Democracy doesn't run itself. Someone has to staff it.
Power thePeople WhoPowerDemocracy.
GAIN Power is the career and talent infrastructure for the progressive ecosystem — linking 100,000 professionals with more than 6,000 progressive organizations, campaigns, consultants, and leaders.
The progressive ecosystem has built infrastructure
for everything — except talent.
Every campaign, nonprofit, union, consulting firm, and advocacy organization needs talent.
Every movement depends on talent.
Yet only one side has invested in building that talent for the long term — and the imbalance is now structural.
Despite powering billion-dollar races and national movements, the people behind democracy are systematically overlooked and underinvested in.
They navigate precarious, cyclical employment with few supports. They have no professional organization serving their development and solidarity. They operate in silos, losing institutional memory and innovation between cycles. They face burnout, attrition, and limited access to leadership pipelines — and underrepresented communities, especially BIPOC, LGBTQ+, working-class, and immigrant leaders, face persistent inequity within this system.
The movement is fragmented — scattered orgs, duplicated effort, no shared infrastructure.
FRAGMENTED · SILOED · CYCLICAL · NO SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE
Over the last forty years, the conservative movement has transitioned from traditional advocacy to a vertically integrated institutional pipeline.
This infrastructure operates as a self-sustaining ecosystem that minimizes reliance on single election cycles or shifts in public sentiment. By treating political influence as a multi-stage production line, they have built a high-capacity talent engine that moves personnel from student activism into lifetime appointments and senior executive roles.
Republicans staff up between cycles, retain experience, build institutional knowledge — and invest nearly 5× more in talent development.
We start from scratch every cycle.
Democracy cannot survive if the people powering it are under-resourced, overworked, and invisible.
GAIN Power is the solution.
Not a job board. Not a listserv. A full-stack operating system for democracy's workforce.
GAIN Power is the connector
across the entire ecosystem.
The professional community for
the people who power democracy.
We are a big-tent, values-driven platform for democracy professionals — the only organization connecting campaigns, nonprofits, consultants, advocacy groups, and activists across all legal silos, issue areas, and election cycles. We are committed to empowering BIPOC, LGBTQI+, women, and underrepresented leaders — those who most reflect and serve our multiracial democracy.
What We've Built
100,000+ Community Members
Across All 50 States
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Career Center
The progressive movement's largest and longest-running job board — connecting democracy's workforce with the organizations that need them.
Every campaign, nonprofit, union, PAC, party committee, and advocacy organization in the country turns to Jobs That Are Left when they need talent. With up to 5,000 job postings annually, we are the connective tissue between democracy's workforce and the organizations that need them.
RootsCamp
The movement-wide post-election unconference — where democracy's workforce gathers to debrief, innovate, and rebuild.
There is no pre-set agenda. Attendees show up and build the program together — pitching sessions, claiming rooms, driving the conversation. It is the only space where a campaign field director, a nonprofit ED, a union organizer, and a digital strategist sit in the same room and figure out what went wrong and what comes next.
Powerful IDEA Awards
Celebrating the unsung heroes of democracy work — the annual awards ceremony and expo for the progressive professional community.
Each year, we celebrate the innovators, doers, and dedicated leaders whose work powers democracy — and who are almost never recognized by mainstream awards or media. The event features a full democracy expo, networking, and a celebration that reminds everyone in this field why the work matters.
Professional Development & Training
Coaching, career fairs, trainings, and tools that help democracy workers grow — at every stage of their career.
Democracy workers are professionals. They deserve the same investment in their careers that any other industry makes in its workforce. From resume reviews and 1:1 coaching to quarterly virtual career fairs to trainings on the skills that matter most in campaigns, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations.
Democracy Directories
Public directories for vetted people, organizations, and services — available to campaigns, organizations, and employers looking to fill critical staffing, strategy, and program gaps.
The progressive movement loses time and talent every cycle because there is no shared, trusted source of who does what and who is available. GAIN Power's directories solve that — a living, vetted map of the people and organizations that power democracy.
Membership Networking & Groups
A social network of nearly 15,000 individuals housed within the GAIN Power website — including affinity groups, regional and professional cohorts, and the GAIN Power Slack channel.
