Relational organizing
Suggested reading:
- A postmortem of the BERN mobile app, used primarily for relational organizing
- Learnings from Bernie 2020 National Organizing Staff, including digital mobilization stats. (2020).
- Tactical Tech’s Data and Politics project explores how political campaigns use personal data in pursuit of victory, and the effect this practice may have on democracies. The campaign apps overview is helpful.
- Micah Sifry's Relational Organizing newsletter edition (October 2024)
Reach
The grassroots organizing app that lets you meet people where they are.
VoteRaiser
VoteRaisers empower your supporters to reach out directly to their Democratic friends—encouraging them to register, volunteer, and VOTE for Democrats!
10X Your Vote
Find 10 friends who don't vote and we win.
SwipeBlue
SwipeBlue is a relational organizing app that matches your phone contacts to the voter file and shows you their party and districts. Just swipe blue (left) like Tinder to text them to register, donate...
Relationality Lab
We help people who nurture relationships that drive change prove that their work has impact.
Rally (Relentless)
Rally was built by organizers, for organizers, specifically to measure and scale relational programs.
Relentless
Relentless builds relational mobilization programs and tech to unlock the political power of the relationships we already have.
Donor Organizer Hub
Donor Organizer (n): someone who fundraises for movement causes from their communities
Vote Force
Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family
Instil
Instil holistically manages donors, members, volunteers, advocates and beneficiaries to foster nonprofit connections with their community for maximum impact.
Wappid
A referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp
Empower Project
Through training, research and digital tools, our expertise in relational organizing makes an impact at hundreds of progressive organizations, including Sunrise Movement, AFL-CIO, and Rock the Vote.
Impactive
Impactive is an all-in-one digital organizing platform, offering texting (P2P and broadcast), phone banking, relational organizing, and voter registration tools for campaigns, advocacy orgs, nonprofit...
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...
Outreach Circle
Support your favorite cause or campaign Anytime, Anywhere
Handraiser
Cutting edge software & mobile apps to help you manage any type of campaign. Turn Voters into Votes.
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.
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.