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East Bay Kerry

East Bay Kerry was a grassroots volunteer organization that operated in support of John Kerry's run for United States President from Summer 2003 to election day 2004 in the San Francisco East Bay. Starting with ten volunteers, the group worked for eighteen months until it had developed a full time volunteer force of five thousand people in California's Alameda and Contra Costa counties in the weeks leading up to election day.

Accomplishments
The group sent delegates to the Democratic National Convention; formed professional service bureaus of lawyers, writers, and marketers to provide services to volunteers in swing states; designed and tested intake orientation and socialization methods to rapidly put volunteers to work; built online community through blogs, wikis, and mailing lists; conducted more than one hundred street actions; ran phone banks that made more than one million calls to swing voters in battleground states and in California's Inland Empire; and trained volunteer cadres throughout California on how to do the same.

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