, patterns, and other cool stuff
Major Series where we will explore how we are most relevant to your efforts in fundraising

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Thursday February 15, 2007 · 12:32 PM PST

2007/02/15 · 12:32

The DCCC's Stakeholder blog has just posted the 2008 Frontline Democrats list. The Frontline Program is a partnership between the DCCC and Members which lays the ground work for the 2008 cycle by supporting and expanding their fundraising and outreach operations. Their program requires members to meet aggressive fundraising goals, accelerate volunteer and recruitment efforts, and increase on-line networking. MyDD has followed up with some district analysis of these members.

We here at ActBlue, supportive of all Democratic candidates regardless of ideology or incumbency, would like to congratulate our Democratic members of Congress and have created a special ActBlue 2008 Frontline Democrats Fundraising Page for them.

The 29 Frontline members as listed by the DCCC are as follows:

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Friday February 09, 2007 · 9:34 AM PST

2007/02/09 · 09:34

Karl-Thomas works for Actblue.

Most Daily Kos readers have at least some familiarity with ActBlue. You may be among the 15,000 who contributed via the 2006 Netroots fundraising page, or among the 110,000+ contributors who have used ActBlue to send $18 million (and counting) to over 1200 Democratic campaigns and committees since we launched in 2004. And as a dKos reader you certainly know why Democratic dollars are crucial to the political future of the country.

But in recent conversation one prominent blogosphere denizen made an eye-opening comment. To paraphrase: "I know ActBlue is the place where I go to contribute to the netroots candidates...but is that the big idea?" Well...yes and no. The netroots fundraising page is a big idea -- $1.5 million raised on that one page alone sure made a lot of people take notice. But there's a bigger picture here, a bigger idea about changing politics.

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End-of-Quarter Blog Fundraising Asks

Launching the ActBlue Blog

Supporting DCCC Frontline Democrats

ActBlue- What's the Big Idea?