Each time their customers use its services—mobile, long distance or credit card—WA would automatically send a donation to progressive nonprofit groups.

In 1991, the company launched long-distance phone service, promoting the fact that it would donate 1% of its customer charges to nonprofit groups.

It also featured political actions in the customers' monthly bills, urging them to make free calls to elected officials.

"[7] Other major recipients of donations include the ACLU, Doctors Without Borders, Rainforest Action Network, 350.org, and Amnesty International.

[citation needed] Among its environmental activism, the company has focused on moving away from fossil fuels and toward supporting renewable sources.

As such, it has campaigned relentlessly against coal power, natural gas fracking, and more recently, against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

[citation needed] To increase voter turnout in the United States presidential election of 2008, CREDO Action started an initiative called Pollworkers for Democracy, which paid individuals to staff polling places and ensure fair voting practices.

[11] CREDO's political activism includes a wide range of issues – from favoring marriage equality, women's rights, food safety and increased prosecution of fraud and crimes on Wall Street, to opposing corporate money in politics, especially in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v.

Its stated aim was to defeat candidates affiliated with the Tea Party movement, running for re-election to the US House of Representatives.

Its campaign, dubbed "Take Down the Tea Party Ten", helped to defeat 5 of the candidates: Allen West, Frank Guinta, Joe Walsh, Chip Cravaack and Dan Lungren.

In 2014, the CREDO SuperPAC planned to use the same grassroots, volunteer-driven activism to help candidates of the US Democratic Party in five Senate elections.