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.
1000 Woman Strong recruits, trains, and supports grassroots community efforts year-round. Through Peer2Peer contact, rapid response messaging, field organizing, issue advocacy, digital outreach, electoral mobilization, and relational organizing, we have engaged one million Black women since 2020 on a range of issues that impact them.
Our mission is to empower Black women across the country and mobilize them for action. We are working to create a future – and an America – that is informed by the experiences and expertise of Black women. Through rapid response messaging, issue advocacy, and electoral mobilization, we are working across the U.S. to build community and political power for the long haul.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
1K Women Strong recruits, trains, and supports grassroots community efforts year-round. Through Peer2Peer contact, rapid response messaging, field organizing, issue advocacy, digital outreach, electoral mobilization, and relational organizing, we have engaged one million Black women since 2020 on a range of issues that impact them.
Our mission is to empower Black women across the country and mobilize them for action. We are working to create a future – and an America – that is informed by the experiences and expertise of Black women. Through rapid response messaging, issue advocacy, and electoral mobilization, we are working across the U.S. to build community and political power for the long haul.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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
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
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
Care in Action builds power to defend care workers and women of color. In 2025, we’ll fight to protect Medicaid, defend wage gains for workers, and counter anti-immigrant policies. At state and local levels, we’ll advance Domestic Worker Bill of Rights and HCBS campaigns, and mobilize resources to meet urgent needs. Through digital organizing and rapid response, we’ll expand our movement, mobilizing WOC to win transformative change and build lasting political power in our communities.
Care in Action organizes to ensure that Care is top-of-mind in elections. We mobilize our base of women of color voters through year-round basebuilding, focusing on direct voter contact and community care events. Through endorsements and policy advocacy, we demonstrate the link between electoral victories and impactful policy changes.
Care in Action (501(c)(4)) is the advocacy home for women who care. We invest in building political power for women of color and domestic workers to ensure they have the economic support they need to thrive. Our successful track record of organizing voters extends over 6 years in crucial battleground states across the Sunbelt region, helping to deliver electoral and policy wins.
The Center for Common Ground is non-partisan, Black and women-led voting rights organization founded in 2018. We work in voter suppression states where more than 20% of voters are voters of color – Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.
Collaborating with local partners, we strive to mobilize ALL voters of color, both those who consistently participate in elections and those who have yet to exercise their right to vote.
As a Virginia based organization we are laser focused on Virginia elections. We will be sending postcards, making phone calls, canvassing and texting. Because so many people in our community are hurt first and worst by the current Administration plans we are now providing mutual aid in most of our Democracy Centers.
Additionally, we are building an Integrated Election Management Platform which will revolutionize Field Management
Our campaign aims to engage super voters, registered voters, and especially irregular or low propensity voters
Center for Common Ground works to educate and empower voters of color in voter suppression states. We work in voter suppression states where more than 20% of voters are voters of color – Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. Our work includes community surveys to help communities find their voice, community canvassing, candidate forums, making phone calls and teaching advocacy. Collaborating with local partners, we strive to mobilize ALL voters of color, both those who consistently participate in elections and those who have yet to exercise their right to vote.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
States Engaged: AL, AZ, FL, GA, NY, NC, SC, TX, VA
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
Our get-out-the-vote messages are personalized and thought out. Our voters get detailed information on when and where they can vote early, the rules for mailing an absentee ballot in their state, and where they can vote on election day. We work with on-the-ground partners to develop messaging tailored for each community.
I have purchased over 350k postcards and stamps to insure that BIPOC voters in voter suppression states get the information they need to be able to cast their vote. Our information is non partisan and gives info re/what to bring, where to vote, when to vote. Our outreach goes deeply into the communities that are ignored by most every other campaign.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
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
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
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
NDWA is dedicated to advancing domestic and care workers' rights nationwide. In 2025, we’ll prioritize Medicaid funding, defend gained worker wages, and counter anti-immigration policies. At state and local levels, we’ll advance the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, data collection for HCBS policy advocacy, and initiatives to deliver the most impactful resources in this shifting political landscape. Additionally, NDWA will bolster worker protections, expand digital organizing, and enhance our rapid response networks.
