Case Studies

Progressive Future - from Brad Martin, Executive Director

Progressive Future promotes grassroots action on issues such as rebuilding our economy with sustainable clean energy jobs and providing affordable health care for all Americans. We make the case for sensible policy solutions, activate citizens in their communities and help Americans make their voices heard.

When we launched Progressive Future, we wanted to start with a large national presence that was based in the states. And after 8 years of President Bush, we wanted to make sure that key values important to our supporters were at the heart of the 2008 Presidential election. We set out to run voter outreach and persuasion campaigns in twelve key states and needed a lot of additional organizers and canvass directors in a short period of time. While we focused on testing and fine-tuning the messaging and the organizing model, we turned to Work for Progress for our hiring needs.

Work for Progress placed the job ads, screened thousands of resumes and conducted most of the interviews. In a six month window, Work for Progress recruited and placed over 500 new organizers and canvass directors to work in targeted states.