Josh Nelson Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, US

Civic Shout is a paid email and SMS acquisition platform for Democratic campaigns and progressive nonprofits. We make it ridiculously easy to grow your opt-in email and SMS communities with high-quality, fixed-cost supporters who actually want to hear from you.

The Juggernaut Project helps non-profits, Democratic political campaigns and socially-responsible businesses grow their email lists. Our mission is to connect amazing organizations with supporters, donors or customers who actually want to hear from those organizations.

• We use email, social media and traditional communications to help progressive organizations reach more supporters and mobilize them to take action. Current or recent projects include:
• Executing advocacy campaigns for ParentsTogether’s campaign to protect kids from Big Tech. Our campaigns and surveys have been covered by the Today Show, Wall Street Journal, Parents Magazine, Bloomberg News and dozens.
• Placing digital advertisements for Just the Truth PAC that generated tens of millions of video views in swing states in the 2020 presidential election cycle.
• Conducting an extensive audit of Common Cause’s email program. The audit included 60 concrete recommendations to help the organization grow its email list, convert people on its email list to repeat action takers and.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Lead teams responsible for communications, analytics, philanthropy, operations, technology, email, SMS and social media.
• Managed seven-figure budget in 2018 and 2019, spending below budget both years while meeting or exceeding most major goals and objectives.
• Led high-profile protests and advocacy campaigns on immigration, impeaching Donald Trump and other topics, which were covered by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, the New York Times, CNN, USA Today and most other major media.
• Oversaw the distribution of more than $2.5 million in grants to dozens of environmental and progressive non-profits through CREDO’s donations program.
• Conceptualized and managed a series of livestreamed panel discussions featuring Sen. Jeff Merkley on family separation, Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Medicare for All and Rep. Rashida Tlaib on impeachment. - Helped transform.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Served as a sounding board for Political Director, playing a role in all aspects of CREDO Action’s work.
• Led video and social media strategy, including establishing cross-posting and sharing agreements with some of the biggest left-of-center Facebook pages, generating hundreds of millions of views on social media.
• Continued running progressive advocacy campaigns that grew CREDO’s email list by hundreds of thousands of members each year.
• Continued leading on CREDO’s press work, generating hundreds of press clips each year, including booking an interview with CREDO’s CEO on NPR’s Marketplace.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Generated hundreds of press clips each year, including booking a colleague on NBC Nightly News to discuss one of our advocacy campaigns.
• Managed day-to-day operation of CREDOmobilize.com, a member-generated petition website that hosted more than 6,000 petitions with 16 million petition signatures from 2.7 million people.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Mobilized hundreds of thousands of grassroots activists to participate in hundreds of national, state and local anti-coal advocacy campaigns in partnership with Sierra Club, Greenpeace and other leading environmental.
• Organized a rapid response protest outside the NRA’s lobbying office just days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Hundreds attended the protest, which was covered by ABC News, the Washington Post.

• Led team of social media strategists, digital campaigners, analysts, developers and video producers responsible for all digital work for the Alliance for Climate Protection, Repower America and The Climate Project.
• Launched KochIndustriesFacts.com, which educated the public on the Koch Brothers’ role in funding climate change denial by displaying a rotating series of facts in a fun format that encouraged sharing.
• Covered the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference as a blogger/reporter through a collaborative project of Grist.org and the Alliance for Climate Protection.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Worked with dozens of progressive nonprofit and foundation clients on digital strategy, social networking, blogger outreach, blogging and search engine optimization.
• Conducted a quantitative and qualitative analysis of how nonprofit organizations use social media to advance their work. The analysis was published as a Fall 2009 Hatcher Group report, New Media and Social Change: How.

• Conceptualized and launched EnviroKnow, an independent blog focused on climate and energy policy with peak traffic of more than 100,000 visitors per month.
• Cited by The New Yorker, The New York Times, Mother Jones, CBS News, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Talking Points Memo.

Reston, VA, US

• Lead state and regional online advocacy campaigns.
• Managed OurPublicLands.org, including drafting or editing all content and maintaining the website.