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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.
1 Vote Counts is innovative in educating high-risk communities on issues that will impact their future, advocate environmental justice, foster social and judicial equity, and increase voter registration participation through door knocking, deep dive canvassing, texting, phone calls, social media and citizen advocacy. 1 Vote Counts provides services primarily to Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County, concentrating on the City of Harrisburg and its surrounding communities.We have an active Voter Registration Program in the County Prison
1 Vote Counts educates high-risk communities, fostering growth and voter registration through grassroots efforts. Their vision envisions social change in Pennsylvania, ensuring electoral representation for all, including underserved communities and citizens returning from incarceration. Core values include removing voting obstacles, strengthening democracy through universal participation, and promoting government responsibility for all citizens, emphasizing community unity.
OUR MISSION is to educate at-risk communities, including returning citizens and, our youth on pertinent issues that will impact their future, as well as increase voters’ registration and participation through grassroots lobbying, educational seminars, and citizen advocacy. Our overall objective is to build a pipeline of young, committed BIPOC leaders to support, protect and serve the communities they live in. WE BELIEVE when all individuals are informed on issues that negatively impact their neighborhoods, they utilize the vote to make a positive change!
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
API PA empowers APIs in Pennsylvania through political, electoral, and legislative efforts, focusing on saving Chinatown and seeking justice for Christian Hall. They engage in direct voter contact, build solidarity with aligned communities, and advocate for justice and cultural preservation.
Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance’s (API PA) mission is to build long-term power for APIs in Pennsylvania by coordinating political, electoral, and legislative work to hold our elected officials accountable; engaging in culturally competent and linguistically accessible direct voter contact with our communities; and building solidarity with other aligned communities of color across the state.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: We will focus on two issues that are especially important to our Asian American communities when collecting voter registrations. They are: 1) Save Chinatown - In 2022, the billionaire owners of the 76ers basketball team announced their intent to build a new $1.3 billion arena one block away from Philadelphia’s historic Chinatown. Chinatown is the cultural heart of Asian American Pennsylvania. It is a unique cultural asset providing indispensable in-language and community support to countless Chinese and other Asian American immigrants, elders, children, and families. Our work to Save Chinatown builds on 50 years of organizing and power-building for Philadelphia’s impacted Asian American community. We are proud to take on the mantle from our elders. Our fight today is the root from which the strength and political will of Asian Americans in Pennsylvania will grow so we can achieve what we need to thrive. 2) Justice for Christian Hall - Christian Hall, a Chinese American teenager, experienced a mental health crisis in Monroe County, PA on December 30th, 2020. Though Christian did not present a threat and was clearly in crisis, Pennsylvania State Troopers responded by shooting him seven times. This horrific outcome was preventable. Since Christian’s killing, API PA has been working with the Hall family, as well as local organizations Lehigh Valley Stands Up and Monroe County NAACP, to get justice for Christian Hall. Through this statewide campaign, we are educating our members and the public on how police and state violence impacts our API communities and about the necessity of language-accessible and culturally competent mental health support as an alternative to armed police officers. We held a successful lobby day in Harrisburg on October 17, 2023 for our Justice For Christian Hall Bill. The bill now has 22 co-sponsors in the PA House of Representatives and we expect it to be formally introduced in early 2024.
Action Together NEPA will focus on advocacy and accountability in 2025, while growing our base to match the needs of the current climate. Our goal is to double our base to meet the moment, increasing our work protecting those most harmed, and fighting for public education, LGBTQ+ rights, and economic prosperity, including increasing PA’s minimum wage. We will expand trainings and educational programs, endorse in key races, and run critical PA Supreme Court retention campaigns.
Action Together NEPA engages voters in an accountability campaign, focusing on outreach and early voter education. This campaign focuses on office holders for President, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House of Representatives. ATNEPA works to educate voters and raise awareness around issues and how the Pennsylvania legislature impacts their priorities.
