About Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.

Grassroots Campaigns (GCI) is an independent organization that does strategic consulting, fundraising, and field organizing for good causes and candidates. We specialize in building and running face-to-face outreach operations in neighborhoods and in high-traffic public venues to build support for groups, issues, and campaigns.

GCI was founded in December of 2003, and by April of 2004 had opened offices in 40 cities throughout the country. By July 2004, we had over 2,000 staff knocking on doors and talking to voters on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. With continued work on behalf of MoveOn PAC in October, we added a volunteer force of 50,000 individuals canvassing their neighborhoods in 17 of the most hotly contested swing states of the 2004 Presidential Election. Since 2004, we’ve continued to partner with groups and campaigns to advance good issues, raise money for progressive causes, help take back Congress, and build activism at the grassroots level.

The people at GCI are seasoned organizing and fundraising professionals with a commitment to positive reforms. Our staff has over 150 years of professional experience. They have:
• Designed and implemented electoral, initiative, legislative, corporate, small donor fundraising, and petition gathering campaigns;
• Put together organization membership drives and raised over $500 million;
• Ran conferences of a couple hundred to a couple thousand college students;
• Trained thousands of professional organizers and campaign staff;
• Worked with scores of different groups on the national, regional, state, Congressional, local, and campus levels;
• Recruited and trained hundreds of thousands of volunteers;
• Helped launch or run over a dozen different organizations;
• Sat on the boards of directors for many groups and campaign steering committees.

Meet our leadership staff

Meet our on the ground organizers

It is the policy of Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. to absolutely prohibit the flow of information between employees who are or have provided services to candidates, their committees, and political parties and those working on projects and providing services to entities making public communications as defined in the FECA or similar communications as defined in relevant state or local election law.  Specifically, Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. prohibits the flow of information about a candidate or political party's campaign plans, projects, activities or needs.

All employees are informed of this policy and it is embodied in their employment contracts.

If any employee, client, or interested persons have questions about this policy, please contact Hyam Kramer in Grassroots Campaign's national headquarters: 617-338-7800, or at 59 Temple Place #402, Boston, MA, 02111

Grassroots Campaigns in the Media

"Can I Ask You a Question? Face-to-face campaigns are finding monthly donors" The NonProfit Times, June 15, 2010

"The Art of Street Canvassing" The New York Observer, May 4, 2010

"Canvassers' job satisfaction beats the heat" Austin American-Statesman, August 2, 2009