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.
Big Sky 55+ is committed to educating and mobilizing Montana's 55+ voters to re-elect Senator Jon Tester and flip two legislative seats. In 2024, we'll achieve this through targeted canvassing, phone banking, and five mail flights in key counties, focusing on Social Security and Medicare to encourage ticket-splitting among conservatives.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Cobalt Advocates is a trusted leader in the Colorado reproductive health movement. We will use a variety of tactics to reach our established supporters throughout Colorado. We will also use a variety of tactics to expand our reach. We have an organizing team based in target communities throughout Colorado.
We envision a world where your health decisions are free from stigma, politics and systemic barriers. We actualize policies, structures and attitudes that secure unassailable reproductive autonomy and abortion access.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: We work to educate about complex reproductive health issues including abortion access. We also work to reduce stigma about who gets abortions and why. We utilize our medical advisory community made up of abortion providers and others who care for those needing abortion services in our education, outreach and advocacy efforts which have proven to be highly effective. Building unfettered access to a full spectrum of reproductive healthcare; collaborating with partners within and outside of our movement and expanding partnerships with labor, economic justice, and environmental groups. One highlight is the digital partnership with Conservation Colorado for municipal elections in Pueblo in 2023. Cobalt plans to expand this work in the key area of Pueblo and affiliated communities (CD3),
Cobalt is a trusted leader in the Colorado reproductive health movement. We will use a variety of tactics to reach our established supporters throughout Colorado. We will also use a variety of tactics to expand our reach. We have an organizing team based in target communities throughout Colorado.
We envision a world where your health decisions are free from stigma, politics and systemic barriers. We actualize policies, structures and attitudes that secure unassailable reproductive autonomy and abortion access.
Priority Issues: We work to educate about complex reproductive health issues including abortion access. We also work to reduce stigma about who gets abortions and why. We utilize our medical advisory community made up of abortion providers and others who care for those needing abortion services in our education, outreach and advocacy efforts which have proven to be highly effective. Building unfettered access to a full spectrum of reproductive healthcare; collaborating with partners within and outside of our movement and expanding partnerships with labor, economic justice, and environmental groups. One highlight is the digital partnership with Conservation Colorado for municipal elections in Pueblo in 2023. Cobalt plans to expand this work in the key area of Pueblo and affiliated communities (CD3),
In 2024, the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) is planning to lead a nonpartisan and partisan electoral program in Congressional District 8 and Congressional District 3, primarily in Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, El Paso, Jefferson, and Pueblo counties. We will target low-propensity BIPOC voters through door knocking, texts, and mailers.
Founded in 2002, CIRC (501(c)3) is a statewide membership-based organization that advocates for all immigrants in Colorado and the United States, regardless of legal status. Our 60+ member organizations lead our coalition and seek to uplift the voices of directly impacted immigrants to create change by and for our community. CIRC’s mission is to build community power through organizing and leadership development within immigrant communities, winning fair and humane public policies, providing legal services and educational workshops, and implementing nonpartisan civic engagement programs.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: When engaging BIPOC and immigrant voters, we use issue-based messaging and connect critical issues to the lived experiences of BIPOC communities. It aligns voting with tangible outcomes, making it more relevant and resonating with the unique concerns and experiences of BIPOC communities, which is essential. The issues that we prioritize fall under the following categories: immigrant justice, healthcare access, and affordable housing.
Forward Montana builds power with and for young Montanans to create lasting change. To win statewide, candidates must overperform with young voters. We will engage in a robust turnout and persuasion program to ensure young Montanans understand what’s at stake, what candidates share their values, and how to cast their vote.
Forward Montana builds political power with and for young Montanans. That means empowering everyday folks to get involved and make their voices heard — from registering to vote to running for office, and everything in between.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: The issues that regularly rise to the top in conversations between young Montanans and our organizing team are abortion access, climate justice, and housing affordability. In addition to these issues, we regularly prioritize LGBTQ+ equality and voting rights. , , In addition to our field outreach to young Montanans, we’re partnering with Change Research on a series of polls to more deeply understand the attitudes and perceptions of young Montanans on key issues, messages, and candidates running for office. ,
We will engage in a robust turnout & persuasion program to ensure young Montanans understand what’s at stake, what candidates share their values, and how to cast their vote. Registering young people, especially those from LGBTQ and BIPOC communties, at community events and through door-to-door canvassing in neighborhoods with high density of frequent movers.
