*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:50:24 -0500 From: Peter Schurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: big news from Generation Net and MoveOn.org It give me great pleasure to announce that Generation Net is joining forces with MoveOn.org. The two entities are now administratively combined, under the name MoveOn.org. MoveOn.org achieved prominence in the field of on-line organizing with its campaign to "censure President Clinton and Move On," which generated a million emails and an estimated 250,000 phone calls to Congress. The organization currently has more than 250,000 email subscribers. MoveOn.org is an issue-oriented, national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization giving people a voice in shaping the laws that affect our lives. MoveOn.org engages people in the civic process, using the Internet to democratically determine a non-partisan agenda, raising public awareness of pressing issues, and coordinating grassroots advocacy campaigns to encourage sound public policies. MoveOn.org's members have chosen Campaign Finance Reform and Protection of the Environment as top priority issues for the current cycle, in an open, democratic process conducted at the MoveOn.org website. Generation Net's members also identified these two issues as top priorities, in a generally similar process conducted at its website. In addition to these two issues, MoveOn.org will also prioritize an international or foreign policy issue to be determined by its members. MoveOn.org's charitable activities are fiscally sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds, a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Generation Net would like to take this opportunity to gratefully acknowledge a recent grant of $2,500 from the Dylan Todd Simonds Charitable Foundation, which helped make this combination possible. We would also like to thank the outgoing Board members of Generation Net, whose help since our founding has been invaluable: Stacey Abrams, Adina Berrios, Ross Decker, Magda Escobar, Jonathan Kim, Stephanie Jowers, Hilary McQuaide, Susan Thomas, and James Treworgy. Please feel free to contact me if you would like any further information. Yours sincerely, Peter Schurman Executive Director MoveOn.org http://www.MoveOn.org 510 526 1909 [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 542 San Francisco, CA 94104-0542 *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
