Congress Plus Advocacy vs ControlShift
Congress Plus Advocacy
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ControlShift
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| Figure | Congress Plus Advocacy | ControlShift |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Advocacy Software | 7.1 (#21) | 7.9 (#9) |
| Campaigns | Campaign types include email, phone calls, social media, petitions, regulatory comments, letters to the editor, and multi-channel actions. | Supporters can create local or national campaigns, recruit support, communicate with supporters, and organize tactics such as events and petition deliveries. |
| Founded | 1990 | 2011 |
| Integrations | The vendor lists Salesforce, Zapier, X, DonorPerfect, Bloomerang, iMIS, NationBuilder, Nimble, and NetForum integrations. | The maker lists CRM integrations, Segment, Facebook, Matomo, Google Analytics, Freshchat, Customer.io, Slack, and data warehouse integrations. |
| Purpose | Congress Plus Advocacy is a customizable legislative action center that helps organizations mobilize supporters to contact lawmakers. | ControlShift provides distributed events, local groups, and member-led petitions for organizations. |
| Support | Support is available by phone and email during business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, excluding holidays. | The maker offers a help center, developer documentation, email support, and the option to discuss questions on a call. |
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Congress Plus Advocacy
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ControlShift
ControlShift is a platform for progressive organizations and campaigns to coordinate distributed events, local groups, petitions, and supporter-led campaigns. Supporters can create or attend local events from organization templates, while staff review submissions, coach hosts, track activity, and measure results. Members can find nearby groups or organize new ones, with mailing lists and directories for coordination. Petition campaigns can use distributed targets and templated content under organizational moderation and approval. Organizations can approve group leaders and give them communication, event, and campaign tools, including tactics such as petition delivery. The platform supports 15 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew, and runs through web and API access. Integrations include CRMs, Amazon Redshift, SQL databases, Segment, Facebook, Matomo, Google Analytics, Freshchat, and Customer.io. Developer tools include authenticated REST APIs, webhooks, JSONP, and bulk data. Data is stored in a selected AWS US-East or EU-Central region. Pricing is on request.