Our civic engagement program is focused on educating voters about care and turning out women of color voters in Sunbelt states, where care and domestic workers have traditionally been left behind, and which is often home to areas with the worst care crisis in the nation.
The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) works for respect, recognition, and rights for the more than 2.2 million nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers who do the essential work of caring for our loved ones and our homes. Driven by domestic workers’ priorities, NDWA is working to catalyze a paradigm shift in the way domestic work is understood, valued, and compensated to ensure that these much-needed jobs are good jobs with dignity, economic security, and labor protections. NDWA is a non-partisan charitable organization and does not endorse, support, or oppose any candidate for public office.
Increase the Number of women in elected and appointed positions.
Draft legislation that centers on equality and the needs of women.
Support candidates who support women.
In 2025 we will endorse women in Virginia for Governor, Lt. Governor and Attorney General. Currently there are 44 women running for VA House and we expect to endorse at least 25 of them. Our planned activities includes postcards, making phone calls, texting, canvassing, billboards and radio ads.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
The key to winning in 2024 hinges on voter engagement and education. Network NOVA’s superpower is engaging grassroots activists and leaders and candidates in races up and down the ballot to generate meaningful turnout at the ballot box every election.
Network NOVA is a grassroots organizing hub run by unstoppable, badass, and fearless women. Founded in 2017 in Virginia, our mission is to inspire, inform, and empower year-round grassroots political action.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
NHYM is pledging to vote 10,000 and mobilizing 20,000 young people to vote in New hampshire, focused on college campuses. We will also distribute voter guides, help young people register to vote, and coordinate rides to the polls, and build and grow lasting chapters of young organizers.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: NH
Congressional Districts Engaged: NH-01
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Trans; non-binary; and gender-nonconforming, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
NHYM is pledging to vote 10,000 and mobilizing 20,000 young people to vote in New hampshire, focused on college campuses. We will also distribute voter guides, help young people register to vote, and coordinate rides to the polls, and build and grow lasting chapters of young organizers.
Our mission is to build a movement of young people to transform our political system so it serves and is led by the people it has left behind.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
States Engaged: NH
Congressional Districts Engaged: NH-01
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Trans; non-binary; and gender-nonconforming, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
New Virginia Majority builds governing power on our path for racial and social justice through year-round community organizing and voter mobilization in working class communities of color. These communities drive social justice reforms in Virginia. We prioritize the needs, demands and leadership of working class women of color, because they have a clear interest in realizing change rooted in social, and racial justice and a sustainable economy that works for all. We work to create a powerful multi-issue, multi-racial movement to transform Virginia through large scale civic engagement, issue advocacy, and community organizing.
Centering marginalized communities and communities of color in our organizing and advocacy work, and encouraging and empowering them to be more civically engaged has always been a part of our major strategies. We move our strategies forward through the model of integrated voter engagement: deep local organizing, broad-scale state level advocacy, year-long civic engagement programs integrated with local organizing campaigns, strategic communications and digital organizing, and multiple leadership pipelines through which we are able to move people from the first interaction to members, activists, and leaders. Our model moves people not just into “habitual” voters or activists, but conscious, strategic
We will have a multi-layered voter contact program that includes face-to-face canvassing, phone calls, text messages, and mail pieces tailored to the issues they care about. In addition to these contacts, we will coordinate a robust digital program that will reach people through social media and websites with high traffic among our targeted voters.
