Mission
The Internet is constantly evolving, and its role in politics and advocacy increases every day. In order for candidates and causes to get their messages and ideas communicated, adapting to technologies of the future is essential. FutureCampaigns provides innovative means for promoting what's most important to your organization, while keeping a constant eye on the horizon.
Whether you need a local e-mail newsletter for a school board campaign, a comprehensive strategy for an international coalition, or anything in-between, by merging our expertise with your mission, we can create the best overall solution and achieve your goals online. Our rates are reasonable and our philosophy entails considering each organization's needs on an individual basis in order to provide the best solution.
Staff
Managing Director, Sarah Granger, has a background in technology and communications that put her in a unique position to direct Internet strategy for former Senator Gary Hart's 2004 presidential exploratory "testing the waters" organization. During that endeavor, She rebuilt the entire online organization including web, database, IT, security, email, content, blog and netroots teams. Sarah led the launch of the "first true weblog to be put up by a politician," according to Wired News and political analysts and she helped make the Gary Hart News Blog one of the most popular blogs in the world at the time. She writes a weekly column for The Huffington Post on technology in the 2008 election for the "Off the Bus" project. Sarah is an active member of U.S. Public Policy Committee for the Association for Computing Machinery, she is a former Project Director for the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and she served as a delegate to the World Summit on the Information Society at the U.N. in 2003.
Online since the introduction of the Apple II+, Sarah gained a keen interest in technology's social applications at a young age. She studied technology ethics and policy at the University of Michigan and designed her own major in "Technology and Society". She then developed her technology skills as a system administrator, programmer and project manager for companies like Phoenix Technologies, Symantec, Liquid Audio, CMP Media, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and she played a lead role in three high-tech startups. Finally, her passion for utilizing information technology for social change brought her to working with nonprofit, political and new media organizations to develop content and strategies. As her business grew organically, she eventually gave it the name FutureCampaigns.
Featured as an expert in information technology and society, Sarah has been quoted as an expert in print, TV, radio and online including the Washington Post, ABC News, Daily KOS, San Jose Mercury News, "Good Morning America", the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times. She has also been a speaker at events across the country and she was a featured leader at voterunlead.org and change.org.
Her writing covers a wide range of topics including digital democracy, online campaign strategy, e-voting, network security, hacking, electronic privacy, blogging, and social media, and her articles are required reading globally in courses at universities and in IT organizations, reprinted in multiple languages. Sarah has edited three books, several nonprofit web sites, newsletters, email campaigns, online columns and multiple blogs. In addition to her column at The Huffington Post, Sarah is a contributing editor for BlogHer and several political and women's blogs. Sarah also manages the FutureCampaigns blog.
Partners
FutureCampaigns works with an incredible collection of partner individuals and organizations.
Contact
Contact: info(at)futurecampaigns(dot)com.