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.
How do I add or edit my organization’s profile?
Fill out this Card Creation Form to add your organization to the CaPA Connector. If you are already listed on the CaPA Connector and would like to update or remove your information, find your organization’s card below and click the Update This Information button.
How can I contribute?
CaPA offers resource pooling services completely free of fiscal fees and overhead charges. With a single contribution to CaPA you can specify dozens of groups you would like to support on your behalf, or you can give unrestricted funds which will be guided to the most important financial gaps identified by CaPA’s staff. You can also reach out and give directly to the organizations directly via their website or listed contact.
Disclaimers
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.
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.
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
The recent publication of CVNM's Climate Action Now NM Report reflects our work to build intersectional relationships with organizations that represent the diverse communities impacted by climate change across New Mexico, including those in healthcare, LGBTQ+, faith, low-income, homelessness, immigration, sustainable business, labor, Indigenous rights, women's rights, family well-being, equity, and economic issues. The priorities identified from these relationships guide our climate advocacy to ensure that frontline and vulnerable communities are centered in New Mexico's renewable energy transition. Passing bold climate policy now and creating a climate roadmap for the incoming administration is our priority in 2025.
As New Mexicans, our lives are inextricably linked to the air, land, and water in our Land of Enchantment. How we treat these resources directly impacts our health and livelihood. Our vision is for New Mexicans to thrive in just, resilient communities where our conservation and cultural values guide our decision-makers and public policies. We are a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to connecting the people of New Mexico to their political power to protect our air, land, water, wildlife and communities. We do this by mobilizing voters, winning elections, holding elected officials accountable and advancing responsible public policies.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
As New Mexicans, our lives are inextricably linked to the air, land, and water in our Land of Enchantment. How we treat these resources directly impacts our health and livelihood. Our vision is for New Mexicans to thrive in just, resilient communities where our conservation and cultural values guide our decision-makers and public policies. We are a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to connecting the people of New Mexico to their political power to protect our air, land, water, wildlife and communities. We do this by mobilizing voters, winning elections, holding elected officials accountable and advancing responsible public policies.
The recent publication of CVNM’s Climate Action Now NM Report reflects our work to build intersectional relationships with organizations that represent the diverse communities impacted by climate change across New Mexico, including those in healthcare, LGBTQ+, faith, low-income, homelessness, immigration, sustainable business, labor, Indigenous rights, women’s rights, family well-being, equity, and economic issues. The priorities identified from these relationships guide our climate advocacy to ensure that frontline and vulnerable communities are centered in New Mexico’s renewable energy transition. Passing bold climate policy now and creating a climate roadmap for the incoming administration is our priority in 2025.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
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
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
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.
Organized Power In Numbers works at the intersection of worker power and modern digital and data-driven organizing to help our movements reach millions of people, invite them into movement, and level up campaigns that win for workers, their families, and their communities. We utilize online and offline base building and organizing strategies, comprehensive campaigns, strategic litigation and communications, and policy advocacy to win concrete demands that improve the conditions of workers’ lives and promote civic engagement at the local, state, and national levels.
Growing Our Power:
Immigrant Worker Defense: OPIN is working to ensure that labor is positioned to defend their current and potential future immigrant members, and to strengthen the overall infrastructure in our region to protect and defend all immigrants.
Take Back Our Homes: We push for housing justice in Phoenix and across the state of Arizona through base building, policy advocacy, and building an eviction defense network.
Mass Engagement and Absorption: We help seed and grow key organizing efforts led by labor and community partners through list building and 1:1 digital outreach.
OLÉ will support candidates in the general election, as well as work to re-elect Gabe Vasquez for NM Congressional District 2. Of the 3 US House districts in New Mexico, Vasquez is in the most contentious seat and will rematch against an extremist MAGA candidate, Yvette Harrell. Using a combination of field, digital and mail, OLÉ will engage unlikely BIPOC voters, new citizens, formerly incarcerated voters and Hispanic men as a voting bloc.
OLÉ is a non-profit, grassroots member organization of working families. Since 2009, our members and staff have worked together to strengthen our communities using issue-based campaigns and electoral engagement to ensure that working families are playing a critical role in shaping New Mexico’s future with a united voice. By centering the experiences of people of color, early educators, parents, workers and Immigrants, OLÉ creates a space for people to grow their leadership and create lasting change in New Mexico.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
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.
