People across the country want to make their communities better, but many don’t have access to the training, resources, and support they need to develop leadership skills, influence policy, launch advocacy campaigns, or run for office. Murmuration’s partner 

, a civic leadership development organization, is working to close that gap. LEE equips its members across all stages of life and career with coaching, connections, and skill-building opportunities to support and inspire them to increase access and opportunity in their own communities.

LEE’s network comprises a diverse group of emerging leaders, each with unique goals and priorities. To better address their members’ varied needs, Murmuration helps LEE deepen their impact by providing access to a dedicated Partner Success Manager, Data Success Manager, and Data Scientists, enabling them to build more comprehensive strategies.

In November 2025, several of LEE’s members were running for offices across all levels of local government, from school board seats to city council positions to mayoral races. While LEE’s candidates are deeply connected to their communities, many didn’t have access to insights, like 

 built for the local level, to inform where to focus their limited resources, or an easy-to-use, affordable 

Murmuration worked closely with LEE to provide tailored data insights, support, and access to our outreach and organizing platform, Organizer, to 18 of their candidates during the election cycle, enabling them to effectively identify new supporters, engage them meaningfully, and turn their outreach into lasting community power. This support included:

 – Murmuration built dashboards that provided real-time visibility into who had already voted and which supporters might still turn out, ensuring that LEE candidates could make the most informed, timely decisions about who to prioritize and where to allocate their resources as they approached election day.

 – Murmuration’s data science team provided LEE’s candidates with personalized recommendations for dozens of 

, available in Organizer, including turnout scores, to help them have a more precise understanding of their communities and identify the right voters for their mobilization efforts.

Access to Organizer, an Outreach and Organizing Platform

 – Equipped with early vote data and tailored data insights, LEE’s candidates still needed a way to put that information into action. Organizer, Murmuration’s outreach and organizing platform, gave LEE candidates a simple platform that brought their audience-building, outreach, and analysis efforts into one streamlined, easy-to-use experience. With Organizer, LEE candidates were able to quickly get their campaigns up and running with minimal effort and maximum impact.

Samantha De La Fuente, LEE’s Director of National Political Targeting and Data, said, “Murmuration’s tools offer a low-cost, accessible, and non-partisan option for our members. In addition to the voter database, the customized support that LEE receives from Murmuration, specifically our Data Manager and Partnership Success Manager, is astronomical. The Murmuration team actively sources geographies for our members running in small races, imports select early vote history that allows our members to have the freshest lists, and works closely with LEE to implement the feedback our members provide about the tool’s use.”

Murmuration’s support helped LEE’s candidates turn their desire to make their communities better into tangible success on election day. 

During the November 2025 General election cycle, 14 of the 18 LEE candidates who used Murmuration’s tools and data won their races, resulting in a 77% win rate

. Their victories spanned mayoral, city council, and school board races in 10 different states.

Mike Buman, LEE’s Executive Director, said, “Here at LEE, we know that leadership capacity is present in every community, but access to the opportunity to lead is not. Murmuration helps LEE members lower the barriers to running for and winning elected office by providing best-in-class tools that help them understand and reach their voters. Murmuration’s partnership is a key part of our successful formula for supporting the impact of LEE members.”

Achieving a 77% Win Rate Across Local Elections

As the price of groceries, gas, and housing continue to climb, the gap between what people earn and what it costs to survive in America keeps widening. People across the country are facing growing financial pressure, and for many, the idea of the American dream feels further away than ever before. 

, a civic engagement organization that educates and empowers a new generation of Latino voters while building Latino political power at large, saw an opportunity to better understand how growing economic challenges impact Latino communities and which solutions Latino voters support heading into the 2026 midterm elections.

Through a partnership with Murmuration, they drew upon our years of experience as a leading resource on civic life. Murmuration used 

, our daily survey initiative that analyzes thousands of open-ended responses every week, to design and field a custom survey in collaboration with Voto Latino. It captured responses from 6,000+ people, including over 2,000 Hispanic adults—making it one of the most meaningful national surveys of Latinos. 

The survey revealed one of the most comprehensive looks to date at how rising costs are shaping financial realities for many. The findings indicated that the scale of the struggle is widespread across the country–and in particular, among Latino families. Only 8% of Latinos report living comfortably, compared to 11% of Americans overall, and just 31% of Latinos say they could cover a $500 emergency, compared to 48% of Americans who say they could manage the same. 

