Case Study: International Justice Mission achieves streamlined tracking of 100s of congressional meetings with FiscalNote's Knowlegis

How IJM Uses Knowlegis to Track 100s of Meetings With Congress Each Year

International Justice Mission (IJM), the world’s largest anti‑slavery organization, conducts hundreds of meetings with Congress each year to advance a field‑informed legislative agenda — for example, logging 459 constituent lobbying meetings while working on the End Modern Slavery Initiative Act. That volume of outreach produced an overwhelming amount of intelligence and coordination challenges: tracking detailed meeting notes, constituent feedback, and interactions across 535 members of Congress while keeping D.C. policy staff and regional organizers in sync.

IJM uses FiscalNote’s Knowlegis — a real‑time congressional staff directory and relationship‑management tool — to record every meeting, import constituent reports, find the right staffer quickly, and share up‑to‑date profiles across a 10–12 person team. The platform has streamlined scheduling and follow‑up, preserved institutional memory for repeat engagements, improved coordination between grassroots organizers and D.C. lobbyists, and helped make their advocacy more effective.

International Justice Mission

Eileen Campbell

Senior Director of Advocacy