Organize campaigns
Tools and suites to help organize campaigns. Includes canvassing, texting, email, and other campaign tools.
For specific campaigns, see our Campaigns category. For groups that regularly launch campaigns, see our Campaign Organizations category.
Suggested reading:
- A review of campaign tech by CallHub
- Activism in the Social Media Age: On the fifth anniversary of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, Pew Research Center how Americans view social media’s impact on political and civic engagement (2018).
- What is a digital department? (And why 350.org doesn’t have one). Hanna Thomas writes a piece that epitomizes a trend towards dismantling the digital department in the hopes of diffusing digital skills and systems throughout the entire campaign organization. (2019)
- In When It Comes To Fixing Politics, Tech Needs A Reality-check, Cheryl Contee, Josh Hendler, and Julie Menter unpack why Silicon Valley has failed to grok the political tech market. (2017)
Defending Digital Campaigns
Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and att...
The Online Progressive Engagement Network (OPEN)
We connect and support national digital campaigning organizations around the world which provide opportunities for activists to influence national and international politics.
ActionKit
Tools to build a movement
OpenMedia
OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free.
Campaigning Forum
Campaigners/activists, fundraisers, media experts, creatives, digital specialists, freelancers, and more all come together on the Campaigning Forum (ECF) community discussion list.
Civical
Social Media Management Software for Politics
Parti
시민 참여, 협력, 자치를 확대하는 시민 플랫폼 (Citizen Platforms)
캠페이너 인생게임 | 툴킷 (Campaigner Life Game)
An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign
MyActionCenter
Coordinate your universe of online actions. Create a pattern of regular engagement and watch your support skyrocket. Built on NationBuilder.
Tectonica Digital Campaign Solutions
Our mission is to create a seismic shift in the way politics are done, through innovations that empower social, economic, and environmental justice movements.
Citipo
The All-In-One platform for citizen-centric campaigns
Parti Campaigns
Korean online petition platform for citizen-driven campaigns
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...
Universe
Finally. A platform made for Local Progressive Campaigns
NGP VAN
Trusted by campaigns of every size, NGP VAN's award-winning websites and industry-leading organizing, fundraising, compliance, and digital tools have elected thousands of Democrats to local, state, an...
Conservative Party of Canada app
official mobile app for supporters of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Beautiful Rising
A toolkit of social movement resources by and for global changemakers
Australian Christian Lobby
An example of an issue campaign app
Ragtag
Tech volunteers and activists.
CallPower
Connecting people to power with their phones
DigitaleBox
DigitaleBox CRM is a CivicTech, SaaS Software, a communication CRM for institutions, local & federal governments, candidates and political organizations.
Mobilisation Lab
MobLab enables global campaigners to build a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world by equipping them with strategies, tools, tactics, and partners.
Facebook Ad Archive
The Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products.
Barefoot Law
Barefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.
re:power
We’re transforming how we think about power, who holds it, and how we wield it in our communities — we’re looking at power in every context, and speaking truth to it.
Digital Rights Now
Driving business growth through effective marketing
Open Source Activism
TOOLS TO POWER MOVEMENTS
Megaphone podcast
MEGAPHONE is a community of activists working on issues such as the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ right, transparency and accountability and civic engagement
M-Haki
M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.
Blue Labs
We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.
Princeton Corpus of Political Emails
This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contain...
Obama for America Mobile App
thirteen23’s digital strategy for Obama for America re-imagined grassroots campaigning, lowering the barrier of entry and empowering people to take action.
Civic Sundays
Progressive election action. Postcarding, phone and text banking, voter registration, canvassing. Every Sunday.
Rethink Aadhaar listserv
A group for people critically following the Aadhaar/UID project in India.
Crowd Counting Consortium
A public interest project to document crowds and contention in the United States.
HeLawyer
HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.
Asuntos del Sur
Innovaciones políticas para construir democracias paritarias, inclusivas y participativas
NOSSAS
O Nossas impulsiona o ativismo solidário e democrático no Brasil
Mobilize
Mobilize is a volunteer management platform and network that enables activists, progressive organizations and Democratic campaigns to connect and win.
Famalia
Famalia is an SMS-based tool that seeks to inform people about succession law.
Survey160
Survey 160 is a software-as-a-service tool which seeks to improve traditional polling by using SMS messaging to reach audiences who are not responsive to phone surveys and are underrepresented in exis...
U-Report
U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about
Progressive Coders Network
Progressive Coders Network is a 501(c)(4) non-partisan progressive community of tech and non-tech activists building open-source tools to empower the grassroots and reduce the influence of big money i...
Beautiful Trouble Card Deck
A card deck for revolution
L'Accélérateur de la mobilisation citoyenne
Digital organizing training
OrganizeFor
Color Of Change’s digital petition and training platform
Campaign OS
The All-in-One Campaign Management Dashboard for Democrats and Progressives
Hong Kong ENDGAME
g0v HK's Anti-extradition campaign
Great America app
Great America PAC is committed to bringing people together
Win the White House
Win the White House teaches students in grades 4-12 about the challenges of running for office by empowering them to create and manage their own presidential campaigns.