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neonvincent( ners shared at the Coffee Party USA/Citizen Connect Facebook page during January 2024 behind the cut! )
(@RepresentWomen on women at the #IowaCaucuses!)
University of Virginia Center for Politics
The Presidential Race at the Dawn of a New Year
(Did you find this report by @UVaCenterforPolitics useful?)
Boebert’s District Flip
(Analysis from @UVaCenterforPolitics!)
Previewing the Iowa Caucus
(@UVaCenterforPolitics on the #IowaCaucus!)
Big Iowa Win Confirms Trump’s Stranglehold on GOP
(Does @UVaCenterforPolitics’s conclusion surprise you at all?)
A Roadmap for the New Hampshire GOP Primary
(@CenterforPolitics asks how can Nikki Haley make it close in #NewHampshire?)
Trump Clears the New Hampshire Hurdle
(@CenterforPolitics on the #NewHampshirePrimary!)
Veterans for All Voters
(This month’s update from @VeteransforAllVoters!)
neonvincentI began my involvement with Coffee Party USA in February 2010, when my wife showed me "The Snowy Video," which showed Coffee Party co-founder Annabel Park explaining why and how she started the Coffee Party on Facebook the previous month, along her vision for it as she stood holding a covered coffee cup as snow fell around her. I was hooked. Within the month, my wife and I followed the Coffee Party USA Facebook page, then called Join the Coffee Party Movement, participated in organizing calls, and organized and co-led the inaugural meeting of the Ann Arbor Coffee Party as part of the Coffee Party Kick-off on March 13, 2010, one of hundreds of meetings with thousands of participants that day. That day, I created the Ann Arbor Coffee Party Facebook page (now Coffee Party USA-Pennsylvania; I created the Ann Arbor Coffee Party Facebook group to replace it) to communicate with members of the local chapter. I then created the Coffee Party USA community on LiveJournal on March 20, 2010. My wife and I returned two weeks later for the second in-person meeting of the Ann Arbor Coffee Party on March 27, 2010 as part of the National Coffee Party Summit, which featured nearly 500 meetings nationwide. At that meeting, we handed over leadership of the Ann Arbor Coffee Party meetings to another member, as we were moving out of the area. However, I am still the administrator of the Coffee Party USA-Pennsylvania page and the Ann Arbor Coffee Party Facebook group, so my involvement continues.
I wasn't the only person hooked, as "The Snowy Video" helped draw national attention to the Coffee Party. 90,000 people followed the Coffee Party Facebook page by the first week of March and the Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, and C-SPAN all covered the Coffee Party during February and March 2010, including CNN reports on the meetings of the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., chapters and C-SPAN coverage of the National Coffee Party Summit.
( More behind the cut. )
neonvincent
Happy Giving Tuesday!
National Day of Giving encourages giving back. It takes place the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
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Quite simply, take advantage of all the holiday deals to add to your charitable giving. Combined with your family, friends, local and national organizations and through the power of social media, Day of Giving can become a tradition worth passing on.
My tradition for the day, which I began On Giving Tuesday 2017, then continued in 2018 and last year, is to <donate to my favorite non-profit, Coffee Party USA. I am a director and officer of the organization and I just donated $10.00 to it for Giving Tuesday. In addition, I’m asking my readers to match my donation. Click on the red “Please donate” button on the lower left corner of your screen and follow the instructions, including entering $10.00 in the “Other” box. However, if you want to donate more, be our guest!
As for what my donation and yours will do for Coffee Party USA, our supporters, and our country, I’m going to be a good environmentalist and recycle what I wrote originally in Happy National Coffee Ice Cream Day from Coffee Party USA! and reused in Celebrate National Coffee Day 2019 by donating to Coffee Party USA.
Coffee Party USA ia a 501c(4) nonprofit social welfare organization dedicated to empowering and connecting communities to reclaim our government for the people. To support its efforts, which include educating the public on our website and on our Facebook page, registering people to vote with our partners TurboVote and National Voter Registration Day, and reminding them to vote through our Voter Buddy program, please consider donating. A donation of $10.00 for ten years of Coffee Party USA is recommended. For those who wish to give at a higher level of support and be more involved in the organization, please consider becoming a member [by clicking on the blue button that says “Become a member” in the lower right corner of your screen]. To do the valuable work of the Coffee Party…volunteer [by clicking on “Volunteer” in the navigation bar at the top of the page]. Not only will Coffee Party USA thank you for it, so will the country!
Thanks for donating! Now treat yourself. Since today is National Pie Day, eat a slice of pie. If you want something healthier, today is also National Red Apple Day, so you can eat that instead.
Crossposted from Show your support for democracy by donating $10 for 10 years of Coffee Party USA on Giving Tuesday 2020 at the Coffee Party USA blog.neonvincent
Today, September 24, 2019, is National Voter Registration Day. Americans are celebrating National Voter Registration Day with a massive 50-state effort to register voters before Election Day this November.
