The Future PAC Launches New, Innovative Website
Nov 19, 2006
Site Will Highlight Progressive Black Women Candidates and Help Mobilize Black Voters
WASHINGTON, DC – Women Building for the Future PAC (The Future PAC) has premiered a completely retooled website designed to provide information about leading African American women candidates as well as address critical public policy issues facing the black community. The website is now live at: http://www.thefuturepac.com/.
“We want to ensure that African American women’s voices are heard at the ballot box as well as through their strategic contributions. They can use our website to find out about progressive candidates and make on-line contributions to The Future PAC, which enable us to support those candidates,” stated Gwen Moore, Future PAC Chair and former Majority Whip for the California State Assembly. The website was a vital component of The Future PAC’s 2006 voter outreach efforts in six targeted states: IL, MI, CA, PA, OH, and NY, where African American voters turned the tide in several highly contentious races.
The Future PAC distributed more than $35,000 in campaign contributions this election cycle that benefited Congresswoman Julia Carson (IN), Congresswoman-elect Yvette Clarke (NY), California Assemblywoman-elect Wilmer Amina Carter and New York State-Senator-elect Andrea Stewart-Cousins whose incumbent opponent conceded only after voting machines were re-canvassed. The PAC’s website serves to promote the candidacies of African American women and narrow the disproportion that exists between Black women’s high voter turnout and their low representation in elected office at all levels.
“Our website encourages political activism in the black community and draws attention to the issues that women feel most passionately about and the candidates who make those issues their priority,” remarked Political Economist and Future PAC President, Dr. Julianne Malveaux. The new website is a political resource and an educational tool that connects voters with candidates who are advancing progressive solutions to the issues facing the nation’s struggling families. It also encourages black women to make monetary campaign contributions a consistent part of their political activism.
The Future PAC is the premier non-partisan organization currently recruiting and funding progressive black women candidates. The organization networks with more than 125 charter members across the country and has a dynamic board that includes Essence Editorial Director Susan L. Taylor, political strategist Donna Brazile, former Little Rock, Arkansas Mayor Lottie Shackelford, President of the California State Conference of the NAACP, Alice Huffman and Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson-Gates. Icons and longtime activists Cicely Tyson, Dr. Dorothy Irene Height and the Honorable Yvonne B. Burke are among the Future PAC’s Legacy Circle Members.