Netroots Nation 2008 will feature a spectacular 26,000-square-foot Exhibit Hall centrally located near all the action. The Exhibit Hall will include interactive displays from non-profit progressive organizations and corporate sponsors eager to connect with the progressive community. We will also reprise the successful convention bookstore featuring book signings from progressive authors. We invite you to join us.

For a schedule of book signings in the exhibit hall click here.

Move in for exhibitors is on Wednesday 7/16 from 1 pm to 5 pm.

The exhibit hall is open to the public during the following hours:
Thursday 7/17: 10:30 am - 7:00 pm
Friday 7/18: 10:30 am - 5:30 pm
Saturday 7/19: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm

Move out for exhibitors is on Saturday 7/19 from 5:30 pm to 10:30 pm.

For a copy of our Exhibitor Prospectus, click here

If you have any questions about becoming an exhibitor at Netroots Nation, please email Marna at marna (at) netrootsnation (dot) org.

The exhibitors below will be featured in the 2008 exhibit hall.

ActBlue (website), the nation's largest source of funds for Democrats, is a political committee that enables anyone to fundraise online for the Democratic candidates of their choice. By providing technical, financial, and compliance support, ActBlue helps Democrats to make the most of their networks, raising otherwise untapped millions for candidates in the closest races. Launched in 2004, ActBlue has sent tens of millions of dollars to some three thousand Democratic candidates and committees, helping to channel the rising tide of progressive energy to re-establish Democratic power in Congress and across the country. ActBlue is proud to support Netroots Nation.

Advocates for Youth (website) is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Based in Washington, DC, with offices in California, Jamaica and North Carolina, Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world. In August 2008, Advocates will launch Amplify – a new online community dedicated to progressive youth activism in support of reproductive justice and sexual health advocacy. For exclusive pre-membership opportunities, visit our table in the exhibit hall. As a non-partisan organization, Advocates for Youth does not support or oppose candidates for public office.

Alliance for Justice (website) is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women’s, children’s, and consumer advocacy organizations. Our comprehensive Nonprofit Advocacy Project and Foundation Advocacy Initiative offers organizations plain-language legal guides about how to access government, advocacy-related workshops, free one-on-one technical assistance and more! You can learn more on our Nonprofit & Foundation Advocacy Blog at www.afj.org/blog. Our Judicial Selection Project leads the movement to ensure a fair and independent federal judiciary, monitoring judicial nominations at all levels of the federal bench and raising public awareness about the impact of the federal judiciary on behalf of the progressive community. Keep current on all news relating to judges and justice by visiting us at http://afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com/

Alonovo, LLC (website) was founded to direct the collective purchasing power of consumers toward companies that are mindfully balancing people, planet and profit. Every day businesses determine and control whether they transact with us based on credit worthiness and other data--with Alonovo.com we can be empowered to determine--based upon how a business conducts itself--whether we choose to transact with them! The Alonovo mission is to catalyze a constructive relationship between informed consumers and corporate supply chains with the specific goal of facilitating a "race to the top" among businesses that are working to balance people, planet and profit.

AlterNet (website) is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues. Our editorial mix underscores a commitment to fairness, equity and global stewardship, and making connections across generational, ethnic and issue lines. AlterNet serves as a reliable filter, keeping over three million monthly visitors well informed and engaged, helping them to cope with a culture of information overload and to resist the constant commercial media onslaught. Our aim is to stimulate, motivate, and engage.

The American Civil Liberties Union (website) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 500,000-plus member public interest organization devoted to fighting human rights and civil liberties violations whenever and wherever they occur. The ACLU works on the national and local levels through our national office and our network of 53 affiliates and chapters across the country. We serve all people who have been denied their civil rights and civil liberties, including people of color, lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender people; women; mental health patients; prisoners; and the poor.

At Americans for Cures Foundation (website), our mission is to support fellow advocates in the fight for stem cell research and cures. We clarify key issues in breakthrough research. We respond to politically-motivated attacks. We make sure that our allies get the facts and stay current. For us, science is a light that can dispel the darkness of ignorance and despair.

American Rights at Work (website)is a nonprofit labor policy and advocacy organization. Our mission is to fight for a fair and just society where every worker's fundamental right to organize unions and bargain collectively with employers is guaranteed and promoted.

