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"Political Mutual Funds" Blog Coverage

It's been exciting here to see so much coverage of the launch of our "Political Mutual Funds" last week. Here are a few highlights from the blogs:

"It is a complex challenge to decide how to donate money. There are so many important issues and causes. There are so many dedicated, hard-working, well run and effective organizations. There are so many appeals for money, from slick to ham-handed. And, well, some of the slickest come from those not necessarily dedicated, hard-working, well-run or effective. Thus, the emergence of efforts like Charity Navigator.

When it comes to investing money, mutual funds claim to reduce by grouping together companies, enabling one to choose a sector to invest in or a style of investing rather than seeking to find the perfect individual stocks and creating one's own balanced portfolio.

Well, the New Progressive Coalition has taken a bold step toward a metric based path for combining these for financially helping create a progressive future." — Daily Kos

"With the launch of the political mutual fund finally upon us, the progressive movement now has a broad-based mechanism which will allow individual investors of relatively modest means to participate in meaningful and intelligent movement-funding."
— MyDD

"August Capital's Andy Rappaport is behind the New Progressive Coalition, an attempt to make political donations more palatable to investor types. NPC's 5 Step Guide presents some three dozen left-leaning organizations as if they were the TechCrunch 40. They lost me at 'progressive,' but Rappaport's Charles-Schwab-for-politics approach beats the heck out of trying to decipher Daily Kos. So lazy it just might work. "
— Valleywag

"New Progressive Coalition will open its mutual funds to the public tomorrow. These are the exemplary product demonstrating several of the key themes of this blog:

1. Donors lead with their values, and they want their financial portfolio(investments, charitable giving, and political contributions) to reflect those values;

2. The philanthropic industry has two kinds of products - financial and knowledge products, and a diverse and growing set of institutions that sell them;

3. Advisory services are on the rise;" — PHILANTHROPY 2173

"Interesting piece by Joe Garafoli in the San Francisco Chronicle on how the New Progressive Coalition is using the language of business to get progressives to diversify their investing. And to get good progressives to invest in more long-term projects." — Brave New Films

"We, at Twenty-First Century Democrats are honored to be included in the NPC's Victory in 2008 and Beyond Fund. The application process we went through was lengthy, involved, and worth every minute. Beyond the obvious benefit of being
included in such a bold and creative investment model and with such a stellar
group of progressive groups, the NPC PROI model provided us an opportunity to
quantify all our many accomplishments over the last twenty years." — Swing State Project

"Got some extra money around you want to invest in Progressive companies? The New Progressive Coalition has put together a mutual fund of companies that are 'working to address three pressing domestic challenges: energy independence and the environment, health care, and nonpartisan civic engagement and
election-related issues.'"— Progressive Nashville

"Political Mutual Funds" Press Coverage

Today is an exciting day at NPC. We have launched our "Political Mutual Funds" and have received amazing coverage of our launch including:

• The New York Times, Mutual Funds for Political Giving
• San Francisco Chronicle, Mutual Funds Tailored to Political Philosophies
• Daily Kos, Invest in a Progressive Future...
• San Jose Mercury News, New Way to Give to Progressives
  

Here are some other outlets that have picked up our news, many of which are featuring us in their headline news:

• ABC News
• CBS News
• CNN
• Forbes
• MSN
• MSNBC
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• TIME
• USA TODAY

Stay tuned and visit our “Political Mutual Funds” to experience investing in an easy and strategic way.