OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | BLACK LIVES MATTER | DONT FRACK ANYWHERE | NO

KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE | MEDICARE FOR ALL | LABEL GMO FOODS | MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR ALL | STAND UP FOR
WORKERS RIGHTS | DONT BOMB IRAQ | END THE DEATH PENALTY | SAVE NET NEUTRALITY | HANDS OFF SOCIAL
SECURITY | REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT | STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN | RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE | WE STAND WITH
PLANNED PARENTHOOD | DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS | STOP THE NRA | WALL STREET ACCOUNTABILITY NOW! | SUPPORT
RENEWABLES | BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS | NO WAR WITH IRAN | END THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS | STOP ONLINE SPYING NO
NUCLEAR POWER | OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BLACK LIVES MATTER | DONT FRACK
ANYWHERE | NO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE | MEDICARE FOR ALL | LABEL GMO FOODS | SAVE THE BEES | MARRIAGE
EQUALITY FOR ALL | STAND UP FOR WORKERS RIGHTS | DONT BOMB SYRIA | END THE DEATH PENALTY | SAVE NET
NEUTRALITY | HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY | REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT | STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN | RAISE THE
MINIMUM WAGE | WE STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD | DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS | STOP THE NRA | WALL STREET
ACCOUNTABILITY NOW! | SUPPORT RENEWABLES | BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS | NO WAR WITH IRAN | END THE STUDENT DEBT
CRISIS | STOP ONLINE SPYING | OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | BLACK LIVES MATTER
DONT FRACK ANYWHERE | NO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE | MEDICARE FOR ALL | LABEL GMO FOODS | MARRIAGE EQUALITY
FOR ALL | STAND UP FOR WORKERS RIGHTS | DONT BOMB IRAQ | END THE DEATH PENALTY | SAVE NET NEUTRALITY |
HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY | REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT | STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN | RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE | WE
STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD | DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS | STOP THE NRA | WALL STREET ACCOUNTABILITY
NOW! | SUPPORT RENEWABLES | BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS | NO WAR WITH IRAN | END THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS | STOP
ONLINE SPYING | NO NUCLEAR POWER | OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | BLACK LIVES
MATTER | DONT FRACK ANYWHERE | NO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE | MEDICARE FOR ALL | LABEL GMO FOODS | SAVE THE
BEES | MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR ALL | STAND UP FOR WORKERS RIGHTS | DONT BOMB SYRIA | END THE DEATH PENALTY
| SAVE NET NEUTRALITY | HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY | REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT | STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN |
THE MINIMUM WAGE | WE STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD | DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS
| STOP THE NRA
| WALL
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STREET ACCOUNTABILITY NOW! | SUPPORT RENEWABLES | BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS | NO WAR WITH IRAN | END THE

Dear progressive friends,

Looking forward to 2015, the outcome of literally thousands

The Keystone XL pipeline has still not been built as a

of fights will depend on what we can do together.

direct result of activism from coast-to-coast and along the

pipeline route, keeping some of the worlds dirtiest fossil

Thats because what weve learned in 2014 is the willing-

fuels in the ground. The presidents most recent public

ness of President Obama and his fellow Democrats to

statements are his strongest ever after years of avoiding

stand up for what is right often comes down to whether

this topic. None of this would have happened without

progressives like us organize to hold them accountable.

intense local resistance backed up by nearly 100,000

activists who have pledged to risk arrest in peaceful civil

In many ways, this past year has been a tough one for

disobedience to stop this pipeline. One of the biggest and

those of us who care about social change. Democrats lost

most diverse climate marches in history was held in New

control of the Senate in the midterms. Grand juries in

York City this fall and demonstrated the incredible

Ferguson and Staten Island declined to send to trial the

momentum our movement has. The White House could

white police officers who killed two unarmed African-Amer-

not help but sit up and take notice.

ican men. Our federal elected officials continue to pursue

an all-of-the-above strategy on energy and as, a result,

After a year of intense pressure from activists, President

arent doing nearly enough to stop the terrifying march of

Obama came out in favor of the strongest possible rules

climate change.

to protect Net Neutrality. And he finally announced an

executive order on immigration that protected five million

But its also been a year where weve seen our progressive

immigrants and their families from the pain of deportation

flank strategy work. Fighting for the change we want to

this was not all we asked for but theres no doubt that far

seenot merely compromise that often-cynical elites in

fewer would have been protected without the courageous

Washington, D.C. believe is possiblehas been key in

activism of those who would not give the president a pass

helping us win some crucial fights and lose less badly

just because hes a Democrat. The president also took

in others.

steps to ensure that federal employees and contractors

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couldnt be fired just because of who they love or their

Frederick Douglass wrote, Power concedes nothing

gender identity.

without a demand. It never did and it never will. Its up to

us to issue that demand. If we dont, we almost certainly

Low wage workers nationwide have been leading inspiring

lose. But when we do, we sometimes win.

strikes for a living wage and have actually won a higher

minimum wage in Maryland, Minnesota, Chicago and

What follows is a brief summary of our accomplishments

Berkeley. And the president raised the minimum wage for

in 2014 and some of the victories you helped make

federal contract workers.

happen. It provides us with a strong platform for pushing

for change in 2015 in the crucial fights that lie ahead.

