Winning ballot measures. Changing lives.

Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Time (2024)

Fairness Project partnered with the Better Jobs Alaska campaign to pass a ballot measure that increases the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2027. The measure also requires employers to provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.

Reproductive Rights (2024)

Fairness Project worked with the Arizona for Abortion Access campaign to pass a ballot measure enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution.

Predatory Debt Collection (2022)

Fairness Project supported Healthcare Rising Arizona to pass a ballot measure that will curb predatory debt collection and limit interest rates on medical debt.

Tucson Minimum Wage (2021)

Fairness Project worked with the Tucson Fight for $15 campaign to pass a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Minimum Wage and Paid Leave (2016)

Fairness Project worked with Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families on a ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage to $12 an hour and require paid sick leave benefits for 934,000 Arizonans.

Ballot Measure Protection (2022)

Fairness Project worked with stakeholders in Arkansas to execute an opposition campaign against Arkansas Issue 2 which, if passed, would require a 60% supermajority vote to adopt constitutional amendments and citizen-initiated state statutes.

Minimum Wage (2018)

Fairness Project worked with local partners to pass a ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage in the state from $8.50 an hour to $11 an hour.

LA County Police Reform (2022)

Fairness Project worked with the Accountability LA campaign to pass a county-wide ballot measure that will allow the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to impeach the sheriff for cause.

Minimum Wage (2016)

Fairness Project worked with the Lift Up California coalition on a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for 6 million Californians by collecting the 365,880 signatures needed to qualify for the ballot.

Paid Family and Medical Leave (2020)

Fairness Project worked with local partners to win the nation’s first ballot initiative to guarantee paid family & medical leave for more than 2.6 million Coloradans.

Predatory Payday Lending (2018)

Fairness Project worked with grassroots groups to protect borrowers by curbing abusive payday lending in Colorado in 2018.

Minimum Wage (2016)

Fairness Project helped win a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour in 2016, delivering pay increases for nearly 500,000 Coloradan workers.

Medicaid Expansion (2018)

Fairness Project worked with grassroots groups to win a ballot measure expanding Medicaid in Idaho, delivering health care to more than 90,000 Idahoans.

Medicaid Expansion (2017)

Fairness Project worked with Mainers for Health Care to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, making it the first state in the nation to achieve the expansion through a ballot measure and bringing health care to over 70,000 Mainers.

Minimum Wage (2016)

Fairness Project worked with local partners on a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage from $7.50 to $12 an hour for Maine workers.

Minimum Wage (2018)

Fairness Project worked with Raise Up Massachusetts and provided early contributions to help raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, which led to the passage of legislation to enact the increase and enact paid family and medical leave.

Reproductive Rights (2022)

Fairness Project worked with the Reproductive Freedom for All campaign to pass a ballot measure that enshrines reproductive rights in Michigan’s constitution. Proposition 3 was approved by voters on November 8, 2022 with 56.66% of the vote.

Paid Leave (2018)

Fairness Project worked with Michigan Time to Care to pass a ballot measure to provide earned paid sick time to 2 million Michigan workers. It also protects survivors of sexual and domestic violence.

Reproductive Rights (2024)

Fairness Project worked with the Missourians for Constitutional Freedom campaign to pass a ballot measure guaranteeing a fundamental right to reproductive freedom in Missouri, including abortion.

Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Time (2024)

The Fairness Project worked with the Missourians for Healthy Families & Fair Wages campaign to pass a ballot measure raising the minimum wage and guaranteeing access to paid sick time for working Missourians.

Medicaid Expansion (2020)

Fairness Project worked with grassroots groups to win a ballot measure expanding Medicaid in Missouri, delivering health care to more than 275,000 Missourians.

Minimum Wage (2018)

Fairness Project worked with local partners to pass a ballot measure to increase the minimum wage from $7.85 to $12 an hour for 677,000 Missourians.

Reproductive Rights (2024)

Fairness Project worked with the Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights campaign to pass a ballot measure enshrining reproductive rights, including abortion, in the state constitution.

Paid Sick Leave (2024)

Fairness Project worked with the Paid Sick Leave for Nebraskans campaign to pass a ballot measure guaranteeing access to paid leave for working Nebraskans.

Minimum Wage (2022)

Fairness Project worked with Raise the Wage Nebraska to pass a ballot measure that will increase the minimum wage statewide from $9 to $15 per hour by 2026.

Predatory Lending (2020)

Fairness Project and local partners won a ballot initiative to curb predatory payday lending, curbing interest rates and stopping the debt trap for seniors, veterans, communities of color, low-income residents and others targeted by the abusive practice.

Medicaid Expansion (2018)

Fairness Project worked with grassroots groups to win a ballot measure expanding Medicaid, delivering health care to more than 90,000 Nebraskans.

Ballot Measure Protection (2024)

Fairness Project worked with North Dakota Citizens Protecting The Constitution to successfully defend against an attack on the ballot measure process in North Dakota.

Reproductive Rights (2023)

Fairness Project worked with the Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom campaign to pass a ballot measure that enshrined abortion access and reproductive care in Ohio’s constitution.

Ballot Measure Protection (2023)

Fairness Project worked with stakeholders in Ohio to execute an opposition campaign in the wake of the passage of Ohio SJR2, which puts a 60% supermajority threshold for future ballot measures before voters in an August 8, 2023 special election.

Police Reform (2021)

Fairness Project worked with Citizens for a Safer Cleveland to pass Issue 24, a charter amendment that ensures real accountability for police misconduct by providing Clevelanders with permanent and powerful civilian oversight on policing and community safety policies.

Medicaid Expansion (2020)

Fairness Project worked with grassroots groups to win a ballot measure expanding Medicaid, delivering health care to more than 200,000 Oklahomans.

Medicaid Expansion (2022)

Fairness Project worked with a broad coalition of local partners, including doctors, teachers, and farmers, to win Medicaid expansion in 2022 through the South Dakotans Decide Healthcare campaign.

No on Amendment C (2022)

Fairness Project funded and supported the campaign to defeat proposed Amendment C, which aimed to end majority rule by raising the win threshold for certain citizen-initiated ballot referendums to 60%.

Austin Police Reform (2021)

Fairness Project worked with the No Way on A coalition to defeat Proposition A, which would have forced Austin to cut essential services to spend hundreds of millions more solely on the police department, with zero accountability.

San Antonio Paid Leave (2018)

Fairness Project worked with local partners to qualify a ballot measure in San Antonio, which led to the passage of a city ordinance providing earned paid sick time to more than 350,000 workers.

Medicaid Expansion (2018)

Fairness Project passed a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in Utah in 2018, winning affordable health care for more than 150,000 Utahns.

Reproductive Rights (2022)

Fairness Project worked with the Vermont Reproductive Liberty campaign to pass a ballot measure that will protect reproductive rights in Vermont’s constitution.

Minimum Wage and Paid Leave (2016)

Fairness Project worked with Raise Up Washington on a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage from $9.47 in 2016 to $13.50 and provide paid sick leave for 1 million Washingtonians.