From airlines to telecommunications to construction and engineering, a host of private, for-profit businesses are cashing in on the Trump administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants. This training will explore using the USASpending database to find out who those contractors are and how much they are making off of the detention and deportation machine. Register here.

Elected officials are often the key decision makers that organizers focus on when trying to create change in their communities. But who are the key players behind our politicians? In this training, we’ll show how to power map an elected official, how to research their campaign donors, and provide examples of how organizers have used

The LittleSis research database is a movement tool and resource that brings together publicly available data about the corporations, billionaires, power structures that we’re up against. Oligrapher is our network visualization tool that is integrated with LittleSis to help users build power maps. Join us if you’re interested in using these tools for your campaigns

Who owns your home? What other properties do they own? Using public records we can unwind complicated real estate ownership structures to find out who controls housing in our communities and how they use money extracted from tenants to influence politicians and grow their wealth. Register here.

Elected officials are often the key decision makers that organizers focus on when trying to create change in their communities. But who are the key players behind our politicians? In this training, we’ll show how to power map an elected official, how to research their campaign donors, and provide examples of how organizers have used

What is power research? This training will explore how to identify key networks of corporate power that uphold and profit from systemic injustices, how research into these networks can be used to challenge their power, and how LittleSis can help researchers bring together information from free public sources to inform campaign strategy and tactics. We

The corporation is the dominant organizational structure in our extractive political economy. Learn how to use the Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database to find strategic information in public filings from corporations – like profits, executive pay, and major shareholders – and how to use that information in corporate campaigns. Register here.

From colleges and cultural institutions to corporate front groups, many influential organizations are governed by US non-profit laws. This training will discuss the role of nonprofits in elite power structures and where to find public information about nonprofit revenues, boards and staff, major contractors, grantees, and more. Register here.

There are now more than 1,100 billionaires in the United States alone. This training dives into billionaire power in our age of accelerating inequality and tools for researching the wealth, influence, and networks of billionaires and other powerful individuals like corporate executives.We will also examine how the corporate power structure and billionaire class is organizing