Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc
WASHINGTON, DC
Total revenue
$2.6M
Total expenses
$3.7M
Net assets
$2.6M
Grants received
$7.4M
51 grants
EIN
043411708
Tax year
2024
Mission
To strengthen democracy by building a national progressive strategy for ballot measures.
Programs
5 programs
Road ahead 2024 - the road ahead conference is the progressive community's only conference solely dedicated to ballot measures. It is typically held every february in las vegas.road ahead attendees come from all corners of the country and all parts of the progressive community. What unites them all is a desire to use ballot measures as a vehicle for social change.
The training and organizing category encompasses our capacity building program. The capacity building program is comprised of our formal training program that develops curricula and trains the field in the skills needed to run and win a transformative and equitable ballot measure campaigns, as well as bisc's peer-to-peer and skills building cohorts, which help partners across the country move up bisc's leadership development ladder and share best practices and learn from one another on an ongoing basis.
Communications: bisc uses email, social media, and press interviews to communicate about critical ballot measures and campaigns around the country.
Organizational development
Policy and legal advocacy encompasses working with state and national partners, including bisc's lawyer's guild, to protect direct democracy and progressive ballot measure wins around the country, working with state and national partners on the development of equitable and strategic ballot measure policies, as well as the tracking of ballot measures and analysis of ballot measure trends.
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Expenses
People
16 listed
CHRIS MELODY FIELDS FIGUEREDO
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
$221K
40 hrs/wk
VICTORIA WARD
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCE
$122K
40 hrs/wk
JENNIFER EPPS-ADDISON
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
DAKOTA HALL
DIRECTOR
—
1 hrs/wk
DESMOND MEADE
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
KENNY DIGGS
CHAIR
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1 hrs/wk
RUTH STEINMETZ
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
BECCA UHERBELAU
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
JAKE OLSON
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
SARAH STANDIFORD
TREASURER
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1 hrs/wk
ANDREA MARTA
SECRETARY
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1 hrs/wk
BRANDON BOSWELL
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
NADIA BELKIN
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
JANE NORMAN
CHIEF OF STAFF
$175K
40 hrs/wk
CAROLINE AVAKIAN
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS
$138K
40 hrs/wk
ELIZABETH SCHILLING
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
$137K
40 hrs/wk
Independent contractors
MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL
ROAD AHEAD 2024 CONFERENCE
LINCOLN PARK STRATEGIES
RESEARCH AND DATA
GROW PROGRESS
RESEARCH PLATFORM SUBSCRIPTION
MARCUM LLP
ACCOUNTING AND HR SERVICES
GUERRA STRATEGIES LLC
CONSULTING - GEN DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
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