Discounts, Perks,

& Partners

Scroll down for info on our partners, vendor discounts, promo codes for tools like Red2Blue + so much more!

VENDOR DISCOUNTS AND FREEBIES

DIRECT MAIL + DIGITAL DISCOUNTS

CANVA

CANVA is a great tool for easily creating social graphics and ads for digital platforms. Run for Something has a free account you can use! Be sure to check out our Canva User Guide!

WILDFIRE CONTACT

WILDFIRE CONTACT brings decades of combined experience in working on campaigns and with organizations at the ground level. Leaders in innovative campaign tactics, we have helped develop cutting-edge campaign strategy and have crafted winning mail plans in tough races across the country.

  • Take advantage of RFS’ referral discount by contacting whitney@wildfirecontact.com and letting them know that you’re a Run for Something endorsed candidate.

SPEAKEASY POLITICAL

SPEAKEASY POLITICAL Choose from hundreds of professionally-designed templates or upload your own mail piece or digital ad.

  • Take advantage of a 15% discount on mail and digital! PROMO CODE: run4something  

DISCOUNTED VOTER CONTACT TOOLS

SCALE TO WIN

SCALE TO WIN offers a feature packed peer to peer texting tool with robust training and support. They have offered RFS candidates texting at 1.5 cents per outbound segment (25% off their typical rate) and no charge for texts received. To learn more, schedule a demo, or to get started, just head to https://scaletowin.com.

  • Take advantage of the 25% discount by selecting “Run for Something” when completing the “Have you been endorsed by any of the following groups?” question on their website.

DECK

DECK helps campaigns reach the right voters with the right message. They do that with candidate-specific predictions of which people in your district will turnout to vote, vote for you, make a fundraising contribution, and be open to changing their minds. Deck helps build better lists in VoteBuilder, run individually-targeted Facebook Ads, see where you stand in your district and to make a plan to move the needle.

Campaigns can now sign up for their free access right on Deck’s website with a VAN API key! All campaigns from local to federal get free access as long as they have signed up for VoteBuilder beforehand, although campaigns in a contested primary pay $50/month. 

Here is Deck’s current one-pager for campaigns with resources about how to sign up and learn more about what Deck is as well. Visit Deck’s blog with more in-depth instructions! Questions? Email help@deck.tools with your name, district, and state.

THRUTALK/THRUTEXT 

THRUTALK/THRUTEXT is a next-generation dialer that helps you reach cell phones and landlines. It’s fast, flexible, responsive, and syncs with VAN. Over 500 organizations have used ThruTalk to make hundreds of millions of dials.

  • Take advantage of a 10% discount through RFS by visiting their website and indicating that you are an RFS endorsed candidate.

TURBO PHONEBANK

TURBO PHONEBANK is a free phonebanking platform that you and your volunteers will love. Turn any Google Sheet into a phone bank with 2-tap calling, integrated follow-up text messaging to raise your contact rate, and multilingual script support. Its caller-friendly experience was built by a phonebanker to reduce training time and encourage volunteers. 

UNIVERSE

UNIVERSE offers a down-ballot focused “campaign in a box” packed with features like P2P texting, phone banks, walk lists, volunteer management, and more at an affordable price that scales with your campaign. In supported counties, the basic voter data file is included in the subscription cost.

FUNDRAISING DISCOUNTS

NGP VAN

NGP is the leading technology provider to Democratic and progressive campaigns and organizations, as well as nonprofits, municipalities, and other groups, offering clients an integrated platform of the best fundraising, compliance, field, organizing, digital, and social networking products.

  • Discount is for new customers only

SUPPORT FROM RFS PARTNERS

Since we launched in 2017, RFS has provided the first endorsement for hundreds of first-time candidates across the country.  Our early support often helps to open doors and usher in support from other progressive organizations. These groups recognize that RFS seeks to endorse the best-of-the-best when it comes to young progressives running for local office. As a result, RFS has developed strong relationships with dozens of like-minded progressive organizations. Now that you’re an endorsed candidate, you’ll have the opportunity to take advantage of a few special programs that we’ve set-up with partners. 

VOLUNTEER SUPPORT

CIVIC POWER OF CHANGE

Civic Power of Change is a one stop shop for all of your marketing campaign needs. CPC’s volunteer network of professionals can help your campaign with design and branding of logos, mailers, and other lit, website design and social media strategy, paid media strategy, speechwriting, media coaching, public relations, and more – whatever you need in marketing, advertising, and PR. 