Action Together NEPA is a grassroots progressive organization dedicated to community action and political advocacy. We support bold progressive policies that will preserve our democracy and promote social and economic justice. We envision a thriving permanent progressive infrastructure of engaged and empowered voters across northeastern Pennsylvania, working together to create a brighter future.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
API PA empowers APIs in Pennsylvania through political, electoral, and legislative efforts, focusing on saving Chinatown and seeking justice for Christian Hall. They engage in direct voter contact, build solidarity with aligned communities, and advocate for justice and cultural preservation.
Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance’s (API PA) mission is to build long-term power for APIs in Pennsylvania by coordinating political, electoral, and legislative work to hold our elected officials accountable; engaging in culturally competent and linguistically accessible direct voter contact with our communities; and building solidarity with other aligned communities of color across the state.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: We will focus on two issues that are especially important to our Asian American communities when collecting voter registrations. They are: 1) Save Chinatown - In 2022, the billionaire owners of the 76ers basketball team announced their intent to build a new $1.3 billion arena one block away from Philadelphia’s historic Chinatown. Chinatown is the cultural heart of Asian American Pennsylvania. It is a unique cultural asset providing indispensable in-language and community support to countless Chinese and other Asian American immigrants, elders, children, and families. Our work to Save Chinatown builds on 50 years of organizing and power-building for Philadelphia’s impacted Asian American community. We are proud to take on the mantle from our elders. Our fight today is the root from which the strength and political will of Asian Americans in Pennsylvania will grow so we can achieve what we need to thrive. 2) Justice for Christian Hall - Christian Hall, a Chinese American teenager, experienced a mental health crisis in Monroe County, PA on December 30th, 2020. Though Christian did not present a threat and was clearly in crisis, Pennsylvania State Troopers responded by shooting him seven times. This horrific outcome was preventable. Since Christian’s killing, API PA has been working with the Hall family, as well as local organizations Lehigh Valley Stands Up and Monroe County NAACP, to get justice for Christian Hall. Through this statewide campaign, we are educating our members and the public on how police and state violence impacts our API communities and about the necessity of language-accessible and culturally competent mental health support as an alternative to armed police officers. We held a successful lobby day in Harrisburg on October 17, 2023 for our Justice For Christian Hall Bill. The bill now has 22 co-sponsors in the PA House of Representatives and we expect it to be formally introduced in early 2024.
We aim to educate Black voters about the threats to our voting rights, health equity, education equity, and living wages and connect those issues to the importance of voting. We will reach voters in their homes, churches, community events, on the radio and on social media feeds and digital platforms.
Partnering with individuals and Black-Led organizations to make voting and civic engagement an ongoing responsibility and tradition to improve the quality of life in black communities.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Black Wall USA targets Black and Afro-Latino males with voter education and engagement initiatives. We organize community events, door-to-door campaigns, and digital outreach to empower these demographics. Strategies include sports events with voter registration, men's pancake breakfasts, connecting returning citizens with voting, and business mentorship.
At Black Wall USA, our mission is to empower and uplift the Black and Afro-Latino community through voter engagement, community initiatives, and economic empowerment. We are dedicated to fostering civic participation, advocating for social justice, and building a brighter future for generations to come. Through strategic partnerships, grassroots efforts, and a commitment to excellence, we strive to create positive change and uplift the voices of Black and Afro-Latino individuals in our communities.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
PA Voter Action Guide (English and Spanish) and "Issues Palm Cards" shared with key PA districts; PA postcard campaigns; local tabling events; social media for all of PA
Chester County Marching Forward (CCMF) is a progressive, non-affiliated community group that works to engage, educate and motivate our neighbors to be active and informed voters and civic participants.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Clean Water Action will knock on 200,000 doors, in Philadelphia, surrounding suburbs, and Allegheny County where turnout will decide the election. Voter engagement will focus on defending our right to clean water and clean air, especially in BIPOC and lower income neighborhoods burdened with illness from pollution and climate change.
