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.Â
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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.Â
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
Priority Issues: The main policy issues that shape our community engagement include and are not limited to: Voting rights & Access, Economic Justice, and Health Equity.
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
Priority Issues: The main policy issues that shape our community engagement include and are not limited to: Voting rights & Access, Economic Justice, and Health Equity.
Plans to register 15,000 students across the state of Arizona and hold town halls on ASA's issues of focus to have deep conversations about Climate Justice, Debt Free Higher Education and Student Debt Cancelation, Reproductive Rights, Affordable Housing, Voting Rights
AGUILA Youth Leadership Institute is a unique college access organization carefully designed to serve a growing number of youth navigate through their academic, personal and professional world. The Institute provides a comprehensive support system to ensure the success of each student through a personalized plan. Adult professionals contribute to students who journey through a holistic approach that values their unique stories, goals and aspirations. While the preparation for college must include the fundamentals of developing writing skills, preparing for tests and more, AGUILA believes inclusion of the arts, literature, civic engagement, social justice, service learning, health and wellness are equally important in developing successful students.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Aliento will develop content to strengthen connections between school districts, families, and students. For example, Aliento organized large-scale mobilization efforts at Arizona State University, bringing 1,000 students in solidarity with DREAMers facing targeted opposition.
Advocacy efforts focus on protecting legal and educational rights, including Plyler v. Doe and Proposition 308, which grants in-state tuition to DREAMers.
Aliento will continue to implement Know Your Rights (KYR) trainings, college readiness workshops, and arts and healing workshops.
Aliento targets young people (18-35), Latinxs, and immigrant supporters through phone banking, canvassing, relational organizing, and social media and digital ads. Through storytelling, Aliento educates on the importance of voting, candidate knowledge, and stances on immigration issues. Aliento incorporates personal narratives and economic data to engage low-propensity and disenfranchised voters.
Aliento serves undocumented, DACA, and mixed immigration status families to transform trauma into hope and action. We are youth-led and directly impacted people and allies who are invested in the well-being, emotional healing, and leadership development of those impacted by the inequities of lacking an immigration status.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
On-site voter registration in high traffic areas and events and relational organizing targeting Latino Men, Youth, and other BIPOC sub-groups in cities and suburbs in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania
Focus on Local and State-level strategies to change the policy landscape for our diverse families and communities across America.
On-site voter registration in high traffic areas and events and relational organizing targeting Latino Men, Youth, and other BIPOC sub-groups in cities and suburbs in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania
Focus on Local and State-level strategies to change the policy landscape for our diverse families and communities across America.
WIth our voter registration program, we targeted campuses, Asian districts, and east valley areas with high foot traffic. In 2024, we partnered with Free Our Vote and AZ Justice Protect in a mailer program to get newly eligible people to register to vote. We are proud to contribute to expanding a voter block where people feel empowered by their votes.
Number of Voters Registered: 2,182
Number of Free Our Vote Mailers Sent: 42,779
Increasing Asian American Native Hawaiin and Pacific Islander representation through in-person canvassing (and sub-granting to partner organizations for canvassing programs), youth fellowships, volunteer-led relational organizing, digital ads, ethnic media, and text and phone banking.
Arizona Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) for Equity (AZ AANHPI for Equity) is a state-wide Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) organization striving for equity and justice by building power through community directed organizing, increasing civic engagement, and empowering young leaders.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Organization that mobilizes undocumented youth and adults, students and LGBTQ individuals will register voters in Maricopa, Pima, Yuma and Santa Cruz counties.
ACE is a 501 (c)3 member-led social justice organization that develops and mobilizes undocumented working youth and adults, students, and LGBTQ individuals to strategically take ownership and responsibility to advance economic, social, and racial justice. By building power through leadership development, citizenship, civic engagement, advocacy and education, we are creating a more inclusive and just standard of equality in the state of Arizona. Income equality, protection of public education, immigrant rights, and health care are just a few of ACE’s priorities in creating a better Arizona for all.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Black-led organization will register voters in high traffic areas (e.g. libraries, shopping centers, and community colleges), table at community events and partner with churches and schools to hold voter registration drives in three largest AZ counties.
