Sustain the IE Progressive Wave
✔ We are a non-profit led by community organizers with decades of experience in advocating for IE working families, and we refuse corporate donors in order to maintain our independence.
OUR HISTORY
Inland Equity Votes (IE Votes), a project of California Partnership Action Fund (501c4) was created in 2022 based on our own frustration with local grassroots candidates who are unable to compete with special-interest candidates using traditional campaign tactics, due to limited access to funding grassroots campaigns typically have. We applied the technology and tactics we learned working for national-level campaigns during the Obama 2008, Bernie 2016 and 2020 campaigns to local city council and school board efforts, with the goal of mobilizing under-registered voters with a messaging focused on issues. In 2022 we successfully ran a local campaign that elected 11 progressive CA Democratic delegates in Riverside County. In 2022 we designed a down-ballot strategy promoting Voter Guides featuring local unknown candidates who support affordable housing, universal healthcare, reproductive rights, environmental and social justice. We proved the scalability of our strategy in the 2024 primaries, with almost 30 endorsed candidates across 20 turfs. Since 2022 we have identified and nurtured approximately 5,000 under-registered voters who support progressive causes. We built the technology and operational capacity to outreach thousands of local voters via texting, phonebanking and canvassing. We built our own local talent pool by tapping into long-term relationships with local activists who have a stake in the community as well.
BIOS
Maribel Nuñez serves as the Board President for California Partnership Action Fund (IE Votes' 501(c)4 financial sponsor) and the architect of the turf-based strategy we employed in 2022 and 2024.
Felipe Albertão serves as the interim treasurer, and at Inland Equity Votes he leverages the digital outreach, data analysis, and scalable systems experience he acquired from two decades of developing software for tech companies such as PayPal, eBay, IBM and Nokia.
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