Blueline Fellows

Every election cycle, thousands of dedicated, inspired staffers join campaigns across the country. Campaigns are start-ups, and these staffers build and scale these ventures from the ground up at lightning speed. They defy expectations under enormous pressure and excel at people and project management. Plus, they bring an unmatched scrappy and whatever-it-takes attitude wherever they go. Yet when their campaign ends, the vast majority of these talented operatives - whether they’re working on ballot measures, electoral campaigns, or issue advocacy - immediately become unemployed. This cyclical unemployment is the broken reality of the campaign industry; right now, there is no scalable infrastructure to retain talent in the year between election cycles. As a result, thousands of talented staffers are leaving the industry because they cannot afford to be unemployed every two years. This talent retention problem has enormous costs, in the form of money, time, and results. Blueline solves this problem, and creates a centralized way for employers to recruit campaign talent. In doing so, we solve the cyclical unemployment problem that campaign staff face, and are building a national network of the next generation of top campaign leadership.