The CaPA Connector is an interactive platform that profiles hundreds of community-rooted organizations that are engaging voters and advocating for climate, social, racial and/or economic justice. For donors who seek to deploy funds strategically in targeted geographies, with high-impact yet low-profile community organizations, the CaPA Connector dynamic database offers a powerful tool of discovery. This database is constantly updated and can be filtered by geography, constituencies, engagement actions, and other criteria.
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While this database contains more than 500 entities, it is not a complete list of the thousands of organizations doing impactful work. Organizations are invited to fill out this Card Creation Form to be added to the CaPA Connector.
Most of the CaPA Connector data is self-reported by the organizations and CaPA has not completed a 3rd party assessment of accuracy.
CaPA evaluates where programs are fielded within a State by using congressional district boundaries. An org delivering engagement actions within the boundaries of a congressional district does not necessarily mean that group is engaging in a congressional district race.
The Alaska Voter Guide is a unique tool in the landscape and is complementary to the work campaigns and other independent expenditure groups are doing. This guide voices 907 Action's support for specific candidates.
To engage and inform Alaska voters about election dates and candidates on the ballot.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
States Engaged: AK
Congressional Districts Engaged: AK-AL
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Action Together NEPA will focus on advocacy and accountability in 2025, while growing our base to match the needs of the current climate. Our goal is to double our base to meet the moment, increasing our work protecting those most harmed, and fighting for public education, LGBTQ+ rights, and economic prosperity, including increasing PA’s minimum wage. We will expand trainings and educational programs, endorse in key races, and run critical PA Supreme Court retention campaigns.
Action Together NEPA engages voters in an accountability campaign, focusing on outreach and early voter education. This campaign focuses on office holders for President, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House of Representatives. ATNEPA works to educate voters and raise awareness around issues and how the Pennsylvania legislature impacts their priorities.
Action Together NEPA is a grassroots progressive organization dedicated to community action and political advocacy. We support bold progressive policies that will preserve our democracy and promote social and economic justice. We envision a thriving permanent progressive infrastructure of engaged and empowered voters across northeastern Pennsylvania, working together to create a brighter future.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Activate America uses our network of 30,000 volunteers to reach low-propensity voters in 7 states by postcarding, texting, phone banking, and canvassing. We provide positive and negative accountability messaging, we help voters sign up to vote by mail, and we provide key voting logistics information and reminders.
Activate America seeks to empower volunteers to get out the vote for Democratic candidates in close US House and Senate races.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
AFN plans to use the same strategy centered on recruiting/training Outreach Specialists in Native villages throughout Alaska; activating those workers to engage directly with community members in the places and by the methods that are truly effective; providing informative, engaging media (visual, digital,radio) to explain the importance of voting, both in English and Alaska Native linguistic dialects.
Enhancing and promoting the cultural, economic and political voice of the Alaska Native community. The largest statewide Native organization in Alaska, AFN represents more than 140,000 Native peoples – about one out of every five Alaskans.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
States Engaged: AK
Congressional Districts Engaged: AK-AL
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Multi-racial (including white), BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Contact: Nicole Borromeo, Alaska Federation of Natives Executive Vice President & General Counsel, nborromeo@nativefederation.org
Alaska Public Interest Research Group (AKPIRG) is a nonprofit founded in 1974 that is committed to connecting Alaskans to reliable information about public interest issues. Unlike most PIRGs, AKPIRG has no ties to university or student PIRG organizations, or to the national PIRG system. Designed to represent the interests of consumers, AKPIRG provides a vehicle for promoting the concerns of under-represented Alaskans into the mainstream of public policy making. We have five intersecting and often-related issue areas that we work on: energy, broadband, economic justice, language access, and good government.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
States Engaged: AK
Congressional Districts Engaged: AK-AL
Geographic Density Focus: Rural and Small cities (<100k), Urban - Large city, or suburb of large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Native American/Indigenous, Federal Legislators, State Legislators
Atlanta GLOW's EmpowHer the Vote initiative empowers young, female voters of color through nonpartisan education, outreach, and engagement. We provide training, resources, workshops, and youth-led events to increase voter turnout, while our Voter Engagement Fellowship trains young leaders to mobilize their peers. Looking ahead to key elections like Georgia's 2026 gubernatorial race, we will continue equipping young voters with the knowledge and confidence to engage in the democratic process and shape their communities.
Atlanta GLOW’s EmpowHer the Vote initiative educates, empowers and mobilizes young, female voters of color across metro Atlanta communities to participate in the democratic process by casting their votes. The initiative seeks to increase voter turnout and encourage informed decision-making among this vital demographic.
Atlanta GLOW's mission is to encourage, educate and equip young, low-income women to be thriving, self-sustaining leaders and effective agents of economic growth within their communities.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs, Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Top Priority Issues: Civic engagement, Economic justice, Gender equality
We aim to educate Black voters about the threats to our voting rights, health equity, education equity, and living wages and connect those issues to the importance of voting. We will reach voters in their homes, churches, community events, on the radio and on social media feeds and digital platforms.
