title: 314 Action
text: # 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.
  
  