RED2BLUE TEXTING

Red2Blue Texting is a grassroots group with deep experience and proven success running P2P texting campaigns around the country. Since 2017, Red2Blue volunteers have sent messages on behalf of over 550 Democratic campaigns in 42 states — and texted over 13 million voters. While their priority is to flip state legislatures, they have worked for candidates at every level. Red2Blue Texting provides expert free labor and technical and creative expertise for peer-to-peer text campaigns.

  • Candidates can submit the form found here to request texting support

THE GAP PROJECT

The GAP Project is a data-driven, grassroots consortium seeking to connect Generation Z with political campaigns on the local, state, and national level. They have developed a quiz for students and campaigns that assess each party and creates a match based upon an algorithm. Their volunteers have completed a variety of tasks including, but not limited to phone and text banking, social media, graphic design and fundraising.

  • To begin receiving volunteers, please take this short quiz.

CAMPAIGN STAFF

ARENA CAREERS

Arena trains, convenes, and supports the next generation of progressive staffers to find roles on your campaigns. On the Arena Careers platform, you can share job postings with their network of 10,000+ members, composed of Arena-trained staffers and progressive jobseekers from across the nation.

Arena also provides an Arena Toolbox, with tools and resources for jobseekers and employers alike. Check out the Job Description tool for guidance on how to write strong, concise, equitable job descriptions. Click here to learn more about Arena Careers Resources.

BLUE LEADERSHIP COLLABORATIVE

Blue Leadership Collaborative (BLC) recruits, retains, trains, and develops campaign managers who are people of color, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. BLC’s intentional and intensive program provides leadership development, skills training, ongoing mentorship, and on-the-job experience for rising Democratic professionals. BLC has an alumni network of over 50 experienced campaign leaders. Reach out to share job descriptions and your management staffing needs: info@blueleadership.com.

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TRAINING COMMITTEE

National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC) is happy to share their NDTC Trained Staff Resume Bank. These individuals are all graduates of NDTC’s Staff Academy (Fundraising, Communications, Digital) or Democratic Strategy Institute (Field) programs. These are intensive 8-10 week programs that these leaders applied and interviewed to join and passed a series of assessments demonstrating their mastery of core skills.

Their alumni know to expect cold calls that may come from the resume bank. You can also email jmitchell@traindemocrats.org if you’d like their team to share your job listing more broadly.

CAMPAIGN TOOLS

ACTBLUE

ActBlue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering small-dollar donors. They make it easy for grassroots supporters to make their voices heard and enable thousands of Democratic campaigns, progressive organizations, and nonprofits to build people-powered movements with our powerful online fundraising tools. Please contact Michelle Ngwafon at mngwafon@actblue.com for help setting up your account.

CAMPAIGN PIES

Campaign PIES is the Progressive Change Campaign Committee’s campaign-in-a-box software that helps grassroots candidates launch their campaigns. They cover all the nuts and bolts of running a best-practices campaign. Most notably, they help candidates set up a professional-looking website quickly, manage their donors and run successful call time sessions, and create beautiful print pieces — all without breaking the bank.

CANDIDATE TRAINING AND POLICY SUPPORT

CLIMATE CABINET ACTION

Climate Cabinet Action helps state legislature candidates + utility board candidates run, win, and legislate on the climate crisis. They provide campaign resources and district-specific info on clean energy jobs, air pollution, polling, and the incumbents’ climate voting record (for state legislatures). Contact courtney@climatecabinet.org to learn more!

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TRAINING COMMITTEE

We also encourage you to check out the National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC). The NDTC is the best place to get the training resources you need to launch or build on a successful campaign. Trainings are available in-person and online, and have an emphasis on local and down-ballot candidates.

DEMOCRACY POLICY NETWORK

The Democracy Policy Network (DPN) is an interstate network that organizes policy support for the next generation of state leaders working to deepen democracy in statehouses across America. By organizing policy experts, volunteer researchers, and statehouse leaders to gather, organize, and amplify a transformative, deep-dive policy agenda spanning every state issue, we aim to accelerate the democratic transformation of America. To stay plugged into the Democracy Policy Network, select how you would like to be involved here: https://democracypolicy.network/join.

PARTNER ENDORSEMENTS

Run for Something partners with other progressive organizations to support more young, diverse candidates running for office across the country.  Many of these organizations also provide candidates endorsements, and we encourage you to apply. Click here for information on RFS Partner Endorsements.