Partnering with individuals and Black-Led organizations to make voting and civic engagement an ongoing responsibility and tradition to improve the quality of life in black communities.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
States Engaged: OH
Congressional Districts Engaged: OH-01
Geographic Density Focus: Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Women, Faith-based, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Over four million people don't vote where they live. An enlistee in the Navy from North Carolina can vote--from San Diego. An NC A&T student in Brazil this semester can vote too. But they probably won't--unless someone asks them. Building Bridges for America is going to ask.
Building Bridges for America mobilizes and empowers networks of relational grassroots organizers to create an equitable and informed electorate.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Citizens' Climate Education and Citizens' Climate work together to advance climate action in the U.S. Congress. We train and empower our grassroots network of 360 active chapter and 62 national action teams to build political will through local organizing, media engagement, and direct lobbying. During election years, we mobilize volunteers to engage candidates on climate change and boost voter turnout.
In 2025, Citizens' Climate Education is focused on training our grassroots network to defend hard-won climate victories in the U.S. Congress, such as the clean energy tax credits passed in the Inflation Reduction Act. We are also taking advantage of opportunities to make forward progress in the current political climate. These opportunities include climate-smart forestry, clean energy deployment, and building electrification.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
States Engaged: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Citizens' Climate Education and Citizens' Climate work together to advance climate action in the U.S. Congress. We train and empower our grassroots network of 360 active chapter and 62 national action teams to build political will through local organizing, media engagement, and direct lobbying. During election years, we mobilize volunteers to engage candidates on climate change and boost voter turnout.
In 2025, Citizens' Climate Lobby is focused on defending hard-won climate victories in the U.S. Congress, such as the clean energy tax credits passed in the Inflation Reduction Act. We are also taking advantage of opportunities to make forward progress in the current political climate. These opportunities include climate-smart forestry, clean energy deployment, and building electrification.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
States Engaged: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT,DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Large scale online voter registration programs targeted toward unregistered and
inactive Black potential voters through an online portal conducted in partnership with Rock The Vote.
The Collective is focused on building black political power and is working to fix the challenge of under-representation of the Black community in elected seats of power throughout the nation.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
States Engaged: OH, AZ, NC
Congressional Districts Engaged: OH-01, AZ-01
Geographic Density Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Large scale online voter registration programs targeted toward unregistered and inactive Black potential voters through an online portal conducted in partnership with Rock The Vote.
The Collective is focused on building black political power and is working to fix the challenge of under-representation of the Black community in elected seats of power throughout the nation.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
States Engaged: OH, AZ, NC
Congressional Districts Engaged: OH-01, AZ-01
Geographic Density Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Community Change Action and our grassroots partners will use relational organizing to reach 250,000 Black, Latino, Native, AAPI, immigrant, women, and young voters to support navigating voting systems and mobilize for values-aligned candidates. Relational voter programs are key to engaging hard-to-reach and hard-to-find voters outside the traditional political machine.
Our mission is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
States Engaged: AZ, GA, MI, NV, NC, OH , CA, NJ, NM, NY, OR, PA, TX, WI
In 2024, we recruited over 30 student and youth volunteers, knocked on 2,000 doors, and made over 6,000 calls statewide. In 2025, we will focus on base and coalition building by: 1)Investing in Year-Round Member Engagement: Strengthening trust through 1:1 check-ins, active listening, and issue-based organizing. 2)Empowering Communities: Equipping immigrant organizations and allies with tools to mobilize their members. 3)Foster a Unified Front: Develop a shared vision and strategy that aligns our efforts across communities
COA will work with volunteers to host voter registration efforts in our community before transitioning our efforts to turning voters out this fall. We will also provide accessible election information to voters and identify and meet the language and transportation needs of the immigrant community on Election Day.
Community Organizing Alliance (COA) is a social justice, civic engagement organization which educates, empowers and engages young people centering Black and immigrant voices.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: ME
Congressional Districts Engaged: ME-02
Geographic Density Focus: Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Immigrant
Leadership Diversity: BIPOC-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Top Priority Issues: Civic engagement, Immigrant rights, Gun violence
Geo-targeting. Chatbots. AI generated videos. Canvassing apps.
We apply innovative tech and storytelling to social justice and voting rights causes. We do this pro bono using mostly free apps and freely share how we solved a challenge so other other groups can do it themselves too.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
States Engaged: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, GA, IL, IN, IA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI, FL
Geo-targeting. Chatbots. AI generated videos. Canvassing apps.
We apply innovative tech and storytelling to social justice and voting rights causes. We do this pro bono using mostly free apps and freely share how we solved a challenge so other other groups can do it themselves too.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
States Engaged: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, GA, IL, IN, IA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI, FL
Freedom ROC is focused on building Black grassroots community power will train and empower Black leaders to register voters through hotspot canvassing, doors, events, BLOC parties and concerts in Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Warren counties.
To create systemic change that leads to a more equitable society by uplifting the voices of directly impacted Black people that allows us to build Black grassroots community political power.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: OH
Congressional Districts Engaged: OH-01, OH-13
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
The GALEO Impact Fund was established in 2019 to help organize the Latino community's growing political power in Georgia.
GALEO has been working to increase civic engagement and leadership in the Latino community in Georgia since 2003. Through this work, the GALEO team saw a need to continue the invaluable non-partisan work of the GALEO along with a separate institution to engage in more political activism.
