Organizers and volunteers receive social, emotional, and informational support that accelerates learning, increases motivation, strengthens resilience, and deepens commitment to the work.

When their organizers and volunteers are connected in vibrant community, they become more numerous, effective, and committed.

When volunteers are connected, they have a broader foundation for navigating intra-party differences.

Finally, when Party leaders themselves become connected to each other, they benefit from their own social, emotional and informational support network.

Candidates at every level benefit enormously from a highly energized base of volunteer organizers.

Initiative campaigns benefit at two stages: first while gathering signatures, and then while educating and mobilizing voters.

For community members, Show Up Better’s methods help counteract the social isolation of modern life by bringing people together and cultivating deep connections, directly benefiting residents and the broader civic fabric in neighborhoods where we are active.

Our work benefits community organizations by increasing overall political engagement around the issues they care about. We can also work directly with community organizations interested in establishing a Community of Practice for their own staff or volunteers, so they can benefit from increased engagement and satisfaction.

Contributions to Show Up Better offer donors at least four major benefits compared with contributions to traditional campaigns:

1. Broader Impact. Every donation is an investment in the performance of the entire Democratic ticket, not just an individual candidate.

2. Deeper Impact. Every donation is an investment in the gold standard in political communication: face-to-face conversations between people in the context of a genuine relationship. 

3. Longer-lasting Impact. Every donation is an investment in the long-term strengthening of the wider community and a more effective volunteer base, not just one election.

4. Assured Return. Every donation is assured a positive “return on investment” because, regardless of election outcomes, the Party and the community emerge stronger than before.