As we look forward to 2015, its clear that our progressive

flank strategy will be key to blocking the Republicans from

Thank you for joining us in this fight.

making things worse and convincing President Obama and

Senate Democrats to use the power of the filibuster and
the veto pen to stop the worst excesses of Tea Party
Republican majorities in the House and Senate.
Cuts to our social safety net. Attacks on a womans right to

Becky Bond

Michael Kieschnick

Political Director

President and CEO

choose. More wars of choice in the Middle East. Climate

change. Racial injustice. Economic inequality. Its all on the
table and much of it is up to President Obama and a
progressive minority of Democrats in the Senate willing to
filibuster bad legislation and sustain the presidents vetoes.
Together, well also be pushing back against corporations,
organizing to win local victories for change, and providing
progressives with ways they can make a difference on a
daily or weekly basis.

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20,000,000
2,000,000
100,000
65,000
62,000
46,000
600

PETITIONS SIGNED

PHONE CALLS TO VOTERS

PLEDGED TO RISK ARREST TO STOP THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

DOORS KNOCKED BY VOLUNTEERS IN THE 2014 ELECTION

PHONE CALLS TO POLITICIANS

DONATIONS TO THE CREDO SUPERPAC

PROTESTS, RALLIES, PUBLIC HEARINGS AND IN-PERSON PETITION DELIVERIES

$2,200,000

DOLLARS GIVEN TO PROGRESSIVE NONPROFITS

BRINGING THE OVERALL TOTAL TO $78 MILLION DONATED
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DELIVERING
OVER 20
MILLION
SIGNATURES

At CREDO, we run hundreds of petition

campaigns each year with tens of millions of
total petition signatures. Once the petitions
have been signed, we take special care to
ensure that they are delivered to the appropriate decision makers in the most effective way
possible.
Every single petition you sign is delivered to the targeted decision
maker.
This year, your petition signatures have been delivered by striking
Walmart workers to their bosses. They were handed-over in person at
a White House meeting on immigration policy. They were submitted as
public comments via the official comment delivery process at the FCC
and sent directly to every single Congressional office, to major corporate CEOs and nearly all state capitals.
CREDO gives our activists a voice and an easy way to reach the key
political and corporate decision makers we need to reach to create
progressive social change.

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FIGHTING
FOR NET
NEUTRALITY

In the fight for Net Neutrality, CREDO activists made more than 25,000
phone calls and generated more than 1.5 million public comments and
petition signatures to Congressional Democrats, the Federal
Communications Commission and President Obama.
CREDO activists successfully pressured
President Obama to call on the FCC to protect
the open Internet by reclassifying broadband as
a public utility under Title II.
In 2014, CREDO members funded Demand
Progress ($52,390) and Electronic Frontier
Foundation ($41,996), which are working to defend
Net Neutrality and end unconstitutional spying.

The Internet is facing an urgent and complicated fight,

and CREDO is an important ally for winning it.
Demand Progress

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STOPPING
KEYSTONE
XL PIPELINE

CREDO organized more than 300 rapid-response protest vigils after

the State Department released its wholly insufficient draft Final
Environmental Impact Statement. We submitted
more than 180,000 public comments during the State
Departments final Keystone XL comment period.
We grew the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance to
nearly 100,000 activists who are prepared to commit
civil disobedience to stop Keystone XL from being
constructed.
At the beginning of the year, we delivered a check to 350.org for
$66,141, a much-needed infusion of cash to help the organization lead
opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline during a crucial phase in our
fight. And we granted Rainforest Action Network, one of our key
partners in launching the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance, another
$65,132. CREDOs total giving to environmental groups in 2014 was over
$600,000.

CREDO has been an invaluable ally and leader in the climate fight,
regularly pushing boundaries, moving nimbly, and taking a firm stance
when others hesitate. Working side by side with them on the Keystone
XL fight has meant a great deal to the movement. 350.org

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FIGHTING
FOR
IMMIGRATION
REFORM

CREDO activists have made more than 5,000 phone calls to members
of Congress in both the House and Senate in support of meaningful
immigration reform.
Nearly 300,000 CREDO activists have taken actions in support of
comprehensive immigration reform.
Just hours before President Obama announced the executive actions
he would take on immigration reform, CREDO helped deliver 260,000
petition signatures to the White House urging the president to use his
executive authority to engage all legal means available to expand
deferred action to immigrants who would have qualified for a path to
citizenship under the Senates immigration reform bill.

"United We Dream's creative, effective, and inspiring organizing has

been immeasurably supported by CREDO, making a robust
immigrant youth movement not only possible but real."

