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2015 VPAP Annual Report From the Board Chair We have reached the halfway point of our three- year strategic plan, which has provided tremendous momentum to our efforts to make Virginia politics The Virginia Public Access Project more accessible. MISSION Here are some of our successes in 2015: VPAP connects Virginians to nonpartisan • We diversified and increasedVPAP’s donor base to increase programs information about Virginia politics in easily and enhance our independence. understood ways. • We broadened the audience for our website through a new tool – Staff All Politics Is Local – that provides users with a list of their elected David M. Poole representatives, upcoming elections, and news about their community. Executive Director • We expanded the audience for VaNews, our daily compilation of Ric Arenstein Director of Development newspaper articles about state politics and government. Katy Johnstone Hurtz • On Election Night, we delivered more than two million page requests Marketing & Outreach Director for live election results. Rarione Maniece Director of Programs & Digital Outreach In the year ahead, we will remain fiercely nonpartisan. We are dedicated Shelly Poole to connecting Virginians to trusted information so they can make informed Office Manager decisions. Contact Thank you for your interest in VPAP. Please let me know if you have Phone: (804) 353-4300 suggestions, kudos, or criticism. We hope to continue to earn your trust. Headquarters 501 East Franklin Street, Suite 403 Richmond, VA 23219 Mailing Address P.O. Box 1472, Richmond, VA 23218 The Virginia Public Access Project is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Larry Roberts corporation. All donations to VPAP are deductible on federal VPAP Board Chair taxes to the full extent of the law. Federal ID 54-1825691. VPAP Board of Directors Larry Roberts, Nicole Riley, Margaret Edds, Jeff Britt Leslie Cheek III Aneesh Chopra Tom Cosgrove Cathie France Chair Vice Chair/ Treasurer McGuireWoods Retired Attorney/ Hunch Analytics Newport News Port of Virginia Venable Secretary Retired Journalist Consulting Lobbyist Shipbuilding NFIB Missy Gould Chuck James Jeff Merriman Kenton Ngo Albert Pollard Ann Rust Ed Scott Jay Smith The Nature Williams Mullen Verizon Progressive Consultant, Retired, Environmental Capital Results Conservancy Change Campaign Sawmill Office of U.S. Services Committee Manufacturer Sen. Mark Warner 2 2015 Accomplishments: A StRAtEGIC PlAn Progress REPORt GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL 1 2 3 4 Provide you with Show you complex Strengthen ability Assemble well- factual, nonpartisan data in simple, to be your trusted, managed, nonpartisan information visual ways independent source organization ▶ Launched All Politics ▶ Introduced VaMaps, ▶ Doubled the amount ▶ Created a Leadership Is Local, a unique tool which offers visual of money raised in Council consisting of that organizes content insights into political VPAP’s annual fund. business and community around each individual and demographic trends leaders who donate at web visitor. that define Virginia. ▶ Expanded the overall least $5,000 annually. number of VPAP ▶ Began pilot of K-12 ▶ Produced more than donors by more than ▶ Introduced an Initiative, which 50 infographics and 10 percent. annual Board of provides resources visualizations that Directors survey as to students studying illuminate trends in ▶ Increased money part of a continuous government in Virginia’s politics and government. raised during annual improvement process. public high schools. VaNews-a-thon by ▶ In November, more than 60 percent. ▶ Began steps for mid- ▶ Added 1,100 new provided more than course adjustments subscribers to VaNews, 80,000 users with to the strategic plan VPAP’s daily email real-time election adopted in April 2014. compilation of political returns. newspaper stories. VPAP APPOINTS NEW Board MEMBERS In December, the nonprofit Virginia Kenton NGO Additionally, the board created an ex- Public Access Project appointed four Ngo is the director of analytics for officio director position reserved for the new members to its bipartisan Board of the Progressive Change Campaign volunteer who chaired its most recent Directors. Committee. He has worked as a annual fundraising luncheon, held each Democratic strategist specializing in May. The Board appointed one director Appointed to three-year terms: polling, mapping, and data. Kenton lives to a one-year ex-officio term: in Arlington. Cathie FRANCE TOM Cosgrove France is the chief public affairs officer ED Scott Cosgrove is the manager of corporate, for the Port of Virginia. Her previous Scott is a former GOP legislator who citizenship & government relations at positions have included government represented a mostly rural swath of the Newport News Shipbuilding. He is a relations for Virginia Natural Gas and Piedmont from 