Arizona Coalition for Change is a Black-led organization with a dynamic multicultural team that empowers everyday people to transform their community through building civic power, leadership development, and community collaboration. We advocate for lasting progressive public policies that change the dynamics for our communities by putting people first. We work to develop and uplift voices in our communities to take on our nation's most pressing issues.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
ASA plans to hire & train 120 fellows for GOTV and hopes to knock on over 100,000 doors, Run digital ads, text, and class wrap to turn out 18-30 year olds across the state to help our issues of focus candidates get elected and create the concrete change we hope to see in Arizona.
The Arizona Students’ Association is a nonprofit organization that works to actively works to actively empower the student voice, create concrete change, and advocate for student issues by developing student leaders; initiating and executing grassroot campaigns; raising awareness; creating a firm foundation on our stances through proper research; and engaging our government officials at a local, state, and national level. ASA has been the voice of students for 50 years in Arizona’s Public Universities and Community Colleges.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Our goal is to engage 1,250 newly eligible individuals and successfully register 500 voters. Through the It’s Official Campaign, we will provide frequent, accessible, and engaging voter registration clinics in primarily Maricopa County and the surrounding rural areas of Pima and Pinal County.
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective (BPOC/501(c)3) is building a bigger, better, Blacker future in PHX. We practice cultural organizing among inter-generational Black folks that centers queer and trans people, formerly incarcerated, disabled people, and Muslim immigrants and refugees. We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding, and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as abolitionists. We are moving to breaking down harmful systems and building new ones. Over the last year we have also committed ourselves to transformative justice practices even when it’s painful, or uncomfortable in all spaces.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Lead Contact: Nico DeGalloOperations and Policy Managernico@bpcaz.org
Priority Issues: Our voter registration program is non-partisan. The populations we engage value issues of racial justice, economic justice, reproductive justice, disability justice, and climate/environmental justice.
Our goal is to engage 1,250 newly eligible individuals and successfully register 500 voters. Through the It’s Official Campaign, we will provide frequent, accessible, and engaging voter registration clinics in primarily Maricopa County and the surrounding rural areas of Pima and Pinal County.
Black Political Cultivation Arizona (BPCAZ/501(c)4) is a political organization working to transform the quality of life for marginalized people through electoral change. We are flexing Black political power in elections to fight for the outcomes that are best for the community, as well as hold elected officials accountable. Our goal is to elect Black people to leadership in Phoenix and Arizona who are values-aligned and committed to using political power to 1) realize our goals of community change and 2) transform the quality of life for Black People and people of marginalized identities and backgrounds.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Lead Contact: Nico DeGalloOperations and Policy Managernico@bpcaz.org
Priority Issues: The populations we engage value issues of racial justice, economic justice, reproductive justice, disability justice, and climate/environmental justice.
Blue Future is a youth-led organization that recruits, trains and deploys youth to progressive campaigns. They offer stipends + microgrants to youth-led initiatives that increase youth participation in elections. Additionally, Blue Future provides leadership coaching and career development support to build the future pipeline of progressive leaders in the US.
To continuously engage, mobilize, and connect young people across race and place to progressive campaigns, equipping them with the resources, tools, skills, and network to be effective volunteers, organizers, and community leaders.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AK, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, LA, MI, MS, MO, MT, NV, NH, NC, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, WA, WI
Priority Issues: Collectively, we focus on organizing around electoral campaigns that prioritize climate justice, racial justice, economic justice, education justice, and pro-democracy policies. We are multi-issue and center the local and national issues most important to the youth organizers we work with.
Border Workers United fosters leadership and knowledge on labor laws for a safe and fair working environment in the Texas Border Lands. Prioritizing issues such as immigration, environmental and workers justice, they employ tactics like requesting access to citizenship ceremonies, colleges, and universities to advocate for the rights of border workers.
Border Workers United is a 501c3 seeking to elevate the power of community members by promoting and developing leadership and knowledge on labor laws among workers to construct a safe and fair working environment in Texas Border Lands.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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
CaPA States Covered: AK, GA, IN, NC, NY, TX, VA, WA
Priority Issues: People do not lose their voting rights when they step outside the country or when they serve in uniform. Federal law gives them special protections--but most do not know it. We help people understand their voting rights and make their voices heard.
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
Priority Issues: People do not lose their voting rights when they step outside the country or when they serve in uniform. Federal law gives them special protections--but most do not know it. We help people understand their voting rights and make their voices heard.
Our 2025 focus is on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race and Virginia statewide and House of Delegate races. In Wisconsin we have sent 94,000 postcards. We will update the Early Voting List and do outreach for 10 swing districts. CFCG will reach out to Black voters while NWPC-VA will reach out to women voters all races. We offer monthly training on How to be an Effective Advocate on Federal and state legislation.
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
CaPA States Covered: AL, AZ, FL, GA, NY, NC, SC, TX, VA, WI
Community Organizing & Leadership Development
Clean & Green Campaign: Secure resources that prioritize the investments our community and environment need most in Electric Vehicle public transit and infrastructure, urban green spaces, and complete streets.
Clean Energy
Public Lands Access
Democracy: continue large-scale voter mobilization, transformational community organizing, and structural democracy reform.
Chispa Arizona is organizing within our Latinx communities to grow political power and civic engagement for environmental justice in Arizona, as a program of the League of Conservation Voters. We build the capacity of Latinx families to influence policymakers and pressure polluters to protect communities’ rights to clean air and water, healthy neighborhoods, and a safe climate for generations to come. We are growing the infrastructure and leadership necessary for Latinx families to hold polluters and decision-makers accountable, demanding environmental justice and equity for our communities.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Community Organizing & Leadership Development
Clean & Green Campaign: Secure resources that prioritize the investments our community and environment need most in Electric Vehicle public transit and infrastructure, urban green spaces, and complete streets.
Clean Energy
Public Lands Access
Democracy: continue large-scale voter mobilization, transformational community organizing, and structural democracy reform.
Chispa AZ PAC is running a strategic and robust statewide campaign focused on the Arizona State Legislature, Arizona Corporation Commission, and board of county supervisors, targeting New American and climate voters through investing in a field program (250k doors), a bilingual digital campaign, radio ads, billboards, and earned media.
Chispa Arizona is organizing within our Latinx communities to grow political power and civic engagement for environmental justice in Arizona, as a program of the League of Conservation Voters. We build the capacity of Latinx families to influence policymakers and pressure polluters to protect communities’ rights to clean air and water, healthy neighborhoods, and a safe climate for generations to come. We are growing the infrastructure and leadership necessary for Latinx families to hold polluters and decision-makers accountable, demanding environmental justice and equity for our communities.
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
CaPA States Covered: AZ, GA, MI, NV, NC, OH , CA, NJ, NM, NY, OR, PA, TX, WI
Fuerte registers youth, Latinx and other BIPOC, and LQBTQ communities in urban and rural Arizona using online ads, digital voter registration tools, and voter registration events highlighting issues of voting rights, environmental justice, and housing justice.
At Fuerte, we move people to collective action for voting rights, housing justice, environmental justice, and other issues through art and culture. We are an artist-led multi-issue civic-engagement community organization centering Arizona women of color and LGBTQ perspectives in our Art and Artists.
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
Ground Game Texas expands voter engagement through ballot initiatives, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy, focusing on underrepresented communities. We mobilize young, BIPOC, and working-class Texans through year-round voter education, signature collection, and community-driven campaigns. Our hybrid model combines direct democracy efforts with deep organizing to drive progressive change at the local and state levels. By empowering new and infrequent voters, we are building long-term civic participation and advancing policies that reflect the will of Texans.
Ground Game Fund promotes democracy and social justice by engaging in community organizing and public education programs across Texas.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Keep Arizona Blue Student Coalition is mobilizing young voters statewide to elect Democrats up and down the ballot. Our 2024 GOTV programs will reach tens of thousands of Gen-Zers, turning them out to vote through youth-targeted door-knocking, phone and text banking, social media and digital ads, and events.
Keep Arizona Blue Student Coalition is a youth-founded, youth-led PAC, mobilizing young voters to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
LUCHA will be targeting 588,548 voters. The universe includes New American Majority voters (people of color, single women, millennials), swing district independent voters, high turnout + low turnout democratic voters. We aim to reach 10,000 voters through long term relational organizing.
Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) organizes low- and moderate-income and minority families to take action on the issues most important to them and advance the cause of social and economic justice for all. Working in collaboration with its sister organization, ACE, LUCHA incorporates leadership development with grassroots issue-based campaigns, advocacy, and civic engagement to create an Arizona in which every resident has an equal voice in determining the policies and shaping the decision-making bodies that will govern our communal life.
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
CaPA States Covered: AZ, CA, CO, GA, IA, ME, MI, NV, NY, OH, PA, VA, WI
MOVE Texas plans to amplify its impact in 2025 through organizing, member-led advocacy, and leadership development, empowering young Texans to engage in the political process. With the 89th Texas Legislative session underway, we are rolling out key initiatives including our "Get Sh*t Done" Agenda, Youth Capitol Takeover, and Anti-Lege Lege Club to mobilize young people to take bold action against restrictive policies on climate, reproductive rights, and democracy. Our evergreen civic engagement efforts will focus
We will operate 25 campus chapters focused on civic engagement and issue advocacy, register 7,000 new voters, roll out an endorsement process, expand access to voting (campus polling locations, countywide polling), launch voting rights, climate, and gender justice issue campaigns to engage young issues-first voters, and conduct leadership development programs to grow youth-led power building capacity. Up until the election, we will follow up with registered voters to ensure that they are informed and prepared to vote.
MOVE Texas is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to building the power of young people in underrepresented communities through civic engagement, leadership development, and issue advocacy. Young Texans possess the appetite and the energy to influence the decisions and processes that impact their lives and communities, positioning them to make waves in the Texas political landscape and beyond. We invest in and engage young people to become agents of change who harness their power to hold elected officials accountable and champion progressive policies. Through intentional coaching and support, we empower young people to build a responsive, accountable, and equitable democracy.
MOVE Texas plans to amplify its impact in 2025 through organizing, member-led issue education, and leadership development, empowering young Texans to engage in the democratic process. With the 89th Texas Legislative session underway, we are rolling out our "Get Sh*t Done" Agenda to guide our work around key issues like climate, reproductive rights, and democracy. Our evergreen civic engagement efforts will focus on voter registration and municipal elections, and we will be working to expand
We will operate 25 campus chapters focused on civic engagement and issue advocacy, register 13,000 new voters, expand polling access (campus polling locations, countywide polling), launch voting rights, climate, and gender justice issue campaigns to engage young issues-first voters, and operate leadership development programs to grow capacity for youth-led organizing and power building. Up until the election, we will follow up with registered voters to ensure that they are informed and prepared to vote.
MOVE Texas is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to building the power of young people in underrepresented communities through civic engagement, leadership development, and issue education. Young Texans possess the appetite and the energy to make their voices heard in the decisions and processes that impact their lives and communities, positioning them to make waves in Texas and beyond. We invest in and engage young people to become agents of change who harness their power to engage their peers in the democratic process to champion progressive values. Through intentional coaching and support, we empower young people to build a responsive, accountable, and equitable democracy.
NextGen Education Fund is a youth civic engagement organization focusing on issues like climate change and racial justice. In 2024, they aim to register and turn out 18-35-year-olds, educate on key issues through high-traffic canvassing, door knocking, distributed organizing, and digital campaigns to strengthen democracy and empower young Americans.
