Higher Ground Labs

Momentum is a behavioral-driven fundraising platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Oakland, California. It enables users to make automatic donations that turn everyday activities into opportunities for charitable giving. By allowing individuals to set predefined giving rules, the platform facilitates donations to a selection of trustworthy nonprofit organizations aligned with users' interests, such as adding a percentage to their restaurant bills to support those in need. Momentum focuses on donor stewardship and impact tracking, ensuring that users can easily contribute to meaningful causes while managing their day-to-day tasks. The company emphasizes evidence-based charity recommendations to maximize the effectiveness of donations.

GroundBase is a technology company that specializes in providing affordable and user-friendly organizing tools tailored for progressive campaigns. Its platform features personalized contact tools, SMS and email capabilities for outreach, and resources for door-knocking and calls. Additionally, GroundBase offers an API that facilitates integration with other platforms, empowering organizers, activists, and advocates to effectively manage and engage with voters, volunteers, and donors. By focusing on the unique needs of progressive campaigns, GroundBase aims to create lasting advantages for its users in their organizing efforts.

Mobilize is an event management and volunteer recruitment platform designed for mission-driven organizations and their supporters. The platform facilitates the recruitment of volunteers, provides organizers with timely updates, and enables the sharing of events with partners. By optimizing social recruitment and leveraging cross-promotions, Mobilize effectively connects activists, progressive organizations, and democratic campaigns, helping them to mobilize resources and achieve their goals.

Torch.tv, Inc. is a digital content platform established in 2016 and based in New York City. The company specializes in tracking and aggregating international content from mission-driven organizations and individuals. Torch provides a real-time intelligence platform that enhances fundraising, communications, and advocacy efforts for these organizations. Its technology allows users to collect and sort various digital media, including emails, social media feeds, blog posts, and videos, into a customizable dashboard. Additionally, Torch enables organizations to create watchlists for monitoring digital outreach, pin important posts for review, and conduct keyword searches across different types of content, facilitating effective engagement and analysis in the mission-driven sector.

OpenField is a mobile-first community organizing tool that empowers organizations, political campaigns, nonprofits, and advocacy groups to enhance their outreach efforts. The platform facilitates various forms of engagement, including traditional canvassing, deep canvassing, phone banking, and voter registration. Its unique Intelligent Auto Turf Cutter allows users to quickly create walkable canvassing areas across cities, while the natural language notes capture and analytics feature transforms individual responses into actionable insights. As the only tool offering these capabilities, OpenField is designed to be highly scalable, suitable for both local initiatives and national campaigns. The application is user-friendly, enabling most individuals to become proficient in its use within minutes and without formal training. Founded by Arianna Trujillo-Wesler and Emily Del Beccaro, OpenField has gained recognition for its innovative approach, winning the Best Software as a Service award at the 2021 Campaigns & Elections CampaignTech Awards. Trujillo-Wesler, an expert in community organizing and political technology, and Del Beccaro, a veteran in national data management, bring significant experience to the company's mission of building community power.

Countable provides virtual community management for corporations, nonprofits, and political campaigns. It uses technology to communicate and strengthen human interconnectedness, delivering technology solutions that facilitate community engagement.

Impactive is a digital platform empowering progressive campaigns and causes. It offers tools for organizing, outreach, fundraising, sharing stories, recruiting volunteers, and encouraging voter participation.

Voter Protection Partners is a Washington, D.C.-based organization founded in 2017 that focuses on enhancing voter protection efforts for political campaigns. The organization provides comprehensive services that include advising campaigns on program design, election day operations, and rapid response strategies. It operates secure tools for managing voter protection teams and for tracking, analyzing, and addressing voting incidents and election administration issues. By collecting and maintaining anonymous voter protection data, Voter Protection Partners offers actionable insights and recommendations that span multiple campaign cycles. Additionally, the organization has developed a mobile application called Guard Donkey, which uses location sharing to assist campaigns in mobilizing volunteers effectively. Through its initiatives, Voter Protection Partners aims to ensure that every vote earned is a vote counted, thereby strengthening the democratic process.

Hustle, Inc. is a technology company that operates an online peer-to-peer text messaging platform designed to enhance communication for organizations. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Hustle provides a software-as-a-service solution that enables users to send personalized text messages for various purposes, including event attendance, fundraising, admissions, recruiting, advocacy, and sales and marketing. The platform facilitates two-way conversations, allowing organizations to engage in authentic dialogues with large audiences, thereby fostering genuine connections with supporters and customers. Hustle’s tools also support goal tracking, contact management, and conversation history viewing, empowering clients to strengthen relationships and broaden their outreach efforts effectively.

Affordable and easy-to-use organizing tools for progressive campaigns, unions, nonprofits, and advocacy groups with teams and budgets of any size.

The Tuesday Company develops software aimed at enhancing supporter engagement for organizations. Its platform is designed to transform political engagement in the digital era by analyzing social media influence and promoting peer-to-peer conversations. Through friend-to-friend outreach and digital organizing, the company's technology enables nonprofits to effectively mobilize volunteers, expand their membership base, and increase fundraising efforts. By focusing on building strong relationships with supporters, The Tuesday Company seeks to drive community involvement and activism.

Mobilize is an event management and volunteer recruitment platform designed for mission-driven organizations and their supporters. The platform facilitates the recruitment of volunteers, provides organizers with timely updates, and enables the sharing of events with partners. By optimizing social recruitment and leveraging cross-promotions, Mobilize effectively connects activists, progressive organizations, and democratic campaigns, helping them to mobilize resources and achieve their goals.