Posted on June 6, 2017
5 Gift Ideas for the Recent Grad in Your Life
The tassel was worth the hassle and now it’s time to celebrate the recent grad in your life. After so much studying, it seems the most obvious reward would be a nice massage or a long nap. However, at CREDO Mobile, we believe working to advance progressive causes for the next generation is the most valuable gift of all. Here’s some ideas to help do just that plus some other picks from like-minded companies:
Camp Wellstone
Arm your loved one with practical skills to set progressive political concerns into action. Camp Wellstone (CW) trains people interested in leading progressive political change — from aspiring candidates to campaign organizers. Topics including progressive public policy, grassroots community organizing and grassroots electoral politics shape help shape the curriculum.
Posted on June 2, 2017
Our May grantees thank you for your support
Each month, CREDO members vote for how we distribute our funding to three amazing organizations fighting for progressive causes. In May, each vote helped fund the resistance against Trump by supporting groups that are fighting to protect net neutrality, exposing sexist and misogynistic corporate and political leaders and advocating for peace at home and abroad. Over 90,000 people voted to distribute our monthly donation to Demand Progress Action, UltraViolet and Win Without War.
These donations are made possible by CREDO customers and the revenue they generate by using our services. The distribution depends entirely on the votes of CREDO members like you. And for that, our May grant recipients thank you.
Demand Progress Action
“Thank you CREDO members! Your work and support are critical to Demand Progress Action’s efforts to resist Trump’s predations and to hold officials accountable as we fight for social justice – especially as we prepare to lead the fight against new efforts to roll back net neutrality.” To learn more, visit demandprogress.org.
Posted on June 1, 2017
Your vote needed for these three nonprofits in June
Each month, CREDO Mobile lets its members decide how to divide our monthly donation to three great nonprofit groups. This June, you can vote for organizations providing life-saving care across the globe, holding lawmakers and industry accountable for the climate crisis, and fighting for LGBTQ rights. This month you can vote for Doctors Without Borders, InsideClimate News and the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund. Learn more about their important work, and then cast your vote for one, two or all three by June 30.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Since 1971, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières has been helping people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from healthcare.
Funding from CREDO members will enable Doctors Without Borders’ teams around the world to alleviate suffering by providing high-quality, life-saving medical care, helping feed children suffering from severe malnutrition and building shelters for uprooted families during crises.
Posted on May 17, 2017
New video: CREDO and the ACLU are resisting Trump’s dangerous agenda
As Donald Trump has made good on his campaign promises to attack immigrant communities and upend our civil liberties, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has fought back every step of the way. When Trump signed executive orders to ban Muslims from entering the country, the ACLU was on the front lines successfully blocking his illegal orders in court. And as Trump continues to trample on the constitution and the rights of immigrants, Muslims, women, LGBTQ people and people of color, the ACLU will be there.
This May, CREDO was honored to welcome ACLU National Political Director Faiz Shakir to our headquarters for an important conversation about the ACLU’s work resisting the Trump agenda and its new People Power platform.
Since 1988, CREDO members have voted to donate more than $1.3 million to the ACLU, and CREDO Action is proud to to work in tandem with the ACLU to fight for the rights of Muslims, LGBTQ people, immigrants, women, people of color and other historically disenfranchised communities and to stand up for the civil liberties of every American.
When CREDO activists were at San Francisco International Airport protesting Trump’s Muslim ban, we saw ACLU lawyers hunched over their computers in the airports writing up briefs. And while the ACLU is legendary for what it does in the courtroom, it is now organizing in our local communities to fight back against the right-wing attacks and have deployed its new program – People Power – all across the country.
Posted on May 16, 2017
Want to fight Trump? Give progressive nonprofits unrestricted funds
The Trump administration’s dangerous and cruel actions have sparked a massive progressive resistance. His administration’s assault on civil liberties, social justice and human dignity has moved people to donate to progressive nonprofits in record numbers.
At CREDO, we have donated more than $83 million to progressive nonprofits since 1985. We want to share our experience at CREDO because we know that giving to nonprofits makes a difference and how you give especially matters.
What Unrestricted Donations Do
Most nonprofits depend on institutional and individual donors to fund their operations. By looking back at our own grant applications and follow-up surveys we issue to grantees, we find some interesting patterns.
First and foremost, donations empower people. Personnel costs are among the highest expenses for a nonprofit, but funding employee salaries and benefits is not appealing to many donors. Nonprofits need to maintain full-time staff, hire contractors, pay legal teams, train advocates, power watchdog operations and so much more. Their work would grind to a halt without investments in people.
Posted on May 11, 2017
CREDO is the only mobile phone company fighting for net neutrality
Net neutrality is a very personal issue for CREDO. As a mobile phone company that fights for progressive values, we know the importance of protecting the internet and internet users.
