Expanding the Democratic and progressive data ecosystem by facilitating a real time, blind exchange of voter contact data across the Left.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools
• Voter outreach

We build and maintain data systems designed for the specific data needs of progressive organizations.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The Purpose Platform is a global open source project committed to building multilingual campaigning and organizing tools for social good. Last updated 2015.

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Advocacy tech

Hundreds of campaigns ⁠— from city council races to Bernie 2020 ⁠— rely on Rewired technology and expertise to build political power from the bottom up.

• partisan
• coop

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Built by experts from the Bernie 2020 campaign, Spoke Rewired is the lowest cost peer-to-peer texting tool on the market.

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• CRM

Long-running progressive digital organizing group based in the US

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

A free of charge Consultation Service for Civil Society Organisations and Civic Movements

• coaching

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Accelerators

US-based campaign vendor that does SMS, email fundraising, paid media, direct mail, and more

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

150+ members pooling email audience information to drive list growth, donor growth, reactivation, and advocacy

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Email campaign tools

The [Human Rights Watch] report finds that data collected by the state for administering public services, such as registering for the Covid vaccine, administering tax benefits, and mandatory membership in professional associations, was repurposed to spread Fidesz’s campaign messages.

• reports

• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy
• Reports

Daisychain helps progressive organizations engage their audiences through powerful workflows and authentic conversations.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• SMS tools

An award-winning, minority-owned strategic consulting firm FOR campaign strategy, direct mail, & digital programs

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

Audience development and analytic-driven communications for campaigns

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Capulet is a digital marketing and communications agency that works exclusively with nonprofits and companies that care about people and the planet.

• Campaign organizations
• Social impact design firms
• Nonprofit tech

Frank can instantly provide you a custom and private digital organizing platform.

• labor

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

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
• Story tech
• Narrative tech

PDI has partnered with progressive campaigns, labor unions, and advocacy groups for more than 30 years to help them win on Election Day.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

We bring together influential creators and high-impact causes.

• Organize campaigns
• Creators and Influencers
• Advertising

Political Arena is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim about American power where no two playthroughs are the same. Create your own politician and seek fame or infamy in a fully simulated political world, complete with high stakes campaign strategizing, backroom deals, scandals, special interests, and the press. Be the politician of your dreams (or nightmares).

• Media
• Games and gamification

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

• Organize campaigns
• Creators and Influencers

How do you measure gifts of time, expertise and leadership? What indicators can you use to assess grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives?

• reports

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Evaluate impact

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

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Campaign organizations

Campaign to rally everyone who works on apps for a living wage, transparency on the job, safe conditions, and a voice in their work

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

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

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech

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

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Our mission is to create content that tells the story of humans in public service, share stories that reflect the diversity in America in an effort to humanize public servants, and create a more positive perception of government.

• Govtech
• Story-based campaigns
• Narrative tech

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

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

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
• CRM

Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API

• X (Twitter)

• Specific campaigns
• Fight disinformation

Storytelling AND advocacy campaigns for movements.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients

• Reddit

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Database of hundreds of resources about nonviolent civil resistance

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

PowerLabs helps organizers design and run people-powered campaigns. We provide training, coaching and strategic planning support to build the capacity of organizations, leaders and networks.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.

• 2024 elections

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

EngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology, and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet, and open technologies to create social and environmental change.

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.

• Media literacy
• Games and gamification

PartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• News and blogs

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Participatory democracy

We equip progressive leaders and movements with innovative digital solutions to make social change possible

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

WinWith.Me is the Messenger for Politicians - a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform integrated with NationBuilder for campaigns, NGOs and advocacy.

• Facebook

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Bots

Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work. Hope-based communications acts on the principle that we should be focused on building the world we want, setting the agenda with our values, our goals, our mission.

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Solutions journalism

In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Cybersecurity
• Specific campaigns

We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.

• racial equity
• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Location
• Mapping

We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.

• campaigns
• youth
• students

• Specific campaigns

A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns