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Previous Phone Banks

NEAT volunteers have made hundreds of thousands of calls for LGBTQ+ Justice from anywhere, on any day, and at almost any time like talking to the public about conversion therapy, recruiting volunteers,  advocating for LGBTQ+ protections, and getting out the vote. It's an easy and powerful experience! Check out our previous phone banks below.
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2021 - National
  • LGBTQ+: Federal LGBTQ+ Protections
  • Educate voters on the need for federal LGBTQ+ non discrimination protections and empower them to engage their Senators on the issue
  • Partners: Multiple
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2021 - Alabama
  • LGBTQ+: Veto anti-trans bill
  • Educate voters on the harm of an anti-trans bill and empower them to engage their Legislators on the issue
  • Partners: Southern Poverty Law Center

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2021 - Montana
  • LGBTQ+: Veto anti-trans bills
  • Educate voters on the harm of multiple anti-trans bills and empower them to engage their Legislators on the issue
  • Partners: Montana Human Rights Network, Montana Women Vote
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2020 - Georgia
  • Democracy: GOTV
  • Outreach to registered voters to help them make a plan to vote and provide the information they need to vote.
  • Partners: Multiple including State Voices, ProGeorgia
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2020 - Georgia
  • Democracy: Voter & Absentee Registration
  • Provide voters with the tools to verify or complete their voter registration and request absentee ballots.
  • Partners: Multiple including State Voices, ProGeorgia

"The Yes on 3 campaign needed help managing the hundreds of people who wanted to volunteer with us every week. Because of NEAT, we were able to give them a simple, quick way to get involved and protect transgender equality. Because of NEAT, we were able to build the massive team we needed to defend protections for transgender people in the first ever statewide vote on transgender equality."
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Vivian Topping
Field Director, Yes on 3 / Freedom MA
"NEAT has been an amazing partner during the Georgia Federal Runoff Election! They lent their amazing community outreach infrastructure and shared their network of active volunteers with Georgia. We are immensely thankful for the work NEAT, and Brian Silva in particular, has done for us this year and we hope to make this a lasting partnership as we continue to build progressive power coalitions." 

Hersheda Patel
​Georgia Civic Engagement State Table 

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2020 - Michigan
  • Democracy: GOTV
  • Outreach to registered voters to help them make a plan to vote and provide the information they need to vote.
  • Partners: Multiple including State Voices, Michigan Voices
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2020 - National
  • Democracy: Protect the Process for Supreme Court Nominations
  • Educate voters on the democratic processes to nominate a Supreme Court Justice and empower them to engage their U.S. Senators on the issue
  • Partners: Multiple including Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
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2020 - Michigan
  • Democracy: Voter & Absentee Registration
  • Provide voters with the tools to verify or complete their voter registration and request absentee ballots.
  • Partners: Multiple including State Voices, Michigan Voices

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2020 - National
  • Multiple: 2020 Census: Let's make everyone count
  • Focused on hard to reach counties with high minority populations, educate voters on the importance of the Census and support them completing it.
  • Partners: National LGBTQ+ Task Force
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2020 - Idaho
  • LGBTQ+: Veto anti-trans bills
  • Educate voters on the harm of multiple anti-trans bills and empower them to engage their Governor on the issue
  • Partners: National Center for Transgender Equality
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2020 - Virginia
  • LGBTQ+: Pass the Virginia Values Act
  • Educate voters on the benefits of a statewide nondiscrimination bill and empower them to engage their Legislators on the issue
  • Partners: Virginia Values Coalition, Equality Virginia, Freedom for All Americans

“In the effort to defeat HB500/509 in Idaho, NEAT couldn't have joined the coalition at a better time. NEAT not only allowed dozens of supporters across the country to join our phone banking efforts, their system became the backbone of grassroots contact to the governor when we were no longer able to hold in person phone banks.”

Damon Hainline,
Field Organizer, NCTE
"NEAT's around-the-clock calling system allowed volunteers around the country to plug in to Equality Virginia's historic campaign to make Virginia the first state in the South to pass an LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination law. Without NEAT's technology and flexibility, we couldn't have mobilized as many supporters as we did to take action."

