The UpRise Action Platform

We are building a social networking site with tools for organizing real-world political action. People use Facebook to manage their social lives and LinkedIn to manage their professional lives. We need a place to manage our political lives. 

UpRise will be a community hub and app toolbox that volunteers, campaigns, and other political organizations can use to collaborate on a wide variety of outreach activities.

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UpRise Is for Volunteers:

♦ UpRise will allow people to volunteer for multiple campaigns and advocate for issues, all at the same time, all through the same platform.

♦ UpRise will allow volunteers to sign up for and instigate a wider range of activities including hosting house parties, putting up lawn signs, handing out literature, organizing town halls, and much more.

♦ UpRise will allow people to create groups, organize demonstrations and develop volunteer projects without the work of having to legally establish a new organization, create a webpage or build a social media presence.

♦ Volunteers will keep their member profiles from one campaign cycle to the next, gathering credit for their lifetime of work, building a long term community and allowing people to create social ties and develop skilled teams.

♦ UpRise will provide a forum for discussing new ideas and developing best practices, one which doesn’t exist anywhere now. It will provide a knowledge base to collect and share valuable information about local resources and opportunities.

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UpRise Is for Campaigns:

 

♦ UpRise will give campaigns a suite of tools for managing large scale word-of-mouth-marketing campaigns that are volunteer-staffed, involve a diversity of activities, and have the kind of metrics and accountability demanded in the private sector.

♦ UpRise will allow campaigns to recruit volunteers and connect with volunteers who have professional skills so they can be placed in important roles in the campaign staff.

♦ UpRise will help campaigns to entrust volunteers to organize a wide array of campaign activities even where the campaign can’t afford local field offices or staff.

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