What is Act Blue?

After setting up the Iowa Democratic Bloggers fundraising page on Act Blue earlier this week, I have had a couple question about how Act Blue works.

Act Blue is a great fundraising tool for Democrats. It is a safe and secure site. If you donate to Rep. Loebsack online, you do so through Act Blue. The site is easy to use. If you can send an email then you can donate online using Act Blue.

Yesterday, just happened to be Act Blue's 3rd Birthday. Here's a post from MyDD that explains more about Act Blue...

This innovative, secure, and groundbreaking way to give money to Democrats was launched in June of 2004 before the end of the fundraising quarter. The earliest adopters, the blogosphere, helped push $250,000 into federal campaigns that summer. Printing $1 million in checks out of Matt's living room by the end of 2004 was an accomplishment for the start-up. ActBlue caught the eye of Democratic campaigns, organizations, and establishment investors and it was time to grow.

And grow ActBlue did. You can see it for yourself in the numbers.

Total Raised for Democrats through ActBlue: $24,167,741

# of fundraising pages on ActBlue: 4,204

# of people contacted in just 3 weeks via ActBlue's new Spread the Word tool: 3,751

# of active entities in ActBlue's directory: 3,739 (will grow towards 10,000 this cycle)

# of candidates and committees receiving funds to date: 1,725

# of states where ActBlue is active for state level activity: 23 (soon to be 24)

So head over to the Iowa Democratic Bloggers Fundraising page and donate $10, $25, $50 to your favorite Iowa Democrat before Saturday's filing deadline.