Every election cycle, thousands of dedicated, inspired staffers join campaigns across the country. Campaigns are start-ups, and these staffers build and scale these ventures from the ground up at lightning speed. They defy expectations under enormous pressure and excel at people and project management. Plus, they bring an unmatched scrappy and whatever-it-takes attitude wherever they go.

Yet when their campaign ends, the vast majority of these talented operatives - whether they’re working on ballot measures, electoral campaigns, or issue advocacy - immediately become unemployed. This cyclical unemployment is the broken reality of the campaign industry; right now, there is no scalable infrastructure to retain talent in the year between election cycles. As a result, thousands of talented staffers are leaving the industry because they cannot afford to be unemployed every two years. This talent retention problem has enormous costs, in the form of money, time, and results.

Blueline creates a centralized way for organizations to recruit this talent.

Here’s how it works:

• Blueline recruits talent working the 2024 cycle.

• Employers submit a role description for their Fellow(s).

• Blueline conducts first-round interviews and matches finalists with employers. Accepted Fellows work at their host organization in 2025 and receive career development programming from Blueline.

• It’s a win-win for employers and for staff: employers will be the first to access to top-tier talent to drive projects in their organizations, and staffers retain employment and have a path to build a long-term career fighting for the causes they believe in.