E-mail sent to Hope Street Group members:
Dear members and supporters,
Last night's historic election is the beginning of a new era for all of us. It is also the beginning of a lot of hard work. Both candidates ran on platforms acknowledging the tremendous challenges facing the nation's families and economy, and the need to come together to find solutions. Hope Street Group is forging a powerful nonpartisan movement to expand economic opportunity for all Americans and to rebuild our nation's prosperity, and we need you to be a part of it.
Over the past few years, Hope Street Group has been building bi-partisan consensus for policies that support an Opportunity Economy, where people who work hard and invest in themselves can succeed, and where our nation prospers as a result. From our open source model of policy development to the American Dream Agenda developed at our 2008 Opportunity Economics Colloquium to our work with the Presidential policy advisers for both campaigns on education and health care reform, Hope Street Group has developed a reputation of being a new way of thinking and acting in the policy arena.
This election demonstrated the power of social media to fundamentally transform the way campaigns are run, providing millions of Americans a new way to be engaged, and we need to make sure that the same opportunities exist post-election. Hope Street Group is hard at work on an exciting new technology platform that will provide our members a way to engage in the policy debate, connecting ideas with the people who can implement them.
We are asking you to join us in Hope Street Group's next phase, which will provide a place where engaged citizens can work together with key policy makers to promote policies that build an Opportunity Economy. Over the next weeks and months, we will need volunteers to help us organize our 2009 Opportunity Economics Colloquium and to contribute to our policy work on K-12 education reform and health care reform. We need professionals with a background in economics to help us refine and promote our groundbreaking Economic Opportunity Index. We need volunteers who can help us communicate with a broader audience, and who can help us create the next generation of online policy collaboration skills.
If you would like to be a part of this exciting movement to build an Opportunity Economy, please e-mail your resume to volunteer@hopestreetgroup.org, and put "Volunteer at Hope Street Group" in the subject line.
Sincerely,
Monique Nadeau
Executive Director