GALEO Impact Fund works to expand and influence Latino political power in Georgia. We also seek to elect and hold accountable policymakers who align with our progressive values.
2025 GOTV will begin in September after qualifying. We will target Latino candidates who align with our values (excluding the city of Atlanta). Target counties include Gwinnett, Cobb, Hall, Whitfield, and DeKalb. The Secretary of State’s office will be purging almost 500,000 voters from the rolls in 2025. We expect to do education around this activity and potentially reregister voters who were purged.
The GALEO Impact Fund was established in 2019 to help address the need to engage in more political activism and organize the growing political power of the Latino community in Georgia.
GALEO Impact Fund works to expand and influence Latino political power in Georgia. We also seek to elect and hold accountable policymakers who align with our progressive values.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
By organizing events in Clayton County, Fitzgerald, Atlanta, and Macon, Georgia ACT focused on increasing voter registration, educating low-income housing residents and college students about the impact of voting on housing policies. As a result, we registered 107 new voters, provided identification assistance to 11 people, and assisted hundreds others in verifying their voter status, empowering them with knowledge about their rights and the electoral process.
Georgia ACT is currently conducting coordinated voter engagement efforts in Georgia (including voter registration, education, and mobilization). We are doing tabling, social media campaigns, targeted canvassing, email campaigns and rallies. Our target areas are Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Bibb and Ben Hill Counties that include traditionally underserved lower propensity areas (i.e. low-income apartment complexes, rural communities, and HBCU campuses).
We build, support, and inform a statewide network of thriving organizations, professionals, and individuals advancing equitable housing and community development. Our Vision – All Georgia families have safe and decent housing in vibrant neighborhoods.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
In This Together NEPA will increase our community presence and community building in 2025. Through Pride events, Juneteenth Celebrations, Disability Pride, and new voter registration and tabling opportunities throughout the region, we will build on ITTNEPA’s tremendous 2024 growth, forming new partnerships and community relationships. We will increase our election protection work, expanding into all 19 NEPA counties. This work will activate new volunteers and grow our capacity for monitoring at the county level.
In This Together NEPA is a community building organization that engages people around democracy, social justice, environmental justice, and economic prosperity. Their program includes site and event-based voter registration, relational organizing, digital strategies, and deep canvassing to empower and engage voters in building a stronger community.
To bring joy and lift up our community, especially those traditionally overlooked, to build community, and to increase civic engagement throughout the region.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Our Megaphone program (Heartland Hype) engages and expands progressive voices online. 11 organizers will recruit volunteers to download the Megaphone app and organically share tested social media content to their own followers. We will also host trainings and other traditional relational organizing events to engage volunteers and voters.
Innovation Ohio is a catalyst for progressive policy and grassroots activity that improves the lives of Ohio’s working families.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Our Megaphone program (Heartland Hype) engages and expands progressive voices online. 11 organizers will recruit volunteers to download the Megaphone app and organically share tested social media content to their own followers. We will also host trainings and other traditional relational organizing events to engage volunteers and voters.
Innovation Ohio is a catalyst for progressive policy and grassroots activity that improves the lives of Ohio’s working families.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
JustME for JustUS unites rural youth (ages 15-30) across all political backgrounds to advocate for their futures. Our Rural Youth Organizers lead year-round climate justice and civic engagement projects, plus nonpartisan vote work in election years, hosting impactful community events and engagement opportunities that foster youth leadership and ensure the long-term sustainability of our communities. By ensuring that electoral organizing and issue organizing work in synergy, we translate vibrant organizing into civic engagement to strengthen our rural communities and to create pathways for those most impacted by climate change to lead solutions.
Our 2025 goals include:
Engage 1000 youth in JMJU workshops, conversations, and trainings;
Provide stipends to 150 youth for their time spent organizing;
40 Rural Youth Organizer-led projects: workshops, events, trainings;
Host 10 conversations geared toward depolarizing climate issues and bringing young people together across political divides.
Our organizers use relational organizing in their communities to engage other youth (ages 15-30) in vote work, including text banking, voter education, nonpartisan youth-led candidate forums, voter registration at rural schools, a social pressure rural youth voter social media campaign, and relational organizing and voter turnout campaigns.