Additionally, the data indicated that cost-of-living relief—such as property tax relief, utility bill assistance, first-time homebuyer support, limited rent increases, minimum wage increases, and student debt relief—tops the list of solutions that voters support.

Beyond surfacing the scale of financial strain facing Latino families, the in-depth national survey of Latinos helped demonstrate that rising costs are not only shaping day-to-day financial realities—they’re also influencing how Latino voters think about leadership, accountability, and policy priorities. The findings underscored that Latino voters are looking for practical, immediate solutions to rising costs, giving Voto Latino a strong foundation for advocacy, storytelling, and public engagement heading into the 2026 midterm elections. Voto Latino brought these insights to a wider audience through national media coverage on 

. By sharing the findings from this national survey of Latinos and other adults, the organization is ensuring the economic experiences and priorities of the communities it serves remain front and center in the public conversation.

“The economic pressures facing Latino families and working-class Americans have reached a breaking point, and our partnership with Murmuration has given us an unprecedented window into the challenges communities are experiencing every day,”

 said Beatriz Lopez, Executive Director of Voto Latino

. “Through Murmuration's Civic Pulse survey data, we see a clear picture of families being forced to make impossible choices—cutting back on groceries, delaying medical care, and sacrificing everyday necessities just to keep up with rising housing, utility, and transportation costs.

This partnership has strengthened Voto Latino's ability to identify where engagement is needed most and ensure our resources are reaching the communities that need them. As we look toward the 2026 midterms, these insights will help guide our voter registration, community outreach, civic engagement, and voter mobilization efforts, ensuring Latino voters have the information, resources, and support they need to make their voices heard and hold leaders accountable.”

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Uncovering an Economy of Sacrifice

As access to federal nutrition programs like SNAP becomes more uncertain and barriers to participation increase for millions of Americans, more people are turning to food banks for help. As demand for food banks continues to rise, the 

 (IFBA), a nonprofit of six Feeding America food banks that supports over 1,500 partner agencies and pantries, recognized an opportunity to better understand how growing food insecurity is impacting communities as well as where support for solutions exists, so they can advocate more effectively for policies that address hunger.

Through a research partnership with Murmuration, IFBA tapped into our years of experience as a leading resource on civic life. Murmuration used Community Voices, one of the largest and most rigorously maintained public opinion panels in the country, and Civic Pulse, a daily survey initiative that analyzes thousands of open-ended responses every week, to design and field three custom surveys in collaboration with the Iowa Food Bank Association that captured responses from 4,000+ people across Iowa, its six neighboring states, and the country at large. In collaboration, Murmuration and IFBA developed survey questions to understand how people really feel about rising food costs, how they’re changing their behaviors as a result, and what solutions they support.The survey findings revealed that 72% of Americans say food insecurity is a problem in their state, and more than three-quarters of Americans say they have had to adjust their grocery purchases due to rising costs. The data also showed that Americans broadly agree that food insecurity is a problem worth solving, and they support practical ways to address it.

These findings equipped IFBA to raise awareness of the widespread, bipartisan public support that exists for efforts that expand access to food—including state funding for food banks, SNAP, Double Up Food Bucks, Summer EBT, universal school food programs, and funding for food banks to purchase products grown in-state as part of the “Choose Iowa” program which supports Iowa farmers in expanding and diversifying their businesses—at a time when these state-level nutrition initiatives face uncertainty. The survey results were featured in 

, reaching over 5,000 Iowans and helping to build public awareness and momentum for IFBA’s advocacy efforts–ultimately bolstering their case that Iowa should be investing in hunger relief programs.

“These Murmuration results helped to amplify our advocacy efforts, demonstrating to elected officials that there is strong bipartisan support for programs that help our neighbors in need,” says Katie Sorrell, Executive Director of the Iowa Food Bank Association.

Explore the findings in detail, including select open-ended responses from our Civic Pulse survey, at 

Revealing Hunger in Plain Sight

Choosing between the lesser of two evils. Fear of “splitting the vote.” The constant stream of negative campaign messaging instead of coalition building. The feeling that no candidate truly represents you.

, understands these dilemmas and offers a solution to change our electoral systems for the better. They’re building a movement to bring ranked choice voting—a system that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, ensuring winners have the broadest support—to communities across the country, giving voters more choice and more power in their elections.

