2023
2023 GOALS
In 2023 The Hometown Project worked successfully in Virginia and New Jersey, with the participation of many artists hailing from those states. Danny DeVito, Wanda Sykes, Mark Ruffalo, Taissa Farmiga, Connie Britton, Dulé Hill and more created videos to mobilize voters in down-ballot local elections and in some cases supported progressive candidates running in these artists’ hometown communities. In Virginia we partnered with Clean Virginia, an organization working to fight corruption in Virginia politics and promote clean energy policy. In New Jersey we partnered with the NJ State Democratic Majority (NJ SDM) and Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee (NJ DACC) to elevate the name ID and platforms of their highest priority local candidates. 18 of the 21 candidates we supported won!
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Served up
20+ Million ad impressions
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Reached
2.5 MILLION
VOTERS
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Claimed
19 competitive Victories
““This is one of these things that really does win elections. These kinds of projects actually do… flip seats, they flip senate seats, they flip house seats, they flip governorship. They are the nuts and bolts of activism.””
2023 creative content
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2023 Team
Program Director: Amy DiPrima Forste
Coordinator: Paige Scott
Digital Distribution: Colin Delany
Lead Designer: Kimmy Tsai
Head Writer: Grace Critchfield
Lead Editor: Justin Cannon
Writers & Creatives
Graphic Designers: Dylan Sheridan Ben Tostado, Sara Tyler, Michelle Gold
Writers: Alexis Buryk, Rob Kutner, Laura Mannino, Maggie Hart, and Seth Herzog
Web: Rachel Rosenthal, Let’s Make a Website!
Programming interns
Fiona Sarvis