This is not an exhaustive list of all groups or tools in this space. If you have a group or tool that you think we should add to this list, please email us at help@deck.tools!
🥰 Groups that can help
- Analyst Institute
- Collaborates with progressive organizations and campaigns around the country to measure and increase the impact of their programs
- Arena
- Convenes, trains and supports the next generation of candidates and campaign staff
- The Arena Academy toolbox has thorough campaign guides for every subject from campaign management to finance.
- Bluebonnet Data
- Provides volunteer data teams for campaigns
- EMILY's List
- Elects pro-choice Democratic women to office
- Movement School
- Sister organization to the Justice Democrats
- Their mission is to cultivate leaders and organizers to fight on behalf of their working class communities by providing tools and resources to advocate for justice, achieve innovative, locally-driven solutions to key issues, and mobilize grassroots engagement in the democratic process
- National Democratic Training Committee
- Free, in-depth training for Democrats who want to run, work, or volunteer on campaigns.
- NGP VAN Blog
- NGP VAN is a leading technology provider to Democrats
- OpenCampaign
- OepnCampaign maintains an open source library of field tested campaign planning documents and trackers.
- Run for Something
- Helps young progressives run for office
- She Should Run
- Helps women make the decision to run for office
- Three Point Strategies
- Three Point Strategies provides candidate services, leadership development & facilitation and electoral planning and vision
🛠Tools
Fundraising
- ActBlue
- A widely used program by candidates and progressive nonprofits and organizations that helps create strong grassroots fundraising. ActBlue allows people to donate to your campaign online quickly and easily!
- Polaris
- A website for making fundraising calls that allows campaigns to make lists of potential donors, track their donation history, and set up a call time autodialer.
- Call Time
- "Software makes political fundraising faster and more effective through automation and artificial intelligence"
- NGP VAN
- Another widely used program by candidates that can help support call time, targeted email, online action and donations and compliance
Organizing
- Mobilize
- An events and volunteer management tool that allows volunteers to sign up for shifts online while it also syncs with VoteBuilder
- OpenField
- "Everything you need to build your movement and create lasting change all in one place."
- Includes phone banking, canvassing, registering voters, requesting vote-by-mail ballots and provides analytics
- Reach
- A very popular relational organizing tool
- VAN/VoteBuilder
- This is the standard organizing tool for Democratic campaigns. Access to this tool will be given or purchased through state parties.
- Hustle
- A peer-to-peer texting platform that integrates with at least VAN
- GetThru
- Hosts both a phone banking platform that autodials voters and a peer-to-peer texting platform and integrates with VAN and PDI
- CallHub
- Hosts both a phone banking platform and a peer-to-peer texting platform and integrates with many of the classic Democratic tech tools like VAN
Media
- ActionSprout
- Helps you get more out of Facebook ads
- SpeakEasy
- Helps with targeted digital ads and mailers
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