​Margaret Hughes
Field Organizer, Equality Virginia

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2020 - National
  • LGBTQ+: Pass the Equality Act
  • Educate voters on the need for the Equality Act after the SCOTUS Bostock decision and empower them to engage their Senators on the issue
  • Partners: Multiple including Freedom for All Americans, CAP and NQAPIA
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2019 - Tennessee
  • LGBTQ+: Stop anti-LGBTQ bills
  • Educate voters on the multiple anti-LGBTQ bills in the state legislature and empower them to engage their elected officials on the issues
  • Partners: Tennessee Equality Project and Freedom for All Americans
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2019 - South Dakota
  • LGBTQ+: Stop anti-trans bills
  • Educate voters on a bill to harm transgender students and empower them to engage their elected officials on the issues
  • Partners: National Center for Transgender Equality

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2018 - National
  • LGBTQ+: Pass the Equality Act
  • Educate voters on the need for the Equality Act after the and empower them to engage their Senators on the issue
  • Partners: Multiple including Freedom for All Americans and HRC
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​2018 - Nationwide
  • LGBTQ​+: Supreme Court Nominee
  • Educate voters in key states on the anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-progressive record of Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh and and empower them to engage their Senator on the issue
  • Partners: Freedom for All Americans
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2018 - Montana
  • LGBTQ​+: Stop anti-trans billPass Amendment 4
  • Educate voters on potential anti-trans bills and policies being proposed and build support for trans rights.
  • Partners: Montana Human Rights Network

"Fair Anchorage was a small campaign with few assets, but with NEAT we were able to capitalize on the community that came together to defeat our anti-transgender ballot proposition. Without NEAT's support and expertise in volunteer coordination and field, we wouldn't have been able to accomplish the incredible volunteer program that allowed us to win against hate."
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​Kati Ward
Campaign Manager, Fair Anchorage
"Working with NEAT allowed the Yes on 3 campaign to help our coalition partners help us! From the convenience of their own office or home, coalition partners could call Massachusetts voters on our behalf and advocate for a 'Yes' vote on election day. Brian was extremely flexible and helpful during our campaign. He was more than willing to adjust his process to meet my needs. I would definitely recommend NEAT."

Kelsey Barowich,
​Coalition Organizer, Yes on 3 / Freedom MA


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2018 - Florida
  • Democracy: Pass Amendment 4
  • Educate voters on Amendment 4 to restore voting rights to those who have served their time and get out the vote
  • Partners: Equality Florida, National LGBTQ+ Task Force, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
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2018 - Anchorage, AK
  • LGBTQ: Stop anti-trans Prop 1
  • Educate voters on who transgender people are, what nondiscrimination laws really do, and get out the vote to stop Proposition 1
  • Partners: Fair Anchorage, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Equal Rights Washington
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​2018 - National
  • Immigration: Pass the DREAM Act
  • Educate voters on why the DREAM Act matters - especially to the 40,000 LGBTQ+ Dreamers - and empower them to engage their Legislators on the issue
  • Partners: Multiple including Defend the Dream Coalition and SEIU

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​2017 / 2018 - Massachusetts
  • LGBTQ​+: Increase support for trans rights and Yes on 3
  • Educate voters about who transgender people are, why non-discrimination laws are important, and dispel myths about both
  • Partners: Freedom Massachusetts, Freedom for All Americans
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​2017 - Texas
  • LGBTQ+: Stop multiple anti-LGBTQ+ bills
  • Educate voters on the multiple proposed anti-LGBTQ+ laws and empower them to engage their Legislators on the issue
  • Partners: ACLU-Texas, Human Rights Campaign, Equality Texas
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​2017 - Nationwide
  • LGBTQ​+: Supreme Court Nominee
  • Educate voters in key states on the anti-LGBTQ+ record of Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch and and empower them to engage their Senator on the issue
  • Partners: Freedom for All Americans

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​2016/17 - Jacksonville, FL
  • LGBTQ+: Local Nondiscrimination Law
  • Educate voters on the importance of adding SOGI protections to their local law and empower them to engage their Councilmembers on the issue
  • Local Partners: Jacksonville Coalition for Equality, Equality Florida
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​2016 - AZ, GA, OH, FL: Summer of Action
  • Issue: Non-Discrimination
  • Engage 1:1 conversations in communities about the importance of LGBTQ non-discrimination
  • Local Partners: One Community (AZ), Equality Florida, Georgia Equality, Equality Ohio
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​2016 - North Carolina
  • Issue: Non-Discrimination
  • Support the repeal of HB2 which, amongst other negative policies, outlawed local non-discrimination ordinances and transgender bathroom access.
  • Local Partners: Equality North Carolina

