Movement tools survey

Bonterra – bought NGP VAN, which bought Everyaction (fundraising/email/etc.) and Mobilize (event tool) and Actionkit (fundraising/email/etc.). And Salsa.

VAN is the cleanest voter file.

Catalyst feeds VAN but also target smart.

Bonterra is “harvesting” – taking pieces of each program and slashing engineering/support teams.

See The Intercept for an article re: Bonterra-pocalypse

Features folks are looking for and/or using

• Field operations management – organizing volunteers, paid canvassers. Turfcutting, volunteer management
• Events
• Donations
• Email Blast
• SMS
• Meeting scheduling (Doodle etc.)
• Peer-to-peer communications
• Petitions
• Reporting/Analytics
• Voter File Integration

Folks largely use

• Engaging Networks
• Action Network
• CiviCRM
• Empower
• ActionKit
• Nationbuilder
• Blackbaud
• New Mode? - action widget
• Daisychain – just P2P texting and automations

• Private equity – screwed up a lot of the best tools
• Spoke is open source
• Organizations don’t have the ability to sustain and maintain expertise
• Vendor relationships affect decisions, sometimes good, sometimes bad.