SOL registers our 100,000th voter!
It has been a long time since we started voter registration. It was in 2007 when we began with all these bright ideas about how we would do things. We had a culture shock when we realized how hard this work really is. But thanks to our hard working team Blanca, Patty, Miguel, Norma, Jessica, Jose, Martha, Citlalli, Gustavo, Elizabeth, Miguel, Ismael, and mayra we have figured this thing out pretty good.
With our internship program I think we are in great shape with our soon come come generation of civic leaders. They are bringing fresh ideas and tactics and really doing a great job. You will hear more from them. They have produced great videos on how to register voters and some really great grass roots efforts.
Good job to Francis, Rafa, Martha, and Fermin on all their work. Check it out at www.sol-california.com/wtt
Welcome to Strengthening Our Lives (SOL)
Thank you for visiting us. Strengthening Our Lives (SOL) is a grass roots political organization looking to help build a greater voice for working class and immigrant communities in California. For too long our communities have fallen under attack, been neglected and we see the effects in our community's health, poverty, public schools, and general decay.
As we build our voice together we will change this. One voter, one door, one contact, and one heart at a time. Enjoy our site and feel free to contact us.
Strengthening Our Lives (SOL) is a 501C4 non-profit organization. We do community and field organizing. We also have a Political Action Committee (PAC). We are a partnership of labor and community leaders. SOL was originally formed and funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and has board members from UNITE HERE and Los Angeles Federation of Labor Unions. Since inception we have won 24 elections and only lost 4 races. SOL election work is typically via labor funded independent expenditures.
Off election cycle we have focused our work on leadership development of our grass roots activists as well as on voter registration. In August of 2009 we registered our 100,000th new voter. We don’t just do voter registration we do it well! We attempt to verify, over the phone, all registrations, and have a verification rate of over 55%. Verification, along with our database cross-reference allows us to detect and avoid fraud.
To date, SOL has done voter registration drives in Santa Clara, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern, Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Over the next two years we hope to expand to the Inland Empire and Ventura counties. We also hope to integrate issue campaigns to our drives to push for positive policy reforms to important issues as well as to keep our elected officials feet to the fire while we educate and organize residents to be more civically minded and aware.
