Program areas at Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
Road ahead 2023 - the road ahead conference is the progressive community's only conference solely dedicated to Ballot measures. It is typically held every february in las vegas.road ahead attendees come from all corners of the country and all parts of the progressive community. What unites them all is a desire to use Ballot measures as a vehicle for social change.
The training and organizing category encompasses our capacity building program. The capacity building program is comprised of our formal training program that develops curricula and trains the field in the skills needed to run and win a transformative and equitable Ballot measure campaigns, as well as bisc's peer-to-peer and skills building cohorts, which help partners across the country move up bisc's leadership development ladder and share best practices and learn from one another on an ongoing basis.
Strategic partnerships encompasses our v2030/alignment work, our work with over 60 national and state partners and funders geared to better align the Ballot measure space and develop and implement long term strategic imperatives for the field.
Communications: bisc uses email, social media, and press interviews to communicate about critical Ballot measures and campaigns around the country.
Policy and legal advocacy encompasses working with state and national partners, including bisc's lawyer's guild, to protect direct democracy and progressive Ballot measure wins around the country, working with state and national partners on the development of equitable and strategic Ballot measure policies, as well as the tracking of Ballot measures and analysis of Ballot measure trends.
Organizational development