Sponsors

PREMIER SPONSORS

ActBlue is a nonprofit organization that builds innovative, mission-driven fundraising technology and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns and progressive-aligned causes. We envision a democracy where everyone looking to shape the future of our country can easily and effectively deploy their resources, energy, and creativity to build change.

The American Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, was founded in 1916 and today represents 1.7 million members in more than 3,000 local affiliates nationwide.

Black Male Voter Project works to increase the number of Black men that are super voters. As the only national organization that solely focuses on the voting habits of Black men, we launched this organization because we saw the shortcomings in current techniques as methods of reaching Black men who were not super voters. Traditional campaigning is insufficient to expand the universe of sporadic or low information Black men that participate in the electoral process.

Daily Kos is the nation’s largest online progressive media and activism hub, reaching over ten million readers and activists every month. While presidents and senators have contributed to Daily Kos, its real power is rooted in its four million-member community, who use the platform to fight for progressive change.

Progressive organizations rely on Mobile Commons as a key driver of fundraising and in-the-moment advocacy messaging. Meet the team to learn how they help organizations acquire and engage supporters, rally members and voters with GOTV and click-to-call campaigns, launch successful text-to-give campaigns, and much more.

Pacifica Strategies is a California based public affairs and strategic communication firm with a national footprint offering cutting-edge strategy, training, and cross-channel media relations services to entities and individuals with defined theory of change to push for peace, prosperity, and justice.

SPONSORS

Action Network is a powerful digital mobilization tool that powers unions, political campaigns, and progressive organizations across North America. Thousands of organizations use our tools to mobilize communities, raise money, and engage supporters. Action Builder is a powerful organizing tool designed for organizers on the go, giving you needed information at your fingertips to grow power and win real change. The tool was built with organizers for organizers and incorporates the time-tested tools that organizers have used for decades to build power, from wall charts to assessments and beyond.

BallotReady’s platform and API make it easy to contact office holders, recruit candidates, and mobilize voters, powered by the most comprehensive database to every level of government. Since our launch in 2015, BallotReady has ensured millions of voters and partner organizations have had access to high quality information on every electoral race and ballot measure as well as the tools needed to take part in our democracy.

Blue Dot Consulting is a strategic consulting firm at the intersection of politics and advocacy.  We help candidates, caucuses, and causes exceed their goals and successfully carry out their missions. Our key offerings are: General Consulting, Digital and Organizing. Notable projects include Charles Booker 2020, the Kentucky Future Project, advocacy with KY ACLU and more.

Brightlines helps folks bring their diversity of lived experiences to the movement – safely. We search dozens of databases for your personally-identifiable information, assess the findings by risk, provide analysis, and offer actionable next steps. Brightlines has your back so you can do the work and serve your communities without fear of retaliation.

CallHub is your ultimate campaign-organizing tool. With seamless outreach, phone banking, canvassing, and groundbreaking GOTV campaigns, we’re not just another tool – we’re an active member of your campaign. Whether you’re a grassroots campaign or gearing up for 2024, let’s talk and get ready to win. Our track record speaks for itself: 200 million texts and 200 million call minutes, empowering campaigns and making a difference. Join over 40,000 onboarded users to Connect, Organize & WIN!

The Center for Constitutional Rights works creatively to advance and defend the constitutional and human rights of social justice movements and communities under threat and helps them build power. We are committed to dismantling systems of oppression and fighting for justice through litigation, advocacy, and narrative shifting.

The Center for Popular Democracy is a national network of more than 50 community organizations dedicated to achieving racial and economic justice through local grassroots organizing. CPD trains and supports leadership, staff, and members to grow base-building organizations to scale and leverage that strength to win cutting-edge policy victories at the federal, state, and local levels.

Communications Workers of America (CWA), an international labor union representing workers in both the public and private sectors, is a leading voice for democracy and economic justice. CWA members work in telecommunications, customer service, media, airlines, health care, public service and education, manufacturing, tech, video games, and other fields.

People living in our nation’s capital pay full federal taxes, fight and die in wars and serve on juries; yet are still denied voting representation in the U.S. Congress. DC Vote envisions a more fair America where residents of DC are equal citizens. Where we gain the equal freedom to control our budget, pass our own laws without Congressional interference and have full equality in the U.S House and Senate. This will be guaranteed only through DC Statehood. Full equality is a civil right that the 700,000 residents of DC deserve.

The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is an independent voluntary political organization organized to support Democratic governors and candidates across the nation. The DGA is proud to support the Democratic governors in 23 states and 4 U.S. territories, as well as the mayor in Washington, D.C.

Like a LinkedIn for the Left. GAIN Power is a networking and marketing platform for the communities of progressive professionals and organizations working to impact democracy, elections, and advocacy. Most known for our career center and popular listserv Jobs That Are Left. We recently launched a new awards program to recognize and honor political professionals called: PowerfulIDEA.org

GetThru was created by veterans of Bernie 2016, where we helped build the campaign’s historic voter contact operation. In the process, we saw the need for better technology to reach people where they are—on their cell phones. Our P2P texting and calling tools empower our clients to connect with members, supporters, and volunteers to reach their goals. To date, GetThru clients have sent more than 1 billion texts and made over 750 million calls.

Grow Progress helps you persuade more people for good—with science. Our suite of tools allows you to understand the values that motivate your audience, identify your winning messages and most moving creative, then measure its impact. Built by the movement, for the movement.

Impactive is the leading all-in-one digital organizing hub for progressive campaigns and causes. Our comprehensive platform (texting, calling, relational, voter registration, and more) powers fundraising, organizing, and outreach programs for huge nationwide organizations and grassroots teams alike. 2,000+ partners, from Biden/Harris to Planned Parenthood, When We All Vote, SEIU, and many more, have leveraged Impactive since 2017.

The Informed Meetings Exchange (INMEX) provides complimentary meeting planning services. Unlike traditional third-party meeting planners, we provide socially responsible sites for your meeting that respects their workers, communities and the environment. Founded with support by UNITE HERE, the hotel workers’ union, INMEX ensures union hotels that are free of labor disputes.

Matchbook connects troves of data on the decisions voters made in the past and the context driving those decisions with cutting-edge LLMs trained on successful outcomes to instantly estimate how your content might perform. These models can also help you develop customized content for your audience at the individual level.

MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive.

MoveOn is the largest independent, progressive, digital-first organization in the U.S. MoveOn combines nimble, rapid-response advocacy campaigning with deep strategic analysis, rigorous data science and optimization, and a culture of member listening and participation that allows us to consistently and quickly identify opportunities for progressive change—and mobilize millions of members in every U.S. county and state to seize them.

The National Women’s Law Center advances gender justice—working across issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. We use the law in all its forms to change culture and drive solutions toward gender equity. For more than 50 years, we have been on the leading edge of every major legal and policy victory for women.

New Media Ventures is a mission-driven venture fund and investor network. We find, fund and support startups that are building movements, expanding narratives and accelerating civic engagement. In 12 years, we’ve supported 110+ startups that are revolutionizing the political landscape by leveraging technology to expand the reach of progressive ideas.

NGP VAN is the leading technology provider to Democratic and progressive campaigns and organizations, as well as nonprofits, municipalities, and other groups, offering clients best-in-class fundraising, compliance, organizing, and digital products. With our family of movement-building brands, including Mobilize and ActionKit, we can provide all the technology you need to win your campaign or advance your organization’s cause. We have helped campaigns and organizations nationwide generate hundreds of millions of actions, power over a billion contact attempts, and raise and track billions of dollars. While we’ve powered the progressive political space for decades, we partner with campaigns and organizations fighting for a better future.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit membership organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The Action Fund engages in educational, advocacy, and limited electoral activity, including grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, and voter education.

Population Connection Action Fund is: raising awareness of the need to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s resources fighting to ensure that everyone in the world has access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including the full range of contraceptives and safe abortion care; mobilizing our grassroots base to advocate for progressive reproductive health policies at the federal level; and endorsing candidates who support everyone’s right to control their own reproductive destinies.

Run for Something recruits and supports passionate, diverse, young progressives running for local office. We support them with coaching, mentorship, resources, endorsements, and with a strong community of other candidates. At Run for Something, we believe that we have to compete everywhere, run for and win local elections, and fight for our values at every level of government in order to build sustainable power. Run for office with us, and we’ll help you every step of the way.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) unites 2 million diverse members in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. SEIU members working in the healthcare industry, in the public sector and in property services believe in the power of joining together on the job to win higher wages and benefits and to create better communities while fighting for a more just society and an economy that works for all of us, not just corporations and the wealthy.

TargetSmart provides innovative, full-service solutions to a diverse set of clients to achieve a myriad of marketing, fundraising and advocacy goals. We pride ourselves on our unique approach to omni-channel marketing, digital fundraising and issue advocacy campaigns. Combining decades of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies and innovative tools, our team has developed a signature approach to running effective campaigns, which we’ve used to achieve successful outcomes for our clients for almost two decades.

Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.

The United Steelworkers (USW) is North America’s largest industrial union, proudly representing 1.2 million workers and retirees. USW members are employed in metals, mining, pulp and paper, rubber, chemicals, glass, auto supply and the energy-producing industries, along with a growing number of workers in health care, public sector, higher education, tech and service occupations.