NextGen Education Fund (NextGen) is one of the nation’s leading youth civic engagement organizations, educating and empowering millions of young people to elevate their voices in our country’s democratic process. We are a multi-issue and multi-racial organization that positions young people to make transformational change and solve the challenges earlier generations have failed to address, including historical failings on climate and racial justice. At NextGen, we are investing in the power of young people. NextGen Education Fund’s mission is to strengthen our democracy through the education, leadership development, and empowerment of young Americans.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AZ, MI, NC, NH, NV, PA, TX, VA
Priority Issues: We understand that young people are not monoliths in how they view issues or in what they are most passionate about, which is why NextGen conducts comprehensive focus groups and polling. Based on this polling, we know that the specific issues young people care most about include: Climate change, Racial justice, Economic justice, Student debt, Abortion access and reproductive rights, Democracy, and Human Rights. Engaging and educating young people on the issues they care most about in an intersectional way is critical to growing the civic engagement and education of youth. We meet young people where they are at through these issues to further their overall capacity to build change in their communities. NextGen collects voter registrations in a neutral and nonpartisan manner in compliance with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. NextGen staff does not advocate for issues or policies while collecting voter registration applications, but does engage with young people on issues of importance to them in other contexts. NextGen was founded on the idea that only the courage and imagination of young people could solve our country’s most pressing issues, from climate change to racial and economic equality. By building infrastructure rooted in issues-education for young people ages 18-35, NextGen helps ensure their consistent civic engagement and leadership. NextGen is one of only a few national organizations dedicated exclusively to educating and engaging young people to vote in order to strengthen our democracy. We understand that young people are not monoliths in how they view issues or in what they are most passionate about, which is why NextGen conducts comprehensive focus groups and polling. This polling is intended to allow for segmented universes and messaging based on factors like geography, gender, race, college/no college and stage of life, which is key to engaging young people effectively. Based on this polling, we know that the specific issues young people care most about include: Climate change Racial justice Economic justice Student debt Abortion access and reproductive rights Democracy Human Rights Engaging and educating young people on the issues they care most about is critical to growing the civic engagement and education of youth. We meet young people where they are at through these issues to further their overall capacity to build change in their communities and participate in our democratic process.
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
CaPA States Covered: 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
CaPA States Covered: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, ID, IL, MD, MA, MI, MS, NY, OH, PA, WA
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.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AZ, NV, MT, WI, MI, MN, OH, PA, NC, GA, NY
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.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AZ, GA, MI, MN, MT, NE, NV, NC, PA, WI
Black-led organization registering voters in high traffic areas (e.g. libraries, shopping centers, and community colleges), tabling at community events and partner with churches and schools to hold voter registration drives in three largest AZ counties.
Our Voice, Our Vote - Arizona is a member-led organization, committed to advocating for sustainable progressive public policies that address the most pressing issues in our communities. We build power by mobilizing voters, training the next generation of leaders, electing champions into office, and holding elected officials accountable. We work to empower our communities by putting people first to ensure all voices are heard.
Poder Latinx is strategically positioned to empower the Latinx community, fostering a resilient progressive voting bloc through our Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE) framework. This model is grounded in six pillars: recruiting community members, fostering professional and leadership growth, executing comprehensive voter engagement throughout the electoral cycle, refining Latinx voter databases, achieving issue-based victories, and pioneering narrative and cultural shifts.
Poder Latinx targets 57,000 new and low-propensity Latinx voters through a canvassing program including door knocks, calls, and texts. Our leadership development program focuses on cultivating 25 new Latina leaders and our community organizing aims to expand our base by 5,200 members.
Poder Latinx is a civic and social justice organization. Our vision is to build political power for the Latinx community to become decision-makers in our country’s democracy and win on economic, immigrant, and environmental issues. Our mission is to build a sustained voting bloc of Latinxs in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Washington. We do this by leading an integrated voter engagement program where all aspects of voter engagement, issue-based campaigns, leadership development, voting reform and protection, and narrative change form a continuous cycle of political consciousness. Through our work, we empower and equip the Latinx community to become agents of change now.
As far-right networks spread disinformation and hate, Megaphone is scaling organic content and information sharing by using organizing tactics to recruit volunteers who take action digitally and engage voters with progressive messaging. We’re producing content on key issues that we then amplify through traditional communications and the Megaphone program.
At Progress Arizona, our vision is an Arizona that works for everyone, no matter who you are, where you’re from, who you love or how much you make. We serve as a digital hub for Arizona progressives. We offer training, coaching, and coordination to grassroots groups, provide strategic rapid response capacity, and execute cutting-edge digital campaigns.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
As far-right networks spread disinformation and hate, Megaphone is scaling organic content and information sharing by using organizing tactics to recruit volunteers who take action digitally and engage voters with progressive messaging. We’re producing content on key issues that we then amplify through traditional communications and the Megaphone program.
