Hi Friend!

Did you see my note highlighting the amazing things we accomplished
together this year? As we celebrate our 2021 wins, we also look ahead to
2022. Our sleeves are rolled up. We are prepared to fight for the future
our kids and families need to thrive, and we know how to win.

[ [link removed]- ]If you haven't yet contributed to our year-end giving campaign, PLEASE
DO! All gifts are matched through midnight tonight, and we need your
support for the battles ahead. We know not everyone is able to help with a
donation, but if you are someone who can, please take a moment to donate,
even if you've never donated before!

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The MomsRising community has risen together in so many ways this year, and
together we took over 1.46 million actions that pulled our nation forward.
But our work isn’t done. Read on below for all the details.

Happy nearly New Year,

- Kristin

 

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From: Kristin, MomsRising.org
Date: Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 7:14 PM
Subject: Gratitude

Dear Friend,

2021 has been a year of hardships, joys, sorrows, hopes, fears,
challenges, wins and all that’s in between. As the year comes to a close,
we wanted it to end with GRATITUDE, for you and for all the amazing ways
you rose up to lift our country. And WOW did you rise and move much-needed
change.

Your action, your engagement, and your voice have brought about a new era
in which Congress and our country increasingly recognize that women's
problems are America's problems, and women's successes are America's
success – and that our families, businesses, economy and country
absolutely need a care infrastructure to thrive. After all, just like we
need to build bridges and roads to drive on to go to work, we need to
build a care infrastructure — including childcare for all, paid
family/medical leave, home-and community-based services for people who are
aging and the elderly, an extended Child Tax Credit, living wages and a
path to citizenship for care workers — so parents can work, children can
thrive, care workers can earn living wages, family costs can be lowered,
inflation be addressed, and businesses and our economy supported. Because
of your voice, more and more leaders with the power to make changes our
nation needs are acknowledging that our country will never realize its
full potential if women and, in particular, women of color continue to be
devalued, underpaid and left behind.

↓↓↓ Together we are a jaw-droppingly powerful force ↓↓↓

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* YOU LIFTED MORE THAN 40% OF CHILDREN OUT OF POVERTY in 2021 with the
Child Tax Credit expansion and also helped get the first (temporary)
national paid family/medical leave program passed (!) – wins that
we’re fighting hard to continue into 2022 and beyond via the passage
of the Build Back Better Act in the Senate.

* YOU WERE HEARD by leaders with the power to make the changes we and
our economy need on-the-ground, online, and all over the nation with
1,463,920 total actions that helped pass the American Rescue Plan, as
well as the Build Back Better Act through the House!

* YOU CHANGED THE NATIONAL NARRATIVE by generating over 2,667 moments of
media coverage, sharing your experiences to let other people know they
aren’t alone and to add power to calls for change more than 10,313
times, and also by submitting over 4,454 letters to the editor across
the nation.

* YOU MADE MORE THAN 1,010,120 CONSTITUENT CONTACTS by you to elected
leaders in Congress from every single state, urging them to finally
build a care infrastructure, including: Free Pre-K, paid
family/medical leave, childcare, healthcare, home-and community-based
services, maternal health and justice policies, an extension of the
expanded Child Tax Credit, living wages for care workers and a path to
citizenship, and more.

* YOU ENGAGED, LOCALLY ON-THE-GROUND ACROSS THE COUNTRY & IN DC to build
a powerful wave of change as you met with elected leaders, held local
events to garner media coverage, attended town halls, shared your
stories, and delivered materials and stories to the majority of local
Congressional offices. You also played a major role in DC events,
testimony, and more.

* YOU MADE OVER 60,000 PHONE CALLS to elected leads, urging action and
winning change for moms and families.

* YOUR PRIORITIES WERE SEEN more than 55,091,872 times with ads flown by
airplanes over key football games, ads online, rolling billboards
outside West Virginia grocery stores, sharing our stories on TV and
radio, and so much more!

* YOU HAND-WROTE OVER 150,000 POSTCARDS to US Senators urging them to
support the Build Back Better Act!

* YOU CONTINUED TO HELP MOMS VOTE including in the Georgia special
election for two U.S. Senate seats in January where you sent over
303,800 hand-written postcards with information about where to vote.

THANK YOU!

Together, We Are MomsRising. We'll never stop fighting to build a nation
where every mom, child, and family can thrive. We'll never stop
winning. [ [link removed]- ]If you are able, can you support this movement with an
end-of-year gift today? 

[ [link removed]- ]Make a Matched Year-End Gift!

I’m grateful for you. I’m grateful for us together. And I thank you for
all you do.

- Kristin


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