The CaPAConnector is an interactive platform that profiles hundreds of community-rooted organizations that are engaging voters and advocating for climate, social, racial and/or economic justice. For donors who seek to deploy funds strategically in targeted geographies, with high-impact yet low-profile community organizations, the CaPAConnector dynamic database offers a powerful tool of discovery. This database is constantly updated and can be filtered by geography, constituencies, engagement actions, and other criteria.
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While this database contains more than 500 entities, it is not a complete list of the thousands of organizations doing impactful work. Organizations are invited to fill out this Card Creation Form to be added to the CaPA Connector.
Most of the CaPA Connector data is self-reported by the organizations and CaPA has not completed a 3rd party assessment of accuracy.
CaPA evaluates where programs are fielded within a State by using congressional district boundaries. An org delivering engagement actions within the boundaries of a congressional district does not necessarily mean that group is engaging in a congressional district race.
The Alliance for Gun Responsibility works to save lives and eliminate the harms caused by gun violence in every community through advocacy, education, and partnerships.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
The Alliance for Gun Responsibility works to save lives and eliminate the harms caused by gun violence in every community through advocacy, education, and partnerships.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Battleground New York will engage a diverse coalition often overlooked as low-propensity voters, including young people, voters of color, and new registrants. We will reach them on their doorsteps and in their communities, informing them on policy, educating them on voting by mail, and persuading them to turn out.
Battleground New York (BGNY) is an unprecedented coalition uniting many of New York's leading organizations, unions, and movements for a common cause- taking back the House and making Rep.Hakeem Jeffries Speaker. We are launching the largest field and organizing campaign in the state's modern history to reach New Yorkers at their doorsteps, on their phones, and in their neighborhoods.
Priority Issues: We will focus on the issues that matter to working families in New York including, but not limited to: environmental justice, reproductive rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, and retirement security.
Cambio Texas's 2024 campaign seeks to engage youth and Latino communities in the Rio Grande Valley, promoting leadership that truly represents our needs. Through block walking, digital outreach, and texting, we aim to educate, navigate voting processes, and significantly increase voter turnout for more reflective representation in Texas.
CambioTexas is dedicated to transforming Texas into a beacon of progressive leadership and civic engagement. By empowering the youth, Latino, and other minority communities, we strive to elevate voter turnout and advocate for leadership that mirrors our state's diverse ethos. We challenge the status quo of civic disengagement and push for substantial investments in infrastructure, healthcare, fair immigration, environmental stewardship, economic justice, and public education. Our mission is to mobilize change through organizing, voting, and encouraging a new generation to pursue public office, ensuring a fair and inclusive system for all.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Citizen Action of New York is a statewide multi-issue organization organized in seven regions. We connect grassroots power to electoral power holding representatives accountable by engaging BIPOC communities through direct voter outreach like door to door, phone, and deep canvassing with the express purpose of addressing economic and racial inequalities.
To achieve our vision, we fight for social, racial, economic and environmental justice. We are battling against the forces of capitalism and racism that show themselves through inequality and bigotry, and work together to oppress most people. Greed, racism, patriarchy and other systems of oppression permeate the fabric of our lives – through economics, education, housing, technological advancements, health care, the environment, and our criminal legal system.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Our focus with voters will be on building a just economy. We will focus on childcare, healthcare, climate jobs, and housing issues. We will also focus on fair taxation with an emphasis on getting rich people to pay what they owe.
We will be printing literature for the NO on 2117 (Climate Commitment Act repeak) position, to be distributed by volunteers from our own group, as well as from Citizens Climate Lobby and Olympia Indivisible. Those are non-PAC groups; we provide the printing and PDC reporting of cash expenditures.
Support measures and candidates who improve the integrity of our form of government. Oppose measures and candidates whose positions lead to secrecy and obfuscation of government financing.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
COPAL has developed a network of over 40,000 supporters and 350 Member-leaders who will engage this election in voter activation. COPAL Members will participate in an endorsement process, generate over 125,000 dials, and knock over 10,000 doors. COPAL's media team will create bilingual voter content for social and cultural platforms.
We lead social impact initiatives to improve the quality of life for Latine families. We do this by building collective power, transforming systems, and creating opportunities for a dignified life.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
COPAL has developed a network of over 40,000 supporters and 350 Member-leaders who will engage this election in voter activation. COPAL Members will participate in an endorsement process, generate over 125,000 dials, and knock over 10,000 doors. COPAL's media team will create bilingual voter content for social and cultural platforms.
We lead social impact initiatives to improve the quality of life for Latine families. We do this by building collective power, transforming systems, and creating opportunities for a dignified life.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
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
We’re doing multiracial, intergenerational, and multilingual organizing in NY-18 and NY-19, emphasizing voters who are working-class, People of Color, Spanish-speaking, young, rural, and low-propensity. We’ll be educating and turning out voters via VAN (most voters know us before even if they aren’t in our CRM) via ALL listed contact methods.
We are building a grassroots movement of everyday people to transform New York so it works for all of us. For too long, greedy corporations, billionaires, and political elites have rigged our country to work against us. We are coming together across race and age to fight for laws and win elections that put the power back in our hands and create lasting change. We do multiracial, intergenerational, and multilingual organizing in NY-18 and NY-19, emphasizing voters who are working-class, People of Color, Spanish-speaking, young, rural, and low-propensity.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Affordability/the economy, climate, and housing tends to be our focus, though we train our staff and volunteers to be able to engage voters on every issue. We’ve already also purchased substantial data from L2 about over 600,000 voters in the geography of this proposal. It includes behavior models to predict where each individual stands on the issues/frames of the economy, housing, healthcare, climate, immigration, racial justice, and more. For example - climate issue indicators with scores include Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, GMO Food, Green New Deal, and Pipeline Construction. See “other materials” for links to all data score categories we’ve purchased from L2. We cross-check this data with the voter file and our CRM (EveryAction) to create personalized messaging for each individual that is most likely to move them to action.
