The CaPAConnector 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 CaPAConnector 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.
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
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
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.
Cambio Texas's 2024 campaign seeks to engage youth and Latino communities in the Rio Grande Valley, promoting leadership that truly represents our needs. Through block walking, digital outreach, and texting, we aim to educate, navigate voting processes, and significantly increase voter turnout for more reflective representation in Texas.
CambioTexas is dedicated to transforming Texas into a beacon of progressive leadership and civic engagement. By empowering the youth, Latino, and other minority communities, we strive to elevate voter turnout and advocate for leadership that mirrors our state's diverse ethos. We challenge the status quo of civic disengagement and push for substantial investments in infrastructure, healthcare, fair immigration, environmental stewardship, economic justice, and public education. Our mission is to mobilize change through organizing, voting, and encouraging a new generation to pursue public office, ensuring a fair and inclusive system for all.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
The 2024 Commission Shift Voter Mobilization Program targets diverse congressional districts in Texas to boost knowledge of the Railroad Commission and voter engagement. We engage youth, drop-off voters, and diverse civic partners to elevate voter turnout and empower citizens to make informed decisions about the Railroad Commission.
Commission Shift is reforming oil and gas oversight by building public support to hold the Railroad Commission of Texas accountable to its mission in a shifting energy landscape.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
In TX-34, Ground Game Texas will engage and turn out Democratic voters with a 70+ partisanship score who did not vote in the 2020 general election. We will use seasoned local, Rio Grande Valley organizers who are skilled at connecting popular, progressive issues with upcoming elections.
Ground Game Texas fights for democracy and social justice by working with organizers and activists to build issue campaigns across the state.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Ground Game uses local issue-based ballot measure campaigns to engage voters. Our most successful issues to date have been economic justice and marijuana reform. We've used marijuana "decriminalization" measures as a way to engage young voters and Black voters in eight cities to date. In Hidalgo County, our 2022 c4 campaigns focused on a "Living Wage" for city workers in two towns; in the November 2022 CD15 election, we emphasized that Michelle Vallejo supports economic justice / fair wages. In 2024, our McAllen ballot measure campaign is focusing on campaign finance reform (anti-corruption, pro-democracy).
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.
Collaborating with our network of congregations, MOSES/MOSES Action will mobilize thousands of voters across Michigan’s communities of color by organizing congregation-based Voter Hubs, training teams to lead voter engagement activities in their neighborhoods. We will also deploy a paid team of canvassers to strategic areas of the state.
The Mission of MOSES is to organize communities, develop faith-based leaders and build relationships to advocate for social justice through a group of diverse congregations. MOSES accomplishes this through training leaders in churches, synagogues and mosques, teaching participants how to articulate their shared values and work with their constituents to take collective action in the public arena.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
MEJC will continue to engage parents and caregivers of school-aged children around the importance of school board elections and school bonds and millages. Together with our coalition partners, we hope to reach voters in key Black and brown school communities through relational organizing, phone banking, and door to door canvassing.
MEJC aims to organize parents, caregivers, community organizations, and educators in a statewide coalition for education equity and justice.
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
Priority Issues: MEJC engages voters on the importance of school board elections and contextualizing statewide elections on school funding and our Healthy and Healing Schools platform. ,
We will be providing trainings and events that showcase the role of a school board member. We will work with school board candidates to provide training on critical issues related to school boards such as budgeting, developing strong district level policy and co-governance. We hope to hold at least 20 school board candidate forums.
MEJC aims to organize parents, caregivers, community organizations, and educators in a statewide coalition for education equity and justice.
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
Priority Issues: MEJC engages voters on the importance of school board elections and contextualizing statewide elections on school funding and our Healthy and Healing Schools platform. ,
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
Collaborating with our network of congregations, MOSES Action will mobilize thousands of voters across Michigan’s communities of color by organizing congregation-based Voter Hubs, training teams to lead voter engagement activities in their neighborhoods. We will also deploy a paid team of canvassers to strategic areas of the state.
MOSES Action’s mission is to promote social welfare by developing and advocating for legislation, regulations, and government programs that improve the quality of life for Michigan residents. We also conduct research about and publicize the positions of elected officials concerning social, economic, and racial justice issues.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
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.
Troy’s Precinct Delegate Committee continues to refine our voter outreach program, reaching our voters with Dem scores of 40% and higher through creative messaging and literature designs. We knock doors, text, send postcards, and phone our voters, aiming to increase voter turnout through education on voting laws and options.
The Precinct Delegate Committee is part of the Troy Democratic Club in Troy, Michigan. The Committee recruits, trains, and organizes official Precinct Delegates and volunteers to inform and educate our voters. We focus on turning out all voters, making sure our residents know their options on where to vote, absentee ballots, and early voting availability (especially important now to ease any confusion over newly implemented state voting laws), and important issues on upcoming ballots. Post-primary, we also create and provide detailed slate cards for voters on candidates up and down ballot and issues supported by our parent Democratic Club, as well as do absentee ballot chasing. Our main goal is to continue increasing voter turnout.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
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
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
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.
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
The Working Families Party seeks to empower the multi-racial working class by utilizing relationships to engage voters. We will engage voters throughout the state, and run a deeper relational organizing, phone and postcard program in the city of Detroit to ensure that voters show up and complete their entire ballot.
The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all. We’re a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses and people over the powerful. We want an America which realizes the promise – unrealized in our history – of freedom and equality for all.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Priority Issues: Criminal Justice Reform with a lens on abolitionist solutions, Access to healthcare including and especially reproductive justice , Strengthening the power of unions and working class people, Improving and fully funding public education
The Working Families Party seeks to empower the multi-racial working class by utilizing relationships to engage voters. We will engage voters throughout the state, and run a deeper relational organizing, phone and postcard program in the city of Detroit to ensure that voters show up and complete their entire ballot.
The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all. We’re a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses and people over the powerful. We want an America which realizes the promise – unrealized in our history – of freedom and equality for all.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Priority Issues: Criminal Justice Reform with a lens on abolitionist solutions, Access to healthcare including and especially reproductive justice , Strengthening the power of unions and working class people, Improving and fully funding public education
TX-WFP has a proven track record of running top notch and scrappy electoral campaigns. We will use CaPA funding to support our efforts in TX34 to protect this important seat in congress.
With a smart and culturally relevant campaign, we aim to turnout 30% of our 35K person target universe.
To combat the rising tide of inequality and the economic insecurity experienced by Texans through electoral interventions and grassroots community organizing. The Texas Working Families Party works to deliver a state in which the multiracial working class has governing power and all Texans can thrive.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Priority Issues: Movement for Black Lives, Expanding Medicaid in Texas and Universal Healthcare, Abortion access & care, Raising the minimum wage, Affordable Housing & Eviction Moratoriums, Marijuana Decriminalization, Responsible Environmental Stewardship, Expanding Renewable Energy, Voting Access and Democracy.
TX-WFP has a proven track record of running top notch and scrappy electoral campaigns. We will use CaPA funding to support our efforts in TX34 to protect this important seat in congress. With a smart and culturally relevant campaign, we aim to turnout 30% of our 35K person target universe.
To combat the rising tide of inequality and the economic insecurity experienced by Texans through electoral interventions and grassroots community organizing. The Texas Working Families Party works to deliver a state in which the multiracial working class has governing power and all Texans can thrive.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Movement for Black Lives, Expanding Medicaid in Texas and Universal Healthcare, Abortion access & care, Raising the minimum wage, Affordable Housing & Eviction Moratoriums, Marijuana Decriminalization, Responsible Environmental Stewardship, Expanding Renewable Energy, Voting Access and Democracy.
