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State of the Union September 2025

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Political Updates

Lobbying and Advocacy Efforts
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in August: 22
  • Total # of Lobbying Meetings in 2025: 293
  • Lobbying Meetings Goal for 2025: 325
    • Advocacy Emails
      • Total # of Advocacy Emails in August: 3,568
      • Total # of Advocacy Emails in 2025: 28,630
      • Advocacy Emails Goal for 2025: 50,000
      • % of Congress Emailed Year to Date: 91%
        • Congressional Office Meetings and Bird Dogging

        Our team met with Senator Schiff’s staff (D-CA)

        Aidan Ferguson, Owen Wu, Nadav Margalit, and Nicole Hadar met with Senator Ed Markey’s office (D-MA)

        Political Affairs Team member Emily Page, met with her MP, Deirdre Costigan (Ealing Southall) who later posted about it on Instagram

        Political Affairs Team member, Nadav Margalit bird-dogged on social media during a livestream held by Congressman Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4)

         

        Updates from DC

        Listen in to hear all of the latest updates from DC.

        https://borgenteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DC-Update-August-2025.m4a

         

        Recognition

        Congratulations to the following team members who have achieved Borgen Project Honors & Recognition

          • Capital Achievement Award (raised $2,000 or more):
            • Political Team: Anna Jones
            • Bird-Dog Award:
              • Political Team: Victoria Trinh
              • Article of the Month: Recycling Human Waste In Biochar by Sam Barbagallo

                • Visit the Our Team Members page and read about success stories with our organization.

                Getting the Word Out

                Advocates Olivia Kruger and Ella Artzer gave a presentation together at a local church

                Nonprofit Leadership Team member, Ellen Kimber at her information event

                Political Affairs Team member, Madhiha Fathima Latheef Syed, held a street swarm

                1-Mile Campaigns & Mobilizing

                Political Affairs Team

                Jadyn Ocampo

                Max Wachter

                Usha Bhusal

                Michela O’Doherty

                Ava Dargon had help from her friend!

                 

                Sarah Martin, Tabling at Marblehead Lighthouse

                Christel Fernandez Lecanda

                Isaac Vasquez

                Nonprofit Leadership Team

                Verna Chen

                Anwesa Debnath

                Gregorie Marincas-Bucy

                Content Team

                Joe Webb

                Letters to the Editor

                PR/Marketing Team

                • Matthew Dabrowski –  CT Mirror
                • Jeremy Perez – Sentinel and Enterprise
                • Atheeth Ravikrishnan – Pleasanton Weekly
                • Roselyn Bamigboye in her local news:

                  • Content Team

                  • Sydney Uhl – The Columbian

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                    Fundraising

                    Political Affairs Team

                    Usha Bhusal held a garage sale

                    Oliver Cook is selling friendship bracelets and crocheted scrunchies for their fundraising

                    Kyler Naquin is doing drawings/portraits for his fundraising

                    Videos

                    Political Affairs Team

                    Madeline Yee

                    Peyton Sutcliffe

                    Zoë Fruland

                    Meghan Lai

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