Every Voice Center

Support campaign finance reform on a national level: we use multiple strategies to engage the broad public in addressing the need for systemic campaign finance reform. We identify challenges facing policy makers and members of the public interested in making the campaign finance system more inclusive and respond by offering analysis, sharing our experiences, and by conducting careful research and disseminating our findings and analysis widely. In 2018, public interest in the influence of big money on politics was significant, garnering lots of attention as the media quoted our experts or cited our reports at least 50 times in major national outlets including cnn, american prospect, the wall street journal, esquire, the Washington post, miami herald, politico, the associated press, and the new york times. Whenever possible, we linked that coverage with constructive commentary about solutions to the political inequality created by the current campaign finance system. Our communications efforts ...

Educate influential public figures about campaign finance reform by providing reliable, reputable research and information: we collect, analyze, and disseminate non-partisan information about campaign finance abuses and possibilities for reform. Outreach activities include sponsorship of news-making educational activities and events, promoting stories to media outlets, thoughtful commentary in editorial pages, and advertising. We pay attention to sharing our analysis and findings with opinion leaders including members of congress, key administration officials, nonprofit leaders, and prominent journalists. Over the course of the calendar year, members of our communications team briefed dozens of reporters and issued numerous press releases. In addition, our policy experts helped the leaders of numerous major national organizations, ranging from labor unions to civil rights consortia, to understand the relative merits of various money-in-politics remedies. Members of our team also routinely led or contributed to nonpartisan briefings for leaders of the philanthropic and advocacy communities on both state ...

Educate the public about campaign finance reform at the state and local levels. Every Voice Center pursues its mission through outreach and collaboration with individuals and organizations, at the local and state levels, who share our commitment to advance practical solutions to money-and-politics problems in their communities. We help them to identify and analyze the impact of relationships between campaign donors and policy making in their contexts. We also link their concerns with the national conversation about the issue and introduce them to national policy advocates, media makers, and charitable funding sources. We supported several state and local partners efforts to understand how small donor democracy policies work, especially in their jurisdictions, through several activities including research and analysis to model and compare the existing system with proposed reforms. We refined and updated our public financing policy manual designed for use by everyday people who want to explore reform alternatives. ...