My name is Taylor Nelson. I started as the Movement Politics Organizer in March!
My job is to build CCI Action’s people and political power through one-on-ones, candidate and campaign trainings, the endorsement process, research, and direct voter contact.
I’ve learned and experienced so much in the 8 months I’ve worked here. I met one-on-one with more than 75 CCI members to introduce myself and to get to know them better. I assisted with the endorsement process and led voter contact efforts for our endorsed candidate. I recruited people for events like CCI Action’s summer membership meeting and Des Moines City Council Candidate Forum. This job combines two things I value: community organizing and electoral work.
Now, it’s time for my first year-end campaign. I want to finish the year strong by hitting my goal of raising $500.
I’m starting things off with a $75 donation so I can be a CCI Action member (in addition to being a CCI member).
Why am I becoming a CCI Action member? Because that’s where the political work is. It’s how we’re able to tell politicians what we think, whether it’s pressuring all candidates on our issues or supporting an endorsed candidate.
CCI Action does politics differently than business-as-usual politics. CCI Action works day in and day out to build long-term community power. We are here when the campaign staff leave. We are here through the good and the bad. We’ve been here since 1975.
And we continue to do this work to put people before profits and communities before corporations!
We can’t do it all by ourselves. We need organized people AND organized money to win on our issue campaigns and elect people who share our values, excite us, have a viable plan to win, and are willing to work *with* us to get things done.
CCI throws down on what we care about, from what we want to stop (factory farms, CO2 pipelines, profits over people, corporations over communities), to what we want to win (an Iowa where economic and political systems serve the public good).
I’m inviting you to throw down with us by matching my donation of $75. Will you donate today?
Or, if that isn’t possible, can you give $50? $25? $10? $5? Every dollar is a step toward the future we want to win. When you invest in CCI, you invest in me. You invest in a better world for yourself and for those you care about.
Together, we’ll CCI-ify Iowa.
Your donation during our 5-day year-end campaign is an investment toward achieving it.