JustME for JustUS empowers rural Maine's frontline climate justice communities by shifting power and opportunities directly to under-resourced youth (ages 15-30) so they can advocate for their futures. Our Rural Youth Organizers lead year-round climate justice projects and nonpartisan vote work in even election years, hosting impactful and accessible community events and engagement opportunities that foster youth leadership and ensure the long-term sustainability of our communities.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: ME
Congressional Districts Engaged: ME-02
Geographic Density Focus: Rural / Suburban / Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Other
Leadership Diversity: Youth-led (aged 15-35)
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
We are a coalition of Maine labor unions representing working Mainers across our state. We seek to develop the labor movement’s vision for how to tackle the twin crises of climate change and inequality in a way that creates good Maine union jobs, reduces carbon emissions and racial and economic inequality, and provides a seat at the table for workers and their unions and communities in this process.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: ME
Congressional Districts Engaged: ME-02
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k)
We will deploy a robust field operation -- doors, events, follow-up texts/calls -- to persuade and activate independent and Democratic voters in ME-02's coastal communities near the proposed OSW port to support a slate of federal and down-ballot D candidates that support a climate/OSW + good jobs agenda
We are a coalition of Maine labor unions representing working Mainers across our state. We seek to develop the labor movement’s vision for how to tackle the twin crises of climate change and inequality in a way that creates good Maine union jobs, reduces carbon emissions and racial and economic inequality, and provides a seat at the table for workers and their unions and communities in this process.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: ME
Congressional Districts Engaged: ME-02
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k)
MLCV will develop a democracy outreach plan for 2025 municipal and 2026 midterm elections that includes earned and paid media, in-person voter education, relationship-building, clerk engagement, civics education, and rapid response measures. It will also research, test, and elevate messaging that more effectively inspires voters in low-turnout districts to vote while engaging youth at college campuses. Plans will be coordinated with coalition partners to drive a dynamic, pro-environment voter effort in 2025 and 2026.
MLCV is scaling current canvassing efforts to train youth organizers through their intensive “Our Water Activist” program and by coordinating with Student Organizations on targeted campuses, empowering youth leaders with the skills, resources and training they need to organize and mobilize their peers to vote for pro-climate/democracy champions.
Michigan LCV works to protect the air, land, and water in communities all across Michigan by activating voters to elect and hold accountable public officials who fight for an environment that sustains the health and well-being of us all.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Building on its 2024 successes, MoveIndio is now implementing both its National and New York campaigns. MoveIndigo’s National Campaign helps Democratic voters who are already moving (an estimated six million annually!) to discover desirable toss-up districts across the country where their votes will be game changers. MoveIndigo’s New York Campaign encourages NYC and other blue-district Democrats who have second homes in toss-up districts in New York State to register to vote in those districts.
Encouraging New York City Democrats who have second homes in toss up districts in New York State to register to vote in those districts. Progam will identify likely voters and target with messaging via online and print advertising.
We help Democrats who are moving discover desirable and vibrant communities where they can be game changers at the ballot box.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: AZ, CA, CO, GA, IA, ME, MI, NV, NY, OH, PA, VA, WI
In 2025, our organization will be shifting strategies to put more focus on our community through grassroots base-building. We aim to narrow in on who our diverse community members are, and what moves them, primarily through the following activities: deep canvassing, focus groups and ethnographic interviews, and potentially moving to a membership model. In regards to organizing, NCAAT/NCAATIA will be expanding our issue work (primarily democracy reform, immigration, language access, and racial justice) to also focus on diversity and inclusivity in K-12 education, which is an area of growing contention in the AAPI community.
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) is scaling and leading the largest field program targeting Asian Americans in North Carolina. On-site canvassing in high schools and college campuses will register AAPI and BIPOC voters, and registrations are paired with pledges to vote.
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to supporting equity and justice for all by fostering community among Asian Americans and allies in North Carolina through civic engagement, leadership development, grassroots mobilization and political participation.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Led by women, staff will register voters at faith gatherings. They’ll also provide resources on pro-democracy issues and candidate vetting to empower informed voting.
We enable denominations, congregations, and people of faith to impact our state on issues such as economic justice and development, human well-being, equality, and compassion and peace, following the example and mission of Jesus Christ.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
We will phone bank into states with key US Senate races and key competitive CD races, canvass in NH, and do voter registration, voter protection, and postcard/letter writing into key campaigns.
The Northampton Democratic City Committee (NDCC) works to bring together local Democrats, and functions as the hub for political organizing in electoral work locally, state-wide, and nationally. In 2016, the NDCC founded the Western MA Take Back our Democracy Coalition. The coalition comprises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivisible, Swing Left, several Democratic City and Town committees, youth groups, and environmental groups.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Ohio Citizen Action informs, organizes, and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests across issues and campaigns. In person, by phone, and online we engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality, and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable and equitable future.
In 2023 we helped win two ballot initiative campaigns (keeping a simple majority to pass citizen led ballot initiatives and enshrining reproductive rights in our constitution), and helped elect a progressive mayor in Akron. In 2024 we knocked 366,894 doors for Sherrod Brown.
* Opposing SB 63 (ban on ranked choice voting) and SB 153 (Ohio's SAVE act, which attacks voter rights and adds to the burden to get citizen-led initiatives on the ballot).
* Using our deep canvassing/persuasion training to reach voters who pledged to vote in 2024 after we talked to them at the door, but then didn't. We want to listen and learn in these "front porch focus groups" why people didn't vote, then rework the data they give us to persuade others like them to vote in 2025 and 2026.
*Promote repeal of consumer coal plant bailout.
Advocate for local and statewide democracy, energy and consumer issues. We project knocking 709,700 doors statewide and making 259,000 phone calls, plus digital tactics, including voter videos.
