Building campaigns that connect organization, data synthesis, strategic planning, and grassroots organizing to mobilize for progressive change.
The principles that guide us in supporting your efforts to make progress:
Data Synthesis
We are best equipped to solve problems when we leverage data to define objectives, make strategic choices, develop plans, choose effective tactics and analyze results through both a quantitative and qualitative lens.
Strategic Planning
A strategic, collaborative, data driven, iterative planning process is key to problem solving and winning campaigns.
Organization
A well-prepared team, prepared for the effort and fueled by a culture anchored in teamwork and operational efficiency, is essential to winning campaigns.
Grassroots Organizing
Individual action in numbers is the great equalizer in political and advocacy campaigns. Online engagement can recruit thousands and even millions of participants quickly, but the best campaigns take those efforts offline and solidify impact through face to face interaction.
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Principal
Rich Kotchmar
Throughout his career, Rich has managed multi-million-dollar voter contact and GOTV operations, helped organizations and campaigns develop strategic plans, built diverse coalitions and managed independent expenditure and grassroots lobbying campaigns. Rich has worked on dozens of electoral, environmental, energy, healthcare, corporate accountability, trade association and labor campaigns, designing some of the largest campaigns in the progressive community.
In 2020, Rich co-founded Organizing Together 2020 and served as Senior Advisor at For Our Future. In the past, Rich served as Interim Executive Director at For Our Future, and before that, State Program Director where he managed FOF’s 2016 strategic planning team, state program and national data operations. Prior to that, Rich was a Principal at The Smoot Tewes Group where he managed many of the firm’s data, targeting, voter contact and grassroots organizing projects.
Rich’s primary focus at Kinetic21 is on strategic planning, management consulting, data ecosystem development and synthesis and grassroots organizing for campaigns, donors, unions, and non-profits.
Rich lives in NY with his wife Beth, son Ethan, daughter Maddie and red dog named Blue.
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