The Grassroots Collaboration Project
The Grassroots Collaboration Project (GCP) was created in June 2023 to improve the capacity and effectiveness of networking among organizations in the pro-democracy grassroots world, especially groups run by volunteer leaders. It aimed to make what has been an overly atomized resistance to the extreme right-wing more cohesive and effective. The prospect of losing winnable elections motivated its work.
The GCP arose out a report produced by volunteer leaders of grassroots groups across the country Survey Report: The Experience of Grassroots Leaders Working with the Democratic Party.
The GCP was established as an all-volunteer, unincorporated advocacy organization representing the shared interests and motivations of leaders of groups with varying types of affiliation with national networks (Swing Left, Indivisible, Sister District) or no affiliation at all.
The Grassroots Directory was created by the GCP in February 2024. Also in February, the GCP created The Grassroots Connector, a free Substack newsletter designed to inspire, empower and amplify the work of the thousands of all-volunteer grassroots groups working to save our democracy. Subscribe here.