UNITE HERE represents over 300,000 workers throughout the U.S. and Canada who work primarily in hotels, casinos, airports, and food service. Our membership hails from the diverse communities that make up the two countries, and the majority of UNITE HERE members are women. Across North America, we have turned hundreds of thousands of traditionally low-wage jobs into family-sustaining, middle class jobs. We believe: One Job Should Be Enough. We continue to organize and fight to win respect for the work we do, power in our industries, and a better future for ourselves and our families.

At Vera Action, we harness the power of advocacy, lobbying, messaging research, and political strategy to end mass incarceration, protect immigrants’ rights, restore dignity to people behind bars, and build safe and thriving communities.

VOTE411.org is a “one-stop-shop” for all the election information you need, available in English and Spanish. Check your voter registration, find your polling place, learn about candidates, and more. Brought to you by the League of Women Voters Education Fund.

MEDIA PARTNERS

Abortion Access Front is a coven of hilarious badass feminists whose mission is to infuse humor into reproductive rights spaces while also dropping knowledge and activism into our pop culture and our social lives. Our goal is to inspire folks who have not been active in the feminist and reproductive rights movements to get up and get active.

Baltimore Beat is a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and media outlet. Our mission is to honor the tradition of the Black press and the spirit of alt-weekly journalism with reporting that focuses on community, questions power structures, and prioritizes thoughtful engagement with our readers. We aim to serve all of Baltimore City, including those with limited internet access and those who are a part of underrepresented communities. Our organization aspires toward a more equitable, accountable, and rigorous future for journalism that fully represents the stories of all our neighbors.

DemList is a free national political column and resource site dedicated to the mission of educating and informing Democrats, allies and the electorate about the issues, politics and the players of the day. The concise and trusted DemDaily content is framed to explain one topic per day to the average voter, but is read by self-subscribed national, state and local party and elected officials, labor, organizations, lobbyists, Hill staff, press, donors and activists – in every state, the territories and 50 countries. DemList is the premier party-recommended resource for the 2024 Democratic National Convention, and host to the Convention Calendar.

In These Times is an independent, nonprofit magazine dedicated to advancing democracy and economic justice, informing movements for a more humane world, and providing an accessible forum for debate about the policies that shape our future.

Who Do We Think We Are? We’re MSW Media, a female-led podcast network of like-minded irreverent shows that shine a light on the truth in politics, news, and the arts. Our mission is to expand the community of compassionate and engaged listeners to prepare for future mobilization and activism. MSW Media provides support to podcasters through marketing, consulting, production, and monetization, allowing the creator to focus on creating.

Organizer Memes is a group of progressive digital strategists/influencers who use their knowledge of memes to help Democrats take back the internet! What started as a way to let off steam during the 2020 cycle has grown into a home for classic memes, democratic networking, and general support for everyone frustrated by the state of politics

The American Prospect has the mission of tracking power from Washington to the corporate boardroom, and showing how innovative policy can bring that power closer to the people. When you become a member or donate, your support goes directly to this editorial mission. And, it’s 100% tax deductible. Thank you!

For over 100 years, The New Republic has championed liberal ideas and challenged popular opinion. Our journalism debates complex political and social issues, and takes a stance, promoting novel solutions for the most critical. Through ambitious journalism and innovative storytelling, we seek to inspire the next generation of decision makers through conversations in print, online, and in person.  We are the voice of creative thinkers, united by a collective desire to challenge the status quo.

The Progressive Inc. is an educational nonprofit which publishes The Progressive magazine, a voice of the progressive movement. First published on January 9, 1909, the magazine is published bi-monthly, with a website (progressive.org) that publishes articles daily. The Progressive Inc. also runs two projects: Public Schools Advocate and Progressive Perspectives, a project that distributes op-eds from diverse voices to newspapers around the country.

The Real News Network (TRNN) makes media that lifts up voices from the frontlines of struggle around the world. We provide journalism and analysis that doesn’t just inform people about their world, but empowers them to join the fight to save it before the oligarchs, the corporate conglomerates, and the corrupt politicians destroy everything we hold dear. We are former factory and service workers, prisoners, organizers, and students. Now, we are journalists, armed with microphones, cameras, and a commitment to people power, justice, freedom, a livable planet, and an economy that works for all of us, and we are bringing our journalism to those who need it. TRNN doesn’t give voice to the voiceless, because everyone has a voice—we just turn up the volume.

The Progressive show Politics Done Right with Egberto Willies takes the mystery out of politics. It empowers you to demand a government by We the People. Liberal, Conservative or otherwise, you get to air your point of view. We provide what the mainstream media won’t. The show is yours!