Democracy's workforce is scattered across organizations, cities, and issue areas. Membership is where they find each other — affinity groups for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and women leaders; regional cohorts; professional networks; and the Slack channel where the day-to-day work of connecting actually happens.
A minimum foundation —
not a ceiling.
The first $1.2M builds the minimum foundation. Additional investment determines how quickly — and how widely — we can scale it.
Platform Modernization
$250K+Rebuild gainpower.org as a unified, modern platform — job board, ATS, directories, and community as a single integrated system.
RootsCamp & Post-Election Organizing
$500K+The movement-wide post-election unconference that holds the community together between cycles.
2028 Talent Pipeline & Democracy University
$450K+Fellowships, cohorts, certifications, and career coaching that prepare the workforce for 2028.
The platform connects the people. RootsCamp holds the community together. Democracy University prepares the workforce for 2028.
Consultant Class: TRUST
PRIORITY BIG IDEAA transparent, trusted-provider marketplace for the progressive ecosystem — the Democracy Directory plus TRUST Certification. Already more than halfway built, with 2,200+ firms in the network and CRM, and it will soft-launch before November 2026 with or without new funding.
One organization.
Multiple ways to contribute.
No bundled capital-campaign total. No fixed package to fund. Give to the whole, support a specific module, or combine pathways — program figures are scoped with each supporter, not presented as settled facts.
Tax-deductible donations
Charitable contributions to training, fellowships, research, and education — deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Philanthropic grants
Foundation and institutional grants scoped to specific programs where earned revenue alone can’t reach.
Program sponsorships
Annual sponsorships across RootsCamp, the IDEA Awards, career fairs, and the platform.
Mission-aligned investments
Investment in the platform, the Talent Network & ATS, and employer services. Not a charitable deduction.
Strategic partnerships
Co-build a module, convene a cohort, or align on a shared initiative with peers and tables.
Memberships & purchased services
Job postings, career-fair booths, employer services, and membership — buyable today.
Customized combinations
No fixed package to fund. We assemble a tailored combination of modules and programs.
Global GAIN
✓ Tax-deductible · Foundation grants welcome
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May qualify as business expense — not tax-deductible
secure.actblue.com/donate/politicalpower →GAIN Voters
Political contributions — FEC disclosed
secure.actblue.com/donate/gainvoters →"I've found it to be my best resource post-campaigning."
— Anthony Crapisi, Lead MO Action
Power the people who power democracy.
GAIN Power recruits, trains, connects, and retains the people democracy depends on — between elections and across their careers.
100,000 professionals·6,700+ employers·all 50 states·2,200+ consulting & vendor firms
Our movement has a talent crisis — all year long.
Election years, post-election periods, and off-years each create different symptoms of the same systemic problem. During elections, campaigns and organizations struggle to find trained people and trusted partners fast enough. Immediately after, thousands of talented campaign workers face unemployment — and many leave the movement. Between cycles, the ecosystem underinvests in training, career pathways, professional standards, institutional memory, community, and retention.
Democracy depends on people — but the people doing the work are recruited, trained, hired, and supported through a fragmented system.
GAIN Power connects that system — linking talent, organizations, training, standards, recognition, and community into permanent workforce infrastructure for democracy.
The election cycle changes the symptoms; it does not solve the crisis.
Campaigns and organizations struggle to find trained people and trusted partners quickly enough to compete.
Thousands of talented campaign workers face joblessness — and many leave the movement entirely.
The ecosystem underinvests in training, career pathways, professional standards, institutional memory, community, and retention.
The movement is fragmented — scattered orgs, duplicated effort, little shared infrastructure.
Across campaigns, nonprofits, unions, consulting firms, and advocacy groups, the same work is rebuilt every cycle. Knowledge is lost, talent drifts away, and organizations duplicate each other's effort with no shared standards or memory.
GAIN Power is the connector across the entire ecosystem.
The only organization connecting campaigns, nonprofits, consultants, advocacy groups, and talent across all legal silos, issue areas, and election cycles.
Not starting from scratch.
Since launching in 2020, GAIN Power has built real reach across the progressive ecosystem. These are organization-reported metrics.
- Presidential to local campaigns
- DNC, DCCC, DSCC, DGA, DLCC
- State parties & caucuses
- Labor unions
- Advocacy organizations
- Recruiters
- Consulting firms — advertising, polling, research, fundraising, digital, organizing, field, canvassing, technology & media
After the 2026 election, thousands of skilled professionals face unemployment and disconnection.
