Planned Parenthood Advocates of Nebraska

Voters of Nebraska staff operated a sophisticated digital program that generated 24,154 (almost 6 times the number from fy21) website visits, 25 blogs, 808 new facebook followers, 566 new twitter followers, 1,025 new instagram followers. During fy22, 141,213 emails were sent to supporters asking them to take action on behalf of Voters of Nebraska. The digital program helped grow supporters in strategic areas across the state by an average of 16%.in fy 2022, Voters of Nebraska had two key changes to manage. One was onboarding an almost entirely new team, some in the middle of legislative session. (continued in schedule o)the other was balancing the continued need for virtual engagement while also reintroducing in-person efforts. Ppvn continued to do some of their work virtually to continue engageing supporters outside of the major metro areas. They also began to reintroduce many of the tried and true in person efforts that have been done for many years in order to achieve their goals. As always, they continued to use tactics that helped to ensure the health and safety of staff, volunteers, and communities. During the 2022 Nebraska legislative session, Voters of Nebraska worked to ensure that abortion remained safe and legal in Nebraska. Three separate attempts to partially or fully ban abortion were introduced. Ppvn made a total of 27,126 phone calls and sent 12,041 texts to supporters, resulting in over 2,000 calls to state senators in opposition to these abortion bans. In addition, ppvn recruited 67 people to testify in-person against abortion bans and 33 people to attend the debate on a trigger ban bill. These efforts were successful with just one of the bills making it to the floor for debate and that bill - a trigger ban that would have made abortion illegal once the supreme court overturned roe - was filibustered and debated for eight hours. After those eight hours a vote to end debate was unsuccessful, coming two votes short, which prevented the bill from moving any further. Ppvn continued to adjust events in light of both the ongoing pandemic and the activity of the legislature. For lobby day, ppvn held a hybrid event with more flexibility for in person lobbying. Almost 40 people attended a virtual training to learn about the issues, learn how to effectively talk about the issues, and commit to action they could take. Ppvn then had many of those people come to the capitol over two days to lobby their senator. Turnout for this version of lobby day was lower than normal which ppvn attributes to the different set up as well as the many different asks made of folks to be present at the capitol during legisaltive session. Volunteers donated 1,916 hours of time to Voters of Nebraska in fy 2022, engaging in activities statewide in support of expanding sexual and reproductive health care and rights. Finally, the ppvn drove organizing and powerbuilding work around the leak of the supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade. Our team led two rallies responding to the leak in lincoln and omaha, and two more on the day of the dobbs decision. These rallies were the largest ever hosted by ppvn, and between the date of the dobbs leak and the end of the fiscal year, ppvn added 1,339 new supporters to our base.during the 2022 primary election, ppvn endorsed a record number of candidates (19), and ppvn supporters turned out to vote at a rate 20 percentage points higher than the statewide rate (54% of ppvn c4 supporters voted compared to a statewide total turnout rate of 32%). Voters of Nebraska also provided education and encouraged voter participation in parts of the state without a Voters of nebraska-endorsed candidate.