Maryland CURE is doing wonderfully positive work on the ground in Maryland. We need to take that work further.

People by using the tools that International CURE makes available to state chapters for online advocacy.

Like any business, for it to grow it is important to advertise the good work you are doing. Thanks to programs offered through International CURE, it is easier than ever for the State Chapter to engage supporters grassroots, connect with grassroots organizations to build coalitions and impact legislation through Call-to- Action campaigns.

Nation Inside and Salsa Labs will allow Maryland CURE to reach many more people than it has previously, and connect with them on an immediate level at a large scale. Here are the goals you have articulated:

1. Engage grassroots supporters (more members writing to legislators, volunteering, sharing CURE actions with friends, etc.)

2. Build grassroots coalitions (engage with the NAACP, Black Caucus, etc.)

3. Lifer problem (main goal for 2014)

4. Remove the governor from the parole process (politics, not law | executive order vs. legislation)

5. Walter Lomax (GrassTop, who was imprisoned for 39 years): He has dealt with serious murders and chains life for minors. Director of the Restorative Justice group in Maryland

6. Mary Brown (Maryland's youngest lifer; she spent 35 years incarcerated and now has a degree).

Those are exciting goals for Maryland CURE this year. So this is how we can use our online tools! To exponentially increase your impact over the next 90 days!

I. Engage grassroots supporters through campaign blog posts and story entries on the Maryland CURE on Nation Inside!

II. Build grassroots coalitions by:

A. recruit essays, video interviews and radio articles from other organizations and activists prominent in Maryland.

B. offer to work in coalition with other interested CJR parties by putting online action tools on the table. CURE can now generate petitions, call-to-action, emails, videos,

audio recordings, and constituent messages.