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With Team, users join an online community of supporters and speak directly with their friends about the causes and candidates they care about.
Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).
Outvote is a friend-to-friend texting app for political campaigns. We allow you to digitally volunteer for campaigns by reaching out to your friends with
Through training, research and digital tools, our expertise in relational organizing makes an impact at hundreds of progressive organizations, including Sunrise Movement, AFL-CIO, and Rock the Vote.
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BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.
A free relational organizing technique informed by behavioral science; a lightweight relational organizing approach that reaches non-activists; a commit-to-vote replacement that doesn’t insult your supporters.
OpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.
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