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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
Caloocan City Municipal Philippines Metro Manila Caloocan City Caloocan City 0
Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (Int'l Fed'n) Nonprofit Switzerland Geneva International 0
Servas International Nonprofit Switzerland International 0
International Corporate Governance Network Nonprofit United Kingdom London London International 0
UK Shareholders' Association Nonprofit United Kingdom Chislehurst United Kingdom 0
Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society Co-op USA Massachusetts Cambridge Cambridge, Boston 0
Recreational Equipment Inc. Co-op USA Washington Seattle USA 0
Google Corporation USA California Mountain View International 0
Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. Corporation USA California West Hollywood International 0
American Century Investments Investor USA Missouri Kansas City USA 0
American Funds Investor USA 0
Barclays Global Investors Investor USA 0
Blackrock Funds Investor USA 0
Calvert Funds Investor USA 0
Columbia Funds Investor USA 0
DFA Funds Investor USA 0
Dodge & Cox Funds Investor USA 0
Domini Social Investments Investor USA 0
Dreyfus Funds Investor USA 0
DWS Funds Investor USA 0
Evergreen Funds Investor USA 0
Federated Funds Investor USA 0
Fidelity Investments Investor USA 0
Franklin Templeton Funds Investor USA 0
Goldman Sachs Funds Investor USA 0
Janus Funds Investor USA 0
MFS Funds Investor USA 0
MMA Praxis Funds Investor USA 0
Morgan Stanley Funds Investor USA 0
Nationwide Funds Investor USA 0
Is your voter community not in our system? Add it by email to admin[at]votermedia.org