Case Study: Arthritis Foundation achieves streamlined legislative tracking and powerful grassroots mobilization with FiscalNote

How the Arthritis Foundation Tracks Legislation and Mobilizes Their Grassroots for Powerful Results

The Arthritis Foundation, a nonprofit representing 54 million Americans with arthritis, faced the challenge of coordinating dispersed state legislative teams and a large grassroots network—over 140,000 contacts and 55,000–60,000 active advocates—to track thousands of bills and mobilize action. Existing vendors were siloed or incomplete, and the Foundation relied on inefficient spreadsheets, making it hard to synchronize policy monitoring with timely grassroots outreach.

By adopting FiscalNote for legislative tracking and VoterVoice for advocacy, the Foundation unified issue tracking and supporter engagement, saving staff time and enabling rapid, coordinated campaigns. That integration helped identify and mobilize top advocates early in the 2019 effort on Georgia’s HB 63 (step therapy reform), contributed to the bill’s passage and signing, and delivered measurable growth and more effective, timely advocacy across states.

Arthritis Foundation

Ben Chandhok

Senior Director of State Legislative Affairs