To protect our environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions, and campaigns to elect environmental candidates and to solve environmental and community problems.
Focuses on building power for the environmental movement in key geographies across the state. Our 2024 coordinated work will build on that, using our organizing team to drive turnout in key demographics for state races, and ensuring strong connections with incoming legislators.
CVPA is the people-powered statewide political voice for the environment. We elect leaders who champion our environment, we promote racially and economically just environmental policy, we educate Pennsylvanians about key issues, and we hold our elected officials accountable.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Multi-racial (including white), Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Adults (aged 35-65)
Organization Leadership: Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs, Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Core Community Blueprint (CC Blueprint) is dedicated to fostering civic engagement, empowering communities, and advancing social equity through strategic outreach, education, and advocacy.
Founded on the principles of civic responsibility and community empowerment, CC Blueprint operates as a vital force in Lancaster, PA, and surrounding areas. Through targeted outreach efforts, leadership development, and advocacy programs, we equip individuals and communities with the tools they need to drive meaningful social change.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Democrats have work to do. Many voters still do not know they have been redistricted, especially in the rural areas. While the rural part of the district is only 14% of the voters, this population of mostly low income voters of color needs connection and outreach.
COVA Coalition is a predominantly women's progressive organization in Coastal Virginia. We work together to amplify women's voices, advocate for change and protect our freedoms. Our focus areas are reproductive freedom, sensible gun reform and support for public education. We are affiliated with Network NOVA. Our priority for 2024 is flipping Virginia Congressional District 2!
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
Freedom ROC is focused on building Black grassroots community power will train and empower Black leaders to register voters through hotspot canvassing, doors, events, BLOC parties and concerts in Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Warren counties.
To create systemic change that leads to a more equitable society by uplifting the voices of directly impacted Black people that allows us to build Black grassroots community political power.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
In This Together NEPA will increase our community presence and community building in 2025. Through Pride events, Juneteenth Celebrations, Disability Pride, and new voter registration and tabling opportunities throughout the region, we will build on ITTNEPA’s tremendous 2024 growth, forming new partnerships and community relationships. We will increase our election protection work, expanding into all 19 NEPA counties. This work will activate new volunteers and grow our capacity for monitoring at the county level.
In This Together NEPA is a community building organization that engages people around democracy, social justice, environmental justice, and economic prosperity. Their program includes site and event-based voter registration, relational organizing, digital strategies, and deep canvassing to empower and engage voters in building a stronger community.
To bring joy and lift up our community, especially those traditionally overlooked, to build community, and to increase civic engagement throughout the region.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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
Make the Road Action in Nevada (MRA-NV) will continue to build grassroots political power by engaging working-class and immigrant communities in voter education, mobilization, and issue advocacy. Through year-round organizing, member leadership development, and robust electoral programs, we will ensure our communities influence elections and policy decisions. We will expand our reach in rural areas, strengthen relational organizing, and drive legislative advocacy to protect immigrant rights, economic justice, and democracy in Nevada.
Join Make the Road Action Nevada at the ballot box! In 2024, Nevada holds key electoral sway. We aim to safeguard pivotal state legislature seats, enhance member mobilization, expand rural outreach, and prioritize down-ballot races. Be part of a movement driving transformative change!
Through tailored conversations on local governance, MRA-NV is revolutionizing voter engagement in Nevada, partnering with experienced leaders in key regions such as Clark and Washoe Counties. We set new benchmarks for success and drive transformative change through this strategic approach and a history of exceeding state turnout and engagement averages.
MRAPA builds community power to fight for justice in Latinx and immigrant communities and working-class communities of color. In 2024, we’ll work in 5 counties, focusing in communities that are ignored and rarely targeted by typical Democratic campaigns, yet they are an important voter base that needs to be persuaded.
Make the Road Action (MRA) builds political power rooted in working-class Latinx, Black and communities of color, promotes policy solutions that improve the lives of all working-class and low-income people, and strengthens the movement for justice through electoral and grassroots organizing to advance progressive political and policy change.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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
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. ,
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
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.
