Dan McGrath
Dan McGrath... is a Senior Strategist at Grassroots Power Project with more than 20 years of community, labor and organizing experience. He served as the founding Executive Director of TakeAction Minnesota and as Executive Director of Progressive Minnesota. He organized school bus drivers with SEIU and has worked on numerous issue and electoral campaigns. Dan’s international experience includes work at the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation in the Republic of Ireland, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) and as an election observer in El Salvador.[1]
Ellison supporters
Key supporters in the 2006 Ellison Congressional campaign included Dr. Josie Johnson, Dan McGrath of TakeAction Minnesota, Larry Weiss and Pam Costain, John Stiles, Shayna Berkowitz, Carla Kjellberg and Dick Kaspari from the National Lawyers Guild, Vic Rosenthal and Frank Hornstein helped organized the Jewish community, Donna Cassutt of the DFL helped out as did Muslims Asad Zaman, Ziad Amre, Makram El-Amin.
Labor officials such as Javier Morillo from SEIU, Bill McCarthy of the Central Labor Council, and Eliot Seide from AFSCME were also invoved.[2]
Health Care for America Now (HCan)
As of Sept 2009 Dan McGrath was Minnesota state contact [3]for Health Care for America Now, representing TakeAction Minnesota (USAction).
National Leading From the Inside Out Alum
Dan McGrath, Executive Director, TakeAction Minnesota, was a 2011 Rockwood Leadership Institute National Leading From the Inside Out Alum.[4]