For more than a decade, we have been fighting to protect the free and open internet with net neutrality – the principle that internet providers must treat all users’ content equally. In 2015, after we donated over 1 million dollars and hundreds of thousands of CREDO members and millions of others took action to protect the open internet, we scored a huge victory that secured these basic protections for all internet users. No other mobile phone company can claim this victory. In fact, many mobile and internet companies have been actively opposing these important protections.
Just as telephone companies connect callers without regard to how much they can pay, the internet under net neutrality is classified as a protected utility. Under net neutrality, internet providers can’t block content, slow traffic or create “fast lanes” to prioritize websites whose owners pay more. Net neutrality protects our privacy, helps keep broadband prices competitive and makes it possible for new companies to innovate. A free and open internet also allows communities not fairly represented in the media to tell their own stories and organize online for progressive change.
Posted on May 8, 2017
CREDO Unveils First Unlimited Plan That Fights Trump
Get progress without limits by joining the carrier with a conscience
SAN FRANCISCO – May 8, 2017 – CREDO, the mobile carrier with a conscience, today introduced an Unlimited Plan on the nation’s largest and most dependable 4G LTE network. Customers can now fight Trump and get unlimited data by joining CREDO.
Since 1985, CREDO has donated more than $83 million to progressive organizations fighting for women’s rights, economic justice, voting rights, climate justice and more. By choosing CREDO mobile plans, members generate donations for these causes. Their everyday acts of commerce support CREDO Action, a social change network with 5 million activists, and CREDO Donations, the company’s philanthropy program.
CREDO’s Unlimited Plan delivers the coverage and flexibility mobile users need at the same price as a Big Telecom plan. That means smartphone users can switch to CREDO and fund progressive causes without paying a penny extra. Plans start at $45 per line per month for four lines when customers also take advantage of autopay. Unlimited voice and text messaging are included and CREDO carries a wide selection of the most popular smartphones you would expect from a major carrier.
Unlike many mobile carriers, CREDO does not and will not ever sell customers’ private internet data to the highest bidder. In fact, CREDO is the only mobile carrier fighting for its customers’ privacy –championing net neutrality and opposing anti-encryption legislation that would make Americans less safe.
Posted on May 4, 2017
New video: Protecting immigrant communities with United We Dream
Donald Trump’s racist and bigoted views on immigrants were the centerpiece of his campaign. Today, he is making good on his promises by trying to build a wall on the southern border, signing executive orders declaring all immigrants a threat to national security, appointing white supremacists to his administration and trying to tear immigrant communities apart.
At CREDO, we are committed to defending undocumented immigrants and all immigrants from Trump’s hate, and we stand firmly with our allies in the immigrant justice community.
That is why this April we were proud to welcome United We Dream Executive Director Cristina Jiménez and Director of Membership and Technology Strategies Adrian Reyna to CREDO headquarters for an update on the organization’s campaigns to fight back against Trump’s attacks on immigrant youth and families.
United We Dream is the largest grassroots and online network of immigrant youth and families in the country with over 50 groups in 25 states and a network of over 300,000 allies. CREDO could not be working with United We Dream at a more important time. Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on his southern border wall and expand his deportation force to target even more immigrants. His hateful regime has also emboldened right-wing Republicans at the state level to push for extreme anti-immigrant policies.
Posted on May 3, 2017
VIDEO: The ACLU’s Faiz Shakir visits CREDO headquarters
Faiz Shakir, national political director of the American Civil Liberties Organization (ACLU), visited CREDO headquarters Wednesday, May 3 to discuss the ACLU’s new People Power platform and other details of how the organization is responding to the Trump administration.
If you missed the live broadcast, check out the video below.
LIVE NOW: the ACLU at CREDO headquarters CREDO welcomes the ACLU’s National Political Director Faiz Shakir to discuss how the organization is responding to the Trump administration.
Posted by CREDO Mobile on Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Posted on May 2, 2017
A thank you from Bend the Arc, Indigenous Environmental Action and Planned Parenthood
Each month, CREDO members vote for how we distribute our funding to three amazing organizations fighting for progressive causes. Those small actions add up – with one click, you can dedicate resources to help fund the resistance against Trump, prevent harmful pipeline development and defend access to reproductive health care. In April, over 80,000 CREDO members did just that. They voted in our donations election and helped us distribute our monthly donation to Bend the Arc, Indigenous Environmental Network and Planned Parenthood.
These donations are made possible by thousands of CREDO customers and the revenue they generate by using our services. Their distribution depends entirely on the votes of CREDO members like you. And for that, our April grant recipients thank you.
Bend the Arc
“Thank you to CREDO members for your commitment to justice! Bend the Arc Jewish Action is proud to partner with CREDO Action to turn up the volume of the Jewish community’s voice for a more just, fair and compassionate America, from the streets to the halls of power.” To learn more, visit bendthearc.us.