Increase the Number of women in elected and appointed positions.
Draft legislation that centers on equality and the needs of women.
Support candidates who support women.
In 2025 we will endorse women in Virginia for Governor, Lt. Governor and Attorney General. Currently there are 44 women running for VA House and we expect to endorse at least 25 of them. Our planned activities includes postcards, making phone calls, texting, canvassing, billboards and radio ads.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
NCL PAC works to elect climate champions to protect our land, air, water, and health. Our plan includes $600k IE plan with an expansion to over $1 million centered on paid mail, digital, and an organized canvassing program. We will run a persuasion program and an under-40 GOTV program.
NCL works to protect our climate, air, water, land, and health by translating conservation values into political and policy priorities that we actively promote so all Nevada’s communities can thrive.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Protecting Nevada’s air, water, land, and health. We engage in utility accountability, IRA/IIJA implementation, public land protection and engage with decision-makers to accomplish our goals and pass policy aligned with our priority issues.
In 2025 and beyond, NPPEF will continue our programmatic work around voter engagement, to include voter registration efforts and the advancement of a PA State Voting Rights Act; civic education to include state courts education ahead of judicial elections in 2025 and; voter participation to ensure those we engage and provide civic education to overcome voter apathy and fatigue and are mobilized to vote in both the primary and general elections in 2025 and beyond.
The NPPEF is a non-partisan group centered on underrepresented communities, emphasizing civic education and engagement. Their focus areas include voting rights, gun violence, abortion access, and environmental justice. Voter registration tactics involve community outreach, online platforms, partnerships, mobile units, educational campaigns, multilingual materials, youth engagement, collaboration with civic groups, and volunteer networks.
The New PA Project Education Fund (NPPEF) is a non-partisan organization led by community leaders across the Commonwealth dedicated to centering underrepresented and underserved communities to embrace their power. NPPEF ensures full participation in the democratic process through civic education and year-round engagement by centering Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, immigrant communities and the youth - with intention - as they are the least represented and most impacted by decisions our government is making.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
In 2025 and beyond, NPP will continue our programmatic work around voter engagement, to include voter registration efforts and the advancement of a PA state voting rights act; civic education to include federal and state courts advocacy ahead of state judicial elections in 2025 and; independent expenditure voter participation programs to mobilize the electorate to the polls in both the primary and general elections, in 2025 and beyond.
NPP, a voting rights organization will engage in community conversations, candidate forums, voting rights protection, expansion and advocacy by meeting our centered communities (Black, Indigenous and other people of color, immigrant communities and the youth) where they are and providing all the necessary civic education needed to expand the electorate.
The New Pennsylvania Project (NPP) is a voting rights organization with a year-round primary focus on voter registration, civic education and mobilization. NPP centers historically disenfranchised and often neglected Black, Indigenous and other people of color, immigrant communities and the youth in our work. Through civic engagement, we ensure all eligible voters feel compelled to exercise their freedom to vote in the Commonwealth.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
We will have a multi-layered voter contact program that includes face-to-face canvassing, phone calls, text messages, and mail pieces tailored to the issues they care about. In addition to these contacts, we will coordinate a robust digital program that will reach people through social media and websites with high traffic among our targeted voters.
New Virginia Majority (NVM) builds power on our path for racial and social justice through year-round community organizing and voter mobilization in communities of color--communities that drive social justice reforms in Virginia. We work to create a powerful multi-issue, multi-racial movement to transform Virginia through large scale civic engagement, issue advocacy, and strategic communications and community organizing.