In Boston, MA, Rank the Vote was supporting its Massachusetts state partner during a critical push for ranked choice voting ahead of a key city council hearing that could determine whether or not the new system would move forward. With just days to act, they knew they’d need to mobilize a groundswell of supporters eager to make their voices heard and demonstrate the strong community need for ranked choice voting. But, without insights into which community members to prioritize for outreach, and with a very short lead time, they risked low turnout, which could mean potentially missing a key opportunity to demonstrate the full scope of community demand for ranked choice voting in Boston.

With just four days before the hearing, Rank the Vote used the predictive power of Murmuration’s Ranked Choice Voting Support model score to identify which community members were most likely to support ranked choice voting. Equipped with these insights, they quickly transformed that data into action—launching an outreach campaign, powered by Murmuration’s outreach and organizing platform, Organizer, to encourage the most likely supporters to contact their city councilors and attend the upcoming hearing.

In less than a week, leveraging Murmuration’s data to prioritize their outreach, Rank the Vote successfully achieved their goals:

sent to the Boston City Council from community members identified through Murmuration’s model score

Over 50 supporters attended the city council hearing

 in person, creating a surplus of energized community speakers

Boston City Council was forced to take the community seriously and 

voted to advance a Home Rule Petition to potentially bring ranked choice voting to the city

, which was ultimately signed by the Boston Mayor in a historic decision

Victories like this are often built over years of organizing, coalition-building, and convincing people that their voices matter. But success often hinges on the ability to quickly build support in critical moments, sometimes with little notice. In the case of Rank the Vote’s work in Boston, Murmuration’s model score played a key role in making this victory possible and making advancements in bringing ranked choice voting to Boston. As Rank the Vote’s Executive Director, Eileen Reavey, put it, “Murmuration enabled the ranked choice voting movement to reach more people and win more effectively than ever before with smart targeting. Murmuration's partnership with Rank the Vote's network of state and local organizations is taking these and other homegrown, grassroots democracy initiatives to a whole new level.”

From Data to Impact in Four Days

Community organizers around the country face significant challenges in mobilizing individuals to address systemic issues. Many smaller organizations struggle to access quality tools, comprehensive data, and insightful research—essential resources for effective community mobilization. Unlike larger interest groups and lobbyists with access to vast resources, these grassroots organizations face inaccessibly high costs and partisan restrictions, limiting their ability to engage people most effectively. Murmuration supports organizations in building power locally, enabling them to have their voices heard and drive meaningful change from within their communities.



Before partnering with Murmuration, The Memphis Lift — a Tennessee-based organization that educates and empowers parents to advocate for their children — lacked crucial data, tools, and resources needed to do its work most effectively. They started in 2015 as a small but determined group of parents, relying on low-tech methods and paper notes for their organizing efforts. Without access to a CRM to track and analyze their work and voter registration data, their capacity to achieve their goals was limited. Founder Sarah Carpenter recalls, “Our work was essential back then, and we couldn’t wait for the perfect tools to get started. We needed to urgently build a coalition of people to advocate for children who were overlooked and left behind in our public schools and demand better learning conditions to ensure every child had access to the education they deserve.”

Two years after its founding, The Memphis Lift faced two key challenges. Their network had expanded from a tight-knit group of parents to a larger, more influential coalition eager to engage their community — yet they lacked the means to manage their newfound volunteer power and bandwidth. They also struggled with effectively analyzing their community’s needs. They needed more efficient methods to keep their community informed and engaged, and tools to assess what strategies were working and which ones were not.



Equipped with Murmuration’s advanced and affordable solutions, The Memphis Lift was able to tackle these challenges head-on. They gained new data and tools that helped them to streamline their operations and empowered parent volunteers to intuitively record and analyze the impact of their canvassing efforts and conversations.

Within a few years, armed with Murmuration’s scalable and accessible data and tools, The Memphis Lift grew from a small group of passionate parents to an influential, powerful force in its community. The Memphis Lift has successfully transformed its community through extensive grassroots efforts, including knocking on over 25,000 doors to engage residents about Memphis schools and building a coalition of over 5,000 engaged parents. As a result of their efforts, Memphis school parents now get clear data about their child’s reading level and report cards.

Sarah Carpenter reflects, “Thanks to the power we’ve built over the years, we now command the attention of leaders and decision makers who recognize our influence and respect our voice in the community. Our efforts have transformed the landscape of public education in Memphis, and decision-makers understand that we are a force to be reckoned with these days. We’re no longer just a group of concerned parents — we are a movement that is shaping the future of Memphis.”