Forward Montana Foundation educates, engages, and organizes young Montanans to shape their democracy to improve their lives and the lives of their fellow Montanans.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: The issues that regularly rise to the top in conversations between young Montanans and our organizing team are abortion access, climate justice, and housing affordability. In addition to these issues, we regularly prioritize LGBTQ+ equality and voting rights. , , In addition to our field outreach to young Montanans, we’re partnering with Change Research on a series of polls to more deeply understand the attitudes and perceptions of young Montanans on key issues, messages, and candidates running for office. ,
NECAF will be targeting 18-34 year-olds, prioritizing young people of color, to turn out in targeted districts like CO-3 & CO-8 and to vote for a ballot measure that protects abortion rights. NECAF will endorse Youth Agenda champions in state legislative races, including the June state primary.
New Era Colorado harnesses young people’s political power to create a Colorado that serves all people.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Reproductive rights and economic justice are the top two as informed by our Youth Agenda. Full Youth Agenda platform can be found here with all ten issue areas: https://neweracolorado.org/youthagenda/
NECF and NECAF will be targeting 18-34 year-olds, prioritizing young people of color, to turn out in targeted districts like CO-3 & CO-8 and to vote for a ballot measure that protects abortion rights. NECAF will endorse Youth Agenda champions in state legislative races, including the June state primary.
New Era Colorado harnesses young people’s political power to create a Colorado that serves all people.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Reproductive rights and economic justice are the top two as informed by our Youth Agenda. Full Youth Agenda platform can be found here with all ten issue areas: https://neweracolorado.org/youthagenda/
We will educate, engage, and mobilize our base while persuading moderate and independent voters – building power for conservation and rural communities through robust field outreach and direct voter contact as well as expansive communications and media.
Northern Plains is a grassroots conservation and family agriculture group that organizes Montanans to protect our water, land, air, and working landscapes. We support a healthy, localized, and sustainable economy in farm and ranch country and in our towns. We build strong grassroots leaders, always considering the next generation.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: In our issue organizing, we engage people on the issues that most affect them and their communities, move people to take action, and ultimately politicize them to be an educated voter. These issues range from environmental and climate issues to economic and democracy issues, and currently include campaigns on:, , -electricity rate hikes and accountability of our public utilities, -access to community solar, -electing more clean-energy friendly leaders to rural electric cooperative boards, -cleaning up coal ash ponds in a coal mining town, -achieving reclamation and water replacement for ranchers affected by nearby coal-mining, -stopping a new carbon capture and sequestration project in rural Montana, -getting Inflation Reduction Act funds to Montana schools, communities, and farmers and ranchers,, -holding the Sibanye Stillwater Mining company accountable to surrounding communities, and more. , , Each of these campaigns has a base of leaders who are guiding the work, and ensuring the most affected communities are engaged., , Our electoral organizing tends to center “kitchen table” issues, with a central focus on economic well-being, which can include family agriculture, small business, energy bills, clean energy, rural healthcare, housing, and tax issues – often wrapped around a central frame of “homegrown prosperity.”,
In 2025 and beyond, we will mobilize communities to oppose anti-trans ballot measures and bolster LGBTQ+ rights by launching public education campaigns that highlight the human cost of transphobia and shift public opinion through real stories from transgender Coloradans. We will organize local training sessions, events, and advocacy toolkit distributions for local elections, build sustained support through statewide advocacy power-building, cross-movement solidarity, and targeted media outreach, to resist harmful policies.