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 Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - 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)
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs
Lead Contact: Melissa EnglishDeputy Director (OCA) and Executive Director (OCAEF)menglish@ohiocitizen.org
Priority Issues: clean energy, energy jobs, consumer issues, local climate solutions, redistricting, rural voter engagement, energy justice,,
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: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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
OFUPAC builds and harnesses the political power of impacted families across Ohio, providing them with a space to leverage their power and drive policy to enact lasting change. In 2024 we completed an urban canvassing program in low income Black communities, and ran an extensive phone and text program. We are co-chairing a city charter amendment ballot campaign for 2025 and run a statewide police reform policy table and a statewide jail coalition in Ohio.
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 build power through policy, action, and change for people who have experienced police brutality, gun violence, and/or Ohio’s carceral system.
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.
Supporting partners to collect voter registrations through site-based canvassing and door-to-door efforts, with follow-ups via doors, phones, and text, primarily in Black, multi-racial, and BIPOC communities.
Our mission is to support and grow the ecosystem of non-profit, non-partisan organizations doing year-round civic engagement with underrepresented communities in order to win progressive governance that will improve people’s lives.
Priority Issues: We do not have a plan to focus on particular issues currently, but if the VR work lines up with other partner priorities it is possible that work would be open to it.
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
Core Constituencies: Black, Multi-racial (including white), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Organization Leadership: 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
One PA for All will engage in cavassing in high traffic areas, peer-to-peer texting, and digital advertising to register majority-Black voters in Pennsylvania cities.
One Pennsylvania (One PA) focuses on racial, economic, and environmental justice in Pennsylvania, building multiracial, working-class power through grassroots organizing, voter engagement, and policy advocacy.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
One PA will help close the voting gap among Black voters to secure wins up and down the ballot, engaging 300,000 high-potential Black voters through door knocking, phone calls, and texts utilizing community messengers and race-forward narratives. They will double One PA’s politically active membership base, cultivating a core of new super voters.
One Pennsylvania (One PA) focuses on racial, economic, and environmental justice in Pennsylvania, building multiracial, working-class power through grassroots organizing, voter engagement, and policy advocacy.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
We will build power for working people by deep canvassing, using relational organizing and digital media, and developing our members into powerful leaders. Through our key issues chosen by our members – Getting Big Money Out of Politics and Leveraging Federal Funds for Environmental Justice – we will educate and empower our people to vote for progressive candidates. Together, we will build a Pennsylvania that works for all of us.
We will build power for working people by deep canvassing, using relational organizing and digital media, and developing our members into powerful leaders. Through key issues - Getting Big Money Out of Politics and Leveraging Federal Funds for Environmental Justice - we‘ll educate and empower our people to vote for progressive candidates.
Pennsylvania Stands Up believes we all deserve to live with safety and dignity. We know that we need to develop transformative leaders in our own neighborhoods and across the state to create a multi-racial democracy, build the power for working people to co-govern, and win what we need for our communities to thrive. Our mission is simple: At Pennsylvania Stands Up, we organize for power. Across race, place, and generation, we are building a Pennsylvania that works for all of us.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
We will build power for working people by deep canvassing, using relational organizing and digital media, and developing our members into powerful leaders. Through our key issues chosen by our members – Getting Big Money Out of Politics and Leveraging Federal Funds for Environmental Justice – we will educate and empower our people to vote for progressive candidates. Together, we will build a Pennsylvania that works for all of us.
We will build power for working people by deep canvassing, using relational organizing and digital media, and developing our members into powerful leaders. Through key issues - Getting Big Money Out of Politics and Leveraging Federal Funds for Environmental Justice - we‘ll educate and empower our people to vote for progressive candidates.
Pennsylvania Stands Up believes we all deserve to live with safety and dignity. We know that we need to develop transformative leaders in our own neighborhoods and across the state to create a multi-racial democracy, build the power for working people to co-govern, and win what we need for our communities to thrive. Our mission is simple: At Pennsylvania Stands Up, we organize for power. Across race, place, and generation, we are building a Pennsylvania that works for all of us.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
We will build power for working people by deep canvassing, using relational organizing and digital media, and developing our members into powerful leaders. Through our key issues chosen by our members – Getting Big Money Out of Politics and Leveraging Federal Funds for Environmental Justice – we will educate and empower our people to vote for progressive candidates. Together, we will build a Pennsylvania that works for all of us.
