Partner Spotlight: Pipeline Initiative

Starting last year, CTA began partnering with the Pipeline Initiative to solve the challenging task of bringing together disparate data sources on school board districts across the country. Analyzing this data has been a challenge, due to inaccurate, incomplete, and decentralized data.

By using CTA’s Progressive Action Database (PAD), the Pipeline Initiative was able to merge data from various progressive data vendors to gain insight into district demographics, officeholders, and candidates. To make this data accessible to the Pipeline Initiative’s stakeholders, CTA partnered with the team to create a cutting-edge dashboard in PAD to display school district profiles, demographic information on current stakeholders, and election information.

With this new dashboard, the Pipeline Initiative can now more easily and more quickly identify competitive districts that lack representative officeholders, allowing Pipeline and their partners to focus on what they do best: building a pipeline of progressive leaders running for office and winning at every level of the ballot, especially those that are frequently overlooked.