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Job Posting: Progressive Technology Project is hiring a Movement Support and Systems Technologist

on October 5, 2026

Summary Progressive Technology Project is seeking a Movement Support and Systems Technologist to join our small and committed 3-person team. This person will join PTP’s mission of organizing resistance to oppressive corporate technologies through political education, movement building, and creating people-controlled technology that serves the needs of community organizations. PTP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and provides movement technology and holistic technology support as a movement partner, not a corporate tech vendor.

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PTP attends Global Gathering 2026 in Portugal

on September 11, 2026

Team CommUNITY’s Global Gathering, held September 4-6, 2026 in Estoril, Portugal was more than just another conference. For Progressive Technology Project (PTP), a new Member of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the gathering was an opportunity for us to engage and network with staff and other members from APC. It was a chance for us to come together and strategize with nine of our Rise Against Big Tech (RABT) coalition members from across the Globe.

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How nonprofits can off-ramp from Big Tech

on February 10, 2025

This blog was originally posted on NTEN. Many of us invested countless hours, months, and years learning how to use Twitter and Facebook to build followers, promote our organizations, and engage and mobilize new folks with our projects and campaigns. The Progressive Technology Project even held organizing and strategic communication trainings to help nonprofit organizations avoid getting left behind during the Web 2.0 mania. Fast forward a decade and Twitter, now renamed X and owned by Elon Musk, has gotten so bad that the Atlantic has officially declared it a “White Supremacist Site”.

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Venture Capital and Organizing Databases

on June 3, 2024

A couple of articles have come to our attention recently about the politics, power and money behind the technologies where our movement houses our data. The first is from Klein and Roth Consulting’s recent newsletter entitled Do You Know Who Owns Your CRM (and Why it Matters)? by Haley Bash of Donor Organizer Hub and the second is entitled Living with VANxiety: The Present and Future of Progressive Movement Tech by journalist Micah L.

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