We will build power for working people by deep canvassing, using relational organizing and digital media, and developing our members into powerful leaders. Through key issues - Getting Big Money Out of Politics and Leveraging Federal Funds for Environmental Justice - we‘ll educate and empower our people to vote for progressive candidates.
Pennsylvania Stands Up believes we all deserve to live with safety and dignity. We know that we need to develop transformative leaders in our own neighborhoods and across the state to create a multi-racial democracy, build the power for working people to co-govern, and win what we need for our communities to thrive. Our mission is simple: At Pennsylvania Stands Up, we organize for power. Across race, place, and generation, we are building a Pennsylvania that works for all of us.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
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
Progress Virginia plans to launch our GOTV/election protection digital ads with various display and video ads and mailing outreach. Like years past, our outreach will provide crucial information on how to vote early in Virginia, either by mail, early in-person, or on Election Day. Ads also offered information for voters who need assistance while at the polls.
At Progress Virginia, we drive powerful, values-based narratives to uplift and amplify grassroots voices through innovative digital communications and earned media strategies. We build progressive power alongside marginalized communities to tear down systems of white supremacy, advocate for equitable policies, and ensure leaders reflect the communities they serve.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Progress Virginia is a multi-issue organization working on everything from environmental justice, voting rights, abortion access, criminal justice reform, economic justice, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrant rights, and many others. We work in coalition with our partners to build a Virginia-specific narrative that resonates with voters across issues and inspires them to get involved in the issues they care about most. ,
Progress Virginia plans to launch our GOTV/election protection digital ads with various display and video ads and mailing outreach. Like years past, our outreach will provide crucial information on how to vote early in Virginia, either by mail, early in-person, or on Election Day. Ads also offered information for voters who need assistance while at the polls.
At Progress Virginia, we drive powerful, values-based narratives to uplift and amplify grassroots voices through innovative digital communications and earned media strategies. We build progressive power alongside marginalized communities to tear down systems of white supremacy, advocate for equitable policies, and ensure leaders reflect the communities they serve.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Progress Virginia is a multi-issue organization working on everything from environmental justice, voting rights, abortion access, criminal justice reform, economic justice, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrant rights, and many others. We work in coalition with our partners to build a Virginia-specific narrative that resonates with voters across issues and inspires them to get involved in the issues they care about most. ,
The heart of our program is building robust student teams across the state of Pennsylvania. Recruited and trained by full-time Campus Organizers, our Student Fellows and volunteers engage in a variety of traditional and creative tactics to collect pledge to vote cards, persuade students to vote for progressive issues, and lead robust GOTV efforts.
To promote and expand democracy in Pennsylvania by elevating youth leadership in order to get organized, vote in key elections, and exercise our power to take control of our lives through civic engagement.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Nevada progressive c3 civic engagement table coordinates and supports partner organizations' voter registration programs targeting BIPOC, youth, and historically marginalized communities. Canvassers placed at high traffic locations, citizenship naturalization ceremonies, high schools, the parole office, and community events.
Silver State Voices (SSV, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc.) was founded in 2012 as a civic engagement coordination hub amongst progressive 501c3 organizations in Nevada. It is our mission to create a more robust democracy by centering our work with historically underrepresented and marginalized communities because we know that when we uplift the silenced and marginalized, we uplift the entire community. SSV develops infrastructure, fosters collaboration among diverse entities, and employs new tools and technology.
We target Democratic voters by means of door-to-door canvassing, letter and postcard mailings, emails in selected precincts, placing yard signs, working as poll greeters and poll watchers, and through participation as a club in community parades and other community events. We inform voters of important dates and how to return mail-in ballots correctly.
