Check them out online. They do great work around the world . This is a short piece I found researching them. CREDO CREDO (formerly Working Assets Wireless) is an American for-profit mobile virtual network operator headquartered in San Francisco, California. CREDOs mobile network operator is Sprint Corporation. CREDO Mobile is a division of Working Assets. History Political Activism CREDO Mobile’s mission of social change takes the form of two primary activities: its donations to progressive nonprofits, and its CREDO Action activist arm. Donations to Nonprofit Groups Donations from its credit card, long-distance and mobile customers cumulatively total more than $72 million since 1985. The company uses in its marketing the fact that it is “the largest corporate donor to Planned Parenthood, with more than $2 million in donations over the years.” Other major recipients of donations include the ACLU, Doctors Without Borders, Rainforest Action Network and Amnesty International. Each year, the company selects dozens of nonprofit groups in five broad issue areas: civil rights, economic and social justice, environment, peace and international freedom, and voting rights and civic participation. And each year, the company asks its customers (“members” in the company’s parlance) to vote on how to distribute the money it raises among the groups. CREDO Action Credo Mobile also has created an online network of more than 3 million activists who take actions both online and offline. On its website, the company states: Many companies, especially large ones, hire lobbyists to mold government policies and legislation to serve their financial interests. CREDO blazes a different path. We fight for progressive social change with 3 million of our activist friends at CREDO Action. No lobbyists, no back-door meetings, no candidate contributions. Just ordinary Americans, galvanized to speak truth to power. During the build-up to the Iraq war, the company opposed it and worked with MoveOn.org and True Majority to take out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times against the U.S.-led invasion. In 2004, it launched an “election protection” program and donated more than $1 million to groups working to register voters and increase turnout on Election Day. It has been a vocal opponent of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and mobilized against invasion and later to push for withdrawal of U.S. troops from both countries. This partly led in 2009 to Fast Company magazine including CREDO in its top five “brave brands.” Among its environmental activism, the company has focused on moving away from fossil fuels and toward supporting renewable sources. As such, it has campaigned relentlessly against coal power, natural gas fracking, and more recently, against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. To increase voter turnout in the United States presidential election, 2008, CREDO Action started an initiative called Pollworkers for Democracy, in which hired volunteers to staff polling places and ensure fair voting practices. For their Text Out the Vote campaign, CREDO invited users to enter friends phone numbers to text them each a reminder to vote on election day. Several U.S. states approved CREDOs online voter-registration tool. At CREDOs GoVote.org website, voters could look up their nearest polling place.[4] Its other political activism includes a wide range of issues – from favoring marriage equality, women’s rights, food safety and calling for increased prosecution of fraud and crimes on Wall Street, to opposing corporate money in politics, especially in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. CREDO SuperPAC In 2012, the company launched the “CREDO SuperPAC,” not to support candidates but to oppose them. In a departure from other corporate superPACs, CREDO focused more on grassroots, volunteer-driven activism than on buying television advertisements. Its stated aim was to defeat Tea Party-affiliated candidates running for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Its campaign, dubbed “Take Down the Tea Party Ten,” resulted in helping defeat 5 of the candidates: Allen West, Frank Guinta, Joe Walsh, Chip Cravaack and Dan Lungren.
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