Our work in disinformation defense, reproductive rights, and environmental justice allows us to provide partners the digital and communication tools needed to organize, inform, and amplify values based messaging. Our current focus on voter engagement is providing clear, concise and shared messaging across the state that informs communities of policies (in state and federally) that will affect them directly and provide opportunities for civic engagement and informed voting.
As the communications hub for the progressive movement in NM, we are expanding our role to deepen relationships and digital outreach through offline to online organizing. We will be working with community members and partners to combat disinformation specifically related to voter registration and voting in our Latinx and Spanish speaking communities in NM CD2.
As New Mexico’s progressive communications hub, ProgressNow New Mexico centers justice for systemically excluded communities by building political power through partnerships, trusted digital communications, and issue-based and political campaigns.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
As the communications hub for the progressive movement in NM, we are expanding our role to deepen relationships and digital outreach through offline to online organizing. We will be working with community members and partners to combat disinformation specifically related to voter registration and voting in our Latinx and Spanish speaking communities in NM CD2.
As New Mexico’s progressive communications hub, ProgressNow New Mexico Education Fund centers justice for systemically excluded communities through partnerships, trusted digital communications, and issue-based and civic engagement campaigns.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Environmental Justice: As one of the largest oil and gas states in the nation, we engage voters on the need for a just transition away from the oil and gas industry and focus specifically on the harms to communities of colors. , , Reproductive Justice: This encompasses abortion access, access to gender affirming care, and policies related to LGBTQ+ community. , , Democracy: We educate on the safety and security of our elections and inform voters on the multitude of ways they can register to vote and cast a ballot.
Semilla Action (previously known as Dreams in Action NM) is a 501 (C)4 non-profit. We believe we can advance and achieve equity, justice, wellbeing, and opportunities for our families and communities by empowering and activating the BIPOC, Immigrant, LGBTQ+, Workers, Youth & Women electorate in New Mexico.
Since 2014, Semilla Action leadership has been dedicated to building capacity and developing leaders to engage the BIPOC electorate across New Mexico by educating, engaging and activating them on issues core to addressing equitable and racial concerns in the BIPOC electorate.
The climate and conservation goals for Semilla Action are 1) educate and engage our communities and the public are key geographies on the need for climate justice and action in New Mexico; 2) support key climate justice and conservation policies in key state policy making venues; 3) provide counterbalance to oil and gas friendly rhetoric and policy.
Roadmap Priorities:
1) Advance Climate Justice and Build Resilient Communities.
2) Transform Economic Systems for Equity and Sustainability.
3) Build Electoral Power for Progressive Change
Semilla Action (previously known as Dreams in Action NM) is a 501 (C)4 non-profit. We believe we can advance and achieve equity, justice, wellbeing, and opportunities for our families and communities by empowering and activating the BIPOC, Immigrant, LGBTQ+, Workers, Youth & Women electorate in New Mexico.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs, Volunteer powered - >50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
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
The Asian American and Pacific Islander population is the fastest growing demographic in Ohio. But we are under-represented. We have been mailing questionnaires to AAPI voters throughout Ohio, asking about their experiences as AAPI citizens in our state, top of mind issues, and if they plan to vote in 2024.
The AAPI Research Group and Engagement Team - Ohio (TARGETOHIO) believes in the collective power of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. AAPI Ohioans must be included as an integral part of our democracy—civically engaged, politically active, and voting in record numbers. TARGETOHIO will serve as the vehicle for delivering the AAPI political voice.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
NMWFP would contact low to mid-propensity voters in BIPOC working class communities in Albuquerque, Silver City, and towns across western New Mexico. Our goal with this funding would be to complete a total of 5,700 knocks with a persuasion message and ID for our endorsed candidates in the competitive NM-02.
New Mexico Working Families Party 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: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Priority Issues: Early Childhood education, climate change(oil and gas CEOs vs. community), good paying union jobs, protecting and expanding democracy, water,
NMWFP would contact low to mid-propensity voters in BIPOC working class communities in Albuquerque, Silver City, and towns across western New Mexico. Our goal with this funding would be to complete a total of 5,700 knocks with a persuasion message and ID for our endorsed candidates in the competitive NM-02.
New Mexico Working Families Party 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: Early Childhood education, climate change(oil and gas CEOs vs. community), good paying union jobs, protecting and expanding democracy, water,