Copy/Paste for the Internet. Your computer can – why can’t the web? With Amplafi (website), individuals, bloggers, candidates, and organizations copy and paste in ways never possible before. Websites and email newsletters only reach the ‘choir’. With Amplafi’s copy/paste service, the choir can reach the world. Amplafi tears down the wall around your website, letting your message spread. Caught between a stale static website (or none at all?) and an expensive dynamic one? Amplafi is THE inexpensive alternative. Bloggers: Make money without relying on ads. No technical skills required. Don’t believe us? Stop by and be a troll!

The Brennan Center for Justice (website) at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Our work ranges from voting rights to redistricting reform, from access to the courts to presidential power in the fight against terrorism. A singular institution – part think tank, part public interest law firm, part advocacy group – the Brennan Center combines scholarship, legislative and legal advocacy, and communication to win meaningful, measurable change in the public sector.

Bullitics.com (website) empowers you to become your own pollster. Our mission is to provide a compelling experience and innovative analytics that track the pulse of society in real time. Our Quasi-Experimental Platform achieves the highest levels of scientific accuracy and validity. In testing, our thresholding, volatility and momentum indices outperformed traditional polls at lower cost in key primaries. These indices provided the means for differentiating respondent answers and measuring the tendency to change. Come join us and meet the myriad others – from netroots activists and bloggers to pollsters, market research firms and the Fortune 500 – that already partake in the Bullitics.com revolution.

The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee/AFL-CIO (website) is the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses and one of the nation’s fastest growing labor and professional organizations in the U.S. with 80,000 members in all 50 states. In the past decade, CNA/NNOC has grown by more than 375 percent. CNA/NNOC is a leading national advocate for genuine healthcare reform, through a single-payer style system based on an improved and expanded Medicare for all. Currently, CNA/NNOC is at the forefront of campaigning for single-payer legislation, HR 676 in Congress, and SB 840 in California.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (website) is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.

Change Congress (website) It’s not enough to cast a vote once every four years. It’s not enough if we want to truly fix Washington. It’s time to Change Congress and take back the People’s House. Starting with simple commitments from elected leaders and citizens like you, we can take a stand for real reform and restore honesty and accountability to our democracy. Change Congress is building a national grassroots movement encouraging Members of Congress and candidates to refuse campaign contributions from lobbyists and PACs, to vote for earmark reform, to increase Congressional transparency, and to support publicly-financed campaigns. By encouraging Congress in this direction, we can reduce the distorting influence of money in Washington and eliminate corruption. Take a stand, join now at change-congress.org.

Change to Win (website) is a six million member partnership of seven unions founded in 2005 to represent workers in the industries and occupations of the 21st century economy. Change to Win committed to restoring the American Dream for a new generation of workers – wages that can support a family, affordable health care, a secure retirement, and the opportunity for the future. The seven affiliated unions are: Service Employees International Union, UNITE HERE, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Laborers’ International Union of North America, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and United Farm Workers of America.

Chicago Theological Seminary (website) is a graduate school of theology of the United Church of Christ. Founded in 1855 and the oldest institution of higher learning in Chicago, CTS seeks to be an international force for greater justice and mercy. Degree programs encourage academic excellence and free inquiry, and focus on leadership issues with a goal of bringing about cooperation between diverse communities of faith and community-based organizations that are working to transform lives and neighborhoods. CTS enrolls approximately 225 students from more than 22 religious traditions.

Click & Pledge (website) is "A Better Way To Do Good". Now serving over 7,500 political organizations and non-profits worldwide, Click & Pledge builds custom fundraising software that is affordable, easy-to-use and secure. Its new platform, Trio, is the evolution of our experience and listening to our customers. Simply put, Trio is a better way to bring the power of the web to your organization. Consisting of our exclusive payment engine, a powerful website management program and a flexible donor management system, Trio does what no other system does: it offers world-class integrated system performance with modular flexibility, at an affordable price. Visit us at: www.ClickandPledge.com or call Toll Free: 866-999-2542.