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WORKING
TO END
POLICE
VIOLENCE

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for

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Working with ColorOfChange

in the wake of the police

killing of Michael Brown, CREDO activists generated nearly 200,000

petition signatures demanding the Department of Justice intervene and
hold local law enforcement accountable for biased and abusive policing.
When police started assaulting protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, CREDO
put a livestream in place in partnership with the African-American-led,
Washington, D.C.-based radio station We Act Radio before national news
crews hit the ground. This livestream helped document police
violence, generate mainstream media coverage of the abuses, and
highlight the voices of local leaders including Fergusons representative in
Congress, Rep. Lacy Clay. The livestream was viewed by more than
35,000 people for a combined total of nearly 500,000 minutes.

Nearly 120,000 CREDO activists also urged the Department of Defense to

stop providing military-style equipment to local police departments. In
2014, CREDO members donated to groups including ColorOfChange
($49,323) and the Center for Constitutional Rights ($55,634) which is
working to end biased, abusive and militarized policing.
ColorOfChange has no better partner in the online organizing space
CREDO consistently step ups and speaks out on the critical civil
rights issues of our time. ColorOfChange.org

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DEFEATING
TEA PARTY
EXTREMISTS

Last spring, CREDO SuperPAC launched a campaign to Save the

Senate. It was the first national campaign with offices on the ground in
key states focused on stopping Republicans. Through our ca,paign
offices we organized local volunteers to do thousands of volunteer
shifts, make 2 million phone calls and knock on over 65,000 doors.
Our campaign was powered by over 46,000 donations from CREDO
activistssome contributing every week in the final countdown to keep
these offices and organizers going. We did not want to wake up the
day after the election wishing we had done more. These local volunteers and donors from across the country helped put Democrat Gary
Peters over the top, and we held Michigan. But in North Carolina,
Colorado, Kentucky and Georgia it wasnt enough to close the gap and
now Republicans control not just the House but also the Senate.

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DEFENDING
WOMENS
RIGHTS

More than 81,000 CREDO Action members signed a petition urging

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell to take
violence against women seriously. CREDO activists also made more
than 700 phone calls to NFL headquarters demanding
that the league change its policy regarding
domestic violence incidents. CREDO members
have fought state abortion bans, challenged
local campuses and schools to hold students
accountable for sexual assault, and advocated for
equal pay for women.
Simply by paying their phone and credit card bills,
CREDO members generated $67,255 in donations to
NARAL Pro-Choice America, and also chose this year to support the
Ms. Foundation for Women with $64,557 in donations. CREDO also
funded Planned Parenthood and its affiliates in 2014bringing our total
contribution over our entire history to more than $3 million and making
us the largest single corporate contributor to Planned Parenthood.
Thank you, CREDO, for always answering the call for womens
equality! Ms Foundation for Women

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SOLIDARITY
WITH
WORKERS

In 2014, CREDO activists generated more than four million petition

signatures in support of workers rights and a higher minimum wage.
This was part of a broader fight for higher wages that swept the
country in the form of fast food workers Fight for $15 campaign and
federal contactor walk-outs in the Washington, D.C. area.

STANfoDr UP
WORKERS

In response to pressure from CREDO activists and

other local residents, Maryland, Minnesota, Chicago
and Berkeley raised the minimum wage in 2014.

RIGHTS

After hearing from tens of thousands of CREDO activists,

President Obama issued an executive order requiring all
federal contractors to pay their employees a livable wage.

This year, CREDO members gave $61,269 to the Raise the Minimum
Wage campaign of the National Employment Law Project and over
$50,000 to OUR Walmart to aid in fights across the country.
CREDO is amplifying the voices of millions who work for a living,
and deserve to earn a living from work.
Raise the Minimum Wage campaign of the
National Employment Law Project

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DEFEATING
FRACKING

For years, New York has been ground zero in our fight to ban fracking.
After CREDO activists submitted more than 400,000 petition
signatures and public comments, and made over 10,000 phone calls,
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in December that he
would implement a total ban on fracking due to health and
environmental concerns.
After this momentous victory, CREDO activists are putting Californias
Governor Jerry Brown on notice and amping up our campaign to ban
fracking in the Golden State.

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Together, we help lead the progressive movement.

We generate activism and back it up with donations. We gave over $2,000,000

for change in 2014 and have given over $78 million since our founding.
When leaders in the progressive movement talk about the impact of CREDOs activism and funding, theyre talking about
you. Working togetherCREDO customers, CREDO Action, and the allies we supportwe are making a difference on key
progressive issues. Thank you for everything you did in 2014 to be part of the change we want to see and for your continued
support in 2015 as we engage in fierce battles over the fate of our country and the planet.

CREDOs unique leadershipa combination

of on the ground activism and resource
supportis an incredibly valuable and
trusted component of a strong and dynamic
progressive movement.
Wellstone Action
When we know that we really need to make
a big impact, we rely on CREDO.
League of Conservation Voters
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