Ohio Citizen Action /OCAEF organizes and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests. In person, by phone and online we engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable future.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Geographic Density Focus: Rural / Suburban / Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city or suburb of large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: We do not target any specific demographics and/or it is difficult to say who we may reach, Multi-racial (including white), Adults (aged 35-65)
Leadership Diversity: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs
Top Priority Issues: State policy advocacy, Civic engagement, Climate change
Contact: Melissa English, Deputy Director (OCA) and Executive Director (OCAEF), menglish@ohiocitizen.org
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund (OCAEF) informs, organizes and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests, across issues and campaigns. In person, by phone and online, we engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality, and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable and equitable future.
OCAEF is the 501 c 3 research and education affiliate of Ohio Citizen Action, with which we sometimes run joint campaigns. Since 1975 we've earned a reputation as a trusted source of information and a vigilant government and industry watchdog.
* Advocacy work includes opposing two bills, one banning ranked choice voting in Ohio, and the other Ohio's version of the SAVE act which suppresses voter rights and adds to the burden of putting citizen led initiatives on the ballot.
* Rural solar organizing uses deep canvassing/persuasion to win hearts and minds for siting utility-scale solar projects.
* Voter courtship uses deep canvassing/persuasion to contact people canvassed during the 2024 election who pledged to vote, but didn't. We'll uncover the obstacles, rationales, and stories of unactivated voters and develop messaging to persuade people like them to vote.
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund will register voters by conducting hotspot canvassing and going door-to-door, primarily on community college campuses/areas in Cincinnati, Athens, Columbus and Cleveland.
Ohio Citizen Action /OCAEF organizes and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests. In person, by phone and online we engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable future.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation is partnering with community leaders, organizations and churches to register Black voters at block parties, festivals and house parties, and through door-to-door canvassing.
The Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation, (Ohio Unity Coalition) is a state affiliate of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in Washington DC. OUC and is incorporated as a is a 501c-3 organization in Ohio. Our primary purpose is to increase political literacy and civic engagement in black communities across Ohio, while building capacity in our member organizations and the communities in which we serve. The variety of voter contact /voter service mechanisms we utilize range from voter registration, education, voter/election protection, get-out-the-vote and issue advocacy around priorities specific to black communities.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
The OEC advocates for a healthier environment for all who call Ohio home. From resounding victories in the hallways of power to a growing environmental movement to important policy wins, we are working for systems-level change. Our mission is to protect the environment and health of all Ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement; we do this work to secure the vision of a clean, healthy Ohio where our democracy empowers all communities to thrive in harmony with the environment. We strive to ensure all of our work is science-based; equitable; strategic; collaborative; and non-partisan.
Our programs are grounded in environmental justice and include: Water, Public Lands, Energy, Democracy, and Field Advocacy in Northeast Ohio, Southwest Ohio, Southeast Ohio, the Cleveland Metro area, and Central Ohio. Our staff brings expertise in policy, nonprofit management, government, politics, public affairs, marketing and communications, law, advocacy, campaigns, coalition building, community organizing, and grassroots engagement. Each program area collaborates closely with our Communications team and Law Center to hold polluters accountable in court while working with communities and companies to inspire investment in and commitment to a just and healthy environment for all who call Ohio home.
The Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund (OEC AF) builds the political power of the environmental movement in Ohio through strategic issue and electoral campaigns as well as elected official accountability. Since its launch in 2016, the OEC AF has grown to be a well-recognized political force equipped with solutions to address the state’s most pressing environmental and climate issues facing Ohio communities. We continue to increase the political power of Ohio’s environmental movement in order to accelerate climate action and the adoption of just environmental policies.
As the impacts of climate change grow, communities that have been systematically left out will suffer the most. To address the climate crisis, the OEC AF has embedded equitable and bold climate action across all programming. We will accelerate progress toward a clean, beautiful Ohio where diverse people and all of our natural treasures thrive by:
-Advocating for and implementing affordable, clean energy solutions for all.
-Bolstering the climate resilience of Ohio communities and ecosystems through policy and legal advocacy.
-Ensuring members, partners, decision-makers, and all Ohioans have the information and tools they need to engage in climate action for
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
In 2024, OFUAPB ran a large canvassing program in Dayton, Ohio who are directly impacted by police brutality. The canvassers knocked 52,614 doors and connected with 13,203 voters. We also called over 6,400 voters and texted an additional 4,800+ voters in Dayton to remind them to bring their ID to vote and help locate their polling place. In 2025 we are organizing year-round with direct voter engagement and state and local advocacy on police reform.
Our layered approach includes canvassing, phonebanking, text banking, pollstanding on Election Day, digital and mail. We ensure investment into existing infrastructure in these communities, preserve the authenticity of the trusted messenger’s voice, and support longer term organizing and mobilization for the progressive movement in these spaces.
Our mission is to fight against police brutality and to support our extended families. Who, while not related by blood, are bonded to us through the needless bloodshed of our loved ones.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
OFUPAC builds and harnesses the political power of impacted families across Ohio, providing them with a space to leverage their power and drive policy to enact lasting change. In 2024 we completed an urban canvassing program in low income Black communities, and ran an extensive phone and text program. We are co-chairing a city charter amendment ballot campaign for 2025 and run a statewide police reform policy table and a statewide jail coalition in Ohio.
Our layered approach includes canvassing, phonebanking, text banking, pollstanding on Election Day, digital and mail. We ensure investment into existing infrastructure in these communities, preserve the authenticity of the trusted messenger’s voice, and support longer term organizing and mobilization for the progressive movement in these spaces.
