CiviClick vs DearMEP

CiviClick is a grassroots advocacy platform for organizations mobilizing supporters and seeking to influence policy. Campaign pages and targeted email, text, and digital outreach help supporters contact elected officials and regulators through calls, emails, texts, videos, photos, and social media. AI-powered personalization can adapt message language based on user input. Engagement tools include progress tracking, badges, and supporter recognition, while legislative tracking can monitor bills and policy changes and help users reach decision-makers. Reports can be filtered by policy interests, custom tags, past engagement, and advocate scoring. Listed integrations include Salesforce, NationBuilder, Facebook Lead Ads, Zapier, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, and advertising and data services. CiviClick offers campaign management that may include copywriting, messaging, strategy, audience segmentation, planning, and legislative research. Its agency offering describes pay-for-performance marketing with a locked-in cost per conversion, but no public subscription price is stated; prospective customers are directed to schedule a demo. Its privacy policy says application data may be licensed to third parties for commercial purposes unless a service agreement grants the customer exclusive ownership.

DearMEP is free, open-source software that helps citizens contact elected representatives in the European Parliament. Users can call once or schedule daily or weekly calls, and can also contact politicians by email or social media. The system chooses a representative from the user's country whom it estimates may be persuadable, using voting behavior and feedback. NGOs and activists can adapt the tool for campaigns and other assemblies, or embed a customizable widget on a campaign website. The widget detects the browser language and also lets visitors choose a language; campaign URLs must be added to the instance's allowed origins. DearMEP offers API documentation for advanced integrations and custom client implementations, and is available as web software, an API, or self-hosted software. A new instance requires an account with 46elks, its calling provider. The project says it minimizes personal-data processing and follows privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default, with GDPR compliance. Its privacy design document says IP addresses are used for geolocation and abuse prevention but are not persisted by the application itself; the document notes that some described functionality may not be implemented.