- OUR MISSION -
Our mission is to power a world where progressive grassroots activism wins.
Our Origin Story
We built Reach for the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign as a tool for ourselves after we realized traditional door-to-door canvassing methods were limiting who we were talking to and when we were able to effectively collect data in the field. Reach allowed us to canvass in the streets, subway stops, and community events in so many new ways that it revolutionized the way we connected with voters. This is a part of how we won, and we knew that other progressive people-powered campaigns could use it to win too.
We began the effort to spin Reach into its own product shortly after the AOC primary in early July 2018. We formed the company and assembled an all-volunteer team. Three weeks later, we had launched on our first campaign and knew it was poised to take off.
We began this project as volunteers with a passion and a vision for making new better technology for campaigns, but knew that if we were going to be able to serve the movement effectively for the long-run, we would need to work on this on more than just our nights and weekends. We raised some funding from mission-aligned investors so we could hire our volunteer team to work on Reach full-time. Reach is now a PBC which serves as a technology vendor to campaigns, labor unions, non-profits, activist groups, and other progressive organizations all over the country.
Our Company
Reach is a PBC. But what, you may ask, is a PBC?
“PBC” stands for “Public Benefit Corporation”. Our legal status as a PBC is sort of like a hack of traditional corporate structure.
A Delaware public benefit corporation (PBC) is a for-profit corporation intended to produce a public benefit and operate in a responsible and sustainable manner. Unlike traditional corporations, a PBC must consider its public benefit purpose and interests of those materially affected by the corporation’s conduct in addition to stockholder value. Every two years a PBC must report to its stockholders on how it is pursuing its public benefit purpose and the best interests of those materially affected by the corporation’s conduct.
Learn more about PBCs here.
Our Team
We are a group of diverse and passionate tech workers, engineers, designers, activists, and organizers. Learn more about us here.
Our Clients
Reach is a tool by Progressives, for Progressives. To that end, all Reach campaigns must adhere to the following principles. Any campaign which violates these principles will be removed from Reach as per the terms of the licensing agreement.
- All campaigns shall uphold the values of racial, social, and economic justice and human rights in their work and their platform.
- All campaigns must reject systemic racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and all other systems of oppression where they lie, both out in the world and within the campaign.
Note: Reach is currently only available for US-based campaigns and organizations.