2027 is the short bridge year to retain, train, and connect them. Presidential campaigns will soon begin the 2028 hiring surge. GAIN Power must act before that surge — so campaigns and organizations enter the cycle with a stronger, experienced, connected workforce. The opportunity is retaining talent and institutional knowledge the movement otherwise loses between cycles.
A modern, year-round operating system — and a professional home for democracy's workforce.
More personal and movement-centered than "LinkedIn for progressive politics." Each module does one job and connects with the others — so a person who finds a job can join a cohort, get placed, find vetted consultants, convene at RootsCamp, and be recognized. Technology enables the relationships; it isn't the product.
GAINPower.app, the Career Center, Jobs That Are Left, the Talent Network, and employer tools — the digital home base where organizations recruit, find, refer, hire, and retain people.
A collaborative applicant-tracking system, shared Talent Network, Talent Table coordination, recruiting, referrals, and placement — so organizations hire together instead of duplicating effort.
Open-access training, skills, leadership development, mentorship, coaching, certifications, and career pathways for the people who do this work.
A transparent trusted-provider marketplace — discovery and assessment plus shared standards for trust, ethics, equity, and accountability across the consulting economy.
Twenty years of post-election reflection, peer learning, and community — returning to locally rooted convenings where the movement debriefs the cycle and reconnects.
Recognition and celebration that elevates the people and work of democracy’s workforce — excellence seen, stories told, careers lifted.
Membership & professional networks sustain year-round community — one platform, unified data, common brand, shared standards, one mission.
Five pillars hold the whole system up.
We build pathways into and through democracy work.
We develop skills, leadership, and institutional strength.
We bring people together and cultivate connection and belonging.
We connect organizations, share useful knowledge, preserve lessons, and reduce duplication.
We establish shared values, professional standards, accountability, care, and a commitment to showing up for one another.
The first job after an election — keep the people.
The immediate crisis after the 2026 election is mass unemployment and transition. GAIN Power provides post-election support, connection, learning, placement, and community — so talent stays in the movement.
The movement's primary post-election reflection — peer learning, community, lessons learned, and connection. Twenty years of history, now returning to locally rooted convenings.
Connection to hiring, training cohorts, coaching, professional networks, and a community that holds people between cycles — the supports that keep talented workers in the work.
A bridge year, then a stronger workforce in 2028.
Presidential campaigns are already building toward 2028. GAIN Power is preparing, training, connecting, and retaining the workforce those campaigns and the wider progressive ecosystem will need — before the hiring surge, not after it. The window after 2026 to retain talent and institutional knowledge is short.
The immediate crisis is mass unemployment and transition after the 2026 election. GAIN Power provides post-election support, connection, learning, placement, and community — starting at RootsCamp.
The bridge year to keep people in the movement rather than losing them between cycles — training, hiring, community, and standards sustained year-round.
Enter 2028 with a stronger, more experienced, better-connected, and better-supported workforce — ready to staff every campaign and organization that depends on it.
The minimum foundation: $1.2M+.
A first tranche — not a maximum, a ceiling, or a full campaign total. The first $1.2M builds the minimum foundation. Additional investment determines how quickly — and how widely — we can scale it.
Unify GAINPower.app and the Career Center onto one platform with a shared data layer.
Hold the community after 2026 — RootsCamp, connection, learning, and placement.
Train, connect, and retain the workforce 2028 campaigns will need — before the hiring surge. Staff capacity is embedded across delivery.
The platform connects the people. RootsCamp holds the community together. Democracy University prepares the workforce for 2028.
Organizations find better-qualified people and trusted partners.
Professionals gain continuity, training, community, and support.
Firms become more discoverable and buyers make better-informed decisions.
Shared infrastructure strengthens thousands of organizations rather than one temporary program.
Grant-eligible support for training, research, education, and post-election workforce programs.
Sponsor career fairs, convenings, and content that put your organization in front of the field.
Employer services, recruiting, and placement partnerships — partnership-ready now.
Invest in the platform and shared infrastructure the modules snap onto.
Membership and professional-network services that sustain year-round community.
Scope a blend of grants, sponsorship, and partnership with our team — never a bundled total.