|  | | We hope you enjoyed your long weekend and spent some time reflecting on the legacy of the extraordinary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I spent some time this week listening to and re-reading his Where Do We Go From Here speech because so much about it has inspired our work - including our name and the Powerful IDEA Awards which we launched last week. When I was launching GAIN Power a few years ago - it was much more than a rebrand of Democratic GAIN. It is a total re-imagination of how to support the people who work in progressive politics. The name idea hit me one day when I was thinking about why we work in politics. I was very upset about how power is used to hurt people - and yet power is what everyone is trying to gain. And, I was a bit worried about the negative connotation of the word power so I went on a search for it's best meaning. That is when I stumbled upon MLK's quotes about power and read the full speech where he spoke it. These are the words that resonated. |  | I fell in love with this definition and have embraced it deeply since. So much so, that I've now launched two companies with the word power in them - GAIN Power and Amplify Power. Our community is full of people dedicated to social, political, and economic change through Impacting on Democracy, Elections, and Advocacy. That is what IDEA stands for and is the meaning of our Powerful IDEA Awards. We believe that people should be recognized for this work and the work itself should be too. The Powerful IDEA Awards are an opportunity to celebrate those who embrace & follow MLK's teaching. Those who choose love to implement the demands of justice and achieve power and change. If you're reading this email you embody the Powerful IDEA. We want to showcase your work in our community. Let us know how you made a Powerful impact on the midterms by submitting your nominations or share your love by nominating someone you know who deserves recognition.
I'm grateful for the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the many other civil rights leaders whose work continues to inspire us today to build power and achieve purpose for those who need it most.
— Amy Pritchard, Founder | | We have five broad categories with over a hundred individual awards that recognize: Transformational Talent and Leadership: Recognizing the people who do the work to impact our democracy, elections, and advocacy. These include the candidates, campaign and organizational staff, consultants, dedicated artists, and activists. Inspirational Organizations and Campaigns: Thousands of organizations from nonprofit educational and advocacy campaigns, party committees, political action committees, and social impact companies dedicate their work to protecting our democracy. They lead electoral and legislative issue campaigns, voter education, and of course electing leaders who share our values. These awards will recognize the most effective and impactful. Powerful Programs: Critical programs and events are run by formal and informal, organized and organic collectives and coalitions, single individuals and organizations. These awards recognize the most powerful and impactful ones from 2022. Creative Communications and Content: Creative communication or piece of content using video, print, digital, audio, or other media for the purposes of communicating with members, voters, donors, or activists. Transformative Technology: Recognizing the technology built to organize, mobilize, fundraise and communicate with members, voters, donors, or activists.
Deadlines and Timelines: Nominations Open: January 2nd, 2022 Nominations Close: February 28th, 2023. Late nominations will be accepted afterward, but may not be included for a full period of judging. GAIN Power Review of Submissions: February 28th-March 15th, 2023 Public Voting and Judging Begins: March 15th, 2023 Public Voting and Judging Ends: May 15th, 2023 Award Winners Announced at Event June 2023
| | —The GAIN Power Team PS. Got questions or suggestions? Please email awards@gainpower.org and we will be in touch. | | | |
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Jobs That Are Left is a progressive professional listserv managed by GAIN Power. We share jobs from our career center, careercenter.gainpower.org, events, news, and other partners activities. Go to GAINPower.org to build your profile, add your organization page, create and join groups, add events to our calendar, or post on the newsfeed as you would on other social platforms.
A bit like LinkedIn for the Left, GAIN POWER has many ways to network, market, and promote individuals and Democratic & Progressive organizations.
Membership: become an individual or organizational GAIN Power member (free and premium options)
Political Pages: market your organization in our directory. Share your mission(free and premium options)
Calendar: add your events to our community calendar (free)
Careers: post jobs to our career center (we have a variety of ways to post and distribute your jobs)
Groups: create staff, alumni, issue, affinity or other groups on our site.
Powerful IDEA Awards: Award program to celebrate Powerful professionals and activists who Impact Democracy, Elections, and Advocacy.
You can see GAIN POWER offers much more than jobs. Reach out if you have questions.
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