The Juggernaut is a digital media publication that documents the unstoppable rise of South Asians and South Asia. It was founded in 2018.
We founded one of the world’s largest and most successful online campaigning organizations, OpenMedia, and led campaigns for progressive advocacy organizations and politicians. Our founders saw the power of community-driven campaigns first-hand. Now, we’re putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more campaigners’ pockets. New/Mode was born to help progressive organizations activate grassroots power and win more change.
Savi is a social impact startup connecting the 46 million Americans with student loan debt to optimized repayment and forgiveness options. Our online tool shows borrowers a personalized view of their student loans and a path to student loan freedom.
Swing Left is creating a long-lasting culture of grassroots involvement in winning elections for the left by making it as simple as possible for everyone to have an influence on the elections that determine the balance of power in our nation.
Sunrise Movement builds a movement of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process.
PeoplesHub is a progressive online training platform that connects people to the support, analysis, stories, and skills needed for making positive change within their communities and in the world.
Whether you are running for office, organizing your community, or developing a breakthrough technology, your success depends on your ability to inspire others to act - to vote, to volunteer, to invest, to take a chance on a new idea. Avalanche Strategy's mission is to empower you to do just that. Avalanche Strategy leverages the science of human cognition to craft communications that resonate, activate, and win. We transform great ideas for the future into reality today.
Luz Collective is a company that celebrates Latina strength, creativity, and success through storytelling. As they promote Latina individuality they go beyond the stereotypes of most mainstream stories. By centering the experiences of Latinas of all walks of life, they are elevating issues that are important to Latinas including healthcare, immigration, and education. It was founded by Lucy Flores in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
Prism is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that centers on the people, places, and issues currently underreported by the national media.
Pulso is an organizing platform working to increase the political power of the projected 32 million Latinx voters across the country by creating deep digital relationships with their subscribers. It is a non-profit media start-up that shares news, history and culture stories by Latinos, for Latinos, dedicated to keeping the pulse on nuestra gente.
In response to the sustained and increasingly visible violence against Black communities in the U.S. and globally, a collective of more than 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country have come together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda. Their resistance and rebellion are not new, but like other times in history have come to a critical mass, and the bravery of those in Ferguson and across the country captured the attention of the world. A year ago, over 2,000 of us gathered in Cleveland to reflect on the state of their movement for liberation and celebrate their people, both those who have fallen and those who have survived. It was there that they began the process of uniting to articulate a shared vision of the world they want to live in. Cleveland reaffirmed what they already knew. Neither their grievances nor their solutions are limited to the police killing of their people. State violence takes many forms – it includes the systemic underinvestment in their communities, the caging of their people, predatory state and corporate practices targeting their neighborhoods, government policies that result in the poisoning of their water and the theft of their land, failing schools that criminalize rather than educate their children, economic practices that extract their labor, and wars on their Trans and Queer family that deny them their humanity. On the last day of the conference hundreds gathered to have strategy conversations about what liberation would look like and the policies, organizing and resources that would be needed to get us there. During those conversations they received a mandate – it was time to articulate their vision and unite behind it. In response to this mandate, the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table engaged in a year long process of convening local and national groups to create a United Front. The result of their collective efforts is this platform. In addition to the groups in the United Front, they have also engaged their people. They have received feedback from hundreds of people through surveys, national calls, organizational membership, engaged dozens of other organizations, researchers, and other individuals for their insights and expertise to begin developing a framework for shared policy priorities. It does not include every policy Black people should be working on, but elevates those for which there was shared energy and action in this political moment. Their hope is that this is both an articulation of their collective aspirations as well as a document that provides tangible resources for groups and individuals doing the work. They recognize that some of the demands in this document will not happen today. But they also recognize that they are necessary for their liberation. For each of the 30+ policies in the document, they have policy briefs that describe the steps that must be taken to get us closer to their liberation. These briefs include information about whether legislation can happen at the local, state or federal level, information about groups already working on related projects, and resources including model legislation and talking points. They want this platform to be both a visionary agenda for their people and a resource for us. They take as a departure point the reality that by every metric – from the hue of its prison population to its investment choices – the U.S. is a country that does not support, protect or preserve Black life. And so they seek not reform but transformation. As this platform launches in the context of the Democratic National Convention, they also recognize that