ClickToBlue (website) provides advertisers and agencies with the ability to reach the highly valuable audience of progressive thought leaders, serve as a credible broker for connecting marketing dollars to the progressive community, and close the analytical information gap by delivering best of breed reporting to help assess return on investment. ClickToBlue supports progressive publishers and promotes their causes by connecting them with marketers, communicating the value of their audience, providing them with marketing and analytical support, and by building the tools to expand the progressive online ecosystem.
Clothing of the American Mind (COTAM) (website) is a grassroots company deeply committed to creating apparel that is environmentally safe and responsible, politically and socially conscious, sweatshop free, American made and Fair Trade. A portion of all funds collected from our clothing sales is donated directly to progressive causes and candidates fighting for issues of social and political justice. These products are the most sustainable, responsible, high quality t-shirts on the market. Clothing of the American Mind promotes activism as a way of life, encouraging the notion that anyone can be a political activist; all you have to do is get dressed! With our stylish, eco-chic designs, you can look as good as you feel knowing you are creating a dialogue, spreading a progressive message and sporting gear that is manufactured fairly.

CommonDreams.org (website) is an Internet-based progressive news and grassroots activism organization, founded in 1997. We publish of a diverse mix of breaking news, progressive views, and press releases covering a wide range of social and environmental issues. Our audience includes hundreds of thousands of citizens and grassroots activists who believe in our mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. We are a nonprofit, progressive, independent and nonpartisan organization. No corporate money. No hidden agendas.

The Commonweal Institute (website) is an alliance of independent thinkers from outside the D.C. Beltway leading conversations in media outlets and social networks about American values and progressive problem-solving. We envision a society in which the advancement of human rights, civil liberties, participatory democracy, justice, strong and caring communities, and a more secure and sustainable future coexist with responsible global capitalism. Our goal is to engage all segments of society in the discovery and creation of a new balance between private interests and the common good. To learn more, please visit us on the web at commonwealinstitute.org.

Connect Ithaca (website) PLANNING FOR ECOLOGICAL CITIES. Is the auto the most convenient and efficient way to move people around inside our cities? Does increasing car traffic diminish the quality of life in our neighborhoods and city centers? Is the use of the automobile sustainable in a future of climate change and escalating energy costs? Has the automobile actually become a limit to economic growth and urban vitality? You are invited to attend an international gathering in Ithaca NY that will consider these questions and explore alternatives to car-dependent mobility which will significantly contribute to the evolution of sustainable cities.

Dallas Air America Radio Group (website) is a network of progressive talk radio fans. The group supports alternative media, progressive talk radio, and media reform in North Texas and nationwide. Since 2004, the organization has offered North Texas progressives many opportunities to get involved and stay informed through web communities, blogs, and a weekly e-newsletter. Our newsletter provides readers with timely information on progressive events, news, politics, and activism. The group is now proud to support Texas’s only progressive talk station, Rational Radio which broadcasts at 1360 am in Dallas. For more information, visit us on the web at dallasairamerica.org.

Democracy Begins At Home (website Want to take over the White House, but can’t talk to your neighbors or hate your HOA? Living a life of workaholic gas-guzzling isolation? Wondering who’s going to take care of you in retirement? Learn from real-world Communities movement leaders about Consensus, Compassionate Communication, Open Space Technology, and more powerful tools to break down barriers, find common ground, and pursue progressive responses to climate change, oil shortages and economic crises. Transform your neighborhood into an EcoVillage, create Cohousing communities and Coworking office-shares, foster an Elders Guild, green your condo.
Join us to start the conversation that can lead to real, lasting progressive transformation, wherever you live and work. You have the power – let’s leverage it for good.

Democracy Corps (website) is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to making the government of the United States more responsive to the American people. It was founded in 1999 by James Carville and Stanley Greenberg and provides free public opinion research and strategic advice to those dedicated to a more responsive Congress and Presidency. Democracy Corps seeks to play a vital role in shaping the political debate by providing research, strategic advice, and a public voice to the issues important to the American people. It acts as a resource for the unions, public interest organizations, party and congressional leaders who are working for a more responsive government.

Democracy for America (website) is our nation’s largest progressive political action community. With over 725,000 members nationwide, DFA is a grassroots powerhouse working to change our country and the Democratic Party from the bottom-up. We provide campaign training, organizing resources, and media exposure so our members have the power to support progressive issues and candidates up and down the ballot. Join us in the fight to take our country back!

