Courage Campaign
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| Formation | November 3, 2006 |
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| 20-4841338 | |
| Legal status | 501(c)(4) advocacy organization |
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Membership
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Over 1 million members |
| Jamie McGurk | |
| Eddie Kurtz | |
| Affiliations | Courage Campaign Institute, Courage Campaign Super PAC |
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Revenue (2014)
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$346,372 |
| Expenses (2014) | $479,610 |
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Employees (2013)
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15 |
| Mission | To fight for economic justice, human rights, and corporate and political accountability. |
| Website | www |
Founded in 2005, the Courage Campaign is a state-based 501(c)(4) progressive grassroots advocacy organization based in California. The organization claims an online grassroots activism network of over 1 million members. The group works on a variety of progressive causes including LGBT equality, gun control and healthcare reform, including support of single-payer health care. The group has taken a role in various California statewide ballot measures, including supporting Proposition 30 and opposing Proposition 32 in 2012.
The Courage Campaign's EqualityOnTrial.com was founded to cover the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial when the courtroom forbade live television coverage. The Courage Campaign is an affiliate of ProgressNow.
In 2011, the Courage Campaign organized a flash mob protest against Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Over fifty people danced to Madonna’s hit "Like a Prayer" outside of the 2011 California Republican Party convention. The protest called attention to Bachmann’s connections to reparative therapy.
When the California Supreme Court decided it would take six months to rule on the next phase of the Proposition 8 trial, Courage Campaign asked its members for testimony to back the legal challenge of Proposition 8 and other gay-rights litigation. More than 3,000 stories came in.
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