Dr. Anthony Fauci's daughter Alison works for a company advising progressive activists on community organizing and fundraising that is partnered with groups campaigning to increase the number of Americans receiving COVID-19 vaccines. The daughter of the White House Chief Medical Advisor joined the company, the Empower Project, as a Senior Software Engineer.
The Empower Project
- Building an app and website to help progressive groups in their organizing and outreach efforts
- Training and funding model to share organizing best practices and offer advice to progressive organizations
- Non-profit spin-off “Empower Fund” that distributes grants to other progressive advocacy groups
An area of significant interest for the company appears to be the promotion of COVID-19 vaccines.
- The fund has a robust "Promoting Vaccine Education, Access, and Equity" initiative which seeks to increase the number of people receiving vaccines, especially among "hard to reach" demographics.
- To do so, the fund leverages its resources to "provide people and organizations with the tools (both personal and technological) to identify trusted messengers within a target audience."
- Among the partners used are state health departments.
The goal:
- Expand the online-to-offline volunteer recruitment operation so that they can directly enlist COVID-19 vaccination advocates in targeted geographic areas that might not be reached by partnerships or where partners need help building up volunteer capacity.
- The Empower Project is also offering grants to organizations in Wisconsin "who wish to engage in a Relational Organizing program around vaccine access, education and equity."
The Empower Project also highlights its partnership with the left-wing group CASA in Action as a case study for the "training" aspect of the company.
- CASA In Action has mobilized thousands of Latino community members into signing up at nearby locations and getting vaccinated
- Beyond pushing COVID-19 vaccines on Americans, the project has also partnered with over 1,000 leftist activist groups and non-profits.
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