The Democratic National Committee (website) is tasked with helping elect Democrats in every state across the country. Under Governor Dean’s leadership, the DNC’s 50-State Strategy has helped elect Democrats up and down the ballot, bringing us new majorities in Congress, special elections wins in places like Mississippi and Illinois, and a permanent national infrastructure that will help elect Democrats for years to come. This year, in partnership with Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign, the DNC will help elect a Democratic president and expand our majorities in the House and Senate.

Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action (website) is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization committed to building an America that achieves its highest democratic ideals. We believe this requires a democracy that is robust and inclusive, with high levels of electoral participation and civic engagement; an economy where prosperity and opportunity are broadly shared and disparity is reduced; and a strong and effective public sector with the capacity to plan for the future and provide for the common good. Founded in 2000, Demos’ work combines research with advocacy- melding the commitment to ideas of a think tank with the organizing strategies of an advocacy group.

EchoDitto (website) is changing the face of internet consulting services and strategy. We specialize in online community building worldwide and offer the full spectrum of online strategy development, from initial ideation through implementation—including community organizing, online communications and content development, online and offline grassroots organizing, and creative online campaign strategies. We work with every available tool, from emerging mobile technologies to tried and true email technologies.

FieldWorks (website) is a Democratic consulting firm specializing in grassroots field strategies led by veteran operatives Laurie Moskowitz and Debbie Willhite. The FieldWorks team has worked for Federal and State Democratic electoral campaigns, Democratic Party organizations, advocacy organizations, labor unions, and ballot initiatives at the national, state and local level. Our services include: targeting, vote goal scenarios, field plans and budgets, voter contact management, data management, canvass operations, signature collection, coalition building, event planning, hiring and training of field operatives. To learn more about FieldWorks please visit www.FieldWorks.com.

Free Press (website is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications.

Get your idea on a T-shirt now! Since 1984, Fo’ Paws (website) has made great T-shirts; we now also carry V-necks, scoops, longsleeves, totes, and embroidered polo, denim and twill shirts. Most shirts are all-cotton. All our products come with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Our own designs include a wide range of reader-oriented shirts, pootie designs, science fiction/fantasy themes, and mystery themes, as well as political shirts, including many humorous ones. We do next-day custom orders. We can use your design or provide the design work for you. We’re offering Netroots Nation Specials – come check us out!

In 1980, fifty independent corporations owned Americas media outlets. Today, five corporations control virtually all parts of mainstream media. In this new monopoly of mainstream media., news reporting has been replaced with a new invention called “infotainment.” ABC, CBS, and NBC tell us more about the antics of celebrity burnouts like Paris Hilton than they do about real news that affects our lives day to day. GoLeft.TV (website) is a progressive political T.V. news source that fills that gap between mainstream media’s dumbed down infotainment and relevant news reporting. Finally! Progressive, relevant, political news daily through on demand video.

Think there’s nothing funny about climate change? Think again. Since 1999, Grist.org (website) has served up environmental news, analysis, and advice, all spiked with a sense of humor. This unusual and effective approach has earned Grist recognition from media outlets such as Time, The New York Times, NPR, and The Today Show, as well as two coveted Webby awards. Grist’s in-depth reporting and feisty opinions connects the environment to issues that are part of our national discourse, and is mobilizing a new generation to think and act creatively regarding green problems and solutions. Grist.org – a beacon in the smog.

Heinrich for Congress (website) Martin grew up in a hard-working, middle-class family as the son of an IBEW electrician and a factory worker. After college, Martin moved to New Mexico where he founded a small business and served as a director of a non-profit. Throughout his career in public service, Martin has stood up to special interests to accomplish meaningful change on behalf of ordinary New Mexicans. Martin served four years on the Albuquerque City Council where he helped raise the city’s minimum wage and crack down on crime. As Natural Resources Trustee, Martin worked with Governor Richardson to clean up New Mexico’s waters.

