314 Action
# 314 Action

314 Action is a nonprofit political action committee that seeks to elect scientists in the United States.

## Mission

The mission of 314 Action is to connect people with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math to the skills and funding needed for a successful political campaign.

The group is characterized as a liberal and Democratic-leaning group, since 314 Action uses ActBlue as its payment processing platform and mostly targets Republican-held federal and state positions in its campaigns.

## Founding

The organization was founded in 2016 by researcher Shaughnessy Naughton. Naughton is a business owner and a chemist who ran for Congress in Pennsylvania in 2014.

## Name

The group gets its name from pi (π), a mathematical constant approximately equal to 3.14.

