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Trestle is here for organizers and tech builders across the movement.
We’d love to work with you
Trestle’s goal is to ensure that tech is never a barrier to winning organizing strategies. That means that you have tools that are secure, reliable, efficient, accessible, and user-friendly — and that your people are ready to make game time decisions about the tech that powers their organizing.
Since 2020, Trestle has worked with partners across the movement to improve how to buy, build, maintain, or wield technology. In 2024, we are focusing on two kinds of collaborations:
Uptime 2024
If you’re gearing up for next year’s election, then you’re eligible for our election readiness program Uptime 2024. We want to help you get your tech in tip top shape so that your organizers can do what they do best: engage volunteers, mobilize voters and protect our democracy.
Movement Tech Strategy
If you’re pushing forward with year-round movement building efforts, we’re grateful for your hard work and here for you! We can support the tech that amplifies your grassroots organizing and the people behind organizing efforts with tech mentorship, advising, and capacity-building.
At Trestle, we work with partners
across the organizing ecosystem:
We collaborate with…
Movement organizations or networks who use, buy and/or build their own tools for organizing — progressive, electoral, and nonpartisan social justice groups – grassroots, grasstops, and everywhere in between.
Candidates, campaigns or committees using tech to power their election work up and down the ballot;
Technology vendors. startups, companies & orgs who build tech for use in electoral or movement work;
Foundations and funders interested in providing technology assistance to grantees or portfolio companies.
We’re especially excited to work with…
Folks who care about making their tools are user-friendly and accessible to people of all backgrounds and abilities;
Organizing efforts that center BIPOC leadership and power building with communities of color;
Groups working to protect LGBTQ+, gender and reproductive rights;
Organizers fighting for just and equitable futures with an intersectional lens, on issues such as climate justice, housing justice, criminal justice, migrant rights, and workers’ rights.
Our goal is to ensure that tech is never a barrier to making change — and that high-quality technology services are accessible to all corners of the movement.
We work in paid, sliding scale and free capacity — and we encourage you to reach out even if you have budget constraints.
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Get support from Trestle
We love meeting folks looking for extra hands and eyes on their tech, and we are always available to take on new collaborations.
Answer a few questions below to begin our work together.
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What to expect after you submit
We’ll review submissions on a regular, rolling basis, using criteria and input from key organizing and movement tech partners.
If your team’s needs are a match, we’ll reach out to schedule a call.
Trestle’s services are available on a sliding scale. Grant funds enable us to work with teams in need of low-cost or free support; if we decide to work together, we’ll scope a project that works with your budget.