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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.
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
States Engaged: ME
Congressional Districts Engaged: ME-02
Geographic Density Focus: Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Immigrant
Leadership Diversity: BIPOC-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Top Priority Issues: Civic engagement, Immigrant rights, Gun violence
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
Our focus for 2025-2026 will be in two phases:
2025: We will build a strong organizing/power-building infrastructure around our inclusive education campaign, and signature gathering + narrative change work for a progressive tax ballot initiative, done in close partnership and coalition with other progressive organizations.
2026: Continue organizing for both campaigns, get progressive tax on the ballot. Voter engagement and coalition strategy to retake the state house, protect the senate, and elect progressive governor.
Rising Voices Fund exists to:
-Promote the civic participation of Asian American women and families in Michigan, with particular emphasis on underrepresented communities, in electoral and public policy processes at all levels.
-Educate the Asian American community and communities at large about policies that improve the well-being of Asian American women and families such as policies related to immigration, immigrant rights, family economic security issues, health disparities, gender violence, and other intersectional social justice issues;
Provide opportunities for youth leadership by activating and uplifting Asian American women and youth voices in all spaces; and
-Serve as an organizing resource for Asian American women and families with the promotion of co-liberatory practices, seeking partnerships and deep engagement with groups serving communities of color and intersectional community organizing work.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
States Engaged: MI
Congressional Districts Engaged: MI-10, MI-11
Geographic Density Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander), Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Adults (aged 35-65)
GCC is building power to create social change in Ohio. We are training and organizing youth and adults to engage or re-engage residents in low-propensity voting neighborhoods from targeted neighborhoods in the City of Cleveland and its inner-ring suburbs to get in the habit of voting every election cycle.
Greater Cleveland Congregation’s (GCC) mission is to be a powerful force for change, creating justice and opportunity in Northeast Ohio. We unite people across lines of race, class, religion, and geography to take action to strengthen and improve the quality of life of our neighborhoods. As a non-partisan organization of 39 faith communities and partner organizations, we work together to build power for social justice.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged: OH
Congressional Districts Engaged: OH-09
Geographic Density Focus: Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Faith-based, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Leadership Diversity: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer powered - >50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Our Megaphone program (Heartland Hype) engages and expands progressive voices online. 11 organizers will recruit volunteers to download the Megaphone app and organically share tested social media content to their own followers. We will also host trainings and other traditional relational organizing events to engage volunteers and voters.
Innovation Ohio is a catalyst for progressive policy and grassroots activity that improves the lives of Ohio’s working families.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Our Megaphone program (Heartland Hype) engages and expands progressive voices online. 11 organizers will recruit volunteers to download the Megaphone app and organically share tested social media content to their own followers. We will also host trainings and other traditional relational organizing events to engage volunteers and voters.
Innovation Ohio is a catalyst for progressive policy and grassroots activity that improves the lives of Ohio’s working families.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
JustME for JustUS unites rural youth (ages 15-30) across all political backgrounds to advocate for their futures. Our Rural Youth Organizers lead year-round climate justice and civic engagement projects, plus nonpartisan vote work in election years, hosting impactful community events and engagement opportunities that foster youth leadership and ensure the long-term sustainability of our communities. By ensuring that electoral organizing and issue organizing work in synergy, we translate vibrant organizing into civic engagement to strengthen our rural communities and to create pathways for those most impacted by climate change to lead solutions.
Our 2025 goals include:
Engage 1000 youth in JMJU workshops, conversations, and trainings;
Provide stipends to 150 youth for their time spent organizing;
40 Rural Youth Organizer-led projects: workshops, events, trainings;
Host 10 conversations geared toward depolarizing climate issues and bringing young people together across political divides.
