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  • Gathering data for membership growth

    Top 4 Data-Informed Growth Strategies for Unions and Progressive Non-Profits

    Imagine a future where your people-powered organization thrives, fueled by a flourishing community of passionate organizers, advocates, activists, and a growing stream of new members. I’m sure you have many times. Getting there […]

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    Relieve VANxiety: Secure Your Data With Modern Solutions

    Progressive organizations have long relied on NGP VAN as their primary software tool for organizing and facilitating engagement and fundraising activities, and in many cases, as a substitute for a purpose-built data management […]

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  • Your Campaign Success Depends on Precise Audience Targeting

    In the current climate of dynamic sociopolitical change and disruption, organizations that strive to take bold action require a swift and coordinated approach. The ability to effectively communicate and mobilize on a massive […]

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  • Wayne County Association of Educators members welcome a new colleague to their union.

    Transforming NCAE’s Data Landscape: Empowering Educator Advocacy

    With members facing challenges like attacks on professionalism and book bans in classrooms and public libraries, the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) sought to enhance their tools and expand membership in an […]

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  • How Our Purpose-Driven Team Transforms Data into Impactful Insights

    Unlock the power of purpose-driven data transformation with TCW Strategies. Discover how our expert team turns raw data into impactful insights for unions and progressive organizations.

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  • Strategy Spotlight: Meet the Team

    Tell us about your new role at TCW Strategies, and what your responsibilities entail as a member of the enrollment team. TCW Strategies has come up with a great set of tools and […]

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  • Sort and evaluate data to actively target and engage your audience.

    8 Modern Data Strategies Every Union Should Implement

    Unions stand as the guardians of workers’ rights, tirelessly advocating for fair wages, safe workplaces, and a powerful collective voice.  To be successful as the backbone of the working class in this increasingly […]

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  • Learning From Educators & Their Unions

    From May 8 – 12, 2023, my social media feeds served as testaments to the positive and profound impact teachers have on their community and society. I scrolled through post after post of […]

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  • Rail cars and empty tracks.

    Back to Basics: An Issue-Based Strategy

    2022’s midterms showed decisively that progressive issues motivate voters to the polls. Trump-backed candidates lost in many cases when progressive agenda issues like abortion access and voting rights were present as ballot initiatives. […]

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  • Students at a rally with someone holding a sign with the Earth on it that says "There is no planet B"

    Mass Unionization: The Key To Surviving Climate Change

    It’s time to center environmental justice in every fight. Labor unions, environmental justice stalwarts, progressive philanthropists, and strategic policy centers must commit to anchoring economic justice vis-à-vis unionism & environmental justice at the […]

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  • Rows of solar panels surrounding a building on a clear sunny day.

    Everything’s About To Change

    We’ve written in past blogs about the pivotal nature of the moment facing labor unions and progressive organizations. This blog is a little different. This is the start of a story. One that […]

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  • Zoltan Csaplar and Hilda Solis standing in front of a truck being loaded.

    Scale & Pace in Organizing

    The story began on Tuesday, November 7th, 2000. I was a college student, newly awakened to the importance of politics, hunched forward on my sofa as the results of the presidential election rolled […]

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