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July Villain & Role Model Gubernatorial Edition
Okay, it's a little untraditional to have the same person as our villain AND our role model. But we'll make an exception for Tom Tancredo this month!

Wait, you're thinking: Progressive Promotions is in solidarity with Colorado's immigrants and Tancredo couldn't be more hostile to our hard-working immigrant community. And hasn't he said that President Obama is more dangerous than Al Qaeda?! Well, yes. His intolerance and all-around looniness make him our villain this month!

But isn't it good to have him in the Governor's race? Tanc is our role model for right-wing extremists: Go ahead, put purity ahead of efficacy, people. The Dems will win, but you'll always respect yourself in the morning!  

The Hickenlooper campaign couldn't have dreamed up a better scenario.  Onward to victory!




July Quote
In the "Reap What You Sow" department:
"Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I'm on camera." 

- GOP Senate Candidate Ken Buck




 

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 Test Drive Your Website
Have you taken your organization's website on a test drive lately? If the answer is no, you should!

Many nonprofits design, write and upload their website...then never get around to updating it. Visitors who come to these websites conclude that the organization is boring and ineffective, coming away unimpressed. Oh no, there went a prospective donor or volunteer right out your online door!

Other nonprofits post to their websites like crazy, not realizing that not only is there WAY TOO MUCH to digest, but also that much of it is a jumble of acronym-filled insider information that baffle the non-wonks among us (not to mention make us feel dumb and mad about it, too!). 

Approach your test drive as though you were a total newbie to your organization and issue. Is the information clear and concise? Is there enough of it to inform but not overwhelm? Is it organized in a way anyone can find "the good stuff?" Are there photos and cool graphics to break up text, maybe some videos and other media to liven it up? 

You might be surprised to learn that your website isn't all that great after all, at least for folks outside your organization. Your website might benefit from stripping down and prettying up--an easy thing to do to boost your volunteer, advocacy and donor efforts.

Progressive Promotions in the News
The Denver Post delved into federal financial reform, especially the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the obscene amount of cash spent by banks and corporate interests for lobbying to water down the  bill.  

An unemployed Fort Collins resident makes his case in The Coloradoan for financial reform to rein in the big banks that trashed our economy.
 
When Congress dragged its feet on renewal of COBRA subsidies for the unemployed, The Colorado Independent reported that Coloradans were at risk of losing their health care coverage.

Federal health care reform is starting to roll out! The Denver Post covered Colorado's new high risk pool (www.gettinguscovered.org), and KGNU invited Colorado Consumer Health Initiative's Dede de Percin and Joan Henneberry of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to discuss the new Health Insurance Exchanges on July 21.

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