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Higher Ground Institute

The AI for Organizing Prize

There are great ways that people are leveraging AI for organizing in progressive organizations and campaigns right now, and most of it stays within teams. We believe that organizing is a team sport and we learn fastest from each other, so tell us what you made and we will help get it into more hands.

$200 to $500 prizes for the best submissions Rolling review submit anytime

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Meet the first AI for Organizing Prize winners

Five builds from across the ecosystem, each solving a problem the person who built it actually had. Take them, use them, make them yours.

Other

Backup-first guardrails for Claude Code

A safety kit for organizers building their own tools with Claude Code: house rules for the agent, example settings, and a backup checklist so a mistake is something you can undo. Written for people who are not security engineers.

See the kit →
Comms

Comms responder library and assistant

Turns a campaign's already-approved answers, from forums, debates, questionnaires and past replies, into a searchable library, plus prompts for a draft-edit-approve flow so staff can answer inbound questions in the candidate's voice without going off script.

See the prompts →
Volunteer Engagement

THE INVITATION: A campaign caper for the campaign-curious

A short browser game that walks someone through their first campaign, from first shift to Election Night, with an AI mentor that explains the jargon along the way. Built for people who are curious about volunteering and a little intimidated by it. No login, just play it.

Play it →
Other

Reading New York's Highest Court

An AI pipeline that reads roughly 1,700 New York Court of Appeals decisions and turns them into a plain-English, judge-by-judge record that voters, advocates and reporters can actually use. Every result has to survive repeated runs, quoted sourcing and an audit pass, or it gets published as "unable to determine" instead of a guess.

See the platform →
Fundraising

FEC giving breakdown

A Claude skill that takes an FEC contribution export for a prospective donor and summarizes decades of giving into two-year cycles, with a read on how their giving maps to state-level work. Meeting prep in a couple of minutes instead of an afternoon.

Second wave winners are being announced now, and submissions are still open. Send us what you built.

Submit anytime. Reviewed on a rolling basis.

Winners are announced in two waves. We keep reading and sharing submissions after those dates too, so a late entry is still worth sending.

First Wave

October 6

First round of winners announced. See the first wave winners.

Second Wave

October 20

Second round of winners recognized. Submissions that come in after the first wave roll into this round.

Thursday, October 22

Show & Tell

All winners are invited to demo their work at the AI for Organizing Show & Tell.

Things you built, used, and think others should have

It does not have to be polished. If it saved you time or made your work better, it will probably do the same for someone else.

  • ✓Prompts that reliably do a job you used to do by hand
  • ✓Skills you can drop into a tool and reuse
  • ✓Apps you built for your team or your program
  • ✓Workflows that string tools together to solve a real problem
Categories
GEO Volunteer Engagement GOTV Comms Fundraising Other

GEO is generative engine optimization. If your build does not fit neatly into a category, pick Other and tell us what it does.

Who can apply, and what sharing means

The point of the prize is to get good workflows, skills, and tools into more hands.

Who can apply

Individuals, and c3 or c4 organizations.

Campaigns cannot submit directly, though campaign staff are welcome to submit in a personal capacity.

Sharing your work

By submitting, you agree to share your work openly so others can use and build on it. Materials like prompts and workflows are shared under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0), and code like apps and skills under the MIT License.

You keep ownership and full credit for what you built. If your submission includes third-party code or content, flag it on the form so we can make sure it is cleared to share. HGI may publish any and all submissions for sharing with the community.

Enter the prize

Tell us what you built, what problem it solves, and how someone else would use it. It should take about ten minutes.

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Not sure if your build counts?

It probably does. Email Kemi and we will help you figure out how to write it up.

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