Activate HQ is the online platform custom-built for social media influencer campaigns.

• Creators and Influencers
• Organize campaigns

A tool designed for organizers on the go, giving them needed information at their fingertips to grow power and win real change.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Canvassing

Mobilize communities, raise money, and engage supporters with tools built for teams just like yours.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fundraising tools

A robust and practical service delivery management platform

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Issue reporting

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• cities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

A public engagement toolkit that enables a media house or civil society organisation to easily set up channels for engagement.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Anti-Corruption Virtual Hackathon 2021 in Thailand

• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic hackathons

Act Hub Africa is a ‌civic-tech‌ ‌NGO‌ ‌that‌ ‌works‌ ‌to‌ promote ‌good governance, democracy, ensure‌ ‌openness‌ ‌and‌ ‌transparency‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌local‌ ‌governments‌ ‌by‌ ‌making‌ ‌their‌ ‌fiscal data‌ ‌available‌ ‌in‌ ‌a‌ ‌simplified,‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌understand‌ ‌form‌ ‌and‌ ‌engage‌ ‌people‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌local‌ ‌government‌ ‌areas‌ ‌on‌ ‌how‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌them‌ ‌in‌ ‌engaging‌ ‌their‌ ‌political‌ ‌officeholders

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The right's answer to ActBlue, ActRight aggregates actions and donations to conservative causes

• partisan

• Activism aggregators

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

• apps
• US election 2020

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Take people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

We're a nonprofit fundraising platform for campaigns and organizations and the small-dollar donors who support them

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

A collection of 232 resources for political progressives

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Find organizations, chapters, and groups that are leading the progressive movement.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Tools to build a movement

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

Action Path is a mobile app for civic engagement produced by Erhardt Graeff at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

• apps

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

ActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Action for Transparency (A4T) is a pioneering project that fights corruption and mismanagement of government funds by putting the power to change in the hands of citizens. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. If you don’t have a smartphone, you can find the same functionality on the website. Action for Transparency empowers citizens and government employees to act on corruption experienced in their everyday lives. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. By exposing which institutions and individuals are involved in corruption and providing the data to journalists and activist groups we hope we can make corruption less attractive.

• guides

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open philanthropy
• Tools for Funders

The IA Impact Tracker is a digital platform to help news organizations, funders, and other stakeholders understand the impact of journalism by defining, measuring, and tracking real world change.

• Media
• Evaluate impact
• Journalism

The Audience Community of Practice is a group providing support for audience development news professionals.

• Media
• Peer networks
• Journalism

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• cities

• Media
• Peer networks
• Journalism

CANVAS was founded in 2005 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srdja Popovic to advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy. Since then, we have worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries.

• Campaign organizations
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.

• Media
• Peer-reviewed research
• Investigative journalism tech

A graduate course where students designed an engagement program to inform the city of Tempe, Arizona's climate action plan

• Climate action
• cities

• Courses
• Applied Learning

We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.

• Civil society research outfits
• Research and policy centers

The Impact Job features handpicked social impact jobs across the fields of nonprofits, climate change, and mission-driven businesses.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.

• guides

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance

The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is an international, Brussels-based non-profit organisation with a pan-European membership and more than 30 years of experience.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Supporting public sector from outside government

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

We combine media, data and behavior science to motivate action.

• Media
• Creators and Influencers
• News to action

EUfactcheck, an initiative of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) fights misinformation about European policies and topics. Journalism students from all over Europe factcheck claims made by politicians and others and rate them.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Gather user-generated content for powerful testimonial campaigns. Volunteers can share a personal video (or photo) about why they support your cause, laying the foundation for engaging digital content pushes or lobbying efforts.

• Organize campaigns
• Collect supporters' stories
• Narrative tech

A standalone product for users to query the veracity of text- and image-based claims

• civic features

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

At AI Impact Labs, we are dedicated to helping nonprofits and mission-driven companies stay ahead of the curve by providing comprehensive support and training on using generative AI in their workflows.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

PowerSwitch Action is a national community of organizers, strategists, and leaders forging multiracial feminist democracy and economies in our cities and towns.

• Campaign organizations
• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks

.ORG Impact Awards (OIAs) recognizes and rewards those who have achieved meaningful success, often overcoming difficult challenges with few resources. These people and organizations work tirelessly – together –  in pursuit of their missions – not for recognition or financial gain, but to simply make the world a better place.

• Awards and prizes
• Nonprofit tech

We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.

• Fight disinformation
• Awards and prizes

Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?

• guides

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The Fractional CxO program helps NGOs meet technology and data needs by providing access to a seasoned tech professional for 3 to 9 months.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Nonprofit tech
• Tech talent

ProgressiveActs is a start-up that supports grassroots civic and political mobilization through a package of services and advanced technological tools.

• partisan

• Campaign organizations
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Indus Action helps vulnerable Indians access government entitlements to education, maternity and livelihood support.

• No poverty

• Access social benefits

The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.

• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• Accelerators
• Messaging

The European Commission's country-by-country factsheets containing "the most recent developments that the public administrations of 35 European countries have undergone in 2022. Additionally, a dedicated factsheet for the EU which focuses on all the matters related to digital public administration and interoperability at the European Union level is also available."

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Legislation introduced in the 117th Congress, "To establish a new Federal body to provide reasonable oversight and regulation of digital platforms."

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy

Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."

• guides

• Govtech
• Freedom of Information
• Open government data

ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Ro Khanna, summed it up by saying, “Government exists to serve citizens, and this bill ensures government leverages available technology to provide cohesive, user-friendly online service that people around this country expect and deserve.”

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Digital transformation

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID

The Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.

• Get funding
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking