CREDO Empowers Customers to Support Progressive Nonprofits
San Francisco, CA – CREDO, America’s only progressive phone company, announced today that it is donating a total of $199,982 to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Friends of the Earth and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to boost the nonprofits’ efforts as they work to provide aid to distressed populations, and fight back against attacks on civil liberties and the environment.
Doctors Without Borders, Friends of the Earth and the Electronic Frontier Foundation were nominated by CREDO customers and chosen among hundreds of nonprofits to be featured as the three groups eligible in the month of February to receive funding. CREDO customers then helped decide how much money each nonprofit received by simply voting online or via phone or text.
Friends of the Earth received 37 percent, which added up to $73,993 in funding. One of our best allies in the fight against Keystone XL, Friends of the Earth has been a leader in exposing the corrupted State Department vetting process of foreign oil company TransCanada. The global network representing 74 different countries engages in hard-hitting campaigns to fight for what is needed to protect the planet – not just what is easy and popular.
“CREDO has been a great partner with Friends of the Earth to advocate for solutions to climate change and defend the Clean Air Act. We are grateful for their support and to have them as a progressive ally in the fight for a more healthy and just world.”—Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) received 21 percent, which added up to $41,996 in funding. EFF is our first line of defense when our freedoms in the networked world come under attack. It’s a leader in the fight to end the NSA’s illegal mass surveillance programs and to block policies that allow censorship of our Internet and abusive copyright protections that stifle free speech for corporate profit.
“CREDO is building a better, freer future for technology users worldwide,” said Richard Esguerra, development director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Doctors Without Borders received 42 percent, which added up to $83,992 in funding. The organization’s doctors and nurses provide urgent medical care in some of the most dangerous regions of the world where war and catastrophe are threatening lives – including current operations in response to conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan. Doctors Without Borders is also a leading opponent of provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that have the potential to block access to affordable medicine in the developing world.
Every month, three progressive nonprofits will be eligible for funding through CREDO’s donations program. CREDO has donated more than $76 million to organizations committed to social change since the company was founded in 1985. To read more about CREDO’s donations program, go here: http://www.credomobile.com/mission/progressive-social-change.aspx
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