WANT TO GET STARTED NOW?  Check out our new TAKE ACTION page on Substack!  It's got a Big Shift Guide, Idea Lists, and everything else you or a group need to get going.

WANT TO LEARN MORE FIRST?  We can reach and energize Americans with engagement, partnerships, and pressure to get people talking, making change, making news, and voting.  We do this by combining these 5 Things:

• Thing 1:  Building connection.
• Thing 2:  Doing more with community & coalitions.
  
• Thing 3:  Involving businesses through partnerships & pressure.
• Thing 4:  Championing vision, values, & moral courage.
• Thing 5:  Raising a ruckus, creating a buzz, driving the narrative, & sharing it all widely.

Shift the Country has the audacious, achievable idea that we can collectively change our country’s trajectory.  We need a big pivot – for the 2024 election, and so we can better handle our formidable future after the 2024 election.  Together we can catalyze widespread public pressure to move the US toward healthier democracy and away from far-right extremism. 

We can get government, institutions, infrastructure, and our economy to better serve all the people of this multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracy – so let’s make that happen.  We can demand and create more agile, adaptable, resilient, sustainable, inclusive, and equitable systems so we all have greater chances to survive, prosper, flourish, and thrive in this time of great challenges to the planet, to humanity, and to the US.  Together we can grow a coalition of Democrats, independents, and others to leverage the power of the US majority.  Together we can empower Americans to vote in overwhelming majorities to overcome structures that protect minority party power so that our democracy works better for the actual majority of us.  Together we can be courageous and take creative action to shift the zeitgeist, the conscience, the character, and the reality of this country.

Read or download the entire website as a PDF for more on the design & intention of this work.

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Invite us to speak!  Help grow this shift!  If you know of people or groups who can do neat things with the ideas here, please help us get connected. We can do talks, calls, zooms, & training to get the word out. Invite us to speak or to do a workshop. Email [email protected], call (515) 375-9027, or book an appointment to talk as soon as possible. The 2024 election is coming fast.

Get your friends, family, or groups involved...  

• Use the TAKE ACTION Substack page with the Big Shift Guide & the Idea Lists – with practical stuff for implementing this shift.
• Volunteer directly with Shift the Country.
• Join twice weekly volunteer Zoom meetings Tuesday evenings & Friday afternoons. 
• Join our Community Rising Facebook group.
• Reference the separate Big Shift Framework PDF document of this website for more on the overall approach here.
• Share & amplify this work to help it grow.  
• Help expand this work by actively talking about it; by recruiting others; by sharing posts; by engaging with the social media on Facebook, Substack, LinkedIn, and Post; or by connecting this nonprofit with coalitions/groups/influencers and/or big funders.

It’s all connection, community, and collaboration to grow this work using the 5 Thing approach.  Together we’ll push to engage with other groups, to join and build coalitions, to do outreach to get more people engaged, and to keep growing more action and attention.  Bring your brain and your persistence and help shape what this shift becomes.  Shift the Country will help catalyze, nurture, coach, cheer-lead, foment, promote, support, grow, and incite this work at every level as we have the volunteers, capacity, and funding to do so — so give us a holler.