In Memory of Central Park (website) is a novel that satirizes conservative politics and attempts to touch people’s minds and hearts regarding environmental degradation, global warming, and the recent assault on civil liberties. I have come to Netroots Nation to ask for your support in promoting this progressive book by writing about it on your blog. I will be selling copies at cost, or I’ll send you a complimentary emanuscript. No time to read—a complete description, plus excerpts is available at my booth. Please visit me, and please visit CentralParkNovel.com for more information, neat graphics, and 24 facts every blogger should know.

Ig Publishing (website). Ig publishes original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream publishing establishment, and political and cultural nonfiction, with an emphasis on books that come out of the progressive netroots movement.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (website) is one of North America’s largest and most diverse unions. Our 1.4 million members work in virtually every occupation imaginable – from airline pilots to zookeepers. For more than a century, the Teamsters have been a public voice for the rights and aspirations of working men and women. We have also been a defender of those rights, combating coporate greed and holding government accountable. We stand for decent working conditions. We stand for good pay and strong benefits. We stand for dignity and respect on the job. We stand together.

Ken Rosenberg, CFP®, First Vice President, Wealth Advisor. Through a detailed wealth mangement process, I help individuals and families create and preserve wealth. My goal is to ensure financial security for all clients. I do this with the concept that investment returns and responsible corporate behavior (Socially Responsible Investing) go hand in hand. I do so with the application of the highest levels of ethical behavior in my work. I know the criteria people use to choose a financial advisor is complicated, and is commonly subjective. Come by my booth (#415) and introduce yourself. You will find I'm not like most financial professionals you've encountered. I hope to have the chance to prove it to you.

Since 2002, speakers for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (website) have led the public debate on drug policy. As current and former criminal justice professionals LEAP speakers bring an unassailable credibility to the conversation. LEAP believes existing drug policies have failed to address the problems of crime, drug abuse, addiction and the flow of illegal drugs. This group of international law enforcement professionals and concerned citizens agree that by fighting a war on drugs, governments have increased the societal problems associated with drug abuse. LEAP believes a system of regulation is less harmful, more ethical and a more effective policy than prohibition.

The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) (website) is turning environmental values into national priorities. To secure the environmental future of our planet, LCV’s mission is to advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies. Through their National Environmental Scorecard and Presidential Report Card, LCV informs the public about the most important environmental legislation of the past Congressional session and shows them how their own and other representatives voted. LCV runs tough and effective campaigns to defeat anti-environment candidates, and support those leaders who stand up for a clean, healthy future for America while educating the public, building coalitions, promoting grassroots power, and training the next generation of environmental leaders as part of our grassroots efforts.

LiePie.com (website): Are you flustered by those lyin’ viral emails? Don’t you worry, honey. Granny’s here to help! If you like telling the truth, come on over to LiePie.com for a visit. (For Pete’s sake, don’t track mud in the house. Your Granny just mopped the floor.)

MAPLight.org (website) illuminates the connection between money and politics in unprecedented ways. Their groundbreaking website combines all the money given to politicians with how each politician votes on every bill, using Web 2.0 database technology to reveal patterns of money and influence that were never before possible to see. MAPLight.org's innovation won them first prize at the NetSquared Innovation Awards, and a World Summit Award, a U.N.-affiliated prize for the best public-benefit technology projects worldwide. New York Times columnist David Pogue wrote of MAPLight.org, "nobody has ever revealed the relationship between money given and votes cast to quite such a startling effect."

Media Matters for America (website) is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation – news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda – every day, in real time.

MixedInk (website) offers a uniquely democratic tool for mass collaborative expression. We empower big groups of people to weave their best ideas together to create blog posts, editorials, mission statements, petitions, and more. As people submit, remix, and rate ideas, the ones that best reflect the community’s perspective are fused together, rising organically to the top. We are thrilled to be publicly unveiling our platform for the first time at Netroots Nation! Stop by our exhibit to kick the tires, and join our sessions on Friday and Saturday to help draft the Netroots’ policy platform.

Mother Jones (website) is an independent, nonprofit magazine dedicated to bringing you smart, fearless journalism. Winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award for General Excellence, MoJo is committed to gutsy, no-holds-barred investigative reporting that asks tough questions and gives you real answers. Mother Jones is uncensored, irreverent, not beholden to special interests—and obligated only to you.

The Nation (website) will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.