New Virginia Majority (NVM) builds power on our path for racial and social justice through year-round community organizing and voter mobilization in communities of color--communities that drive social justice reforms in Virginia. We work to create a powerful multi-issue, multi-racial movement to transform Virginia through large scale civic engagement, issue advocacy, and strategic communications and community organizing.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
States Engaged: VA
Congressional Districts Engaged: VA-02, VA-07
Geographic Density Focus: Rural / Suburban / Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city or suburb of large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander), Latinx
Leadership Diversity: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer powered - >50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Top Priority Issues: State policy advocacy, Civic engagement, Housing
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
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 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.
We’ll reach millions of parents in key states via direct messaging and social media to communicate what’s at stake in this election, register them to vote, get them to make a plan, remind them to turn out, and, most importantly, help them send voting reminders to their personal networks.
As a cutting-edge impact media organization, ParentsTogether is shifting the narrative for families. We meet overwhelmed parents where they are with relatable, informative, and useful content that helps shape their worldviews and raise expectations about what families deserve. Founded in 2012, today ParentsTogether has over 3 million members and reaches millions more parents each year through innovative content creation, social media campaigns, online issue organizing, and civic engagement.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
We’ll reach millions of parents in key states via direct messaging and social media to communicate what’s at stake in this election, register them to vote, get them to make a plan, remind them to turn out, and, most importantly, help them send voting reminders to their personal networks.
As a cutting-edge impact media organization, ParentsTogether is shifting the narrative for families. We meet overwhelmed parents where they are with relatable, informative, and useful content that helps shape their worldviews and raise expectations about what families deserve. Founded in 2012, today ParentsTogether has over 3 million members and reaches millions more parents each year through innovative content creation, social media campaigns, online issue organizing, and civic engagement.
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
Progress Virginia plans to launch our GOTV/election protection digital ads with various display and video ads and mailing outreach. Like years past, our outreach will provide crucial information on how to vote early in Virginia, either by mail, early in-person, or on Election Day. Ads also offered information for voters who need assistance while at the polls.
At Progress Virginia, we drive powerful, values-based narratives to uplift and amplify grassroots voices through innovative digital communications and earned media strategies. We build progressive power alongside marginalized communities to tear down systems of white supremacy, advocate for equitable policies, and ensure leaders reflect the communities they serve.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: VA
Congressional Districts Engaged: VA-02, VA-07
Geographic Density Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Multi-racial (including white), BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color)
Progress Virginia plans to launch our GOTV/election protection digital ads with various display and video ads and mailing outreach. Like years past, our outreach will provide crucial information on how to vote early in Virginia, either by mail, early in-person, or on Election Day. Ads also offered information for voters who need assistance while at the polls.
At Progress Virginia, we drive powerful, values-based narratives to uplift and amplify grassroots voices through innovative digital communications and earned media strategies. We build progressive power alongside marginalized communities to tear down systems of white supremacy, advocate for equitable policies, and ensure leaders reflect the communities they serve.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: VA
Congressional Districts Engaged: VA-02, VA-07
Geographic Density Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Multi-racial (including white), BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color)
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
We are an all-volunteer organization that exists to take meaningful action to tip tight elections blue nationwide. This includes letter-writing, phonebanking, canvassing and deep canvassing, fundraising, social media, and more - all in support of candidates in the tightest elections and in support of voting rights and access. We work at to elect candidates for state legislatures and other state offices such as secretaries of state, governors, Congress, and President (in swing states). We are guilt-free, data-based, and believe that changing who is in power is the best way to affect our future.
In keeping with our overall goal of tipping tight elections blue, our goals for 2025 are to:
1) Win the Wisconsin Supreme Court election thereby maintaining the liberal majority
2) Flip the Virginia governorship and maintain the Democratic majority in the Virginia House of Delegates
3) Develop new approaches to reach and persuade voters more effectively, including a) developing training to increase volunteer effectiveness and b) nurturing innovative communication tactics and communicators, and
4) Prepare for the 2026 midterms by identifying and acting on opportunities in likely swing states and districts
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: AK, AZ, CA, CO, GA, IA, ME, MI, NE, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, VA, WI
Sister District Advocacy Network (SDAN) furthers the common good and general welfare of the community through programs designed to achieve the following goals: educating Americans about the role of state legislatures and the potential for state legislative policy to impact the lives of individuals and communities, increasing public trust in state legislatures, promoting greater representativeness of state legislators, and building opportunities for community-centered civic engagement. By increasing trust, representativeness, and civic engagement, SDAN will improve the quality of public policy passed by state legislatures and the trust in state government, to the benefit of all Americans.
