About Us
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center is the progressive community’s only research and capacity-building organization focused solely on the ballot measure process.
Ballot measure campaigns affect everything progressives fight for. But for decades, the initiative process has been hijacked by well-funded, well-messaged campaigns from the right wing, while progressives have played a weak defense that can – at best –maintain the status quo.
With the support of visionary funders and committed national and state partners, BISC:
- Engages progressive leadership on a wide range of ballot measure issues including fighting for working families, reproductive justice, LGBT equality, immigration, equal opportunity, and clean energy.
- Analyzes ballot measure funding to inform smart investments in a coordinated ballot measure strategy.
- Assists our partners in moving from defense to offense by challenging our opponents at every turn.
- Conducts in-depth, multi-state research to understand the ballot measure process, inform smart strategies, and measure success.
- Identifies the weaknesses in state initiative processes and advances reforms that hold right-wing activists and their corporate backers accountable.