At Progress Arizona, our vision is an Arizona that works for everyone, no matter who you are, where you’re from, who you love or how much you make. We serve as a digital hub for Arizona progressives. We offer training, coaching, and coordination to grassroots groups, provide strategic rapid response capacity, and execute cutting-edge digital campaigns.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Rise's nonpartisan get-out-the-vote program, centered on students being trusted messengers, unleashes the youth wave by mobilizing paid student organizers for voter registration through campus outreach and tabling, relational organizing and, canvassing. Rise leverages community power and relationships to engage peers civically.
Rise is a student- and youth-led nonprofit working to make higher education free and help all young people participate in democracy.
We focus on registering first-time voters by using Arizona's unique QRCode program on stylish shirts given out to young voters. They are able to easily register friends. We also support non-partisan candidates to run for local office thereby increasing diversity and choice on the local level and encouraging civic participation.
To work with citizens at the county and local level, to engage new voters and increase voter turn-out and increase participation civic participation. To work closely with local groups to engage members in exercising their civic rights.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Save Our Schools AZ engages voters most disadvantaged by cuts to state education funding, including low-income and underrepresented rural, Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities. Our 18,000+ statewide volunteer network employs phone/text banking, roadshows, community tabling, digital ads, and relational organizing.
Save Our Schools Arizona Network is a non-partisan, community-based organization that strengthens and protects quality public education for every student, family, and community.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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
CaPA States Covered: AZ, MI, MN, NV, NH, NC, PA, VA, WI
Sister District builds enduring progressive power in state legislatures. We do this by supporting candidates, mobilizing volunteers, empowering lawmakers, and educating voters.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: AZ, GA, MI, MN, NV, NC, PA, WI, NH
Priority Issues: Sister District works exclusively in purple districts. We collaborate closely with our candidates to identify the most compelling messages for their constituencies, and we help to develop content, such as phonebanking scripts, mailer content, and stump speeches, that speak to local concerns. Priority issues may include climate, abortion, public education, gun safety, and high-quality job opportunities., , We also help voters forge a broader connection between participating in state legislative races and legislation related to the issues they care about most. Because of downballot roll-off, there are lower levels of participation in state legislative elections, and our outreach incorporates evidence-backed messages to increase turnout, such as the potential impact of winning a seat and the small number of votes needed to determine the outcome of an entire race.
Founded in 2001, the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) is a public interest nonprofit dedicated to achieving a healthy, equitable, and low carbon future by advancing clean energy, energy efficiency, electrification, and clean transportation solutions in the southwestern United States. In collaboration with state and local governments, utilities, environmental and community groups, businesses, agencies, and others, SWEEP advocates for programs, policies, and funding to mitigate climate change and its impacts, support underserved and disadvantaged communities, and save people money on energy and transportation costs. SWEEP has helped pass more than 150 state laws across the Southwest.
SWEEP will work to advance a clean and equitable energy future in 2025 through three programs: 1) Utilities: Working to get utilities to invest in renewable energy resources, energy efficiency programs, and demand response efforts to reduce energy waste, utility bills, and emissions; 2) Buildings: Ensuring that homes and commercial buildings are constructed or retrofitted to be energy efficient and heated and cooled with clean electricity; and 3) Transportation: electrifying the transportation sector; promoting multimodal alternatives like transit, biking, and walking; and advocating for smart land use and affordable infill housing to reduce travel costs, demand, and emissions.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Building on our three-decade history of effective organizing, advocacy, and civic engagement, in 2025, TFN is expanding and engaging our base during Texas' 89th Legislative Session, building a pipeline of effective organizers and leaders, and mobilizing voters for municipal and school board elections. By inviting Texans to participate in the political process and scaffolding engagement over time, TFN is forging a path back to democracy.
With three decades of organizing experience, TFN has an established track record of effectively engaging, registering and turning out BIPOC youth (18-29). Through a down-ballot strategy and consistent engagement, we are harnessing the power of Texas’ rapidly-growing populations of youth and people of color to transform our state.
