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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.
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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.
Blueprint NC is a partnership of over 80 organizations building towards inclusive and anti-racist democracy by working to engage and turnout North Carolina BIPOC voters. Tactics include texting, phonebanking, mailers, door-to-door canvassing, events, and canvassing in high traffic areas, with special focus on high schools to register 16 and 17 year olds.
Blueprint NC is a progressive ecosystem of nearly 60 formal partner organizations and an expanding web of network allies committed to building independent power for an anti-racist, inclusive democracy. We believe that inclusive democracy requires open, reflective, and responsive governing institutions.
Latinx-led Casa Azul de Wilson has gained our community’s trust through direct service programs such as college advising and financial relief for farmworkers. We have done Latinx community voter registration for the past four years and are the experts of our community to do this work.
Casa Azul de Wilson provides a homebase for Wilson’s Latinx families to feel valued so that they may own their power and ascend in their educational, leadership and civic pursuits. We build community through culturally affirming events, programs and campaigns that allow us to celebrate our complex and diverse identities.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
In 2024, we recruited over 30 student and youth volunteers, knocked on 2,000 doors, and made over 6,000 calls statewide. In 2025, we will focus on base and coalition building by: 1)Investing in Year-Round Member Engagement: Strengthening trust through 1:1 check-ins, active listening, and issue-based organizing. 2)Empowering Communities: Equipping immigrant organizations and allies with tools to mobilize their members. 3)Foster a Unified Front: Develop a shared vision and strategy that aligns our efforts across communities
COA will work with volunteers to host voter registration efforts in our community before transitioning our efforts to turning voters out this fall. We will also provide accessible election information to voters and identify and meet the language and transportation needs of the immigrant community on Election Day.
Community Organizing Alliance (COA) is a social justice, civic engagement organization which educates, empowers and engages young people centering Black and immigrant voices.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Conservation Votes PAC and NCLCV have already begun looking towards the 2026 elections in NC. Our entire legislature will be up, and we will have a state Supreme Court race. There will also be a US Senate race (Sen. Tillis). We will be working with the America Votes table to help define Sen. Tillis and other extreme legislative candidates throughout 2025.
Working to elect climate champion Josh Stein over climate denier Mark Robinson. We will run a canvass with a relational text overlay in vote-dense Mecklenburg County targeting persuadable swing voters. We will also work to gain a veto-proof minority in the state House by winning four of ten competitive House seats with paid media/mail.
Conservation Votes PAC is NC League of Conservation Voters Independent Expenditure PAC working to elect pro-conservation legislators and leaders in North Carolina.
Democracy North Carolina focuses on relational organizing, primarily serving BIPOC people, the LGBTQUIA community, low-wealth individuals, and students and young adults. We reach people through community convenings, faith-based organizing, multi-platform education tactics, mobile voter registration sites, and collaborations with grassroots organizations, HBCUs, and community colleges.
To strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.
Down Home North Carolina will engage the multiracial working class over an18-county area larger than the state of New Jersey via an integrated voter contact program including more than 500,000 door attempts. Our program is best-in-class and covers the lowest density, highest opportunity rural turf home to 20% of the state’s population.
Down Home North Carolina (DHNC) is a project to build a multiracial statewide organization of rural and small town communities that advocate for economic, gender, and racial justice. We will move North Carolina toward the values of dignity, safety, and inclusion through leadership development, strategic campaigning, multiracial movement building, and civic engagement to advance real reforms for rural communities.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Local issues first: we run year-round issue campaigns and run down-ballot candidates that can be highly motivating for voters. We also engage folks using testing messaging iterated by our deep canvass team. We are in the iteration process now, but believe that reproductive rights will be central.
Emancipate NC and Emancipate Votes request a Voter Engagement & GOTV grant to support our 2024 Voter Engagement initiatives, which will activate our Justice League–a Fellowship for people directly impacted by incarceration–to lead and support voter education and organizing campaigns in NC-01.
The mission of Emancipate NC (ENC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is to dismantle structural racism and mass incarceration through community education, leadership development, strategic litigation, and mobilization.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
2024 Voter Engagement initiatives will activate our Justice League–a Fellowship for people directly impacted by incarceration–to lead and support voter education and organizing campaigns in NC-01.
The mission of Emancipate Votes, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit social welfare organization, is to support educational and electoral strategies to end mass incarceration and structural racism in North Carolina.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Megaphone is building a progressive digital media and messaging amplification network and online community of content creators and sharers. Since people already get their news and information on social media from friends and influencers, Megaphone ensures those trusted messengers have access to content that represents progressive values and engages voters.
