How Trestle is working behind the scenes to fortify the technology used by millions of organizers this election.
What’s going on with tech this election?
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
11am PT / 2pm ET, Online
With guests Jacky Chang (CTO of Biden-Harris 2020), Jordan Haines (CTO of Run for Something), Josh Hendler (VP of Office of Eric Schmidt) and Matt Hodges (Executive Director of Zinc Labs)
A LOOK UNDER THE HOOD AT THE TECH REACHING VOTERS IN 2024
Come learn about the technology powering election wins, and how Trestle is fortifying that tech.
Given the momentum and urgency of this election, we've set a new goal to raise $450,000 by September 25th to work on the tools & tech that will have a significant and urgent impact on organizing voter turnout, election security, and risk mitigation.
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Background
Trestle Collaborative builds tech capacity for progressive electoral and grassroots social justice organizations. Right now we are focused on rapid response projects to address the crises and fast-moving rollercoaster of this stage in the election cycle.
Uptime 2024 — Trestle’s critical election readiness program — shores up tech for the 2024 election by strengthening security, reliability, efficiency, accessibility, and user-experience of the most widely used election tools so that organizations can do what they do best: get out the vote and protect democracy. With hundreds of thousands of volunteers getting out the vote this cycle, Trestle is making sure the tools they use maximize their ability to identify, engage and activate voters.
Trestle has powered the work of 60+ organizing, campaign and social change organizations, including the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Reproductive Equity Now, Texas Civil Rights Project, and Vote.org.
Trestle’s supporters include the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Schmidt Futures, Zinc Collective & Civic (Re)Solve.
Your support builds the critical infrastructure needed to win.
$5,000 covers one organization to participate in Trestle’s Bug Bounty Program, which identifies security vulnerabilities in campaign technology ahead of high-traffic moments in the election
$6,000 unlocks a security audit for one piece of critical get-out-the-vote technology
$15,000 unlocks user experience research for new website features on technology that’s improving text messaging for voter engagement
$25,000 unlocks data-matching and predictive modeling for an election tool battling disenfranchisement
$50,000 unlocks Trestle’s work on a rapid response or emergency engagement to secure or improve a crucial piece of election technology
About Trestle
Trestle Collaborative is a nonprofit creating a future where technology amplifies people-powered movements for democracy, equity and justice.
Since our start in 2021, Trestle has provided over $1.2 million in free tech services through our community of over 110+ mission-driven technologists who provide hands-on guidance to organizers working on the most critical high-impact issues.
Trestle is the only organization of its kind. We are the first and only group to attempt to bridge the lack of tech talent in the progressive space with a paid talent model & focus on recruiting and retaining more diverse senior technologists to the movement — that means more Black, Brown, Indigenous, women & non-binary, LGTBQ+, religious and ability-diverse tech leaders.
A women and POC-led team, Trestle has partnered with over 60 movement organizations, progressive tech orgs, campaigns & committees, and funders, including Movement Voter Project, the Sunrise Movement, Peoples’ Action, If/When/How, The Movement Cooperative, Reproductive Equity Now, Power the Polls, BallotReady, Vote.org and the Lawyers Committee on Civil and Human Rights.
Learn more about our team and impact here.