One Colorado exists to secure protections and opportunities for LGBTQ+ Coloradans through grassroots, local, and statewide organizing and lobbying efforts.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
PNC will engage progressives, women, and Latinx voters through climate, abortion rights, and jobs and economy messaging and through candidate accountability. Through targeted digital and video content, our new Latinx media project, and through our bilingual voter guide, we will reach 1,500,000 voters indirectly and 75,000 voters through direct outreach.
The Mission of ProgressNow Colorado is to advance and message credible progressive solutions to the problem faced by our communities, state and nation.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
PNC/PNCE will engage progressives, women, and Latinx voters through climate, abortion rights, and jobs and economy messaging and through candidate accountability. Through targeted digital and video content, our new Latinx media project, and through our bilingual voter guide, we will reach 1,500,000 voters indirectly and 75,000 voters through direct outreach.
The mission of ProgressNow Colorado Education, our 501c3, is to improve the lives of Coloradans by acting as a nonpartisan, nonprofit collective voice for the progressive movement.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
With an anticipated long ballot in 2024, CO-WFP will once again distribute a ballot guide aimed at young voters and BIPOC voters. This "cheat sheet" will reduce ballot fatigue & confusion by providing clear information about ballot measures (per AI findings and anecdotal feedback that guides are effective GOTV tools).
Working Families Power engages in program incubation, coalition building, organizing, leadership development, advocacy, and public education on policies that advance economic fairness, racial justice, gender equity, climate sustainability, and a democracy which is responsive to the needs of the many—not the wealthy and powerful few. Our vision is a society rooted in equality, dignity, solidarity, and compassion.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: We focus on issues of racial, economic, and gender justice (including, but not limited to, reproductive, immigrant, worker and climate justice). Here is more on our analysis of the current state of play:, , We’re living through a crisis on a scale that advanced capitalist countries haven’t faced since the Great Depression. We’re in a unique and troubling moment in US and world history. Four gathering crises—climate, economic, geopolitical, and migratory—are often discussed as discrete phenomena, when they are in fact deeply interconnected. By precipitating disaster on multiple fronts, the forces of organized capital limit our ability to marshall government in response to another, more fundamental, crisis—a crisis in democracy., , Meanwhile, white supremacist forces have been taking advantage of growing insecurity and ramping up their rhetoric of hate to harness fear for political gain. They have invested deeply in popular education and aggressive training. Turning Point USA, Proud Boys, and Blexit—they have developed infrastructure to recruit people into their ideological home. We got a taste of their power in another historic American tragedy during the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. Dog whistle appeals to bigotry continue to prevent natural alliances between working families of all races, religions, and backgrounds., , We must outperform the forces of greed and authoritarianism and build infrastructure to demand a multiracial democracy that matches and surpasses their formidable power., , Everyday life and stability for working women and families, and especially people of color in those categories, are more precarious today than they have been in generations. Student debt is sky-high, wages are suppressed as profits surge, the tax structure is an abject scam for the wealthy, pro-worker legal/political institutions face erosion, and healthcare is increasingly inaccessible and unaffordable—run for profit rather than for care. Intersecting crises overwhelm and divide people along lines of race, class, gender, and more. Working class, feminist, and racial justice movements are treated as unreasonable for seeking human rights that already commonly exist abroad. But when corporations face risk, the US government knows no limits propping up their owners. The pandemic and economic crisis have worsened these realities, leaving those most vulnerable with less. Getting through this moment is one thing. Building for resiliency beyond it is another. , , Resiliency will in part come from making immediate material changes in working people’s lives, but that alone isn’t enough. Each year, the rules and realities of our democratic institutions skew more and more toward representing land over people, older rural whites over people of color and young people in cities, and capital over constituent needs. We must strive toward the dream of a genuine multiracial democracy that reflects the desires and needs of our communities. And meeting those needs will mean expanding the limits of what’s currently considered possible—both in government and in the hearts and minds of the people who desperately need bold ideas and bolder action., , This isn’t something that can be achieved within the halls of power alone; the change will also be driven from the outside. That is why, now more than ever, investing in mass organizing at scale is crucial. It will take more than multi-organizational base building alone; it will take a leaderful movement with the tools and infrastructure to get things done while expanding its own representation and reach.