The mission of the Southern Lehigh Democrats Committee is to enact the Democratic Party's ideals in Lower Milford, Upper Saucon and The Borough of Coopersburg and to support and elect its candidates, and expand voter outreach, education and participation.
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
We focus on executing statewide strategies to inform Pennsylvanians about safe, secure, and convenient ways to vote. We will run a layered vote-by-mail recruitment and education program that includes mail, phones, texts, digital, and possibly radio and streaming or TV ads. Our universe consists of low-propensity and historically disenfranchised Pennsylvanians.
The Voter Project and The Voter Project Fund’s goal is to ensure that every Pennsylvania voter, especially those who have been historically disenfranchised, is able to cast a ballot in a safe, secure, and convenient way. We lead Pennsylvania’s voting rights community in implementing changes to election law, fighting back against attempts to make voting more difficult, and informing Pennsylvanians about the ways they can cast a ballot and make their voices heard.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Though we do on occasion mention a few persuasion topics such as climate change, abortion, healthcare and the economy, most of our messaging is about using your voice by casting a ballot.
We focus on executing statewide strategies to inform Pennsylvanians about safe, secure, and convenient ways to vote. We will run a layered vote-by-mail recruitment and education program that includes mail, phones, texts, digital, and possibly radio and streaming or TV ads. Our universe consists of low-propensity and historically disenfranchised Pennsylvanians.
The Voter Project and The Voter Project Fund’s goal is to ensure that every Pennsylvania voter, especially those who have been historically disenfranchised, is able to cast a ballot in a safe, secure, and convenient way. We lead Pennsylvania’s voting rights community in implementing changes to election law, fighting back against attempts to make voting more difficult, and informing Pennsylvanians about the ways they can cast a ballot and make their voices heard.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Though we do on occasion mention a few persuasion topics such as climate change, abortion, healthcare and the economy, most of our messaging is about using your voice by casting a ballot.
Virginia Organizing’s base-building and issue campaigns are integrated with c3 civic engagement and GOTV work. All 18 chapters will do restoration of rights work, making hundreds of calls to returning citizens and identifying people willing to share their stories at press events, in letters to the editor, etc.
Virginia Organizing is a non-partisan statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives. Virginia Organizing especially encourages the participation of those who have traditionally had little or no voice in our society. By building relationships with individuals and groups throughout the state, Virginia Organizing strives to get them to work together, democratically and non-violently, for change.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: We have 18 local chapters and all are engaging on their local campaigns. However, all will engage around Restoration of Voting Rights, Housing, Environmental Justice, Utility costs, and health care.
We are continuing to capitalize on turning out the youth vote, especially on College Campuses throughout our battleground districts. VA-2, VA-5, and VA-7 are home to the majority of VA's campuses and we want to make sure that we are registering those students to vote and to vote at their address at their colleges. We will be focusing on canvassing, phone banking, relational organizing, and targeting all of these battelground areas with digitals with the specific goal of reaching voters ages 18-35.
To further the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party, improve our society through peaceful reform and effective government, grow the voice of young people in our political processes, and serve those in need in our community.
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
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
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
Virginia Working Families Party is building and sustaining the movement, leadership, and infrastructure to achieve governing power by, for, and of the multiracial working class majority. With every investment, we seek not only to advance our candidates and policies in the near term, but to take another step forward as we build governing power for the long term. Our work is more than a series of elections and policy battles; it’s cumulative, aimed at winning structural reforms that can only be won with durable power.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Our primary focus for our 2024 program will center around the three key Congressional races poised for contention this November. Our primary target audience will be Black and Brown voters, alongside other BIPOC communities and younger voters.
Virginia Working Families Party is building and sustaining the movement, leadership, and infrastructure to achieve governing power by, for, and of the multiracial working class majority. With every investment, we seek not only to advance our candidates and policies in the near term, but to take another step forward as we build governing power for the long term. Our work is more than a series of elections and policy battles; it’s cumulative, aimed at winning structural reforms that can only be won with durable power.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
