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Creative Fundraising Strategies to Energize Your Political Organization or Campaign That Aren’t Call Time
Political fundraising is built on call time, but there are plenty of other ways to help pad your organization or campaign’s bank account and stay funded. Read for 6 creative fundraising strategies.
The Importance of Thank You: How and When to Appreciate Your Donors
Thanking your donors and showing your appreciation is crucial for political fundraising, both for maintaining your organization or campaign’s reputation and for managing donor relationships for future donations. Read on for three ways to show appreciation to your donors.
How Progressive Organizations Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Agenda
Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to overwhelm Democrats and progressives with rapid-fire changes and chaos. Here are 3 strategies that progressive organizations can use to adapt and fight back.
Viral Politics: Capturing Youth Attention on Instagram and TikTok
Reaching young voters is crucial, and there’s no better place to reach them than social media. But just “going viral” isn’t a viable social strategy, so how can we capture youth attention with consistent best social media practices? Read our blog on strategies for engaging young people on Instagram and TikTok!
How to Use Storytelling to Engage Donors for Nonprofits and Organizations
Storytelling is a powerful tool for better fundraising in raising more money and engaging donors to nonprofits and political organizations. Learn why stories are important, what kinds of stories to tell, and how to collect stories for your political organization.
Building Lasting Relationships with Past Board Members
The Board of Directors for political organizations often changes — but this can bring exciting new opportunities! Turn your past board members into your biggest supporters and make your fundraising more efficient with three tips from our latest blog post!
The off-season advantage: Why it’s smart to build your email lists between election cycles
Between big election cycles is the best time to build your email list and newsletter, so when you need it, you already have an audience for voter engagement, volunteering, and donations. Read why you should build your email list between big elections!
3 Ways to Build Fundraising Infrastructure as an Organization for the 2026 Midterm Elections
Build your fundraising infrastructure as a political organization with these three tips to engage your donors and optimize your fundraising efforts.
Professional Campaign Compliance: The best money spent in politics
What’s the best investment you can make in politics? The answer: a compliance professional. If you don’t want to go to jail working in politics, you need someone whose job is to know how to keep you in compliance with the law. Read why in our blog!
America’s Healthcare Checkup: Part 3
Why is American healthcare so bad, and how can we improve it? In this blog series about US healthcare, we’re exploring the quality of our care, public opinion about Medicare, and policies to improve our healthcare. Read about how we can fix the broken system of healthcare in the United States for better quality of care for all!
America’s Healthcare Checkup: Part 2
Why is American healthcare so expensive, and who is paying for medical care? In part 2 of our series America’s Healthcare Checkup, we’ll go over why healthcare costs are so expensive and how American insurance contributes to rising medical costs.
America’s Healthcare Checkup
Why is American healthcare so complicated, and what policies need to change? In this blog series all about American healthcare, healthcare costs, insurance premiums, we’ll break down all you need to know about the American healthcare system and what policies we can put in place to fix it.
Feeling Lost After Losing: Mindful and Strategic Next Steps Post-Election
It’s normal to feel lost after losing an election. But just because you lost your election doesn’t mean you can’t plan strategically for your post-election plans. What do you do after losing an election, and how can you use it as an opportunity for your future political career? Read our blog post on how to plan for your next steps post-election after losing.
Break Free From Desperate Fundraising Emails: How to Mix Fundraising, Engagement, and Heartfelt
How do you mix up different email asks in your strategy to make sure you don’t sound like you’re desperately asking for money? Read our blog on the three main types of email asks and how to use them all to optimize engagement.
Election Anxiety? Here's What You Need to Know About Political Polling
Political Polling — election anxiety may lead you to refresh poll numbers over and over again, wondering why different polls show different results. In this blog, we’ll answer why polls show different numbers, polling methods, and when they may be more accurate.
Voting, but Make it Fun! How to Host a Ballot Party with Friends
Make voting social with a ballot party! Gather your friends together and exercise your right to vote together over pizza and good discussion. Learn how to host a ballot party in this blog post.
Lights, Camera, Election: Film terms to help you understand the political ads you see on TV
Political Advertisements — Election season means an influx of political ads on TV, from campaigns and organizations. Improve your media literacy by understanding the basic film terminology that can help you parse through the visual language of these ads.
The Psychology of Political Messaging
Political messaging is hard to master, especially with the amount of content people see every day. The key is to master storytelling and appealing to people's emotions. Read our blog for tips on breaking through the media noise!
Don’t Sleep on Your GOTV Plan — A step-by-step guide to getting started
As Election Day approaches, your campaign or organization should be going all in on GOTV (Get Out The Vote). That means turning out all your voters and focusing on getting your supporters to the ballot box. But how do you make a GOTV strategy, and how does it tie into your Field plan? Read our blog for some tips on optimizing your GOTV plan!
Why Campaigns Are Ghosting You
Do you get ghosted by political campaigns and organizations when you want to volunteer or get hired? The good news is, there's ways you can get around this phenomenon. Read our blog for tips and advice on how to avoid getting ghosted in politics.