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Movement campaign & organizing strategy

Build power. Win campaigns. Govern.

We're a political consulting firm for the movement. We help campaigns and organizations recruit and train candidates, structure their organizations and stay compliant, and develop the policy they run and govern on.

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Nonprofits & 501(c)(4)s Labor unions Candidates & campaigns Advocacy coalitions

Services

What we do

We work with movement campaigns and organizations in four areas: candidate recruitment, training, compliance, and policy.

Candidate Recruitment

We help organizations find and recruit candidates, vet them, and prepare them to run. We focus on candidates who reflect the districts they want to represent.

  • Identifying winnable districts and potential candidates
  • Candidate vetting and research
  • Helping first-time candidates prepare to run

Training

We train candidates, campaign staff, and volunteers. Sessions are built around your campaign rather than a standard curriculum.

  • Candidate and campaign manager training
  • Field, fundraising, and digital fundamentals
  • Train-the-trainer programs to build your own capacity

Compliance

We advise on how to structure your organization — nonprofits, (c)(4)s, PACs, and how they relate — and on a compliance strategy that keeps your political work within the rules. We do the strategy and structure, not filings or legal advice.

  • Multi-entity structure for nonprofits, (c)(4)s, and PACs
  • Compliance strategy for nonprofit political activity and coordination rules
  • Backed by our own research tool, Canvass Law

Policy

We help campaigns and elected officials develop policy: setting an agenda, drafting legislation and platform language, and planning how to pass it.

  • Legislative agenda and platform development
  • Policy research and drafting
  • Transition and governing support after an election

Our tools

Software we've built

We've built software to research legal and compliance questions and to make that research available to organizers, not only lawyers.

Election & campaign-finance law

Canvass Law

A searchable database of federal and state election law: FECA, the Voting Rights Act, FARA, IRS nonprofit rules, FEC advisory opinions and enforcement actions. Plain-language research on contribution limits, disclosure, and what nonprofits can and can't do.

Visit canvasslaw.com → Housing & tenant law

Tenant Wiki

A guide to tenant law across dozens of jurisdictions, with answers on rights and deadlines and tools to generate demand letters.

Visit tenantwiki.com →

Our approach

How we work

We come out of organizing and nonprofit work rather than traditional consulting. We start from the people and resources an organization already has, and we aim to leave it stronger than we found it.

Nonprofits & advocacy orgs

(c)(3) and (c)(4) strategy, civic engagement, and compliance.

Labor unions

Member-to-member programs, endorsed-candidate support, and independent expenditures.

Candidates & campaigns

First-time and movement candidates building a campaign from the ground up.

Work with us

Tell us about your campaign or organization and what you're trying to do, and we'll let you know how we can help.

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