Our mission is to provide a strong credible voice that holds public officials and government accountable, assists in the promotion of progressive ideas and uses state-of-the-art web based new media to creatively build grassroots support for progressive ideas. Progress Michigan works as a communications team and media hub for the entire progressive community. We’re a marketing department for progressive ideas – a campaign that never stops.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Registering formerly incarcerated individuals, who are predominately people of color.
Forward Justice directly aids southern movement-building with legal and policy expertise and experience as strategic communicators and organizers rooted in the South. Our interdisciplinary team utilizes a panoply of tactics, including community education and organizing, coalition building, policy analysis, movement litigation, and public education, to achieve joint strategic objectives for racial, economic, and criminal justice policy change. Moreover, we resource strategic communications strategies led by people directly impacted by oppression to build new narratives that center the morality of justice, equality, and repairing deep harms in our communities.
Priority Issues: Registering individuals who are formerly incarcerated and ensuring they are able to vote safely and without fear of intimidation or misinformation.
Registering formerly incarcerated individuals, who are predominately people of color.
Forward Justice directly aids southern movement-building with legal and policy expertise and experience as strategic communicators and organizers rooted in the South. Our interdisciplinary team utilizes a panoply of tactics, including community education and organizing, coalition building, policy analysis, movement litigation, and public education, to achieve joint strategic objectives for racial, economic, and criminal justice policy change. Moreover, we resource strategic communications strategies led by people directly impacted by oppression to build new narratives that center the morality of justice, equality, and repairing deep harms in our communities.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Registering individuals who are formerly incarcerated and ensuring they are able to vote safely and without fear of intimidation or misinformation.
Hispanic Federation will engage 115,000 Latino voters across North Carolina in urban, suburban, and rural areas. We will use culturally competent, Latino “kitchen table” issue area organizing, and tactics that include door knocking, phone banking, texting, and relational outreach. We will also run digital, radio and TV ads.
Hispanic Federation (HF) is the nation’s premier Latino nonprofit membership organization. Founded in 1990, HF seeks to empower and advance the Hispanic community, support Hispanic families, and strengthen Latino institutions through work in the areas of civic engagement, education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, & the environment.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: HF believes in robust, culturally competent, Latino “kitchen table” issue-focused voter registration drives as the ideal way to engage its largely low-income, Hispanic immigrant, and youth voter population. As such, HF prioritizes in its community and voter outreach discussion of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment and environmental justice issues. As HF believes in inclusivity with regard to the Latinx LGBTQIA population, it also promotes LGBTQIA issue areas and fights against LGBTQIA bias. Our goal is that Latinx voters have all the tools to participate in the elections, while also being knowledgeable about issues that they care deeply about.
Our organizers use relational organizing in their communities to engage other youth (ages 15-30) in vote work, including text banking, voter education, nonpartisan youth-led candidate forums, voter registration at rural schools, a social pressure rural youth voter social media campaign, and relational organizing and voter turnout campaigns.
JustME for JustUS empowers rural Maine's frontline climate justice communities by shifting power and opportunities directly to under-resourced youth (ages 15-30) so they can advocate for their futures. Our Rural Youth Organizers lead year-round climate justice projects and nonpartisan vote work in even election years, hosting impactful and accessible community events and engagement opportunities that foster youth leadership and ensure the long-term sustainability of our communities.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
We are a coalition of Maine labor unions representing working Mainers across our state. We seek to develop the labor movement’s vision for how to tackle the twin crises of climate change and inequality in a way that creates good Maine union jobs, reduces carbon emissions and racial and economic inequality, and provides a seat at the table for workers and their unions and communities in this process.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Our work is centered on building political support for candidates who support (1) large and critical climate/clean energy projects (e.g., OSW ports, big transmission or wind projects), and (2) strong labor, equity, and community standards that give core constituencies -- e.g., workers, especially under-represented workers, and host communities -- the power necessary to shape the trajectory and benefits of these projects, while ensuring they happen at the pace and scale needed to address the climate crisis.
We will deploy a robust field operation -- doors, events, follow-up texts/calls -- to persuade and activate independent and Democratic voters in ME-02's coastal communities near the proposed OSW port to support a slate of federal and down-ballot D candidates that support a climate/OSW + good jobs agenda
We are a coalition of Maine labor unions representing working Mainers across our state. We seek to develop the labor movement’s vision for how to tackle the twin crises of climate change and inequality in a way that creates good Maine union jobs, reduces carbon emissions and racial and economic inequality, and provides a seat at the table for workers and their unions and communities in this process.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Our work is centered on building political support for candidates who support (1) large and critical climate/clean energy projects (e.g., OSW ports, big transmission or wind projects), and (2) strong labor, equity, and community standards that give core constituencies -- e.g., workers, especially under-represented workers, and host communities -- the power necessary to shape the trajectory and benefits of these projects, while ensuring they happen at the pace and scale needed to address the climate crisis.
