Budget Size:
Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged:
MI
Geographic Density Focus:
Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies:
Black, Multi-racial (including white)
Leadership Diversity:
BIPOC-led, Women-led
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
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
States Engaged:
MI
Congressional Districts Engaged:
MI-11, MI-10, MI-08, MI-07Geographic Density Focus:
Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies:
Black, Multi-racial (including white)
Leadership Diversity:
BIPOC-led, Women-led
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
Community Engagement Actions
Policy Development
Warm List Texting
Relational Texting
Social Media Campaigns
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
States Engaged:
MI
Congressional Districts Engaged:
MI-03, MI-04, MI-06, MI-07, MI-10, MI-11, MI-12, MI-13Geographic Density Focus:
Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies:
Black, Multi-racial (including white), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Leadership Diversity:
Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance:
Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Priority Issues:
Climate change, Environment, Voting rights/accessCommunity Engagement Actions
Content Creation
Policy Development
Warm List Texting
Relational Texting
Social Media Campaigns
Digital Ads
SOWEGA Rising will be focused on training the next generation of youth leaders in rural communities. We are working to build leadership pipelines for youth and hiring youth in roles in our organization. Currently, 75% of our staff are youth 18-30. We will continue to take large groups of youth with us on advocacy day trips to the state capitol annually, engage youth in organizing trainings and develop youth leadership programs.
Prioritizing communities of color that have a low voter registration/turnout count but high opportunity to shift political power in local elections. Will host engaging actions and bring voter registration to community events. In addition, team will be rolling out a digital VR Campaign to increase online voter registration engagement and Civics for Lunch Campaign focused on graduating seniors.
SOWEGA Rising mobilizes people and resources to improve the quality of life, well being and political power of marginalized Southwest Georgians.
Budget Size:
Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged:
GA
Congressional Districts Engaged:
GA-02Geographic Density Focus:
Rural
Core Constituencies:
Black, Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Adults (aged 35-65)
Leadership Diversity:
BIPOC-led, Women-led, Youth-led (aged 15-35)
Staff and Volunteer Balance:
Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs
Priority Issues:
Civic engagement, Economic justice, Racial justiceCommunity Engagement Actions
Content Creation
Mailers
Social Media Campaigns
Digital Ads