When HRC needs extra support on a tough campaign, we turn to the Fund. They get our message out to more people and generate the kinds of grassroots, long-term membership support we need to be successful.

Joe Solmonese, President, Human Rights Campaign

Accomplishments with Human Rights Campaign

Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against GLBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.

The Fund and the Human Rights Camaign have worked on a canvass program together for nearly a decade, growing the program’s size and impact nearly every year of the partnership.

The canvass helps expand HRC’s grassroots presence.  Each year, we sign up new HRC members in states like Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida.

The Fund and HRC work together on an annual effort to canvass at Pride Festivals.  In the summer of 2006, we canvassed at 50 pride events and signed up over 1,000 new monthly donors for HRC at these events.

The Fund’s partnership with HRC began with Fund staff raising money and visibility for HRC at pride events. Soon after, we added a national door-to-door canvassing program. This program has significantly expanded HRC's political and fundraising base. Since the partnership began, the number of HRC members and supporters has grown from 150,000 to 650,000. We've been able to sign up members in places like Pennsylvania and Tennessee, right in the backyard of political opponents like Rick Santorum and Bill Frist.

More recently, we've added a street canvassing program focused on signing up sustainers in high-traffic public places in urban areas like New York and Miami. Our street canvassing program has increased visibility in critical power bases for HRC and added thousands of valuable monthly donors to HRC’s membership file.

The HRC-Fund canvasses are currently working to build support against efforts to ban marriage for same-sex couples.

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