Creators and Influencers
Tools and methods for organizing creative people and social media influencers in the public interest, such as campaign advocacy, public awareness, or election information.
Suggested reading:
- The future of local news starts here: Creators, AI, and lessons from the 2025 Reimagining Philadelphia Journalism Summit
- Time: How Democrats Are Using Social Media Influencers to Get Out the Vote
- Journal für politische Bildung: Unterschwellige-Botschaften (Subliminal Messages)
- With the DNC, Democrats finally understand that content is king (The Verge)
- Meet the Philly social media influencers making civic content resonate (The Lenfest Institute) 2025
Beast Philanthropy and Rockefeller Foundation Strategic Partnership
Beast Philanthropy, the charitable organization founded by Jimmy Donaldson, the world’s #1 creator known globally as MrBeast, and The Rockefeller Foundation today announced a strategic partnership to...
Philadelphia Media Founders Exchange
The Philadelphia Media Founders Exchange is a community-grounded accelerator program supporting BIPOC media entrepreneurs through training, one-on-one coaching, and grantmaking.
Lenfest Creator Collaborative Program
designed to help local news organizations develop and test strategies that lead to sustainable business outcomes through collaborative partnerships
España en Libertad
Spain's pro-democracy campaign, leveraging digital, influencers, and gaming, to remind the country of its post-Franco freedoms 50 years later.
WHY SHIT NOT WORKING
Councilmember Ossé's Instagram videos explain why NYC's problems don't go away
Athletes as Influencers
Student athletes and coaches are in a unique position as leaders to rise above the noise, elevate civic action, and reach a broad audience of voters on their campuses, communities, and beyond.
WIRED’s 2025 Political Power Users
The creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.
Propper Daley
We help the leaders of culture, advocacy, and business do the most good they can for the most people possible.
Project C
Project C is a weekly newsletter about the practice and business of independent creator journalism, by Liz Kelly Nelson
L.A. TACO Media Lab
USC Annenberg and L.A. TACO have developed a new course, “Bridging the Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists,” which will provide time and space for USC students to contribute to th...
TikTok One Content Suite
Find and amplify the best UGC with TikTok One's Content Suite
Making TikTok, tick
Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK
Trusted Messenger Program
PGP’s health care professional networks, health care professional training program, and its significant health communications infrastructure form one program: the Trusted Messenger Program.
“I always want to do good with my platform:” Evaluating Influencer Experiences Participating in PGP’s Influencer Programs
A survey composed of 21 questions designed to collect qualitative and quantitative data on influencers' experiences working with PGP and their respective influencer-led programs.
A Visual Guide to the Influencers Shaping the 2024 Election
From Hasan Piker to Logan Paul, this interactive display maps how online personalities on the right and the left are using their massive followings to influence the US election.
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Automated Email Marketing & Newsletter Platform (formerly ConvertKit)
NGI Influencers Programme
The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI
Social Currant
We help nonprofits, impact organizations & issue focused organizations collaborate with creators to reach audiences more effectively.
TRIBE
Influencer marketing platform
Feel Good Action
We combine media, data and behavior science to motivate action.
Activate HQ
Activate HQ is the online platform custom-built for social media influencer campaigns.
Upfluence
Influencer marketing, affiliate programs, creator management, user generated content, brand ambassadors: build valuable partnerships to grow your business
Vocal Media
We bring together influential creators and high-impact causes.
Insense
Upscale paid social with creators
Hotmart
All the Tools for your Creator Business to Thrive
Filling the Progressive TikTok Gap
After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the m...
DemCast
The Digital Hub for Pro-Democracy Advocates
Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS)
Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based v...
FactsMatterNg
The ICFJ Knight Fellowship programme in Nigeria is working with influencers and media partners to combat misinformation and fake news in the Nigerian digital media space.
BackMe
Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.
Doublethink Labs
Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and the...
Greenfly
Greenfly is the leader in digital media monetization. The Greenfly software platform empowers organizations to collect, organize and distribute digital media to partners and advocates to build awarene...