Data & Tools

One of the critical gaps that we identified early on was a lack of data and technical infrastructure that could empower the entire field of progressive candidate pipeline organizations to do their work strategically and in coordination. That’s why we partnered with the Pipeline Initiative to leverage the power of data and technology to systematically and strategically make rapid progress toward a truly reflective democracy.

To enable organizations to recruit more candidates to run and win in more places, the Pipeline Initiative built a toolsuite inclusive of a CRM that sits on top of the largest, most comprehensive, robust, and collaborative database of the 500,000+ elected offices, elected officials, and candidates running for those offices in the country. These tools allow organizations to collaborate and crowdsource data so that all candidate recruitment efforts can be more effective and efficient across the ecosystem. The underlying data includes layered demographic and geographic data like party ID, race, ethnicity, age, gender, and more to enhance the dataset of officeholders and candidates.

Pipeline data and tools empower organizations’ work by allowing them to track their trainees and potential candidates, match their lists to identify what offices they can run for and when, and – again – collaborate with partners across the ecosystem in real time to recruit and support the best leaders.

Now, core state and national pipeline partners:

• have robust and accurate information on elected offices, office-holders, and the information necessary to run for those offices at their fingertips;
• can collaborate together in real time around candidate recruitment, training, and support at the state level through shared technical and data infrastructure;
• can view our electoral map strategically and from a lens of reflective democracy to ensure that they are recruiting the right candidates in the right offices; and
• have a way to understand the impact of our work both in-cycle and over time.

Interested in earning more? Get in touch at info@pipelineinitiative.co.