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)
Grassroot
Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobi...
Aristotle
Aristotle is the leading pioneer in political technology, servicing many of the largest grassroots organizations, PACs and political campaigns in the U.S. and abroad.
NationBuilder
Campaign platform for nonprofits, brands, advocacy groups
Speak Easy
SpeakEasy democratizes the political process by making it cheaper and easier for campaigns to use targeted direct mail to communicate with voters
Attentive.ly
Harness the power of your social data.
Ground Truth
We’re launching nationwide, volunteer-led canvasses to organize our communities against Trump.
OpenSourceActivism Manifesto
For too long, advocacy tools have been fragmented and siloed.
Ecanvasser
Canvassing & voter management software
Mobile text reminders for tax payments in Madagascar
How mobile text reminders earned Madagascar a 32,900% ROI in collecting unpaid taxes
Paul-Brian McInerney circuit riders
This book explains the transition by tracing the brief and colorful history of the Circuit Riders, a group of activists who sought to lead nonprofits across the digital divide
Rocket Chat
Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source. Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution
Simple. Secure. Reliable messaging.
Trail Blazer
Software for Political Campaigns, Nonprofit Donor Management, and PACs
Defend Our Movements
Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in...
Campaigning during Corona
Livestream discussion on March 15th hosted by Movement School and Courage to Change
Blue Utopia
Software and data to help you fundraise, communicate, organize and optimize your campaign.
Slack
Slack gives your team the power and alignment you need to do your best work.
Organise
Over 1 million workers are using Organise to win better pay and conditions at work. Complete your confidential profile page to get started!
Open Petition
OpenPetition is an online petition platform with the goal of protecting the freedom to petition as well as expanding digital participation opportunities across the European Union and beyond.
Change Research
Change Research provides fast, affordable and accurate public opinion polling at 80 to 90 percent less than traditional polls with the goal of ensuring that every forward-thinking candidate and campai...
Mulika
Mulika allows users to annoymously report corruption by government officials and other crimes through SMS. Userscan report a case by sending a text message, which is forwarded to relevant officials.
Meu Rio
Somos o Meu Rio, uma rede de ação por um Rio de Janeiro mais democrático, inclusivo e sustentável.Junte-se às mais de 300 mil pessoas que recebem nossos alertas e participam das decisões políticasque...
Upland Mobile Messaging
Enterprise Mobile Messaging that Drives Results
The Movement Cooperative
By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the che...
BERN app
BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.
SMS reminders from the Office of Court Administration
New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulti...
Catalist
Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia
Count the Nation
The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much censu...
Spoke
The Open Source Peer to Peer SMS Tool
CiviCRM
CiviCRM is an open source CRM built by a community of contributors and supporters, and coordinated by the Core Team
WhatsApp: The Widespread Use of WhatsApp in Political Campaigning in the Global South
The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global...
Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.
Obama for America's organizing trainings
Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.
Center For Political Beauty
An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.
CallHub
Reach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.
Emily's List Training Center
Changing the Conversation Together
Deep canvassing
Swayable
Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which...
Netroots Nation
For more than a decade, Netroots Nation has hosted the largest annual conference for progressives, drawing 3,000+ attendees from around the country and beyond.
The Revolution of Our Times
An Android game that provided users with an immersive role playing experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests
Tech for Campaigns
Tech for Campaigns (TFC) is a community where world class tech talent meets progressive and centrist political campaigns in need of skilled volunteer talent. The promise is not only different politica...
Open Supporter Data Interface
We’re defining an API and data structures to enable true interoperability among products for organizations with progressive values.
Campaign Accelerator Training
Learn to design creative, people-powered advocacy campaigns that transform systems
Dial Power
DISTRIBUTED DIALING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH BEYOND THEIR BASE
Progressive Shopper
Install the Progressive Shopper Chrome extension and quickly understand if you are supporting a brand that is aligned with your values.
SMS for Justice
SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for t...
New/Mode
New/Mode is putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more political campaigners’ pockets.
Jotto Video
Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.
Open Field
OpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.