—from The Nation’s founding prospectus, 1865

National Popular Vote Inc. (website) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation whose specific purpose is to study, analyze and educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a nationwide popular election of the President of the United States. The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee a majority of the Electoral College to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The bill would reform the Electoral College so that the electoral vote in the Electoral College reflects the choice of the nation’s voters for President of the United States.

Netroots for the Troops is a coalition of members from the “I Got The News Today” and “Mojo Friday” communities at dailykos.com. Our goal is threefold: to create care packages to send to American troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan; to raise public awareness of the actual needs that our troops in the field have for everyday items that most of us take for granted; and to show America one of the many creative and positive ways in which Democrats and liberal bloggers support our troops.

The Northwest Progressive Institute (website) is a netroots powered strategy center working to advance the common good through ideas and action. NPI is a new kind of think tank, one that recognizes the potential of the Internet, which offers progressives a groundbreaking opportunity to impact the political process. We are regionally focused but nationally involved, serving as an innovative open forum for the discussion of vision, principles, and policy directions between people from all walks of life. We are a community of people who believe that liberal values are the foundation of American democracy. NPI was founded in 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.

Obama for America (website) is the campaign to elect Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. Powered by millions of donors and volunteers, the campaign has built an unprecedented grassroots movement for change. Obama for America is also proud to be running the first 50-state presidential campaign in a generation and aims to bring millions of new Americans into the process this year by registering voters and training and mobilizing volunteers across the country.

ONE.org (website) is 2.4 million people coming together to fight global poverty. ONE members come from all beliefs and every walk of life – and they work in communities, colleges and churches across the country – to raise awareness and urge our leaders to take action. ONE members have gotten the 2008 presidential candidates to go on the record with their plans to fight global poverty and they’ve lobbied Congress for specific legislation on debt cancellation, increasing effective international assistance, making trade fair, and fighting corruption. ONE members know that today, the world has the technology, the resources and the know-how to save millions of lives from extreme poverty and preventable diseases around the globe. All that’s missing is the will. Learn more and add your support at http://one.org.

Plus Three (website) has been at the forefront of netroots activism since it began. Our 2003 ePatriots program engaged bloggers and activists to raise $2 million in small contributions for the DNC. Our strategies poured $18 million into Democratic Party efforts to retake Congress in 2006. Overall, we have engaged 12 million activists, sent 2 billion emails and raised $225 million for clients including John Edwards for President, EMILY’s List and the NAACP. Our easy-to-use technology lets campaigns and nonprofits connect with the netroots via the most feature-rich blogging, social networking, advocacy and fundraising tools available. Organizations receive content management, no-fee contribution processing, targeted email, reporting and online CRM in a single platform – all at the industry’s lowest cost. What success story can we write for you?

The Point (website) is a website where anyone can start a campaign to organize group action or raise money. Here’s The Point’s big idea: campaign members only act when the conditions exist for them to have the greatest possible impact. For example, donating one dollar toward a one-thousand dollar goal is a waste of a dollar if you’re the only one. But if 999 others are willing, then the goal is reached and that dollar makes sense. The Point allows communities to use the Web to do more than talk – it helps them coordinate each person’s small contribution to make big things happen.

Jackie Brown Otter created Pretty Bird Woman House (website) after the brutal rape and murder of her sister, whose Lakota name means Pretty Bird Woman. PBWH provides emergency shelter, advocacy support, and educational programs for women on the Standing Rock reservation who have been victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. Last fall, PBWH was forced to move because of vandalism, theft and arson that essentially destroyed the building. Pretty Bird Woman House almost had to close its doors. The netroots united around this cause and raised over $85,000 to buy the shelter a new house.

Progressive Book Club (website) will find – and promote – the books that can change our nation by harnessing the power of the Internet to create an important new platform for progressive ideas. Part bookseller, part social networking website and part online magazine, Progressive Book Club is a vibrant forum that has transformed the traditional book club model. Today people’s interests are as varied as they are vast – from the world environment, to global poverty, the economy, health care, religion and war – and amid the noise it is increasingly difficult to hear the ideas that will influence the nation’s direction in the 21st Century. The prominent authors, journalists, activists and other opinion leaders on the book club’s editorial board will enable our members to discover the stimulating, important and inspiring books that can shape our future for the better. Progressive Book Club is also committed to supporting the broader community, by creating a new income stream for progressive organizations and media through sales of our books.