With local elections happening in a few weeks, every eligible American voter should exercise his or her right to be heard at the ballot box this year and next. National Voter Registration Day is the right place to start by getting registered.
That is why communities across the country are planning to use National Voter Registration Day to increase voter participation.
Thousands of national, state, and local organizations and volunteers will be the driving force behind National Voter Registration Day 2019. Partner organizations will coordinate hundreds of National Voter Registration Day events nationwide and leverage #NationalVoterRegistrationDay on all social media platforms to drive attention to voter registration and the midterm elections.
Coffee Party USA is proud to be a National Voter Registration Day partner. Today, Coffee Party USA is engaging its constituency and community by registering voters online at Coffee Party USA's Turbovote page. The effort’s website, www.NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org, provides a listing of National Voter Registration Day events across the country.
Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is designed to create an annual moment when the entire nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. More than two million Americans have registered to vote on this day since the inaugural National Voter Registration Day. For inquiries about National Voter Registration Day, please contact vince@coffeepartyusa.com.
Coffee Party USA ia a 501c(4) nonprofit social welfare organization dedicated to empowering and connecting communities to reclaim our government for the people.
Originally posted at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
neonvincent
A year ago today, I wished my readers Happy Irish Coffee Day and Happy Birthday to Coffee Party USA! Today, I am reversing the order and wishing Coffee Party USA an early happy 9th birthday. I begin the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the nonprofit for which I'm a director with Birthday by The Beatles.
If it's a birthday, then there must be presents! I am asking my readers give a gift to Coffee Party USA by making a donation of $9.00 (or more) to match the $9.00 donation I made yesterday. Your donation will allow "you to be a part of the important work of Coffee Party USA as we empower and connect communities to reclaim our government for the people." It will go to improving our website, the new version of which Coffee Party USA debuted in October and registering people to vote with our partners TurboVote and National Voter Registration Day. There are municipal and some state elections coming up this year and people need to be registered and reminded to vote in them.
If donating is not enough, my readers can become a member or volunteer. Coffee Party USA needs people to help with all the projects listed above and then some, as we plan on doing even more to empower and connect communities to reclaim our government for the people in the future.
Once again, I am asking my readers to match my donation of $9.00. The other directors and I will thank you now and American democracy will thank you later!
Excerpted from An early happy 9th birthday to Coffee Party USA and Happy Irish Coffee Day! at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
ETA: This entry has now been crossposted to the Coffee Party USA website.
neonvincentWhile I was researching for my application to remain on the Board of Directors of the Coffee Party, I found the following, which I wrote seven years ago. I also posted a version of this to Examiner.com, but with the demise of that site, it has disappeared. Originally from here.
( Coffee Party USA Time Line for the first year of the organization behind the cut. )
neonvincent
Today is the last day to join and receive a Founding Member card with a unique membership number and an Official Coffee Party USA bumper sticker with the motto "Incite Civility & Reason." Deadline is 11:59:59 P.M., Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time. That's just one second before 5 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, 4 A.M. Central Standard Time, 3 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, 2 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, and 1 A.M. Alaska Standard Time.
To sign up for a 1-year Founding Membership, click here and to sign up for a Sustaining Membership with automatic renewal, click here. Minimum donation is $10, which is for unemployed and students. The standard recommended donation is $50.
The membership drive was originally scheduled to last only until the end of February, but overwhelming last-minute demand resulted in the extension until just before Midnight March 3 in the farthest west inhabited U.S. states.
As of yesterday evening, more than 3000 people had contributed more than $115,000 since the membership drive began. More than $70,000 of that was donated between Monday afternnon and Tuesday night. This last amount is as much money as was donated during all of 2010!
( For more details on Coffee Party USA's membership drive, join me behind the cut. )
neonvincent
Coffee Connect Newsletter, Feb 25, 2011, Vol. 1, Issue 4
In this issue:
From the Editors by Lynda Park, Barb Bull, and Tim McDonough
Coffee Party Regional Coordinators by Coffee Party National Team
Only a Few More Days Left to Become a Founding Member by Coffee Party National Team
The Tipping Point by Annabel Park and Eric Byler
Mod note: I'll be reposting this entire article shortly
Meet a National Team Member: Bruce Schuman, Shared Purpose Director
The Shared Purpose Network by Bruce Schuman
New Users guide to Twitter: Part II Hashtags, Retweets, and Replies by Vince Lamb
Mod note: I wrote this article
LA Coffee Party Building Community and Presence by Heather Meyer, LA Coffee Party Chapter Coordinator
Member Commentary: Can Democracy Be Tweeted? by Tim Holton, Emeryville, CA