Our mission is to build power through policy, action, and change for people who have experienced police brutality, gun violence, and/or Ohio’s carceral system.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
The Campaign registered nearly 160,000 Black, working-class, and young voters in cities such as Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. Our endorsement committee (made up of students, formerly incarcerated individuals, faith leaders, public school parents, and childcare providers) backed candidates in competitive congressional races, as well as sheriff and prosecutor races. Yet, challenges like lower voter turnout and restrictive voting policies persist, underscoring the need for continued grassroots organizing.
In 2024, we will work to expand the electorate and close the racial and age gap amongst registered voters in Ohio. We plan to register 145,000 voters in Black communities and 35,000 young voters on college campuses, and mobilize them and more by knocking on 1,000,000 doors to reach 250,000 voters.
Formed in 2007, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) is a grassroots organization uniting community groups, student associations, and faith organizations with policy institutes and labor unions across Ohio. It is our mission to organize membership bases of everyday Ohioans for racial, social, and economic justice in our state.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
In 2025, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative will focus on advocating for fully funded early education through the Care Economy Organizing (CEO) Project; supporting public education by organizing parents and communities to promote fair school funding and prevent closures via the All In For Ohio Kids initiative; pursuing criminal justice reform by working to end collateral sanctions that hinder formerly incarcerated individuals from accessing employment/education opportunities through Building Freedom Ohio (BFO); empowering student leaders.
Statewide org that unites student associations, faith organizations, labor unions and policy institutions will register voters through community hotspotting, campus organizing, relational organizing, doors, phones, text and mail.
Formed in 2007, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) is a grassroots organization uniting community groups, student associations, and faith organizations with policy institutes and labor unions across Ohio. It is our mission to organize membership bases of everyday Ohioans for racial, social, and economic justice in our state.
Supporting partners to collect voter registrations through site-based canvassing and door-to-door efforts, with follow-ups via doors, phones, and text, primarily in Black, multi-racial, and BIPOC communities.
Our mission is to support and grow the ecosystem of non-profit, non-partisan organizations doing year-round civic engagement with underrepresented communities in order to win progressive governance that will improve people’s lives.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
States Engaged: OH
Congressional Districts Engaged: OH-01,
Geographic Density Focus: Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Multi-racial (including white), BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color)
Ohio Women’s Alliance Action Fund (OWAAF) is a Black-led Reproductive Justice (RJ) power-building organization that advances progressive change and equity through a base-building alliance of women and gender-expansive folks across Ohio. The Ohio Women’s Alliance Action Fund 2024 Direct Voter Contact Program contacted Black women, young voters aged 18-40, and BIPOC Ohioans regarding the current state of Reproductive Justice (RJ) in Ohio through robust relational in-person events and a statewide phone program in addition to
OWA Action Fund will focus on flipping the Ohio Supreme Court by electing justices whose philosophies will uphold the Reproductive Freedom Amendment that passed in 2023 by defending two seats and picking up one. We will also prioritize races in CD15 and HD5 by supporting values-aligned women of color candidates.
The purpose of the Ohio Women's Alliance Action Fund is to build capacity for women and gender-expansive folks—particularly Black women—to determine the lives they want for themselves, their families, and their communities through the electoral process. The OWA Action Fund creates a more sustainable movement through voter protection and education, civic engagement, and the endorsement of candidates that align with our values.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Geographic Density Focus: Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Multi-racial (including white), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Leadership Diversity: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs, Volunteer powered - >50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Top Priority Issues: Civic engagement, Reproductive justice, Racial justice
We will conduct voter registration and peer-to-peer voter programs with at least 300,000 young, low-wage unlikely voters of color in MI, OH and AZ using the issue that young voters and voters of color have named as their top priority: living wages.
One Fair Wage is a national organization led by women of color that is engaging workers, employers and consumers to raise wages and working conditions in the service sector and end all subminimum wages in the United States.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
States Engaged: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, ID, IL, MD, MA, MI, MS, NY, OH, PA, WA
After the 2024 election, Democrats have committed to working on wage increases and ending subminimum wages. In 2025, we’re seeing momentum for policy changes in Illinois, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Arizona, and California. One Fair Wage Action will support legislative campaigns in IL, MD, and NY, while in OH, AZ, and CA, we’ll push for ballot measures, mobilizing workers to gather signatures and engage voters.
Led by women of color, One Fair Wage Action and collecting voter registrations while gathering signatures for a minimum wage ballot measure. They mobilize workers, employers, and consumers nationwide to enhance wages and working conditions in the service sector, aiming to abolish all subminimum wages in the United States.
One Fair Wage Action is a national organization seeking to raise wages, improve working conditions, and build power for workers in the service sector, and end all subminimum wages in the United States. In particular, we organize service workers to lead legislation and ballot measure campaigns to raise wages in their industry, and also engage them in large-scale peer-to-peer voter engagement programs to support these wage increases and candidates who support them, driving change from the ground up.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
States Engaged: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, ID, IL, MD, MA, MI, MS, NY, OH, PA, WA
Empower Project is a communications, organizing, and technology non-profit that is a leader in relational organizing - leveraging the power of trusted messengers by having community members build lists of friends and family to communicate and influence behavior, promote informed decision-making, and increase meaningful civic engagement. We recruit and manage the trusted messengers, build the technology, coordinate with partner organizations, organize trainings, and direct the strategy that allows this sophisticated approach to communications to happen.