The Progressive Patriots Fund (website is dedicated to promoting a progressive reform agenda and supporting candidates across the country. This organization enables us to be a part of a larger national effort to build the Democratic Party throughout America. We are able to travel across the country, listen to others, speak out on important issues and advance a progressive reform agenda. The challenges far too many Americans face every day did not go away with the past election. I will continue to give voice to those who believe we must work to provide health care for all Americans, protect and create jobs, ensure fiscal responsibility, and fight terrorism while also protecting our freedoms. In both so-called red and blue states, people’s voices need to be heard. That is why we intend to help continue a dialogue about how we move forward as a country united by the values we share and the challenges we face together.

Senator Russ Feingold
Honorary Chair, Progressive Patriots Fund

Public Citizen (website) is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. We fight for openness and democratic accountability in government, for the right of consumers to seek redress in the courts; for clean, safe and sustainable energy sources; for social and economic justice in trade policies; for strong health, safety and environmental protections; and for safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs and health care.

Reframe It (website) lets people comment in the margin of any webpage without needing the permission of the site. Our technology creates a public space in which discussions about politics, social change and environmentalism can take place directly on the text of any corporate or government webpage. It is the ideal tool for internal communications within communities and movements whose boundaries are vague, varied and constantly shifting. The dialogues that unfold in the margin increase accountability, generate transparency, and allows each user to benefit from the insights of others.

The Roosevelt Institution (website) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan national network of campus-based student think tanks. We seek to develop active, progressive citizens and leaders on college campuses through the research and writing of public policy and commentary, disseminating the products of that work to policymakers and elected officials on the local, state and national level. Through our chapter model, trainings and programs, we instill both the civic skills necessary for full democratic participation and an appreciation for the centrality of government in combating social, political economic and environmental challenges. By empowering students to contribute substantively to politics, we engage a wide range of students with disparate interests in the public sphere.

ScienceBlogs (website) is the largest conversation about science on the web — a network of over 70 blogs on topics ranging from climate change to technology to public health. Breaking news and fueling conversation on the intersection on science and politics, education, business, religion and more, our award-winning bloggers engage their audience in a digital science salon.

The 2 million member SEIU (website) is the fastest-growing union in the Americas. Focused on uniting workers in healthcare, public services and property services, SEIU members are winning better wages, healthcare, and more secure jobs for our communities, while uniting their strength with their counterparts around the world to help ensure that workers, not just corporations and CEOs, benefit from today’s global economy. In 2006, the National Journal named SEIU #1 in political strength, declaring the union to have “won the ground game on election day.” SEIU’s 2008 Justice for All plan is creating an unprecedented role for middle-class and working Americans in electing the next president and Congress and holding them accountable once they’re in office. SEIU nurses, child care and home care workers, janitors, security officers and other SEIU members across the country are already talking to voters and hitting the streets in key states and races across the country.

Share International USA (website) is a non-profit educational organization established to disseminate information about the presence in the world of great Spiritual Teachers—the Masters of Wisdom and Maitreya, the World Teacher—here to recommend solutions to humanity’s present political, economic, and environmental crises. We also seek to make the Ageless Wisdom Teachings available to the public, and encourage practical spirituality through meditation and world service. Activities include sponsoring lectures throughout the USA, fostering the development of Transmission Meditation groups, and publishing and distributing the books of British artist Benjamin Creme, Share International magazine and The Emergence Quarterly newspaper.

SIRIUS (website) is changing the way people listen to music, sports, news, and entertainment. Operating from its corporate headquarters in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, SIRIUS broadcasts over 130 digital-quality channels, including 69 channels of 100% commercial-free music, plus exclusive channels of sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic, weather and data.

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Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman’s revealing new documentary brings together seemingly unrelated anomalies of the U.S. electoral puzzle to paint a chilling picture of widespread “glitches” that have the capacity to alter election results. Employing first-person accounts, extensive research and telling clips gleaned from the nightly news, STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote shines a spotlight on the gritty reality of the last decade’s most egregious incidents of U.S. electoral insecurity.

