Organizer's Toolbox

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Organizer’s Toolbox is an easy-to-use, flexible campaign database application that helps unions build capacity and win campaigns.

The Organizer’s Toolbox pulls it all together by creating a common language and set of common tools to support both New Organizing and Internal Organizing. Developed for organizers by organizers, Toolbox tips the scales in your direction, ensuring you can quickly break down the numbers so you can analyze where you are strong and where you need to move resources.

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See our Feature List for a detailed set of tools to support your campaign.

When to Use Organizer’s Toolbox

Organizer’s Toolbox supports a variety of internal and external campaigns:

Projects large or small. OT is the best tool around for large-scale, industry-wide and multi-state campaigns. It’s also the perfect solution for smaller locals trying to manage limited resources effectively.
New organizing campaigns. Run traditional or innovative, non-NLRB campaigns to organize new bargaining units and employers.
Fighting for a strong contract. Organize your existing union membership during contract campaigns, out on the picket line, or building support in your community.
Building internal capacity. OT helps you track and develop worksite leaders, and mobilize members and supporters to take action.
Increasing political power through COPE or worksite GOTV. Well-structured worksite data provides the basis for finding and supporting political action in the workplace.
Working in coalition with community groups. Leverage the ability to track workers church and community organization memberships to work collaboratively on community campaigns.

Proven History

Hundreds of thousands of workers have been organized over the last decade using Organizer’s Toolbox. Campaigns as far flung as Hawaii, British Columbia, Los Angeles and Florida have won campaigns using Toolbox in more than 20 states and provinces. Industries organized include bus drivers, healthcare professionals, airline industry employees, homecare workers, government employees, childcare workers, engineers and more.

Using the Toolbox, you’ll leverage the organizing methodologies pioneered and tested by these winning campaigns.

Key Features

See our Feature List for a detailed set of tools to support your campaign.

Internet Hosted

Hosted on the Internet, Organizer’s Toolbox distributes critical real-time campaign information to organizers out in the field—whereever they are—so you no longer have to worry about the hassles of hosting a database at your office.

Integrated Mapping

Generate map packets, optimized routes, and turn by turn directions to support efficient House Visits.

Turf Allocation

Assign organizers to turf by using a rule-based Turf cutter.

Manage Multiple campaigns.

Store all your campaigns in one database, but keep organizers focused on their turf.

Multi-level Worksite Charting and Reporting.

Track campuses, buildings, work areas, departments, and shifts with no-hassle Reports, Lists, House Visit Sheets, and Mailing Labels.
Over 150 pre-installed lists and reports. Easily select, sort and group subsets of your database- just point and click.

Filtering and Querying Designed for Organizers not Programmers.

Create and save filters based on virtually any field you store data in.

High-Quality Support

Continued Innovation

Free upgrades are part of your subscription. Recent innovations include tracking multiple jobs and job history, easily import your own electronic lists, bar-coded house visit sheets and integrated mapping and routing that facilitates the creation of optimimized house visit packets.

On Demand and Facilitated Web Trainings

NUWS offers free online training classes as part of your subscription, as well as on-demand training videos at the click of a button, so organizers learn what they need when they need it.

Expert Consulting

NUWS has worked closely with organizers for ht past ten years to meet the ever expanding needs of unions committed to organizing.