Relational organizing and trusted messengers are the keys to meeting the moment and building a larger, better-informed, and more engaged universe of voters. In 2025, we will use our unique ability to communicate with challenging communities of voters and our existing network of 3 million people, launching a year-round relational organizing program to maintain engagement, build trust, and drive action leading up to the next election.
Organizing Empower Project has launched a multi-state paid relational program to build the largest incentivized relational organizing program in history in 10 high-profile states to reach voters not typically reachable by other means and leverage the power of relational organizing to maximize impact.
Empower Project is a communications, organizing, and technology non-profit that is a leader in relational organizing - leveraging the power of trusted messengers by having community members build lists of friends and family to communicate and influence behavior, promote informed decision-making, and increase meaningful civic engagement.
We recruit and manage the trusted messengers, build the technology, coordinate with partner organizations, organize trainings, and direct the strategy that allows this sophisticated approach to communications to happen.
Empower Project is a communications, organizing, and technology non-profit that is a leader in relational organizing - leveraging the power of trusted messengers by having community members build lists of friends and family to communicate and influence behavior, promote informed decision-making, and increase meaningful civic engagement. We recruit and manage the trusted messengers, build the technology, coordinate with partner organizations, organize trainings, and direct the strategy that allows this sophisticated approach to communications to happen.
Relational organizing and trusted messengers are the keys to meeting the moment and building a larger, better-informed, and more engaged universe of voters. In 2025, we will use our unique ability to communicate with challenging communities of voters and our existing network of 3 million people, launching a year-round relational organizing program to maintain engagement, build trust, and drive action leading up to the next election.
Organizing Empowerment Fund is offering training and technology support for organizations that are using relational organizing, especially in underrepresented communities like communities of color, youth, immigrants, and rural areas.
Empower Project is a communications, organizing, and technology non-profit that is a leader in relational organizing - leveraging the power of trusted messengers by having community members build lists of friends and family to communicate and influence behavior, promote informed decision-making, and increase meaningful civic engagement.
We recruit and manage the trusted messengers, build the technology, coordinate with partner organizations, organize trainings, and direct the strategy that allows this sophisticated approach to communications to happen.
Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light is building a network of people of faith and conscience committed to addressing climate change as a moral issue. We are registering people to vote, providing education on engaging in the civic process, and helping get out the vote through coordinated events, workshops, and volunteering.
Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light inspires and mobilizes people of faith and conscience to take bold and just action on climate change.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Our program engages the public, specifically the BIPOC community, on the importance of voting—a key pillar to our democracy. We provide basic voting information on a nonpartisan basis. Among various tactics, we send text messages to voters to get to their polling location or to enroll in vote by mail.
Rapid Resist supports progressive organizations fighting back against attacks on our communities and our democracy.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, GA, IA, IL, IN, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI
Now is the time to seize upon suburban women’s visceral opposition to Republican attacks on their freedom, their children, and democracy. RWB is doing just that through our year-round relational organizing program. We build community and tap the networks of women in our community to reach voters we need to win.
Red Wine & Blue has built hyper-local organizing infrastructure and culturally-relevant communications that engages diverse suburban women where they are, supports them to represent their views, and doesn't go away. We seize moments of opportunity to achieve policy wins, but most importantly, we are building a community that ensures suburban women become a permanent fixture in the movement for a multiracial democracy. RWB has grown into a community of nearly half a million women by providing a welcoming pathway to political engagement for women of all political backgrounds – including many who have never been political before.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
State Wide Indivisible Michigan is a grassroots coalition of Indivisible groups who work in collaboration to amplify our voice and increase our power through collective actions and shared resources. SWIM stands in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Our mission is to actively protect, defend, and promote the principles and institutions of democracy for all people. The statewide organization will act as a resource to local groups to support this mission.
1. Support local groups in building member engagement for local, state and national actions.
-Provide structured events for local groups to tap easily into through Democracy Action Working Group and other working groups.
-Provide a network of resources and connections with other Local Indivisible Groups and outside partner organizations.
2. Support progressive candidates in statewide and local races of importance; help identify good candidates to support.
3. Assist in voter education efforts & amplify support or opposition to citizens’ initiatives & legislation.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
The Asian American and Pacific Islander population is the fastest growing demographic in Ohio. But we are under-represented. We have been mailing questionnaires to AAPI voters throughout Ohio, asking about their experiences as AAPI citizens in our state, top of mind issues, and if they plan to vote in 2024.
The AAPI Research Group and Engagement Team - Ohio (TARGETOHIO) believes in the collective power of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. AAPI Ohioans must be included as an integral part of our democracy—civically engaged, politically active, and voting in record numbers. TARGETOHIO will serve as the vehicle for delivering the AAPI political voice.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
The Alaska Voter Hub is a diverse coalition of nonprofit organizations. The coalition collaborates and runs collective programming to ensure that every woman, youth and voter of color in the state of Alaska has equitable access to the polls and receives voting education.
