Higher Ground Labs is an incubator and accelerator for political technology. We help entrepreneurs building tools to help democratic campaigns win.

• The People
• Get funding
• Build something

Find Top Professionals For Your Campaign

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• Engagement tech
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Flux is a new political party designed to connect Australians directly to Parliament and change politics forever!

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• Engagement tech
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New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

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• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

The Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict, and underreported regions with the equipment, training, and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives.

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Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia

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• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

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• Artificial Intelligence

Un mouvement citoyen indépendant et non partisan qui rassemble et mobilise dans l’action toutes celles et ceux qui veulent une France plus juste, égalitaire, démocratique et responsable

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Since its inception three years ago, CivicSpace (formerly CivicSpace Labs) has made a mark as a relatively prominent open source software developer serving nonprofits, political organizations and campaigns, and online social communities.

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Change makers platform

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Enter your address, get your sample ballot

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Ideas for a hackathon. Upload your project. Add colaborators. Inform status. Share your app.

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• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The resistance is local—welcome! Type in your zip code to find local, independent Indivisible groups in your area that have agreed to organize according to Indivisible’s principles. Come prepared to make plans for action and meet others who are working to resist Trump’s agenda. Register a group

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• Distributed campaigns

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

NationalField was acquired by and folded into NGP VAN

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Wise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.

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• Narrative tech

Raise money online for your nonprofit or charity. Create an online fundraising page for your campaigns and events, or donate to any US registered nonprofit.

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• Get funding

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

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• Advocacy tech

The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.

• census

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The Open Source Peer to Peer SMS Tool

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

CiviCRM is an open source CRM built by a community of contributors and supporters, and coordinated by the Core Team

• Organize campaigns
• CRM
• Manage volunteers

Leading nonprofits, political campaigns, labor unions, and advocacy organizations rely on Amicus's digital organizing tools

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We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.

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• Emerging tech

The world’s platform for change

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The original White House petition site

• United States (federal government)

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Event management tailored for Free and Open Source community conferences.

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• Campaign tools

What’s the connection between a campaign issue and a vegetable? ProPublica President Richard Tofel reminded us this month. “For too many voters, as every editor in her or his darkest heart knows…

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• Media
• Media and social media analysis

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

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• Civic data
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We pursue our mission largely through our award-winning website, OpenSecrets.org, which is the most comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere

• Watchdogging and transparency

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.

• mental health
• youth
• Good health and well-being

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AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

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• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

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The Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.

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• Govtech
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An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.

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Tech Solidarity was a 501(c)4 grass-roots organization with the motto 'technology serves people'. It represents a failed attempt in the period 2016-2018 to organize tech workers around an ethical agenda.

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Reach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.

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Sarkozy's official app

• apps

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• Official campaign apps

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

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• Artificial Intelligence

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

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• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

the social good predecessor to Groupon

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• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which kinds of people respond to which content.

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• Media
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Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

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• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Deep canvassing

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Attendize is an Open-source ticket selling and event management platform and is everything you need for a successful event. Attendize has a wide array of features aimed at making organising events as effortless as possible.

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GL is well known for championing the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, and coordinating an Alliance of over 40 women’s NGOs that campaigned for the adoption and implementation of the Protocol, following its 2016 revision that was adopted by the SADC 36th Summit of Heads of State and Government in Mbabane, Swaziland

The COVID Memorial is a place to share remembrances of loved ones lost to the coronavirus pandemic, and to encourage public health measures that can prevent more deaths in the future.

• Narrative tech
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID

An Android game that provided users with an immersive role playing experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests

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• Media
• Organize campaigns

The original online petition site. 20+ million signatures. Unlike others, we are non-partisan, non-ideological. Just the best tools for your campaign.

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• Campaign tools