EAST SIDE COALITION · 4 BLOCKS · 1,847 RESIDENTS HEARD

Community organizing canvassing app, constituency built one listening conversation at a time.

Canvassing for community organizers means visiting residents at home to listen and talk in person. With Beacon, organizers survey residents at the door, record each person's level of support, and keep each resident's preferred language on file. The map shows which residents have been reached, and a PDF report of door results and activity can be produced in a single click.

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EAST SIDE · 1,847 LISTENING SESSIONS

Beacon dashboard for an East Side community organizing program, with listening sessions logged, door results, and contact status

Blocks & support

Grassroots canvassing map that shows which residents you have reached.

Draw a shape around a neighborhood or the area your coalition covers, and the residents inside appear as pins on the map. Each pin is colored by the resident's status, such as contacted, interested, or refused, and each area shows the share of residents reached. You can export the results for a meeting with an elected official.

Block 1100 Maple 87 residents · 71% reached
Block 1200 Maple 62 residents · 44% reached
Block 800 Cedar 94 residents · 58% reached
Eastside Apartments 340 residents · 38% reached
South Park Co-op 128 residents · 81% reached

Beacon territories page showing color-coded areas across a community organizing footprint

The platform

Community organizing canvassing app that keeps lead organizers and block organizers on the same record.

Every listening conversation is saved to the same record the lead organizer sees on the map. As a result, paper surveys do not pile up unread, and partners working in the same account do not work from different spreadsheets.

/01, DESK

Organizer console

The office screen where you divide blocks and neighborhoods, build issue surveys, and assign organizers while the map fills in. The lead organizer runs the campaign from this dashboard.

Resident list import + per-contact language preference
Listening-list builder (block → list)
Issue survey + support-level templates
Live map & activity feed

/02, DOOR

Grassroots canvassing app for block organizers

The phone app for block organizers. It holds the listening list, the resident screen, your conversation guide, and an upload queue. Anything recorded without cell signal is saved on the phone and uploaded when the connection returns.

Route-ordered listening list (auto-ordered by street)
Resident screen with earlier visits
Conversation guide written by your team
Works offline · apartment courtyards

/03, MAP

Live support tracking

Each listening session updates the map as it happens. The dashboard shows doors knocked, the contact rate, door results, and a leaderboard of organizers, and survey answers export to CSV for funder reports and briefings for elected officials.

Real-time map of residents reached
Issue survey answers exported to CSV
Leaderboard of doors and contacts per organizer
PDF activity reports in one click

A neighborhood street scene with rowhouses and a tree-lined block

Multilingual

Multilingual community organizing in the language each resident speaks at home.

Import each resident's preferred language with your list. Beacon records 11 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Arabic, plus Other. Contact exports include the preference, so you can send an organizer who speaks the language, and the AI Script Coach add-on takes it into account. Beacon does not translate surveys or scripts.

11 languages plus Other EN · ES · ZH · VI · KO · AR · and more
Per-contact language preference Imported with your list, kept on the record
Survey wording Shown as you write it, in any language
CSV export Language column included

How a campaign runs

Community organizing from listening session to advocacy in four steps.

The steps are the same whether you are surveying 200 residents on a single block or running a coalition campaign across an entire ward.

/01

Draw the campaign area

Draw shapes around blocks, neighborhoods, and coalition territories, and the residents inside become a listening list. Assign each area to an organizer so two people do not visit the same door.

/02

Build the issue survey

Build a custom survey with the questions that matter to your campaign. You can write the questions in any language, and Beacon shows them exactly as written.

/03

Listen and record

Block organizers use the resident screen to record issue priorities, support level, and willingness to act. This works offline, and the records upload as soon as signal returns.

/04

Map & report

The map updates live as residents are reached. You can produce a PDF activity report in one click and export survey answers to CSV for funders and the city council meeting.

Campaign types

Community organizing canvassing for every type of campaign.

A listening tour to identify issues and an effort to bring residents to a city council vote are different kinds of work. You set up Beacon around what each campaign is trying to accomplish.

Issue identification

Issue identification listening tours.

Before a campaign chooses a target, you need to know what residents care about. Open-ended issue questions and a record of the concerns residents mention first form the basis for the work that follows.

Captures: Top Issue · Concern · Demographic · Willingness to Act

SURVEYOpen-ended issue capture per resident
THEMESIssue answers exported to CSV for review
DEMODemographic questions in the survey, if you ask them
BUILDWillingness-to-act flag for activist recruitment

Constituency building

Constituency building and coalition expansion.

Once the issue is clear, the work is to find the residents who care enough to act. Beacon records support levels, tracks each resident's progress up the contact ladder (the steps from a first conversation to leadership), and records recruitment to neighborhood meetings and core teams.

Captures: Strong · Leaning · Undecided · Will Volunteer · Core Team

LADDERTrack resident progression up the contact ladder
RECRUITTag interest in meetings, training, leadership
COALITIONPartner organizers assigned to their own areas

Advocacy push

Advocacy campaigns that bring residents to meetings and direct actions.

If the council votes on Tuesday and you need 200 residents in the chamber on Monday night, Beacon supports targeted door visits, and survey answers can record who needs a ride and who attended, for follow-up the next day.

Captures: Committed · Needs Ride · Attended · Will Speak

TURNVisits to supporters to bring them to the meeting
RIDERide needs recorded as a survey answer
ATTENDAttendance recorded as a survey answer
NEXTFollow-up on commitment to next action

Organizer FAQ

Community organizing canvassing app FAQ: questions lead organizers ask before they sign up.

/Q, LANGUAGES

How does multilingual canvassing work?

Import each resident's preferred language with your list. Beacon records 11 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Arabic, plus Other, and includes the preference in contact exports so you can send an organizer who speaks it. Surveys and scripts appear exactly as you write them, and Beacon does not translate them.

/Q, COALITION

Can several organizations share data?

Not between separate accounts. Each Beacon account belongs to one organization, and its records are not shared with other accounts. A coalition can run its canvass in one account, with each partner's organizers assigned to their own areas, and contacts can be exported to CSV for partners.

/Q, PRICING

Is pricing per organizer?

No. Pricing is based on the number of residents on your contact list, not the number of organizers, so 5 paid organizers or 200 volunteers cost the same. There are six tiers, from Starter at $59 (2,500 contacts) up to Enterprise at $599 (250K+).

/Q, REPORTING

Does Beacon help with grant reporting?

Yes, in part. A one-click PDF report shows totals, door results, daily activity, and a leaderboard. You can also export contacts, door results, and survey answers to CSV to build the breakdown your funder asks for.

/Q, OFFLINE

Does it work in apartment buildings and rural towns?

Yes. The mobile app keeps working without cell signal. Listening sessions are saved to the phone and uploaded when signal returns, so an organizer does not lose a survey response in a stairwell or on a side road.

/Q, SETUP

How quickly can a campaign start?

Most campaigns are holding listening conversations within three days. The account is ready the same day, the campaign area is drawn during onboarding, and organizers download the app the same afternoon. White-glove onboarding costs $249 to $999 for coalition launches.