A recent ACLU campaign beefed up its major gifts and planned giving

He took that question to his development staff, which created a map of where the ACLU's staff members where situated across its 53 affiliates around the United States. Then they overlaid that against a map of hot spots of civil-liberties challenges — "where there are the biggest issues around immigration, racial issues, where the death penalty is still in effect, where there are LGBT battles being fought," he says. The overlap — or lack thereof — was both disturbing and enlightening.