Campaign for Our Shared Future

What Campaign for Our Shared Future does

Campaign for Our Shared Future (COSF) is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) advocacy organization founded in October 2021 to support equity in K-12 public education. The organization operates as a digital resource platform providing free downloadable toolkits, training materials, voter guides, and crisis management resources to school district leaders, superintendents, educators, families, community members, and grassroots advocacy organizations. Its core mission centers on combating the politicization of public schools and equipping pro-equity stakeholders to engage in school board elections, which the organization identified as historically overlooked in the broader education advocacy landscape. COSF operates alongside a sister 501(c)(4) entity, COSF-AF (Campaign for Our Shared Future Action Fund), which handles candidate endorsement and electoral advocacy.

The organization's product surface consists of approximately 30 named resources, including the Movement Playbook (an interactive GOTV guide with Articulate-based course modules and PDF delivery), the School Leaders Toolkit (crisis management resources for superintendents), a Voter Guide, a Model Resolutions bank covering topics from educator diversity to intellectual freedom, the Community Building Toolkit, and various training modules on organizing, persuasion, and public narrative construction. The technical platform is a Wix-hosted website (campaignsharedfuture.org) that now functions as an archive of resources from the 2021-2024 active programming period. Distribution is entirely free-of-charge through the website and partner organization networks.

COSF's business model relies exclusively on donations and grants from foundations and individuals, with no fees charged to end users for any resource. The go-to-market motion is community-led, emphasizing grassroots organizing, coalition building with national and local partners, and voter education programs focused on school board elections. Key partnerships include PEN America, Red Wine & Blue, Our Turn, Creative Artists Agency (for the #LetAmericaRead celebrity campaign), Leading Now (for superintendent training), and I Am A Voter. Operational scale included training 400+ superintendents across 20+ states, preparing 550+ school district leadership teams across 30 states, and training 1,000+ grassroots advocates. Reported outcomes include an 83% win rate for COSF-AF endorsed candidates, a 24% voter turnout increase in Rockingham County Virginia, and successful school board flips such as Central Bucks Pennsylvania.

Name

Campaign for Our Shared Future

Legal name

Campaign for Our Shared Future

Website

https://campaignsharedfuture.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Campaign for Our Shared Future is a 501(c)(3) non-profit providing free downloadable resources, toolkits, and training to support K-12 public education equity, serving school leaders, educators, families, and grassroots organizations through its archived resource website.

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GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

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Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: As a non-partisan, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, COSF operates entirely on donations and grants from foundations and individuals who support public education equity.

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Core offering

Campaign for Our Shared Future (COSF) produced and distributed free, downloadable advocacy toolkits, training courses, and research resources aimed at advancing K-12 public education equity and supporting community-led engagement in school board elections. Its materials were designed for educators, families, school leaders, and grassroots activists seeking non-partisan frameworks and templates for organizing around curriculum, book banning, and public school governance issues.

Product overview

Campaign for Our Shared Future (COSF) is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) advocacy organization rather than a software product company. Its core offering consists of a comprehensive library of downloadable resources, toolkits, templates, and training materials designed to support equity in public K-12 education. The primary products include the Movement Playbook (an interactive election guide for school board races), the School Leaders Toolkit (crisis management resources for superintendents), the Voter Guide (voter education materials), the Community Building Toolkit, and a bank of Model Resolutions for school boards. Supporting resources include various templates (phone scripts, testimony, letters to editors), training materials (organizing, persuasion, public narrative), reflection documents on strategy and partnerships, and legal guidance. These resources are provided free of charge as an archive to support families, grassroots organizations, and educators in advocating for equitable public education.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• COSF helped flip the Central Bucks, PA school board to pro-equity candidates
• +3 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles4 records

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Creative Artists Agency (CAA)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Partnership with CAA to launch the #LetAmericaRead campaign, an initiative to spread awareness about book bans. Celebrities use their platforms to share favorite banned books and importance of fighting back against proposed bans.
• PEN AmericacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2021Early partnership formed to increase public awareness around education equity issues. PEN America is a nonprofit organization that works to protect free expression.
• Red, Wine & BluecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2021Early partnership to engage suburban women and build broader coalition for education equity. Red, Wine & Blue focuses on political engagement in swing suburban communities.
• Our TurnminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2021Early partnership to engage youth and young people in education advocacy efforts.
• Leading NowcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOSF partnered with Leading Now which supports superintendents and system leaders in navigating political complexity. Leading Now provides training and counsel to help leaders avoid and de-escalate crises while doing equity work.
• I Am A VoterminorGTM or Marketing PartnerNational partner for voter registration efforts, helping COSF reach broader audiences for school board election GOTV programs.
• COSF-AF (Campaign for Our Shared Future Action Fund)coreOthersWorking on parallel tracks but not in collaboration, COSF-AF (501(c)4) focuses on securing wins for pro-equity candidates while COSF (501(c)3) increases voter turnout. Together they create a holistic approach to school board elections.

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Recent moves6 records

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Direct peers

• Zinn Education Project: A non-profit promoting anti-racist, accurate K-12 history teaching — overlapping directly with COSF's equity-focused curriculum advocacy, model resolutions, and teacher guidance work around contested classroom content.
• Parents Defending Education: A parent-led advocacy organization actively organizing in school board elections on the opposing side of the culture-war debates COSF addresses; competes for the same school board election attention and grassroots mobilization slots.
• PEN America: COSF's early strategic partner on free expression and book ban advocacy; PEN America's education and free expression programs overlap with COSF's #LetAmericaRead campaign and district crisis management support.
• The Education Trust: A national non-profit advocating for equitable K-12 education for students of color and low-income students — directly aligned with COSF's K-12 public education equity mission and advocacy tooling.
• Moms for Liberty: A parental rights organization that has mobilized heavily in school board elections nationwide — directly competing with COSF's pro-equity school board GOTV playbook for voter attention and district-level influence.
• Learning for Justice: A Southern Poverty Law Center project providing free K-12 anti-bias resources and social justice teaching materials, serving the same educators and classrooms targeted by COSF's School Leaders Toolkit and Teacher Guidance resources.
• Red, Wine & Blue: An early COSF strategic partner; engages suburban women in K-12 education political organizing — sharing COSF's school board engagement focus and community-organizing GTM.
• Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA): A non-profit focused on equity in K-12 schools serving marginalized students; IDRA's tools for teaching in climates of censorship and policy advocacy closely parallel COSF's Teacher Guidance and Model Resolutions work.

Broad incumbents

• National Education Association (NEA): The largest U.S. teacher union conducts K-12 education advocacy, professional development, and policy work at a vastly broader scale — COSF's Teacher Guidance resources (e.g., the NEA-cited "Teach Truth" materials) overlap with this larger advocacy ecosystem.
• AASA (The School Superintendents Association): The national professional association for school superintendents — comparable to the audience COSF trained (400+ superintendents across 20+ states) and overlapping on crisis management and equity leadership support offerings.

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Key highlights6 records

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