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  • VoterMedia helps communities connect with their elected leaders, by letting voters allocate community funds to competing blogs -- e.g. see UBC ballot page. This can benefit student unions, municipalities, homeowners associations, other democracies and corporate shareowners.
  • It's easy: Email admin[at]votermedia.org your community and blog information. We'll create the ballot page, usually within a day. Then voting begins, whether or not anyone is actually funding the bloggers. You promote the contest to potential bloggers and voters.
  • It's cheap: Usually a community would persuade its government to fund the voter-selected blogs. We suggest starting with $10/day, none of which goes to votermedia.org. (We're an all-volunteer nonprofit project.) Start at any time, and continue throughout the year. We can put the funding schedule into our system to calculate awards. Funders can pay bloggers directly, based on automated output from your community's accounting page like this.
  • VoterMedia is in an early stage of growth. Our flagship implementation is at UBC, where the student union has been funding blogs using our system. They are happy with it, so we encourage other communities to fund voter-selected blogs too. At this point, most communities are not yet doing that, so their ballot pages on this website are for if/when there is funding.

    The communities and blogs listed below illustrate the potential future expansion of VoterMedia. The ballots are working, so please vote for the blogs you think deserve it. Your votes will be tallied, and will affect the shares and rankings. Please email your suggestions to admin[at]votermedia.org, like other blogs and communities we should add.

Which blogs serving your voter communities deserve funding?

Use search box or browse below; follow links to community ballots, then vote on blog funding:
Community Type Headquarters Headquarters Headquarters Regional #
Country Prov/State City Scope Blogs
Peekskill Municipal USA NY Peekskill Peekskill 1
Upland Municipal USA California Upland Upland 1
Tennessee State USA Tennessee Nashville Tennessee 1
Texas State USA Texas Austin Texas 1
Mountain Equipment Co-op Co-op Canada B.C. Vancouver Canada 0
Ballard Power Systems Corporation Canada B.C. Burnaby Canada, USA 0
Coast Capital Savings Credit Union Canada B.C. Surrey B.C. 0
North Shore Credit Union Credit Union Canada B.C. North Vancouver B.C. 0
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union Credit Union Canada B.C. Vancouver B.C. 0
Westminster Savings Credit Union Credit Union Canada B.C. New Westminster B.C. 0
Classico condo, 1328 W Pender St, Vancouver Homeowner Canada B.C. Vancouver 1328 W Pender St 0
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation Investor Canada B.C. Victoria B.C. 0
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Investor Canada Ontario Toronto Ontario 0
B.C. Government & Service Employees Union Labour Canada B.C. Burnaby B.C. 0
British Columbia Federation of Labour Labour Canada B.C. Vancouver B.C. 0
British Columbia Nurses' Union Labour Canada B.C. Burnaby B.C. 0
Canadian Association of University Teachers Labour Canada Ontario Ottawa Canada 0
Canadian Auto Workers Labour Canada Ontario Toronto Canada 0
Canadian Auto Workers Local 111 Labour Canada B.C. New Westminster B.C. 0
Canadian Media Guild Labour Canada Ontario Toronto Canada 0
Canadian Union of Public Employees Labour Canada Ontario Ottawa Canada 0
Fédération des travailleurs/-euses du Québec Labour Canada Québec Montreal Québec 0
Hospital Employees' Union (British Columbia) Labour Canada B.C. Burnaby B.C. 0
Ontario Teachers' Federation Labour Canada Ontario Toronto Ontario 0
Vancouver Police Union Labour Canada B.C. Vancouver Vancouver 0
Abbotsford Municipal Canada B.C. Abbotsford Abbotsford 0
Anmore Municipal Canada B.C. Anmore Anmore 0
Belcarra Municipal Canada B.C. Belcarra Belcarra 0
Bowen Island Municipal Canada B.C. Bowen Island Bowen Island 0
Chilliwack Municipal Canada B.C. Chilliwack Chilliwack 0
Is your voter community not in our system? Add it by email to admin[at]votermedia.org