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The Democracy & Power
Innovation Fund

The DPI research and innovation program focuses on strengthening organizing and narrative strategies and understanding and measuring the power that organizations are building to achieve policy, electoral, and ideological impact.

‍At the DPI Fund, all of our work is rooted in community. We develop our strategies and research projects collectively, with leadership from our state organizing partners. We learn from each other and share our learnings with the broadly progressive civic engagement sector.

Organizing Partners

At the heart of the DPI community are base-building organizing groups who are experts in strategy and practice at the intersection of organizing, civic engagement, and power. DPI organizing partners continue to show us what is possible when we invest in developing practice-based evidence and learning and recognize our organizers as key strategists and innovators.

We the People Michigan

Voces de la Frontera

POWER (Pennsylvania)

Power Coalition for Equity and Justice (Louisiana)

PICO California

Ohio Organizing Collaborative

The New Georgia Project

Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement (MOVE) Collaborative

Mississippi Votes

ISAIAH (Minnesota)

Florida Rising Together

Faith in Florida

Detroit Action

Color of Change

Black Leaders Organizing Communities (Wisconsin)

Arizona Center for Empowerment

Research Partners

DPI Research partners use collaborative research methods to support learning related to organizing, narrative strategy, and democracy reform.

Sandhya Anantharaman

Kairos Fellowship

Hannah Furstenberg Beckman

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust

Ray Block

Penn State University

Katrina Gamble

Sojourn Strategies

Destiney Golden

Sojourn Strategies

Miriam Mckinney Gray

DPI Fund

Hahrie Han

P3 Labs at Johns Hopkins

Christian Hosam

University of California Berkeley

Tianyi Hu

DPI Fund

Drisana Hughes

Harvard Kennedy School

Bridgett King

Auburn University

Elizabeth McKenna

Harvard Kennedy School

Mohammed Memfis

DPI Fund

Alicia Myles

University of California Berkeley

Davin Phoenix

University of California, Irvine

Hannah Walker

University of Texas Austin

Tova Wang

Harvard Kennedy School

Ariel White

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bethany Wood

Terrance Woodbury

HIT Strategies

Miya Woolfalk

Analyst Institute

Funding Partners

These DPI Funders have supported organizers as leaders and strategists, critically evaluated their metrics of measuring success, and supported learning, innovation, and impact. They are moving this community and the paradigm shift we are all working to achieve possible.