For partners and co-hosts
Bring RootsCamp to Life
Choose how you show up: • A co-host runs a camp with us • A partner helps connect us, builds relationships, and convenes the right people and organizations • A sponsor funds the camp
The model
Your city, state, or region. Your agenda. One network.
A RootsCamp is an unconference: the people at camp set the agenda, teach the sessions, and own the outcomes. There's no headliner and no program handed down from anywhere. The only rule is that you build the day together.
You host it locally — a church basement, a union hall, a community college, a Discord server. You recruit across silos, not just your own crew. You debrief the election that just happened. Then you tell the rest of us what you learned, so the next camp is smarter than the last.
The four promises of the name
01
Participants set the agenda
No preset program. Attendees propose and vote on sessions. Some in advance. Some on-site.
02
Everyone participates
No spectators, no audience. If you're there, you're in the work.
03
It crosses the firewalls
Co-hosts don't share staff or a board. Strangers at camp is the point — that's where the learning lives.
04
It's honest and safe
A code of conduct holds the space. You debrief, you don't spin.
The unlike co-hosts
At least two co-host organizations that don't share staff or a board. That's how camps full of strangers happen — and that's the point.
Micro-grants
Up to $2,500 to lower the barrier — venue, food, childcare, travel. Apply once your camp is submitted with two+ co-hosts.
The report-back
Within 30 days, file what your camp learned. Three lessons and the one spark. It feeds the commons so every camp teaches the country.
Partner or co-host interest
Build the host team with us.
Tell us who you represent, where you are, and how you want to show up. Co-hosts run one specific camp; partners back the camp (or camps) from outside.
Looking to fund the network instead? Sponsors and partners back camps from outside the room.
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