Building Power to Shape a New Memphis

With over 7,000 students across eight campuses, DSST Public Schools works diligently to encourage civic participation among students, staff, families, and community members. DSST helped their families, staff, eligible students, and community supporters understand the importance of voting, how to register, where and how to vote, and where to find more information on what was on their ballots. Given the size and scope of their organizing efforts, DSST Public Schools often found themselves with large quantities of data but no means to organize and use it to effectively conduct targeted outreach to their community members.

DSST Public Schools leveraged Murmuration’s data-matching tools and model scores to improve the civic engagement of families and staff, increasing voter turnout by 22% from the previous election during a school board election where turnout tended to be lower than a general election. They recognized that increasing turnout during this cycle could mean a greater impact on the election results themselves, given that most school board races were decided by only a few votes. This particular school board election had the potential to have a tremendous impact on the future of their charter school community specifically, given that the board members make decisions about the future of their campuses and other issues impacting their students and staff.

They leveraged our form and landing page features to provide people interested in registering to vote with the relevant information needed to complete the process, allowing them to build stronger relationships with voters and disseminate relevant information about upcoming elections and events. We even worked together to create a dashboard that allowed DSST Public Schools to track in real-time the number of registered voters so that they could evaluate whether to adjust their outreach efforts to maximize success.

DSST Public Schools’ use of Murmuration's suite of civic engagement tech underscores how organizations can mobilize their communities to turn out to vote efficiently when equipped with the right tools. Murmuration’s data, tools, and research enabled DSST Public Schools to spend less time managing data and more time mobilizing their communities to drive change.

Using Civic Tech to Mobilize Communities in Support of Charter Schools

Great MN Schools (GMS) consistently outperforms district averages for students of color, low-income students, and English Language Learners. They knew they needed a way to reach and engage these student’s families. With a limited text outreach budget, GMS knew it was not practical to send both an English and Somali language text to every individual in their region — yet they also did not want to overlook this important voting block. 

By partnering with Murmuration, GMS used our data and tools to identify precincts with a high relative density of Somali speakers. GMS also leveraged Murmuration’s ability to develop custom data sets to help visualize and analyze the distribution of Somali speakers throughout Minneapolis. This information enabled GMS to refine their Somali language outreach strategy to specific target geographies, enabling them to more efficiently allocate their resources to drive voter turnout in their local school board race.

GMS has been able to refine their targeting and outreach efforts to better meet the needs of their community without going over budget — growing the number of Somali language speakers among their membership and building a more inclusive coalition in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Data-Driven Strategies to Amplify Every Voice

Noble Schools leveraged Murmuration’s tools to build a robust ladder of engagement, which is a system that helps track and increase engagement of coalition members. By using this tool, Noble Schools was able to identify effective parent leaders to engage with local lawmakers. This provided Noble Schools with more time to conduct organizing efforts in the field against anti-charter school legislation and established a parent network that could share their opposition to these bills and engage local lawmakers.

Armed with Murmuration’s data and tools, Noble Schools has been able to successfully renew their charter, and they continue their statewide efforts to defeat anti-charter school legislation. Noble Schools’ advocacy efforts helped secure access to high-quality education for Chicago families for years to come. With tools to help better manage their data and help identify effective parent leaders, Noble Schools is moving closer towards advancing their mission of providing equitable and enriching educational experiences for all students, while actively engaging with their communities to drive meaningful change.

Better Data Management Practices to Secure High-Performing School Choices

In the fall of 2023, F3 launched a pilot Parent Advocate Leader (PAL) Fellowship to help build relationships with their parents. Using Murmuration’s tech infrastructure, F3 worked to mobilize their charter school families to get out to vote. F3 has also been able to identify parents who are not registered to vote so they can help them register. Armed with enhanced data management practices also made it easier to create a ladder of engagement, a system that helps track and increase engagement among members. Ladders of engagement help identify parents and community members who can lead outreach efforts across the organization and contact local officials.

With a clear understanding of their parent and family community, F3 now leverages Murmuration’s platform’s enhanced outreach capabilities to mobilize members to attend events such as community clean-ups and support initiatives like creating safer walkways for children to get to school. F3 also conducts targeted voter outreach efforts using our email tracking and phone banking tools.

Now that F3 is better equipped to understand and engage their community members, they can more effectively engage individuals to demand what they need in their community. Focusing on both immediate community needs and long-term educational improvement, F3 is positioned to play a pivotal role in shaping the educational landscape of Fort Worth, advocating for every child to have the opportunity to receive a great education through sustained community engagement and strategic partnerships.

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