Solon

10/21/2016

https://youtu.be/k-vyXIaCOuM

Use Solon to text donors immediately after a call to send a link to your contribution page. Keep supporters in the loop about upcoming rallies or events.

09/01/2016

Solon provides a donor profile complete with full contribution history and expected contribution amounts.

08/30/2016

Check out our newest piece on tracking campaign strategy through a time lapse map of contributions from the Democratic and Republican Congressional Campaign Committees to targeted congressional races.

http://imgur.com/5D5k634

A monthly time lapse map of cumulative contributions from the Democratic and Republican Congressional Campaign Committees to targeted campaigns through the 2016 election cycle. This allows one to track the geography of targeted races (where do Democrats and Republicans want to defend/compete?) as we...

08/28/2016

San Francisco is overwhelmingly democrat, but that doesn't mean the city is politically unified. From the locally focused to the liberal-libertarians, we analyzed how political donors coalesce in different communities, caring about different political races and candidates.

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08/28/2016

Communities of political donors in San Francisco with the most donors are not necessarily the ones contributing the most money to their campaigns. Contribution caps partly explain this difference.

Compared with our graph of political communities by number of donor (http://imgur.com/PtlXgNc), this graph highlights the unequal contribution capacity of each community of political donors in San Francisco. Community 3 is the largest by the number of donors, comprising donors of most local supervis...

08/28/2016

Political divisions in San Francisco are not necessarily where we expect them, shows Solon's data on individual political contributions.

Solon's data shows that San Francisco donors are mostly divided not by ideology, but by the level of government and type of campaign they care about. Communities 3 and 5 care about local politics, community 1 about state politics and issues, communit

08/26/2016

Making sense of complex political networks.

http://imgur.com/Ft2vcR2

We extracted political contributions from residents of San Francisco from 2010-2016 (federal, state, and local data sources) and ran a community detection algorithm to identify clusters of donors and recipients. Donors and recipients are colored by the community they belong to. A vast majority of Sa...

03/01/2016

Short case study of a donor search we used for one of our early clients.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oczBtsXT0I

In this video, we demonstrate a case study from one of our early clients, which is to find lawyers in Los Angeles that have given to congressional campaigns ...

02/25/2016

Candidates with an early fundraising advantage are most likely to win elections, we find in our data of California campaigns. A 10% increase in the proportion of fundraising coming in early increases a candidate's odds of winning by 30%. Check out our first Solon Labs piece to find out more.

Don't wait, Solon makes it easy to get fundraising sooner and to identify early donors.

http://www.solon.us/labs/imperative-of-early-fundraising

Software for political campaigns and causes to identify and manage promising donors.