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
Mi Familia North Carolina’s 2024 programs include year-round voter engagement: Turnout voters by knocking on doors; Engage and educate eligible voters through our civic engagement workshops and environmental program; Turnout college students by attending events; Engage Latinos through our social media accountability campaign #MerecemosMejor.
Mi Familia en Acción’s mission is to build Latino power, through activation of the community and year-round investment in local infrastructure, to advance our priorities.
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. ,
The MEJC program in the 2024 elections includes movement base-building and communications efforts through energy democracy, issue advocacy, and corporate accountability for Michigan's monopoly private-investor owned utility companies. Tactics include canvassing, events, and phone banking as well as significant digital communications including videos, posts, and movement mobilization invitations. And, the organizing work will continue off-cycle.
The MEJC program in the 2024 elections includes movement base-building and communications efforts through energy democracy, issue advocacy, and corporate accountability for Michigan's monopoly private-investor owned utility companies. Tactics include canvassing, events, and phone banking as well as significant digital communications including videos, posts, and movement mobilization invitations. And, the organizing work will continue off-cycle.
The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC) works to achieve a clean, healthy, and safe environment for Michigan residents most affected by inadequate policies. We build power and unity within our community, so we all can thrive.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
The MEJCA program in 2024 elections includes movement base-building and communications efforts through energy democracy, issue advocacy, and corporate accountability for Michigan's monopoly private-investor owned utility companies. Tactics include canvassing, events, and phone banking as well as significant digital communications including videos, posts, and movement mobilization invitations. And, the organizing work will continue off-cycle.
The MEJC program in 2024 elections includes movement base-building and communications efforts through energy democracy, issue advocacy, and corporate accountability for Michigan's monopoly private-investor owned utility companies. Tactics include canvassing, events, and phone banking as well as significant digital communications including videos, posts, and movement mobilization invitations. And, the organizing work will continueoff-cycle.
We are a coalition of diverse communities: urban and rural, Black, white, Indigenous, Latinx, Middle Eastern, Asian, Pacific Islanders, and working class. We convene and work together to engage in electoral politics with a bold climate agenda for Michigan.
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
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
Organization focused on enhancing the quality of life for economically disadvantaged families will register voters through face-to-face engagement, tabling, and events.
With newly elected Gov. Josh Stein and a one vote veto-sustaining margin in the House, we will be working to support Governor's Stein's pro-climate, pro-environment efforts, and defend against legislative attacks on our environment, our democracy, and our communities. We will also engage strategically on IRA defense and implementation, the Carbon Planning process, and continue our efforts to hold Duke Energy and the NC Utilities Commission accountable for meeting our clean energy goals.
Working to elect climate champion Josh Stein over climate denier Mark Robinson. We will run a canvass with a relational text overlay in vote-dense Mecklenburg County targeting persuadable swing voters. We will also work to gain a veto-proof minority in the state House by winning four of ten competitive House seats with paid media/mail.
The North Carolina League of Conservation Voters (NCLCV) is a pragmatic, results-oriented, non-partisan organization whose mission is to protect the health and quality of life for all North Carolinians, with an intentional focus on systematically excluded communities of color. We elect environmental champions, advocate for environmental policies that protect our communities, and hold elected leaders accountable for their decisions. We create a political environment that will protect our natural environment.
NCLCVF programs, PowerUp, Power the Vote, and Power Boards & Commissions, operate at the intersection of environment, economics, racial and economic justice. We make it a priority to build civic participation programs that emphasize year-round engagement, leadership development, and a goal of shifting the balance of power to historically disenfranchised communities of color, often the first and worst impacted by environmental injustices, to enact equitable policies that protect the environment and our communities.
NCLCVF believes that voting is the most important thing you can do for the environment, and has registered 120,000 voters since 2014. Our Power the Vote program prioritizes year-round civic engagement, registering and turning out voters in BIPOC communities/schools, engaging through relational organizing, and promoting our Forever Vote pledge.
NCLCV Foundation connects and engages people to protect our natural environment and promote the well-being of our communities. We turn environmental values into NC priorities by engaging people in the democratic process, organizing in communities to connect environmental policies to people’s daily lives, cultivating environmental leaders, and advocating for policies at the state and local level that protect the health and quality of life for all North Carolinians, with an intentional focus on systematically excluded communities of color.
NCAAT in Action is scaling and leading the largest field program targeting Asian Americans in North Carolina. 8 years of working as a trusted messenger with culturally-competent multilingual outreach will allow us to educate, engage, and mobilize with deep canvassing and our new Empower U BIPOC Youth project.