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
States Engaged: ME
Congressional Districts Engaged: ME-02
Geographic Density Focus: Rural / Suburban / Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Other
Leadership Diversity: Youth-led (aged 15-35)
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
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
States Engaged: ME
Congressional Districts Engaged: ME-02
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k)
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
States Engaged: ME
Congressional Districts Engaged: ME-02
Geographic Density Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k)
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
States Engaged: MI
Congressional Districts Engaged: MI-07, MI-08
Geographic Density Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Faith-based
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
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
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
States Engaged: MI
Congressional Districts Engaged: MI-10
Geographic Density Focus: Urban - Large city (>100k)
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
States Engaged: MI
Congressional Districts Engaged: MI-10
Geographic Density Focus: Urban - Large city (>100k)
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
States Engaged: MI
Congressional Districts Engaged: MI-07, MI-08
Geographic Density Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Faith-based
In 2025, our organization will be shifting strategies to put more focus on our community through grassroots base-building. We aim to narrow in on who our diverse community members are, and what moves them, primarily through the following activities: deep canvassing, focus groups and ethnographic interviews, and potentially moving to a membership model. In regards to organizing, NCAAT/NCAATIA will be expanding our issue work (primarily democracy reform, immigration, language access, and racial justice) to also focus on diversity and inclusivity in K-12 education, which is an area of growing contention in the AAPI community.
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) is scaling and leading the largest field program targeting Asian Americans in North Carolina. On-site canvassing in high schools and college campuses will register AAPI and BIPOC voters, and registrations are paired with pledges to vote.
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to supporting equity and justice for all by fostering community among Asian Americans and allies in North Carolina through civic engagement, leadership development, grassroots mobilization and political participation.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
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
Ohio Citizen Action informs, organizes, and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests across issues and campaigns. In person, by phone, and online we engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality, and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable and equitable future.
In 2023 we helped win two ballot initiative campaigns (keeping a simple majority to pass citizen led ballot initiatives and enshrining reproductive rights in our constitution), and helped elect a progressive mayor in Akron. In 2024 we knocked 366,894 doors for Sherrod Brown.
* Opposing SB 63 (ban on ranked choice voting) and SB 153 (Ohio's SAVE act, which attacks voter rights and adds to the burden to get citizen-led initiatives on the ballot).
* Using our deep canvassing/persuasion training to reach voters who pledged to vote in 2024 after we talked to them at the door, but then didn't. We want to listen and learn in these "front porch focus groups" why people didn't vote, then rework the data they give us to persuade others like them to vote in 2025 and 2026.
*Promote repeal of consumer coal plant bailout.
Advocate for local and statewide democracy, energy and consumer issues. We project knocking 709,700 doors statewide and making 259,000 phone calls, plus digital tactics, including voter videos.
Ohio Citizen Action /OCAEF organizes and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests. In person, by phone and online we engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable future.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Geographic Density Focus: Rural / Suburban / Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city or suburb of large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: We do not target any specific demographics and/or it is difficult to say who we may reach, Multi-racial (including white), Adults (aged 35-65)
Leadership Diversity: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs
Top Priority Issues: State policy advocacy, Civic engagement, Climate change
Contact: Melissa English, Deputy Director (OCA) and Executive Director (OCAEF), menglish@ohiocitizen.org
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund (OCAEF) informs, organizes and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests, across issues and campaigns. In person, by phone and online, we engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality, and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable and equitable future.
OCAEF is the 501 c 3 research and education affiliate of Ohio Citizen Action, with which we sometimes run joint campaigns. Since 1975 we've earned a reputation as a trusted source of information and a vigilant government and industry watchdog.
* Advocacy work includes opposing two bills, one banning ranked choice voting in Ohio, and the other Ohio's version of the SAVE act which suppresses voter rights and adds to the burden of putting citizen led initiatives on the ballot.
* Rural solar organizing uses deep canvassing/persuasion to win hearts and minds for siting utility-scale solar projects.
* Voter courtship uses deep canvassing/persuasion to contact people canvassed during the 2024 election who pledged to vote, but didn't. We'll uncover the obstacles, rationales, and stories of unactivated voters and develop messaging to persuade people like them to vote.
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund will register voters by conducting hotspot canvassing and going door-to-door, primarily on community college campuses/areas in Cincinnati, Athens, Columbus and Cleveland.
Ohio Citizen Action /OCAEF organizes and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests. In person, by phone and online we engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable future.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation is partnering with community leaders, organizations and churches to register Black voters at block parties, festivals and house parties, and through door-to-door canvassing.
The Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation, (Ohio Unity Coalition) is a state affiliate of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in Washington DC. OUC and is incorporated as a is a 501c-3 organization in Ohio. Our primary purpose is to increase political literacy and civic engagement in black communities across Ohio, while building capacity in our member organizations and the communities in which we serve. The variety of voter contact /voter service mechanisms we utilize range from voter registration, education, voter/election protection, get-out-the-vote and issue advocacy around priorities specific to black communities.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
The OEC advocates for a healthier environment for all who call Ohio home. From resounding victories in the hallways of power to a growing environmental movement to important policy wins, we are working for systems-level change. Our mission is to protect the environment and health of all Ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement; we do this work to secure the vision of a clean, healthy Ohio where our democracy empowers all communities to thrive in harmony with the environment. We strive to ensure all of our work is science-based; equitable; strategic; collaborative; and non-partisan.
Our programs are grounded in environmental justice and include: Water, Public Lands, Energy, Democracy, and Field Advocacy in Northeast Ohio, Southwest Ohio, Southeast Ohio, the Cleveland Metro area, and Central Ohio. Our staff brings expertise in policy, nonprofit management, government, politics, public affairs, marketing and communications, law, advocacy, campaigns, coalition building, community organizing, and grassroots engagement. Each program area collaborates closely with our Communications team and Law Center to hold polluters accountable in court while working with communities and companies to inspire investment in and commitment to a just and healthy environment for all who call Ohio home.
The Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund (OEC AF) builds the political power of the environmental movement in Ohio through strategic issue and electoral campaigns as well as elected official accountability. Since its launch in 2016, the OEC AF has grown to be a well-recognized political force equipped with solutions to address the state’s most pressing environmental and climate issues facing Ohio communities. We continue to increase the political power of Ohio’s environmental movement in order to accelerate climate action and the adoption of just environmental policies.
As the impacts of climate change grow, communities that have been systematically left out will suffer the most. To address the climate crisis, the OEC AF has embedded equitable and bold climate action across all programming. We will accelerate progress toward a clean, beautiful Ohio where diverse people and all of our natural treasures thrive by:
-Advocating for and implementing affordable, clean energy solutions for all.
-Bolstering the climate resilience of Ohio communities and ecosystems through policy and legal advocacy.
-Ensuring members, partners, decision-makers, and all Ohioans have the information and tools they need to engage in climate action for
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
In 2024, OFUAPB ran a large canvassing program in Dayton, Ohio who are directly impacted by police brutality. The canvassers knocked 52,614 doors and connected with 13,203 voters. We also called over 6,400 voters and texted an additional 4,800+ voters in Dayton to remind them to bring their ID to vote and help locate their polling place. In 2025 we are organizing year-round with direct voter engagement and state and local advocacy on police reform.
Our layered approach includes canvassing, phonebanking, text banking, pollstanding on Election Day, digital and mail. We ensure investment into existing infrastructure in these communities, preserve the authenticity of the trusted messenger’s voice, and support longer term organizing and mobilization for the progressive movement in these spaces.
Our mission is to fight against police brutality and to support our extended families. Who, while not related by blood, are bonded to us through the needless bloodshed of our loved ones.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
The Campaign registered nearly 160,000 Black, working-class, and young voters in cities such as Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. Our endorsement committee (made up of students, formerly incarcerated individuals, faith leaders, public school parents, and childcare providers) backed candidates in competitive congressional races, as well as sheriff and prosecutor races. Yet, challenges like lower voter turnout and restrictive voting policies persist, underscoring the need for continued grassroots organizing.
In 2024, we will work to expand the electorate and close the racial and age gap amongst registered voters in Ohio. We plan to register 145,000 voters in Black communities and 35,000 young voters on college campuses, and mobilize them and more by knocking on 1,000,000 doors to reach 250,000 voters.
Formed in 2007, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) is a grassroots organization uniting community groups, student associations, and faith organizations with policy institutes and labor unions across Ohio. It is our mission to organize membership bases of everyday Ohioans for racial, social, and economic justice in our state.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
In 2025, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative will focus on advocating for fully funded early education through the Care Economy Organizing (CEO) Project; supporting public education by organizing parents and communities to promote fair school funding and prevent closures via the All In For Ohio Kids initiative; pursuing criminal justice reform by working to end collateral sanctions that hinder formerly incarcerated individuals from accessing employment/education opportunities through Building Freedom Ohio (BFO); empowering student leaders.
Statewide org that unites student associations, faith organizations, labor unions and policy institutions will register voters through community hotspotting, campus organizing, relational organizing, doors, phones, text and mail.
Formed in 2007, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) is a grassroots organization uniting community groups, student associations, and faith organizations with policy institutes and labor unions across Ohio. It is our mission to organize membership bases of everyday Ohioans for racial, social, and economic justice in our state.
