On voting rights: CREDO Mobile makes a difference

Recently, we sent a significant grant to Black Voters Matter, which works to increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities and help them determine their own destiny through the ballot box.

CREDO Mobile is a committed supporter of Black Voters Matter and our funding has powered many of the group’s campaigns. As voter-suppression tactics continue to impact elections around the country, we’ll continue working with Black Voters Matter to support individuals and organizations striving to obtain social justice—on Election Day and every day.

Building the power to make change

Black Voters Matter (BVM) has made its own grants totaling over $6 million to 336 partner organizations in the states where it operates. These grants have enabled those organizations to strengthen their efforts in areas like capacity-building, getting out the vote and voter registration, environmental justice, criminal justice and healthcare.

In the run-up to the recent election, BVM also held partner trainings on the Volunteer Action Network to help promote volunteerism and civic engagement. These trainings helped volunteers with walk lists and phone banks, and provided additional support from BVM volunteers to ensure that BVM partners had the capacity to build resources to reach and educate members of their communities.

BVM also implemented peer-to-peer texting programs and assisted with printed education and advocacy materials that helped grow partner networks to provide content aimed at voter engagement.

BVM scored many other victories in the 2024 election.

• It sent over 19 million text messages, including 4 million texts prior to National Voter Registration Day.
• BVM volunteers and staff members reached residents across the country encouraging voters to check their registration status and/or provide early voting and polling location information.
• BVM made over 45,000 door-knock attempts and nearly 350, 000 phone calls.
• It ran 30 voter-engagement bus tours in GA, LA, AL, SC, TX, MS, OH, TN, FL, NC, PA, VA, WI, AZ and MD.

Gathering strength for future elections

Here are some of the new projects Black Voters Matter has launched with support from CREDO Mobile.

The We Fight Back campaign asks Black people nationwide to share what they’re fighting back against in their own lives. This provides an opportunity for greater understanding, community building and authentic engagement.

BVM’s Sick and Tired initiative, in partnership with American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, focuses on the need for Medicaid expansion and greater access to equitable and affordable healthcare for Black and rural communities. Recently, BVM has traveled to Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to host eight showings of a health-equity film hold discussions. It has also organized community-centered health and wellness fairs.

BVM continues to educate and advocate for Black Americans around the issues that affect their lives. BVM’s Block is Hot 3.0 bus tour crisscrossed Georgia in collaboration with Kendall Rae, the youngest certified farmer in Georgia at just 8 years old. The tour offered sustainability training, with discussions about energy burden, water pollution and utility justice. As a result of the bus tour, many Georgia residents engaged directly with their cities to establish ongoing pop-up farmers markets catering to folks who don’t have grocery stores nearby. By providing education and tools for sustainable living, BVM’s environmental justice work increases power and resilience in BIPOC communities.

As part of BVM’s youth-engagement campaign, its Black Youth Renaissance Tour recently transported six charter buses of rural college students to Atlanta to attend a rally and provided training in the different tools they need to engage with their peers on campus. Students felt more empowered to engage in dorm storms, debate-watch parties and election-watch parties, and to combat disinformation.

Recently, BVM has worked in collaboration with Growing Real Alternatives Everywhere to hold nine Warrant Clinics in Georgia, Michigan, Louisiana and Alabama. These resulted in over 600 warrants rescinded, and fine and court costs forgiven. Efforts like this give members of the community the increased economic mobility that being able to drive freely provides and liberate them from the fear and stress of outstanding fines and/or a suspended license, risk of jail time or public housing denial.

Winning with CREDO Mobile

Black Voters Matter was able to do all these things because CREDO Mobile customers do one thing: they use our service. When they do, they raise much-needed donations for progressive nonprofit groups like BVM. These donations cost our customers nothing—but they mean everything to the nonprofits we fund.

If you’re a CREDO Mobile member, thank you. If you’re not a member, please join us now. You’ll get all you want from your mobile service: the nation’s top-rated, most reliable network, competitive plans and great deals on new devices.

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