2004-16. He is a partner former executive director of the Virginia deputy director for energy policy in the in a business specializing in alternative Senate Republican Caucus. Tom lives in McDonnell administration. Cathie lives septic systems. Ed lives in Madison Williamsburg. in Virginia Beach. County. The board also reappointed Nicole Riley and Ann Rust to three-year terms. ■ 3 the Virginia Public Access Project is a nonprofit that relies on support from its users. VPAP would 2015 SUpporters like to thank the following financial contributors. $50,000 $2,500 Dewberry The Mousetrap Foundation Al Dwoskin Jr. Eckert Seamans Gil Minor Genworth Financial $20,000 Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative Hancock, Daniel, Johnson & nagle Edward H. Rice Lewis F. Payne Jr. HCA Virginia Hospitals Verizon Wendy & Tom Rosenthal Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia TowneBank Inova Health System $11,000 Virginia Press Association Frank E. Laughon Jr. John O. Wynne Vince Mastracco Altria Client Services Ed Yates MercerTrigiani Northern Virginia Association of Realtors $10,000 Reynolds American Ronald D. Abramson $2,000 AT&T Sentara Healthcare Alpha Natural Resources Helen Dragas Kenneth O. thompson Matthew Calkins Hopkins Family Foundation Troutman Sanders Leslie Cheek III Bryan E. Kornblau Virginia Association for Commercial Real Dominion Micron Technology Estate The Washington Post* Steve Nash Virginia Association of Counties Allison Weinstein & Ivan Jecklin Lawrence Roberts Virginia Association of Health Plans Dawn & Stuart Siegel Virginia Cable Telecom Association $6,000 Sterling Charitable Gift Fund Trust* Richmond times-Dispatch* Virginia Association of Broadcasters $1,000 Virginia Automobile Dealers Association Mark Warner Robert W. Bailie The Virginian-Pilot* Gerald l. & Robin D. Baliles $1,750 Frank B. Bradley III $5,000 Ward R. Scull III* R. Bruce Bradley Comcast Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Breakthru Beverage Virginia Marvin W. Gilliam Jr. Macon F. Brock Jr. Loren W. Hershey J. Stewart Bryan III Tom Hirst $1,500 Charlottesville Tomorrow Anthem Ivor Massey Jr. James Cheng William H. Fralin Jr. W. Sheppard Miller III Aneesh P. Chopra Bittle Porterfield William A. Olson CSX Corporation Virginia AFl-CIO S. Sonjia Smith tom DePasquale Virginia Bankers Association David G. Speck W. Heywood Fralin Virginia Beer Wholesalers Association John M. Toups Eva Hardy Virginia Dental Association Bobbie & Jim Ukrop Hilton Worldwide Virginia Education Association Earle C. Williams Joan M. Huffer & Robert H. Dugger Virginia Health Care Association M. Dendy Young Bob & Jean Kane Virginia Municipal League Alan Kirshner $3,000 nick & Mary lynn Kotz Appalachian Power Company $1,250 Aubrey Layne Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen Capital Results Harry T. Lester Ed Robinson* E. Scott Kasprowicz Cheryl P. McLeskey John D. Whitlock* loanMax RJ Narang McGuireWoods Consulting Northern Virginia Building Industry MeadWestvaco $1,200 Association Medical Society of Virginia Anheuser-Busch Northern Virginia Technology Council Mark Ohrstrom* Apartment & Office Building Association Trevor Potter Old Dominion Electric Cooperative Bon Secours Virginia Praxis Foundation The Roanoke Times* Columbia Gas of Virginia Reed Smith Smithfield Foods Consol Energy Riverside Health System Virginia Association of Realtors Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association Want to add your name to the growing list of VPAP supporters? Williams Mullen* P.O. Box 1472 Donate online at vpap.org/donate Mail a check to: Richmond, VA 23218 * Gave more than amount listed 4 Chesapeake Bay Foundation 2015 FINANCIAL RESUlts College of William & Mary Community Associations Institute Council of Independent Colleges in Revenues: $615, 877 Virginia Josée G. Covington* 2% EQT Facebook 12% May Event: $178,325 Farmers Insurance Group 3% Grants GEICO 29% Annual Fund: $230,288 George Mason University May Event 5% Vanews: $57,469 Bill Grogan Media Hefty, Wiley & Gore 3% Candidates: $16,925 Hillbridge Group 9% Media: $31,975 Paul Hirschbiel Jr. VaNews Fee Services: $16,500 Longwood University J. Granger Macfarlane 37% Grants: $70,000 NFIB Annual Fund Other: $14,395 Newport News Shipbuilding Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce Owens-Illinois Jay S. Poole Sprint Expenditures: $569,272 take Back Our Republic Andrew & Virginia Tilton 4% Universal Leaf Tobacco Company 4% Virginia Farm Bureau Virginia League of Conservation Voters 5% Virginia Natural Gas Personnel: $449,882 8% Virginia Oil & Gas Association Tech. Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists Technology: $46,089 Virginia Society of CPAs Events/Marketing: $29,522 Virginia Society of Eye Physicians & Services/Support: $23,642 Surgeons 79% Virginia Tech Rent, Overhead: $20,137 Personnel Whitehead Consulting
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