Texas Freedom Network is a statewide grassroots organization that is building an informed and effective movement working toward equality and social justice.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
With three decades of organizing experience, TFN has an established track record of effectively engaging, registering and turning out BIPOC youth (18-29). Through a down-ballot strategy and consistent engagement, we are harnessing the power of Texas’ rapidly-growing populations of youth and people of color to transform our state.
Texas Freedom Network is a statewide grassroots organization that is building an informed and effective movement working toward equality and social justice.
UFR will expand our organizing power to push back against harmful policies impacting workers. Our Georgia worker organizing and civic participation program has had wins to improve workplace conditions, including securing clean water, working restrooms, and wage increases. This will serve as a model we’ll scale nationally and across targeted geographies (Michigan, California) to build a multiracial base of working class voters who are shifting the narrative around their grueling working conditions, and impacting elections.
UFR's civic engagement program integrates online/offline organizing to boost voter turnout from a low-wage, majority women and BIPOC voting bloc of 2 million people across urban, rural, and suburban geographies. We move our base through deep relationship building into action, and leverage persuasion messaging to turn out low-propensity voters.
United for Respect envisions a world where all workers have the power, the time, and the money to lead full, free, empowered lives, and where they power a multiracial economic and political democracy that benefits all. It’s our mission to build an economy where corporations respect working people and support a democracy that allows americans to live and work in dignity.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
UFR's civic engagement program integrates online/offline organizing to boost voter turnout from a low-wage, majority women and BIPOC voting bloc of 2 million people across urban, rural, and suburban geographies. We move our base through deep relationship building into action, and leverage persuasion messaging to turn out low-propensity voters.
United for Respect envisions a world where all workers have the power, the time, and the money to lead full, free, empowered lives, and where they power a multiracial economic and political democracy that benefits all. It’s our mission to build an economy where corporations respect working people and support a democracy that allows americans to live and work in dignity.
Priority Issues: United for Respect (UFR), a national grassroots organization, is building a movement rooted in the innovation, power, and leadership of working people in retail, particularly women and BlPOC people. Spread across urban, rural, and suburban areas, retail workplaces employ 16 million people. Organizing and activating this multiracial, multi-generational workforce is critical to transforming workplaces, our economy, and democracy as our communities face increased polarization, the impact of a devastating global health pandemic, and economic recession. , , , UFR is uniquely positioned to reach, agitate, and mobilize this critical low wage worker base of dropoff voters, moving them to take action in their workplace to fight for better wages, access to healthcare and paid leave, safe and healthy working conditions, and ultimately a voice in workplace solutions and their communities. This key constituency’s fight for workplace democracy is the first step to a pathway in civic engagement and participation where they become trusted messengers and influencers among their peers, local communities, and elected officials. Their personal stories and testimony shape the narrative around public policy and legislation, delineating the bright line for politicians to choose between big corporations driving economic and democratic inequalities or working people. Combined, people working in retail low-wage jobs could transform our democracy by using the power of their 16,000,000 voices to decide elections in their local communities, statewide, and across the country. Our education and persuasion work focuses our RESPECT agenda that includes family sustaining wages, safe workplaces, and communities where working families can thrive. Our RESPECT agenda includes: , , , - Right to Organize, including expanding workers' rights to organize in their workplace, fight back against obstacles to organizing, especially retaliation in the workplace. , - Essential worker voice in decisions that impact their lives that increases worker power in the workplace and the ability to hold employers accountable., - Safe workplaces and communities, and more protection for worker people from injury and violence in the workplace., - Pay living wages, severance pay, and good work hours that improve economic security for workers through increased and reliable pay when working and after layoffs., - End invasive surveillance and harmful tech/automation that disrupt the trend of technological monitoring in the workplace and of our bodies. , - Comprehensive health benefits and paid family & medical leave. , - Tougher rules to protect workers from corporate greed that increase regulation to prevent corporations from exploiting financial rules that allow them to pursue profits at the expense of working people.
Worker Power will once again run the largest independent expenditure field campaign in Arizona. We will hire over 500 canvassers who will knock on 1,200,000 doors to deliver the White House, secure our U.S. Senate seat, and flip Congressional Districts 1 and 6.
Worker Power is an economic justice organization dedicated to improving the working and living conditions of working families in Arizona and nationwide through voter engagement and strategic policy interventions.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
