Igor, Stacey, & other engineer-folks, are you looking into any coding or data work, or just donations at the moment? I filled in the volunteer form for Block Power mentioning that I can offer technical help, but haven't heard back yet.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:14 PM Stacey Svetlichnaya stacey.svet@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks so much Ping! Also curious about further resources. Possibly relevant/an opportunity to hear more: a Zoom conversation with Ossoff & Warnock at 4:30pm today: tinyurl.com/savethesenate2020
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:08 AM Christopher Lin < powertothepenguins@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for this info!
For those of us with bandwidth to do in-person work in Georgia, does anyone have information on what tasks/organizations would be useful to engage with? Is in-person work by folks coming from out-of-state even useful relative to staying remote and contributing from afar?
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 9:25 AM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, P.S.: If you decide to donate to Block Power, please let me know how much you gave so we can get an idea of how much money we're moving. Thanks!
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
The runoffs in Georgia are *absolutely* the most important thing right now, and I encourage everyone to contribute as much as they can and get involved as much as they can. It cannot be said strongly enough how much of a difference it will make to the future of the country and the world if we win these two runoffs.
*TL;DR: Donate to Block Power http://blockpower.us. It's the highest-leverage thing I know of right now.*
I want to recommend a project I recently discovered that is (a) highly effective, (b) run by folks who care about evidence, and (c) relatively new thus unlikely to be saturated with funds.
*1* * Black voters support Democrats by huge margins, and black women even more so.* [image: image.png]
*2* There are a massive number of eligible Black voters who didn't vote, enough to have easily defeated Trump in 2016. [image: image.png]
*3* Block Power https://blockpower.us/ is a simple and brilliant concept: • Pay volunteer Ambassadors in Black communities • To recruit Vote Triplers among their friends • Who each identify and remind three friends to vote
And they have a slick system: • An app for Ambassadors that suggests people they are likely to know, to recruit as Vote Triplers • A payment platform that instantly pays Ambassadors for each Vote Tripler they sign up • An SMS platform that texts people to remind them to vote as election day approaches
This is the coolest thing I've heard of so far. It automatically scales up as more money is added to the pot, it reaches new communities of votes that are less likely to have been reached before, and it tends to grow geometrically because, naturally, once Vote Triplers hear that their friends are getting paid as Ambassadors, a good number of them want to sign up as Ambassadors too.
Donating to Jon Ossoff https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_hp_ossoff and Raphael Warnock https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnock-for-georgia_web is a good idea right now. But they are about to be inundated with torrents of money.
Donating to FairFight https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fair-fight-1 and The New Georgia Project https://secure.actblue.com/donate/new-georgia-project-1 is a better idea. They target Black voter registration specifically, and will probably give you more impact per dollar than money to the campaigns in a market saturated with political ads. But they have also been around for quite a while and are likely to be well funded.
Donating to Block Power http://blockpower.us is an even better idea. They are ready to go, not fully funded yet, and they can use every dollar we send them to drive exponential growth.
—Ping
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