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.

Hundreds of progressive organizations rely on Mobile Commons as a key driver of fundraising and in-the-moment advocacy messaging. Meet the team to see how to acquire and motivate supporters, launch successful text-to-give campaigns, rally members with click-to-call and GOTV campaigns, and a whole lot 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

617MediaGroup is a leading provider of full-service strategic communications capacity to labor unions and social justice organizations in the United States. We are a union shop affiliated with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. Our services include advertising, branding, content strategy, digital recruitment, fundraising, marketing, photography, polling, print production, public relations, social media, strategic planning, translation, and more. We have over 60 staff in seven states. We look forward to helping with your next project or campaign.

Accountable Tech is working to bring about long-term structural reform to tackle the existential threat Big Tech companies pose to our information ecosystem and democracy. From the movement to ban surveillance advertising to the fight for online platforms to be better designed, Accountable Tech is leading the movement for a more human-centered digital world through legislation, regulation, and direct advocacy.

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. Sign up for a live demo at actionnetwork.org/demo. 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. Sign up for a demo at actionbuilder.org/demo.

Alternet is a progressive online magazine, publishing journalism and original
content from a variety of sources. AlterNet’s mission is to inspire citizen action and advocacy on a wide variety of progressive social issues. AlterNet publishes The New Civil Rights Movement. RawStory is an online news site covering political and economic news. The site focuses on progressive politics, bringing attention to stories that are downplayed or ignored by other media outlets.

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.

BOWL PAC works to unify the public, interest groups, and policymakers behind a comprehensive approach to marijuana legalization and justice for those who have been harmed under its criminalization.

Founded in 2006, Catalist is a data utility that works exclusively with unions, progressive organizations, Democratic campaigns, and advocacy organizations. We maintain the longest-running voter file outside the major parties, including 2.7 billion data points associated with 345 million individual-level records. Catalist’s database holds the most comprehensive and accurate modeling suite available to the progressive community today. Our analytics tools and data are extensively and successfully used across the community to inform program decisions. Catalist is owned by a trust comprised of progressive and labor organizations and is the only unionized data firm in our community.

Climate Power was founded in 2020 to drive momentum for climate action. Climate Power’s coordination of smart, aggressive communications campaigns has proven itself an indispensable part of the climate movement. Climate Power’s job is to put climate on offense and neutralize the opposition’s attacks. They do it by defining climate change as not only an existential threat that we must address but a huge opportunity to move beyond fossil fuels and into a clean energy economy that creates jobs and lowers costs.

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.

EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect Democratic pro-choice women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY’s List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls.

Impactive is an all-in-one suite of tools for organizing, outreach, and engagement. We empower progressive campaigns and causes to fundraise, share their stories and actions, get out the vote, and much more. Impactive has a long history of building movements online: Biden/Harris 2020, Headcount, When We All Vote, Voters of Tomorrow, Planned Parenthood, Community Change, and 1,000+ other partners sent more than 200 million messages during the 2020 and 2022 election cycles.

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.

LGBT Netroots Connect sponsors programs throughout the year, including a Netroots Nation pre-conference for LGBT leaders, journalists, activists and organizations, and allies. Our events also include training, support and education geared toward expanding participation in the LGBT movement, strategic meetings with online change agents and organizations, and networking. Our work includes programming around social media, LGBTQ history and equality, and the building of partnerships between online and offline organizations.

Media Matters is a progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation.

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.

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 NGP VAN, Mobilize, and ActionKit, we can provide all the technology you need to win your campaign or advance your organization’s cause. Across all our platforms in 2022, we helped campaigns and organizations nationwide generate hundreds of millions of actions, power over a billion contact attempts, and raise and track billions of dollars – all managed inside the industry-leading political software ecosystem. While we’ve powered the progressive political space for decades, we continue to partner with campaigns and organizations fighting for a better future. Visit us at our booth to discuss how we can help win your campaign or achieve your organization’s goals. 

As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our founding in 1966, NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.

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.

We’re Personified, a managed IT + cybersecurity services provider. We provide expert help to progressive organizations running complex technology and security programs, enabling them to focus on their critical work. We act as an extension of your team – we aim to build trust, and we leverage this to keep the bad actors out.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading provider and advocate of high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care for all people, as well as the nation’s largest provider of sex education. With more than 600 health centers across the country, Planned Parenthood organizations serve all patients with care and compassion, with respect, and without judgment, striving to create equitable access to health care.

Plural helps you shape public policy, so you can shape the future. Our innovative legislation tracking software allows you to easily find what you’re looking for with advanced search features and superior data, intelligently track and monitor the legislative landscape with AI-driven insights, and collaborate seamlessly to ensure your entire team is on the same page.

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.

Rural Democracy Initiative supports rural leaders working to transform their lives and communities. It builds power toward a thriving democracy and shared prosperity across diverse communities in rural areas and small cities. Rural Democracy invests in civic engagement, issue advocacy, and community organizing.

Saybrook University is a non-profit, regionally accredited institution offering graduate programs grounded in humanistic values including honoring the mind-body-spirit connection in all we do, such as: Psychology; Clinical Psychology; and Transformative Social Change. All in hybrid-online formats to help students continue to be active contributors to the fields they work in while they advance their education.

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.

Trans Rally is a national membership organization for members and friends of the transgender community. Our mission is to empower our members by fostering community, prioritizing our members’ safety, providing support through tough times, and contributing to our members’ continued success. We started in June of 2022 and have quickly grown to over 200 members around the country. We hope to continue our exponential growth for us and our community.

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.

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.

Heartland Signal is a regional digital newsroom anchored to the progressive radio station WCPT 820AM in Chicago. Through a progressive lens, our reporters and hosts shine a light on the issues most important to those who make up the diverse communities across the Midwest. While our perspective is transparent, our coverage relies solely on the facts, and we aim to help bolster the local reporting throughout the Midwest region.

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.

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 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!