Based on its contribution to progressives’ success in Colorado’s 2004 elections, ProgressNow will work with MoveOn and progressive organizers in individual states, to replicate its state-level model through the development of PCNIC (pronounced “picnic”) – the Progressive Communications Network Incubation Center – which will create, nurture and support independent state-level networks in every state in the nation. PCNIC will provide assistance to state-level progressive entrepreneurs by helping them get launched, get funded and become self-sustaining, and by providing services including communications platform, technical, financial and legal assistance. The PCNIC project can quickly be scaled up to build out the most successful elements of these state-level networks across the country. The resulting network of networks will provide a nimble, multi-level communications and advocacy network for the each state’s entire progressive movement. Ultimately this will allow all fifty states to experience the same success as Colorado in shifting from a top-down “one-to-many” approach to organizing voters and progressive communications to a bottom-up truly grassroots “many-to-many” approach.
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