"NEAT was integral in our campaign to pass a Human Rights Ordinance in Jacksonville, Florida. We have a huge Florida membership and with NEAT's help we were able to engage members in Miami, Tampa, Orlando and all across Florida to virtually advocate for their queer community in Jacksonville. We were able to vastly expand our field operations thanks to NEAT!"
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Amber Paoloemilio
​Field Director, Equality Florida
"NEAT has been pivotal to SAVE's year-round organizing. It gives us the ability to rally our volunteers to the most urgent campaigns facing the country. Having a place and issues to train our volunteers on ensures that we always have a strong base of leaders that are ready to go on the ground here in Miami when it's time for us to run our own campaign."

​Justin Klecha
Deputy Director, SAVE

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​2016 - Massachusetts
  • Issue: Non-Discrimination
  • Add transgender public accommodation protections to current state law.
  • Local Partners: MassEquality, MassTPC
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​2016 - Georgia
  • Issue: Non-Discrimination
  • Support the veto of HB757, the anti-LGBTQ "religious liberty" bill
  • Local Partners​: Georgia Equality
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​2016 - Tennessee
  • Issue: Non-Discrimination
  • Stop "anatomy-check" bill for students
  • Local Partners: Tennessee Equality Project

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​2016 - Florida
  • Issue: Non-Discrimination
  • Pass statewide LGBTQ non-discrimination protections
  • Local Partners​: Equality Florida
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​2015 - Houston, Texas*
  • Issue: Non-Discrimination
  • Retain a citywide non-discrimination ordinance
  • Local Partners​: Equality Texas, ACLU-Texas
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2014 - New Mexico: Marriage*
  • Local Partners: Equality New Mexico
  • Stop legislative ballot attempt to repeal marriage

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2014 - Indiana: Marriage*
  • Stop legislative ballot attempt to ban marriage & other LGBTQ protections
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​2013 - Illinois: Marriage*
  • Local Partners​: Equality Illinois​​
  • Pass marriage via the state legislature
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​2013 - New Jersey: Marriage*
  • Local Partners: Garden State Equality
  • Pass marriage via the state legislature

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2013 - Minnesota: Marriage*
  • Local Partners: OutFront Minnesota, Project 515
  • Pass marriage via the state legislature
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​2013 - Delaware: Marriage*
  • Local Partners: Equality Delaware
  • Pass marriage via the state legislature
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2013 - Rhode Island: Marriage*
  • Local Partners: Marriage Equality Rhode Island
  • Pass marriage via the state legislature

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2013 - Nevada: Marriage*
  • Repeal anti-marriage constitutional amendment and pass marriage via legislature then ballot
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2013 - Illinois: Marriage*
  • Local Partners: Equality Illinois
  • Pass marriage via the state legislature
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​2012 - Washington: Marriage**
  • Local Partners: Equal Rights Washington
  • Keep marriage via a ballot initiative

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2012 - Maryland: Marriage**
  • Local Partners: Equality Maryland
  • Keep marriage via a ballot initiative
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2012 - Maine: Marriage**
  • Local Partners: Equality Maine
  • Pass marriage via a ballot initiative
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2012 - Minnesota: Marriage**
  • Local Partners: OutFront Minnesota, Project 515
  • Defeat a ballot constitutional amendment banning marriage

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2012 - New Hampshire: Marriage***
  • Local Partners​: New Hampshire Freedom to Marry
  • Defeat a legislative attempt to repeal marriage
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2012 - New Jersey: Marriage***
  • Local Partners: Garden State Equality
  • Pass marriage via the state legislature
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2011 - New York: Marriage***
  • Local Partners: Empire State Pride Agenda, Marriage Equality New York
  • Pass marriage via the state legislature

* While NEAT became an independent nonprofit in 2016, it began as a program of Marriage Equality USA in 2013. The program included virtual and in person phone banks, regional canvassing and virtual town halls.

** Prior to NEAT being established as a permanent named program in 2013, it was envisioned as a one-time action of Marriage Equality USA called the "20 Million More Campaign" to work on marriage equality ballot initiatives in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington.

*** The birth of phone banking and canvassing as a core part of NEAT grew out of the grassroots organizing efforts developed by Marriage Equality New York and deployed in 2012 to pass marriage equality in New York and related efforts in New Jersey and New Hampshire.
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