The Alaska Voter Hub is a coalition working to strengthen democracy by unifying people and building collective political power to ensure a just and thriving community through: Voter education, engagement, and mobilization; Protecting and expanding voter rights; and Fostering a culture of Civic Engagement and advocacy.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: AK
Congressional Districts Engaged: AK-AL
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Women, BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
TurnUp's youth-led voter registration and turnout program targets competitive states and congressional districts. We conduct paid student-led on-campus voter registration and turnout drives at high schools and low-turnout community college campuses; relational voter registration and turnout programs targeting unregistered and low-propensity young voters; an educational internship program empowering youth to conduct text-banking, phone-banking, and canvassing; and innovative digital activities reminding young people to register and vote. Since 2019, we have registered over 400,000 young voters, texted 35 million young voters, talked to 900,000 young voters via phone, and graduated 13,000 youth from our internship program.
In 2025, TurnUp is focused on registering 170,000 young people to vote in key states and congressional districts for the 2026 elections and beyond. We are also registering and turning out young voters in the VA and PA elections. TurnUp is organizing the following programs to accomplish these goals paid student-led on-campus voter registration and turnout drives at high schools and low-turnout community college campuses; relational voter registration and turnout programs targeting unregistered and low-propensity young voters; an educational internship program empowering youth to conduct text-banking, phone-banking, and canvassing; and digital activities reminding young people to register and vote.
TurnUp's Youth-led GOTV program targets low-turnout community college campuses and low-propensity young voters. The program engages over 18,000 young interns, on-campus organizers, and relational organizers to utilize the following strategies: on-campus GOTV events, relational GOTV campaigns, canvassing, phone-banking, and text-banking.
We’re on a mission to strengthen democracy by increasing high impact youth civic action and closing the gap between young people who want to take civic action and those who actually take action. TurnUp includes five integrated programs that work together to increase youth voter registration and turnout: the internship training program; online program; on campus and relational voter registration and turnout program; mobile app; and ideas incubator. Our goal is to increase youth voter registration and turnout, and build the most active, educated, organized, and powerful network of young progressive activists across the Nation
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
States Engaged: AK, AZ, FL, GA, MI, MT, NE, NV, NC, OH, PA, SC, TX, WA, WV, WI
Vote Pro-Choice builds governing power for abortion access and reproductive freedom by engaging voters in state/local elections. Through one-to-one texts, mailers, digital ads, video, and phone banking, we work to demystify the impact of middle and downballot offices, support pro-choice candidates, and mobilize voters to turnout for these races.
Vote Pro-Choice is the political home for the nation's pro-choice majority, building political power for reproductive freedom and abortion rights in America.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Builds governing power for abortion access and reproductive freedom by engaging voters in state/local elections. Through one-to-one texts, mailers, digital ads, video, and phone banking, we work to demystify the impact of middle and downballot offices, support pro-choice candidates, and mobilize voters to turnout for these races.
Vote Pro-Choice is the political home for the nation's pro-choice majority, building political power for reproductive freedom and abortion rights in America.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
WFP is a grassroots political party building the intersectional working-class movement. OH WFP’s 2024 program (mail, digital, phones, texting, forums) for Supreme Court, Prosecutor & Judicial races will mobilize marginalized voters around criminal justice races & increase turnout for the top of the ticket, an effective tactic in a battleground state like Ohio.
The Ohio Working Families Party aims to capitalize on the momentum of the massive turnout in 2023 to build a sustainable, strategic progressive electoral force by focusing on education, voter registration and direct voter contact methods. Organizing and mobilizing the small pockets of movements growing across the state will empower a new generation of leaders to meet the challenges of the moment in cities that are predominantly working class, communities of color and women.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
WFP is a grassroots political party building the intersectional working-class movement. OH WFP’s 2024 program (mail, digital, phones, texting, forums) for Supreme Court, Prosecutor & Judicial races will mobilize marginalized voters around criminal justice races & increase turnout for the top of the ticket, an effective tactic in a battleground state like Ohio.
The Ohio Working Families Party aims to capitalize on the momentum of the massive turnout in 2023 to build a sustainable, strategic progressive electoral force by focusing on education, voter registration and direct voter contact methods. Organizing and mobilizing the small pockets of movements growing across the state will empower a new generation of leaders to meet the challenges of the moment in cities that are predominantly working class, communities of color and women.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
YCV staff and volunteers reach voters in the communities where they live and work across the state of NC through high traffic canvassing, clipboarding, tabling at events, group and classroom presentations in high schools and on college campuses, relational organizing, GOTV calls and text messaging, and 1-1 conversations with voters.
You Can Vote (YCV) was founded following Shelby County v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 2612, the Supreme Court decision rolling back key protections of the Voting Rights Act. Our mission is to train and mobilize volunteers to educate, register, and empower all North Carolina citizens to successfully cast their ballot. Our programs combat discriminatory election laws by building a broader and more engaged electorate across the state of NC. YCV serves populations whose votes have been historically suppressed including people of color, low-income people, people who are currently and formerly incarcerated, people with disabilities, and young people.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
