The Northern Indiana College Democrats is a consortium of College Democrat chapter members from the greater South Bend region and includes: University of Notre Dame, Indiana University South Bend, Saint Mary's College, Ivy-Tech Community College, and Bethel College. In February 2008 our organization held its inaugural winter fundraiser. Given the success of the fundraiser, we continued our efforts into the primary election season and helped with several candidates campaigns who shared our values. We acted as gratis consultants into the 2008 general elections as we hosted presidential, gubernatorial, state representative, state senate, county commissioner, county council, and school board candidates in our newly acquired office located next to the largest student voter constituency in the region, Indiana University South Bend. We will continue to work for Democrats in the 2010 elections to ensure a majority in the state legislature and congress.