NCAAT in Action is committed to supporting equity and justice for all by building political power among Asian Americans and allies in North Carolina through voter education, progressive advocacy and leadership development.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Org focused on enhancing the quality of life for economically disadvantaged families will register voters through face-to-face engagement, tabling, and events.
Led by women, staff will register voters at faith gatherings. They’ll also provide resources on pro-democracy issues and candidate vetting to empower informed voting.
We enable denominations, congregations, and people of faith to impact our state on issues such as economic justice and development, human well-being, equality, and compassion and peace, following the example and mission of Jesus Christ.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
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
Megaphone is building a progressive digital media and messaging amplification network and online community of content creators and sharers. Since people already get their news and information on social media from friends and influencers, Megaphone ensures those trusted messengers have access to content that represents progressive values and engages voters.
Our mission is to provide a strong credible voice that holds public officials and government accountable, assists in the promotion of progressive ideas and uses state-of-the-art web based new media to creatively build grassroots support for progressive ideas. Progress Michigan works as a communications team and media hub for the entire progressive community. We’re a marketing department for progressive ideas – a campaign that never stops. We work year round to challenge conservative propaganda in the media and make sure that progressive perspectives are heard.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
At the TFBU Foundation, we emphasize the importance of every citizen's voice being heard through exercising their constitutional right to cast a ballot. The TFBU Foundation will host daily events at the polls during early voting and election day, offering music, activities, light refreshments, and encouragement to exercise your right to vote.
Our mission is to inspire the community through charitable endeavors, culture empowerment and unity among our communities. TFBU Foundation's priority is to enhance educational opportunities, and to promote the growth of our communities through resources, counseling, and volunteering.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Priority Issues: The TFBU Foundation prioritizes increasing voter participation through registration drives and facilitating transportation to polling stations.
We are knocking on doors talking to voters, organizing a Young Democrats of Warren County, will be calling voters, sending postcards and doing ALL we can to elect Democrats from the top of the ballot to the bottom. We are having a countywide social to meet voters and inviting statewide candidates to meet our voters!
We are a county Democratic Party in a small, poor, rural county of NC.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Down Home is all about building power for working-class communities in North Carolina. We focus on deep organizing, real conversations, and grassroots action to create lasting change. By centering rural and small-town voices, we fight for economic justice, racial equity, and policies that actually support everyday people. Whether it's elections, policy advocacy, or movement-building, our goal is to make sure all North Carolinians - no matter their background - have a real say in shaping their future.
In 2025, we're focused on deepening our base, expanding our reach, and strengthening our foundation. Through the Year of the Member Project, we're investing in our people - developing leaders, building ownership, and making sure members drive our work. The Beyond the Choir Project will bring in new voices, connecting with those who share our values but haven't engaged yet. And to sustain it all, we're strengthening our internal systems - ensuring financial stability, better development tracking, and real accountability. With clear goals, strong support, and the right systems in place, we're building lasting power for working-class communities across North Carolina.
Down Home will engage the multiracial working class over an18-county area larger than the state of New Jersey via an integrated voter contact program including more than 500,000 door attempts. Our program is best-in-class and covers the lowest density, highest opportunity rural turf home to 20% of the state’s population.
Down Home North Carolina (DHNC) is a project to build a multiracial statewide organization of rural and small town communities that advocate for economic, gender, and racial justice. We will move North Carolina toward the values of dignity, safety, and inclusion through leadership development, strategic campaigning, multiracial movement building, and civic engagement to advance real reforms for rural communities.
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
YCV staff and volunteers reach voters in the communities where they live and work across the state of NC through high traffic canvassing, clipboarding, tabling at events, group and classroom presentations in high schools and on college campuses, relational organizing, GOTV calls and text messaging, and 1-1 conversations with voters.
You Can Vote (YCV) was founded following Shelby County v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 2612, the Supreme Court decision rolling back key protections of the Voting Rights Act. Our mission is to train and mobilize volunteers to educate, register, and empower all North Carolina citizens to successfully cast their ballot. Our programs combat discriminatory election laws by building a broader and more engaged electorate across the state of NC. YCV serves populations whose votes have been historically suppressed including people of color, low-income people, people who are currently and formerly incarcerated, people with disabilities, and young people.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: YCV occupies a unique position in the NC voting rights landscape as a strictly nonpartisan organization that focuses exclusively on voters. We are a campaign without a candidate and we do not take stances or advocate for specific issues aside from voting rights. YCV’s nonpartisan approach combined with the quality and consistency of voter services allows us to partner with and gain access to spaces that are not available to partisan organizations, such as schools and detention facilities. Our programs focus on voting mechanics & civic education: what's on the ballot, when to vote, where to vote, levels of government and connecting issues that matter to voters with the offices that influence them.