neither mainstream political party has their interests at heart. They know all too well that the reforms that have passed at the local and state level do not address the root causes of the killing, dehumanization, and torture of their people. Instead, many increase police budgets and diagnosis the problem as one of “implicit bias” or “bad apples.” At best these are band aids on gaping bullet wounds, and at worse they are interventions that simply increase corporate and state power and make it easier for the state to devalue and destroy their communities. Their history has taught us that they must create their own agenda, they must implement it, and they must hold elected leaders accountable to following through. In a long tradition of Black covenants for Freedom, from the African National Congress Freedom Charter to the Black RadicalFreedom Agenda, they offer this document as an articulation of their aspirations in this moment. They are Black people from all walks of life – young, elder, queer, cis, trans, differently abled. They have come together in the rich tradition of their ancestors to imagine new ways forward for their liberation. They are dreamers and doers knowing that their work draws on the best of their history but must go beyond it to forge a fierce, free and beautiful future together that they can only imagine into reality. The M4BL Policy Table will focus on supporting the development and implementation of visionary and uncompromising local, national, and international policy objectives aimed at ending state-sanctioned violence against Black communities. The table will do this by: - Coordinating, supporting, and elevating local policies that divest in policing, invests in strong communities, and ensure community control - Work to change the national narrative around policing & incarceration, serving as a hub for innovate and visionary thinking inspired by the need to challenge existing federal policy, laws and regulations, struggle to find alignment with regards to national demands, and collaborate on the development of transformative national policies - Use upcoming international opportunities and human rights mechanisms to expose the systemic human rights violations inflicted on black communities, the linkages between people of African descent in the US with other Black people around the world, make connections with oppressed people globally, and chip away at American exceptionalism
Wonder Media Network is an audio-first media company with a mission to amplify underrepresented voices. Wonder Media Network is a pioneering audio-first media company that uses stories to inspire action, promote equality and justice, and introduce empathy into politics, business, and culture. It was started in 2018 and is based in New York.
Contest Every Race is a coalition that is working to improve Democrats’ and progressive allies’ ability to recruit candidates. It brings together diverse partners in communities across the country in finely targeted, focused campaigns to attract and support first-time candidates, and provide all the resources they need to file and run.
CommunityConnect Labs is a leading provider of mobile messaging tools for local government agencies and service providers to count low-income and hard-to-reach communities in the Census or to connect them with the services they deserve such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), utility assistance, and workforce development opportunities.
Upsolve helps low-income Americans get a fresh start after sudden financial shocks by automating bankruptcy. It provides a free online tool that asks users questions and generates a Chapter 7 bankruptcy forms, after that, the company's lawyers will review the forms.Jonathan Petts and Rohan Pavuluri founded Upsolve in June 2016, with its headquarters in New York City.
Center for Tech and Civic Life modernize the American voting experience by harnessing the promise of technology. They connect Americans with the information they need to become and remain civically engaged and ensure that their elections are more professional, inclusive, and secure.
OpenField is a mobile first community organizing tool that lets organizations, political campaigns and parties, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations build power with anyone, anywhere. They offer support for multiple types of outreach including traditional canvassing, deep canvassing, blind knocking, and phone banking as well as voter registration. Their Intelligent Auto Turf Cutter turns whole cities into walkable turfs that don’t cross rivers or highways in just a few minutes while their natural language notes capture + analytics means that their customers can deep canvass and listen to their community at scale - turning thousands of individual responses into actionable insights. They are the only tool on the market to offer these features. OpenField is highly scalable - able to be used for everything from neighborhood actions to national campaigns. The tool is also easy to learn, with most users able to become proficient in how to use the product in just a few minutes, with no training. OpenField won Best Software as a Service at the 2021 Campaigns & Elections CampaignTech Awards. OpenField was founded by Arianna Trujillo-Wesler and Emily Del Beccaro. Arianna Trujillo-Wesler is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpenField. With nearly 20 years of experience to her credit, she is a nationally recognized expert in community organizing, political technology, and movement building. She has been the Deputy National Data Director for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign and has worked for Wellstone Action, the AFL-CIO, the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, NationBuilder, and the Sierra Club among others before Co-Founding OpenField. Ari is a non-binary, Afro-Xicana and hails from the East Side of San Jose. Emily Del Beccaro is the Co-Founder of OpenField. A veteran of several political campaigns over the last 10 years, she is a national data expert and one of just a handful of people to have built a national voter file from scratch. She has been a key member of the data teams at both Target Smart, the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, the 2012 Obama presidential campaign, and NationBuilder before Co-Founding OpenField. Emily is a diehard sports fan, especially for teams from her hometown, Seattle.
