Credo Action, an online activism network affiliated with wireless company Credo Mobile, shut down Tuesday, and several employees were let go, including a vice president who oversaw the company’s campaigns.
The organization and Credo Mobile are arms of Working Assets, a decades-old San Francisco company known for funneling a portion of customers’ phone, utility and credit card bills to progressive causes they designate. Besides the donations, the company has long organized customers around political campaigns, initiatives which became formalized as Credo Action in recent years.
Reached by phone, Heidi Hess, Credo’s vice president of politics who oversaw Credo Action, said she was no longer employed by the company and directed questions to Credo CEO Ray Morris. On Twitter, a list of a half-dozen former employees circulated, with co-workers encouraging people to hire them.
Sad but true: CREDO Action shut down today.
We put together a document with info about some of the brilliant & talented folks who are now out of a job at no fault of their own: https://t.co/4faUB8rj0q
Below I'll share the email we're sending to the CREDO email list today. https://t.co/jP2q04a2ZH
— Josh Nelson (@josh_nelson) January 7, 2020
“A note is being sent to members now to let them know that we remain deeply committed to advancing our shared progressive values, however beginning today we will no longer be engaging in direct activism campaigns,” Morris said in an email. The closure was announced on Credo Action’s website and in an email to Credo customers.
Credo says it has donated over $88 million to progressive nonprofits over the years.
Morris said its business operations won’t change and it will continue to provide its telecom, credit card and energy services.
“We believe our philanthropy is the best possible way to advance our values, through the impressive and experienced groups and causes to whom we donate each month,” Morris said, citing customer-directed donations to Planned Parenthood, Rainforest Action Network, Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International, among others.
Chase DiFeliciantonio is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: chase.difeliciantonio@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ChaseDiFelice
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