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grassroots solutions Capabilities and

Company Overview

grassroots solutions Capabilities and Company Overview

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We start with the belief that people matter.

In today’s networked society, grassroots organizing is central to understanding the way people engage with their world.

Grassroots organizing can give you the momentum to address a community concern, win an election, position a product or brand on the market, or advance a public policy agenda.

At grassroots solutions, we focus exclusively on organizing, engaging, and mobilizing people.

We’re strategists: Our deep experience means we know how to help you design grassroots strategies that will work in real time and target the constituencies you care about most. We can also help you integrate volunteers and build sustainable infrastructure into the front end of your grassroots efforts, so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel next time around.

We’re organizers: We know that the best grassroots efforts take a multi-touch approach, from state-of-the-art digital technologies to face-to-face contact. We don’t just offer advice, we get our hands dirty. Our network of talented organizers can help you engage people online and offline in every state in the country. We can also help you scale up quickly when you’re ready to take your grassroots effort to the next level.

We’re analysts: We’re strong believers in metrics and accountability, but we also know that success sometimes comes after taking a leap on new approaches and making mistakes. We’ve done the evaluations and field experiments to figure out what grassroots strategies will save you money, target your particular constituencies, get dependable results, or help you break new ground.

Who we areexperience. innovation. results.


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grassroots solutions offers a broad range of online and face-to-face field organizing services to help you engage the constituencies you care about most, from direct voter contact to word-of-mouth marketing, from membership list-building to grasstops outreach.

Organizingservices

paid and volunteer canvasses

Field organizing and direct voter contact

advocacy and electoral targeting

list building and engagement

grasstops organizing

grassroots solutions can work with you to target your efforts and rapidly develop a set of grassroots strategies that are tailored to reflect your goals, stakeholders, the environment in which you operate, and the resources you have available. Then, we’ll work to make sure you succeed in the field.

Strategyservices

planning

Field consulting

advocacy and electoral targeting

grassroots capacity assessments

online/oFFline integration

strategy consulting and Facilitation


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Trainingservices

campaign camps

customized trainings

curricula design

Web-based and printed materials

train-the-trainer program

grassroots solutions can help introduce your staff, volunteers, and key stakeholders to the fundamentals of grassroots organizing and campaigns, work with you to establish a train-the-trainer program, or create other customized solutions to maximize your staff and volunteer resources.


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grassroots solutions specializes in comprehensive evaluations of grassroots engagement efforts—our dual quantitative and qualitative approach to evaluating results has been praised by organizations and funders alike.

Evaluationservices

Qualitative evaluations

Quantitative evaluations

real time program monitoring and assessment

coalition and netWork evaluations

donor investment evaluations


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We have your grassroots solution.

uniQue client objectives.

nonproFits, Foundations, and labor

I need to strengthen public support for a specific policy proposal, to ensure I get the votes I need at the statehouse.

I need to evaluate the effectiveness of our national advocacy campaign.

I want to put a human face on a regulatory or policy issue that affects my company’s interests.

I need to recruit and train organizers and volunteers for my grass-roots engagement effort.

corporate

I need to build a strong volunteer base for my campaign.

I want to ensure that my campaign plan reflects the most up-to-date and cost-effective best practices for direct voter contact.

I need to quickly put a door-to-door canvassing operation on the ground.

electoral

I want to educate and get feedback from my constituents on an important issue.

government and associations


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We organize,engage,& mobilize people.

AFL-CIO Alliance for Climate ProtectionAlliance for JusticeAmerican Civil Liberties UnionAmerican Heart Association Be One Texas Beldon FundBrainerd FoundationCenter for Community ChangeChange That WorksChildren’s Defense Fund Clean Water ActionClearWay MinnesotaCommunities for Quality EducationEnergy Action CoalitionFamilies USA Fairview Health ServicesGrameen FoundationHuman Rights Campaign Hunger SolutionsIllinois Community Action AssociationJEHT FoundationJustice at StakeLabor Council for Latin American Advancement

Lance Armstrong FoundationLeague of Conservation VotersMcKnight FoundationMinnesota Association of Professional Employees Minnesota Nurses AssociationNational Education Association National Environmental TrustNational Public RadioNatural Resources Defense CouncilNew York Academy of MedicineNorth Carolina Justice CenterOpportunity PartnersPlanned Parenthood Action Fund Service Employees International Union Sierra ClubState VoicesSunflower FoundationUnited Steelworkers of America University of Minnesota University of PittsburghWellstone Action!Wisconsin Council on Children and Families

Alabama Democratic Party America Coming Together America Votes Boxer for U.S. Senate, CaliforniaCampaign for Change, MissouriCarnahan for Congress, MO-03Center for Civic ParticipationCenter for Nonprofits and VotingColorado Democratic Party, CO-07Connecticut Democratic PartyCuellar for Congress, TX-23Democracy Alliance Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Democratic National Committee EMILY’s ListFlorida AllianceFlorida Democratic PartyFranken for U.S. Senate, MNFuller Clark for Congress, NH-01Gonzalez for Congress, TX-20Henry for Mayor, Fort Wayne, IN Idaho Democratic Party

Johnson for Mayor, Sacramento, CAKansas Democratic Party Maine Won’t Discriminate Michigan Democratic Party National VoiceNew Hampshire Democratic PartyNo on Right to Work (695), OKOhioans for a Fair Minimum WageOhio Democratic Party Oklahoma Democratic PartyOregon Democratic PartyPeriello for Congress, VA-05Price for Congress, NC-04Rock the VoteShuler for Congress, NC-11Texas Democratic Party Utah Democratic PartyVote No On Vouchers, CAVote Yes for Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment, MNWilson for Congress, OH-06Yes on Amendment 23, CO

NONPROFITS, FOUNDATIONS, AND LABOR ELECTORAL

CNN - Cable News NetworkCatalistCivicActions, LLCComcastDirect ImpactFairview Health ServicesGMMBHealth Strategies Group

Himle HornerHumanaInformation Staffing Systems, Inc M+R Strategic ServicesMedtronic Parker Consulting Penn National Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

American Academy of PediatricsAmerican Association of People with DisabilitiesAmerican Heart AssociationCongressman Keith Ellison, MN-05Congressman Tim Walz, MN-01Dakota County Public HealthIllinois Community Action AssociationMeeker, McLeod, Sibley County Health ServicesMetropolitan CouncilMinnesota Academy of Ophthalmology

Minnesota Association of School AdministratorsMinnesota Association of School Business OfficialsMinnesota Council of NonprofitsMinnesota Credit Union NetworkMinnesota League of CountiesMinnesota Medical AssociationMinnesota Pharmacists AssociationMinnesota State University Student AssociationTown of North Hempstead, NY

CORPORATE GOVERNMENT AND ASSOCIATIONS


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regional oFFices

2929 University Ave SE, Suite 100Minneapolis, MN 55414(612) 465-8566

NY MetroPortland, MEWashington, D.C.

Website

www.grassrootssolutions.com

e-mail

[email protected]

Facebook

www.facebook.com/grassrootssolutions

tWitter

www.twitter.com/GRSolutions


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