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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
Neuberger Berman Funds Investor USA 0
Parnassus Funds Investor USA 0
Pax World Funds Investor USA 0
Putnam Funds Investor USA 0
RiverSource Funds Investor USA 0
Schwab Funds Investor USA 0
Sentinel Funds Investor USA 0
Smith Barney Funds Investor USA 0
State Street Global Advisors Investor USA 0
T Rowe Price Funds Investor USA 0
The Vanguard Group Investor USA 0
TIAA - CREF Investor USA 0
Trillium Asset Management Investor USA 0
United Services Automobile Association Investor USA 0
Van Kampen Funds Investor USA 0
Wells Fargo Funds Investor USA 0
Bellingham Municipal USA Washington Bellingham 0
Cambridge Municipal USA Massachusetts Cambridge 0
Seattle Municipal USA Washington Seattle 0
American Association of Individual Investors Nonprofit USA Illinois Chicago USA 0
American Association of Retired Persons Nonprofit USA 0
American Automobile Association Nonprofit USA 0
American Civil Liberties Union Nonprofit USA NY New York USA 0
American Medical Association Nonprofit USA USA 0
American Red Cross Nonprofit USA 0
Conference Board Nonprofit USA New York New York International 0
Consumers Union Nonprofit USA New York Yonkers USA, Canada 0
Council of Institutional Investors Nonprofit USA 0
Nat'l Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People Nonprofit USA 0
National Organization for Women Nonprofit USA 0
Is your voter community not in our system? Add it by email to admin[at]votermedia.org