Create Your Own Personal Fundraising Bat

The Democratic Party will only succeed if everyone steps up to the plate and takes responsibility for our common future. You can step up to the plate -- and encourage your friends, family and contacts to do the same -- by creating a personal fundraising mini-campaign with a baseball bat for a thermometer.

The bat is a symbol that will forever be associated with Governor Howard Dean and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who during his presidential run first came to understand the power ordinary people contributing $20 or $50 could have when they act together.

That campaign is over, but the impact of "the bat" and the ideas of empowerment and personal responsibility in our political process continues to grow.

Create your own bat and track the impact you can make when you step up to the plate -- and make sure everyone on your team gets up to take a swing.

Your fundraising bat is a unique page and a unique total for this fundraising mini-campaign, but will count towards your overall personal fundraising total if you have set up a personal fundraising homepage.