Street Prophets (website) is the online forum that mobilizes progressive people of faith to name, discuss and take action on critical political and religious issues. An offspring of Daily Kos, the largest political blog on the Internet, Street Prophets seeks to change the “moral values” conversation by fostering community; promoting informed opinion and moving its members to action.

The Sunlight Foundation (website) was founded in January 2006 with the goal of using the revolutionary power of the Internet and new information technology to enable citizens to learn more about what Congress and their elected representatives are doing, and thus help reduce corruption, ensure greater transparency and accountability by government, and foster public trust in the vital institutions of democracy. We are unique in that technology and the power of the Internet are at the core of every one of our efforts.

TellMeYourIdea.com (website) is an easy way to create an instant political blog, where one can then debate and promote a wide range of national, global, state and local issues. Tell elected officials, candidates and big business what YOU think on topics ranging from economic and tax policy to foreign policy, education, judicial decisions, healthcare, the environment, social issues, political races, local grass-roots campaigns and more. TellMeYourIdea.com is unscripted, non-partisan, politically relevant and unfiltered. If you don’t have time to blog on a full time basis, or if your letters to the editor never see the light of day, then this site is for you.

The Texas Freedom Network (website) advances a mainstream agenda of religious freedom and individual liberties to counter the religious right. Founded in 1995, the Texas Freedom Network is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization of more than 28,000 religious and community leaders. Based in Austin, the Texas Freedom Network acts as the state’s watchdog, monitoring far-right issues, organizations, money and leaders. The organization has been instrumental in defeating initiatives backed by the religious right in Texas, including private school vouchers, textbook censorship and faith-based deregulation.

The Texas Observer (website) is the award-winning investigative magazine once edited by Molly Ivins, Willie Morris, Bob Sherrill, Jim Hightower, and other journalistic luminaries that has been breaking major stories about government corruption, corporate malfeasance, and the ins and outs of Texas politics, arts and culture for 54 years. Online and in print, this is the kind of muckraking journalism America needs and deserves. “If only we could clone The Texas Observer,” says Bill Moyers. And, according to NPR correspondent Wade Goodwyn, “The Texas Observer has never been better, not ever. These are the good old days.”

The Texas Table is the forum for progressive advocacy groups to get together and find ways to operate more effectively in the current political and public policy environment in Texas, both as individual organizations and as a larger, collective movement. Our model now is to be a marketplace – exchanging information and ideas, discussing topics of common concern (e.g. dealing with media, using the web to increase effectiveness), and looking for ways to work more effectively, individually and collectively.

Unlocking Autism (website) and the National Vaccine Information Center ask “Vaccine Safety: What’s CHOICE got to do with it?” In this election year, parent voters are questioning political candidates about why government isn’t doing more to reduce vaccine risks and protect the right to make informed, voluntary vaccine decisions – two hot button issues that can persuade voters to jump party lines. YouTube and Blogging has energized a growing demographic of young American citizen activists joining with those who have demanded safer vaccines since 1982. They’re taking a stand with “Our Children, Our Choice and Our Vote in 2008.”

If you had one of the world’s foremost medical professionals cornered at a party, what would you ask him? No. 1 question: What is the best multivitamin for a man under 60? Answer: One-a-Day Men’s Formula or liquid vemma. (Dr. Mehmet Oz, cardiac surgeon and recognized health expert on Oprah Winfrey in Esquire magazine, March 2008). And guess what? The world-renowned vemma is the main component of the most insanely healthy energy drink in the U.S. Welcome to Verve! More than 75 nutrients in this 100 percent natural energy drink. So whaddya think: Red Bull or Verve (website)?

WakeUpWalMart.com (website) is America’s campaign to change Wal-Mart with more than 420,000 members nationwide. As the world’s largest retailer, America’s #1 private employer and over #12 billion in profits, Wal-Mart has a unique responsibility to do better by workers, consumers, and the environment.

Wired for Change (website) is dedicated to helping progressive organizations and political campaigns develop the most innovative and effective online campaigns to encourage engagement, drive message, and promote change. In addition to providing a comprehensive, integrated, and affordable web platform, we help nonprofits and progressive political campaigns exceed their visions for the potential of technology and leverage these new tools to help rebuild the progressive movement. At its core Wired for Change is about empowering people and organizations to make change.