Supermajority is a membership based organization dedicated to making women the most revered voting bloc in the country. They train volunteers, organize communities, and turn out voters.
Mobilize is a events management and volunteer recruitment platform that connects mission-driven organizations and supporters.The company's platform allows users to recruit volunteers, keep organizers up to date and share events with partners, enabling activists, progressive organizations and democratic campaigns to connect and win.
mRelief is a Chicago-based all-woman software development team. The company's niche is streamlining social services delivery through eligibility determination for public benefits done through adaptive questionnaires available online and through text messaging. mRelief is contracted with the City of Chicago to build tools to help low-income parents determine eligibility for early childhood programs. In addition, we have launched the Public Template, a universal tool in private beta that helps program providers generate their own eligibility screeners, view data, and customize response pages.
Run for Something helps recruit and support young people running for office. Run for Something recruits and supports young diverse progressives running for local office for the first time.
Spread The Vote helps people obtain government-issued photo IDs and provides nonpartisan voter education. It obtains government-issued photo IDs for eligible voters in voter ID states. STV’s volunteer chapters obtain necessary documents, pay fees, and provide advocacy and transportation to help voters obtain IDs, register to vote, and get to the polls – not to mention access critical services the rest of the year.
Jolt Action builds the collective voice, power, and influence of the Latino community.
Movement Labs combine data, technology, and experimental methods with an army of passionate volunteers to build power. Since its launch in 2017, Movement Labs has sent over 200 million texts, worked with some of the nation’s top progressive organizations and campaigns in all 50 states, and mobilized over 11,000 volunteers for change.
Equality Labs provides a digital security curriculum, training, and assessments that help campaigns and advocacy groups make decisions.
SaverLife is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that aims to assist millions of Americans in improving their savings habits. By utilizing engaging technologies and forming strategic partnerships, SaverLife provides working individuals with the tools and motivation necessary to gain control over their financial futures. The organization offers user-centric savings programs, analytical insights, and policy initiatives designed to empower working families to achieve financial prosperity through effective saving strategies.
Weird Enough Productions is a multimedia production company that specializes in original content creation and media literacy education. The company uses creativity, collaboration, and new media to create original content that illuminates the complexities of the human condition from perspectives that are often overlooked by mainstream media.
The Movement Cooperative provides the best available data, technology, and resources to the progressive community and to increase its collective power and impact.
The GO PYT platform is a hybrid and innovative model used to finance higher education costs. They use the traditional financing model with technology to secure funding for college in an disruptive way. The platform uses a strategic secured financing concept with a credit risk profile to extend credit to parents and students in a cost effective and low risk concept.
BallotReady is an online, non-partisan voter guide for local elections. It provides easy-to-digest information about all candidates and referendums on a user’s ballot. BallotReady was launched in January 2015.
Swayable is a creative testing platform that marketers use to measure how their ads perform before they launch them, using their powerful Persuasion Intelligence data platform.
Hustle is a peer-to-peer text messaging platform that provides organizations across the country with an affordable, efficient, and effective tool to reach their target supporters and customers. By facilitating two-way conversations, Hustle’s users can maintain genuine, personal dialogues with hundreds, thousands, and even millions of people.
Townhall Project empowers constituents across the country to have face-to-face conversations with their elected representatives. Town Hall Project is dedicated to the conviction that democracy is stronger, fairer, and better when Americans and their elected representatives regularly meet face-to-face.
Indivisible is an organization that builds a model for how local activism can affect real change in Congress. Indivisible is a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.
Daily Action is an SMS-based app empowering >270k citizens to call Congress with a quick swipe of the phone.
Sister District provides professional training, advice, and guidance to help candidates and staff build winning campaigns. Their electoral program works to get democrats elected to strategic state legislative seats by supporting campaigns.
VoterCircle, Inc. develops a friend-to-friend outreach platform that helps individuals support their favorite candidates and campaigns or organizations. The platform combines email with the personal touch of phone and door. The platform can predict, identify, and help recruit the most highly connected influencers in campaign’s electorate. The company caters to the local, state, and federal levels, including races for school board, city council, ballot measures, state legislatures, U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Senate. VoterCircle, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Altos, California.