Our narrative change and storytelling program creates, measures, and disseminates compelling content and messages about the power and promise of state policy. Our research program investigates, measures and reports on crucial trends at the state legislative level, including the composition and reflectiveness of state legislatures, voter participation in state elections, and state legislative electoral outcomes over time. Our State Bridges program will raise funds for 501(C)(3) organizations running year round nonpartisan organizing programs in their local communities.
Supports Democrats running for competitive state legislative seats, where precision investments can close narrow margins and win entire chambers. We “sister” our local volunteers with endorsed candidates, bringing capacity for phonebanking, fundraising, and more. We complement this with campaign services, rooted in research and tailored to the district.
Sister District builds enduring progressive power in state legislatures. We do this by supporting candidates, mobilizing volunteers, empowering lawmakers, and educating voters.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
States Engaged: AZ, MI, MN, NV, NH, NC, PA, VA, WI
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
The Coalition brings together grassroots groups working in Virginia to collectively strategize and support progressive candidates and policies. During the VA Legislative Session, our Working Groups research and endorse bills. Over 50 groups participate.
Working on Virginia's 2025 elections. Compiling and distributing news and actions, pushing back the Trump regime/project2025. During the VA legislative session, advocated and tracked priority bills.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Virginia Organizing’s base-building and issue campaigns are integrated with c3 civic engagement and GOTV work. All 18 chapters will do restoration of rights work, making hundreds of calls to returning citizens and identifying people willing to share their stories at press events, in letters to the editor, etc.
Virginia Organizing is a non-partisan statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives. Virginia Organizing especially encourages the participation of those who have traditionally had little or no voice in our society. By building relationships with individuals and groups throughout the state, Virginia Organizing strives to get them to work together, democratically and non-violently, for change.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
We are continuing to capitalize on turning out the youth vote, especially on College Campuses throughout our battleground districts. VA-2, VA-5, and VA-7 are home to the majority of VA's campuses and we want to make sure that we are registering those students to vote and to vote at their address at their colleges. We will be focusing on canvassing, phone banking, relational organizing, and targeting all of these battelground areas with digitals with the specific goal of reaching voters ages 18-35.
To further the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party, improve our society through peaceful reform and effective government, grow the voice of young people in our political processes, and serve those in need in our community.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
States Engaged: VA
Congressional Districts Engaged: VA-02, VA-07
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k), College Campuses
Core Constituencies: Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Virginia Working Families Party is building and sustaining the movement, leadership, and infrastructure to achieve governing power by, for, and of the multiracial working class majority. With every investment, we seek not only to advance our candidates and policies in the near term, but to take another step forward as we build governing power for the long term. Our work is more than a series of elections and policy battles; it’s cumulative, aimed at winning structural reforms that can only be won with durable power.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: VA
Congressional Districts Engaged: VA-02, VA-07
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Latinx, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Our primary focus for our 2024 program will center around the three key Congressional races poised for contention this November. Our primary target audience will be Black and Brown voters, alongside other BIPOC communities and younger voters.
Virginia Working Families Party is building and sustaining the movement, leadership, and infrastructure to achieve governing power by, for, and of the multiracial working class majority. With every investment, we seek not only to advance our candidates and policies in the near term, but to take another step forward as we build governing power for the long term. Our work is more than a series of elections and policy battles; it’s cumulative, aimed at winning structural reforms that can only be won with durable power.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: VA
Congressional Districts Engaged: VA-02, VA-07
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Latinx, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