We will carry out a voter education program utilizing canvasing, digital ads, billboards, as well as activation of our volunteer physician and healthcare provider speakers bureau. The unifying message will be physicians and healthcare providers connecting the dots between the critical importance of voting and protecting our hard-earned Constitutional right to reproductive freedom.
Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights is dedicated to reproductive healthcare advocacy. Our guiding principle is to uphold and expand access to safe, legal, equitable, and comprehensive reproductive medical care for all Ohioans, while fiercely protecting patients’ right to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions, free from government interference.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
States Engaged: OH
Congressional Districts Engaged: OH-09, OH-13
Core Constituencies: Women, Adults (aged 35-65)
Leadership Diversity: Volunteer-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer powered - >50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Ohio Women’s Alliance Action Fund (OWAAF) is a Black-led Reproductive Justice (RJ) power-building organization that advances progressive change and equity through a base-building alliance of women and gender-expansive folks across Ohio. The Ohio Women’s Alliance Action Fund 2024 Direct Voter Contact Program contacted Black women, young voters aged 18-40, and BIPOC Ohioans regarding the current state of Reproductive Justice (RJ) in Ohio through robust relational in-person events and a statewide phone program in addition to
OWA Action Fund will focus on flipping the Ohio Supreme Court by electing justices whose philosophies will uphold the Reproductive Freedom Amendment that passed in 2023 by defending two seats and picking up one. We will also prioritize races in CD15 and HD5 by supporting values-aligned women of color candidates.
The purpose of the Ohio Women's Alliance Action Fund is to build capacity for women and gender-expansive folks—particularly Black women—to determine the lives they want for themselves, their families, and their communities through the electoral process. The OWA Action Fund creates a more sustainable movement through voter protection and education, civic engagement, and the endorsement of candidates that align with our values.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Geographic Density Focus: Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Multi-racial (including white), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Leadership Diversity: BIPOC-led, Women-led
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
Top Priority Issues: Civic engagement, Reproductive justice, Racial justice
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
States Engaged: MI
Congressional Districts Engaged: MI-10
Core Constituencies: Multi-racial (including white), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Leadership Diversity: Volunteer-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: All volunteer - there are no paid staff involved in the organizations
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
State Wide Indivisible Michigan is a grassroots coalition of Indivisible groups who work in collaboration to amplify our voice and increase our power through collective actions and shared resources. SWIM stands in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Our mission is to actively protect, defend, and promote the principles and institutions of democracy for all people. The statewide organization will act as a resource to local groups to support this mission.
1. Support local groups in building member engagement for local, state and national actions.
-Provide structured events for local groups to tap easily into through Democracy Action Working Group and other working groups.
-Provide a network of resources and connections with other Local Indivisible Groups and outside partner organizations.
2. Support progressive candidates in statewide and local races of importance; help identify good candidates to support.
3. Assist in voter education efforts & amplify support or opposition to citizens’ initiatives & legislation.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
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
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
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
WFP is a grassroots political party building the intersectional working-class movement. OH WFP’s 2024 program (mail, digital, phones, texting, forums) for Supreme Court, Prosecutor & Judicial races will mobilize marginalized voters around criminal justice races & increase turnout for the top of the ticket, an effective tactic in a battleground state like Ohio.
The Ohio Working Families Party aims to capitalize on the momentum of the massive turnout in 2023 to build a sustainable, strategic progressive electoral force by focusing on education, voter registration and direct voter contact methods. Organizing and mobilizing the small pockets of movements growing across the state will empower a new generation of leaders to meet the challenges of the moment in cities that are predominantly working class, communities of color and women.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
WFP is a grassroots political party building the intersectional working-class movement. OH WFP’s 2024 program (mail, digital, phones, texting, forums) for Supreme Court, Prosecutor & Judicial races will mobilize marginalized voters around criminal justice races & increase turnout for the top of the ticket, an effective tactic in a battleground state like Ohio.
The Ohio Working Families Party aims to capitalize on the momentum of the massive turnout in 2023 to build a sustainable, strategic progressive electoral force by focusing on education, voter registration and direct voter contact methods. Organizing and mobilizing the small pockets of movements growing across the state will empower a new generation of leaders to meet the challenges of the moment in cities that are predominantly working class, communities of color and women.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
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