AerialSpaces is a full-service virtual event SaaS platform. We help organizations of all sizes plan, launch and manage immersive and engaging virtual experiences rather the 1-way marketing webinar of the past.
Notifica is a software company that connects immigrants at risk of deportation with their support networks when needed. With the uncertainties that immigrants live in the United States now, Notifica delivers a way for people who might be in danger to connect and protect each other.
Mijente combines digital and offline organizing with creative media to inspire activists. A new political home for Latinx and Chicanx organizing.
illumis’s data access solutions aggregate public records data from thousands of sources - providing the information you need to know, when you need to know it. We help our customers in finance, politics and media use public data to enhance transparency and reduce risk.
Ragtag is building the future of tech volunteerism. Progressive technologists are eager to jump in and make the change they want to see in the world. At Ragtag, They help them do it responsibly, by helping them understand the work of organizers on the ground, around the country, who have been working in their communities for decades. The Ragtag community values learning about progressive organizing, past and present, and how technology fits into this intricate landscape. They have trainings and webinars for Their volunteers, covering the basics of campaigns and campaign tech, and opportunities for volunteers to build their skills by learning from community members. Ragtag also organizes an ongoing virtual conference called Listen Up, which is available to the public.
Amplify is a free, non-profit app that empowers the resistance by helping teams take action together. It is a mobile app for grassroots groups that gets members in the habit of taking their group’s recommended actions and cheering each other on
Stay Woke is an organization and digital accelerator that engages learners, builders, and activists in the work of equity and justice. They intend to deliver wealth, health, and spiritual news to inspire you to make wiser choices about living.
Online SOS is a nonprofit that serves and supports people experiencing online harassment. Online harassment goes beyond cyber-bullying to include stalking, threats of violence, hacking, impersonation, and nonconsensual pornography, among other forms. They provide free, direct services for those experiencing any type of online harassment. They are a team of mental health, business, and tech professionals who are concerned about the state of online spaces. They have seen threats of violence get lodged often anonymously and without consequences. The same way there are social norms in real life, they see communities are in the process of building digital ones. Their founders created Online SOS based on their conviction around the importance of addressing online abuse and harassment, based on their personal experiences.
PushBlack believes in the power of Black history. It’s only when they study and understand the past that they can push forward for a better future. They’re a nonprofit media platform reaching over 3 million subscribers with their inspiring Black history and news stories. They also use the power of Black history to mobilize their subscribers to vote and take action.
MPower Change is a non-profit, is a Muslim-led digital organizing and storytelling project advancing social justice. It uses organizing, campaigning, and storytelling to build the grassroots power of American Muslims and advances social, spiritual, racial, and economic justice for all people. MPowerChange debuted online in December 2015 and within weeks established collaborations with some of the country’s largest online activism groups (like MoveOn and ColorOfChange) and with leading American Muslim groups including the Council on American–Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America.
Planet Protector Academy is a non-profit, trains superheroes of environmental protection through interactive media and live theatre. They have reached over 900,000 young children in 62 cities across Canada since 1997, with a powerful mix of comedy, offline arts activities, and games, video, gamification, kindness, story, and fun.
WITNESS is an international organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights. The organization trains and supports activists and citizens around the world to use video safely, ethically, and effectively expose human rights abuse and fight for human rights change. It identifies critical situations and teach those affected by them the basics of video production, safe and ethical filming techniques, and advocacy strategies. Some of the topics covered by the organization include gender-based violence, Middle East and North Africa Transitions, child soldiers, human trafficking, elder abuse, climate change, internally displaced persons, and more. WITNESS was founded by Richard Branson, Michael Posner, and Peter Gabriel in 1992.
Developer of a platform and mobile application to boycott products and companies while shopping. The platform helps consumers share and amplify their values, and manage where their money goes by allowing them to scan products and join campaigns to reward good companies, and avoid those who do not align with their values.
Owlized provides location-based virtual reality solutions which help people connect deeply with the most visited destinations on Earth. OWL VR and our mobile mixed-reality tools help travelers experience cultural heritage while enabling citizens to visualize and influence the future of cities.
Attentive.ly shows a business or nonprofit what their email marketing list is saying on social media, so they can target messages to specific groups of people, based on interest and influence. It reveals the "influencers" on an email list, what topics are trending among that key audience, and who is talking about that brand (or competitors). Attentive.ly brings "Enterprise Listening"-level data to Social CRM.
CrowdTangle makes it incredibly easy to find and track content on the social web.