About PAI

People’s Action Institute (501c3), and sister organization People’s Action (501c4), are national progressive organizations supporting the mobilization and leadership of the grassroots in support of an agenda that reflects people over profits. People’s Action/Institute builds the power of poor and working people, in rural, suburban, and urban areas to win change through issue campaigns and elections.  

With offices in Washington, DC and Chicago, IL and remote staff across the country, we support and advance state-based and national fights for progressive policies on the environment, decarceration, health care, economic security, housing, education, and more. Our member organizations, nearly 40 organizations across 28 states, improve lives by running  local- and state-level issue and electoral campaigns, leading statewide tables, and collectively come together to change national policy and politics.

People’s Action/ Institute has a track record of leadership in coordinating field mobilization and advocacy in advancing an array of issues at the local, state, and federal levels. Our member organizations have won important victories at the national, state, and local levels, including: health insurance for millions of people and the reversal of health care laws that discriminate based on citizenship; stopping Wall Street banks from selling predatory payday loans to their customers; and moving historic legislation like the Community Reinvestment Act to victory, and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 

For more information on PAI, please visit https://peoplesaction.org/.

The Opportunity

This is the dream job of someone who wants to be on the frontlines of strengthening the grassroots-led movement to win hearts and minds in rural America to turn people away from the politics of hate and towards greater investment in infrastructure, good jobs, clean water, and a rural Green New Deal. This is a chance for a motivated organizer to flex and hone their skills as they drive the implementation of our national campaign strategy with community based organizations across the United States. It’s also a chance to do the fundamentals of organizing through the challenges of COVID-19 and social-distancing, experimenting with ways to organize people using digital and phone tools at scale People’s Action is advancing cutting edge work, leading the field through our work on the Rural Deep Canvass -- which will prove to be one of the most effective interventions in 2020 -- and leading the way on a comprehensive agenda for Rural America and a Green New Deal for rural areas. To win in 2020, we need to win in rural areas, and no one is doing more creative, racially conscious, and innovative work in rural areas.