We’re doing multiracial, intergenerational, and multilingual organizing in NY-18 and NY-19, emphasizing voters who are working-class, People of Color, Spanish-speaking, young, rural, and low-propensity.
We’re doing multiracial, intergenerational, and multilingual organizing in NY-18 and NY-19, emphasizing voters who are working-class, People of Color, Spanish-speaking, young, rural, and low-propensity. We’ll be educating and turning out voters via VAN (most voters know us before even if they aren’t in our CRM) via ALL listed contact methods.
We are building a grassroots movement of everyday people to transform New York so it works for all of us. For too long, greedy corporations, billionaires, and political elites have rigged our country to work against us. We are coming together across race and age to fight for laws and win elections that put the power back in our hands and create lasting change. We do multiracial, intergenerational, and multilingual organizing in NY-18 and NY-19, emphasizing voters who are working-class, People of Color, Spanish-speaking, young, rural, and low-propensity.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Our Civic Voices Fellowship Program is an ambitious organizing campaign to drive student turnout and create a culture of voting across college campuses in Washington's 3rd Congressional District. We're hiring and training 6 college students who will organize comprehensive voter registration and GOTV campaigns, targeting 13,500 eligible student voters.
Priority Issues: We focus on the issues that align with our organizational mission and priorities- climate change, tax reform, police accountability, affordable housing, reproductive freedom, immigrant justice, and voting accessibility and justice.
Our Civic Voices Fellowship Program is an ambitious organizing campaign to drive student turnout and create a culture of voting across college campuses in Washington's 3rd Congressional District. We're hiring and training 6 college students who will organize comprehensive voter registration and GOTV campaigns, targeting 13,500 eligible student voters.
Priority Issues: We focus on the issues that align with our organizational mission and priorities- climate change, tax reform, police accountability, affordable housing, reproductive freedom, immigrant justice, and voting accessibility and justice.
Ground Game Texas expands voter engagement through ballot initiatives, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy, focusing on underrepresented communities. We mobilize young, BIPOC, and working-class Texans through year-round voter education, signature collection, and community-driven campaigns. Our hybrid model combines direct democracy efforts with deep organizing to drive progressive change at the local and state levels. By empowering new and infrequent voters, we are building long-term civic participation and advancing policies that reflect the will of Texans.
Ground Game Fund promotes democracy and social justice by engaging in community organizing and public education programs across Texas.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Primarily reach out to left-leaning voters who turned out in 2020 but not in 2022, and left-leaning new voters since 2022, through direct voter contact (canvasses, phone calls, texting and postcards) and tabling at community events with electoral information including NY's Equal Rights Amendment which is on the November ballot.
IndivisibleUlster.com is a collaborative space to support Indivisible and allied political action groups in New York’s 18th & 19th congressional district.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
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 advocacy, and leadership development, empowering young Texans to engage in the political process. With the 89th Texas Legislative session underway, we are rolling out key initiatives including our "Get Sh*t Done" Agenda, Youth Capitol Takeover, and Anti-Lege Lege Club to mobilize young people to take bold action against restrictive policies on climate, reproductive rights, and democracy. Our evergreen civic engagement efforts will focus
We will operate 25 campus chapters focused on civic engagement and issue advocacy, register 7,000 new voters, roll out an endorsement process, expand access to voting (campus polling locations, countywide polling), launch voting rights, climate, and gender justice issue campaigns to engage young issues-first voters, and conduct leadership development programs to grow youth-led power building capacity. Up until the election, we will follow up with registered voters to ensure that they are informed and prepared to vote.
MOVE Texas is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to building the power of young people in underrepresented communities through civic engagement, leadership development, and issue advocacy. Young Texans possess the appetite and the energy to influence the decisions and processes that impact their lives and communities, positioning them to make waves in the Texas political landscape and beyond. We invest in and engage young people to become agents of change who harness their power to hold elected officials accountable and champion progressive policies. Through intentional coaching and support, we empower young people to build a responsive, accountable, and equitable democracy.
MOVE Texas plans to amplify its impact in 2025 through organizing, member-led issue education, and leadership development, empowering young Texans to engage in the democratic process. With the 89th Texas Legislative session underway, we are rolling out our "Get Sh*t Done" Agenda to guide our work around key issues like climate, reproductive rights, and democracy. Our evergreen civic engagement efforts will focus on voter registration and municipal elections, and we will be working to expand
We will operate 25 campus chapters focused on civic engagement and issue advocacy, register 13,000 new voters, expand polling access (campus polling locations, countywide polling), launch voting rights, climate, and gender justice issue campaigns to engage young issues-first voters, and operate leadership development programs to grow capacity for youth-led organizing and power building. Up until the election, we will follow up with registered voters to ensure that they are informed and prepared to vote.
MOVE Texas is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to building the power of young people in underrepresented communities through civic engagement, leadership development, and issue education. Young Texans possess the appetite and the energy to make their voices heard in the decisions and processes that impact their lives and communities, positioning them to make waves in Texas and beyond. We invest in and engage young people to become agents of change who harness their power to engage their peers in the democratic process to champion progressive values. Through intentional coaching and support, we empower young people to build a responsive, accountable, and equitable democracy.
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
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.
Statewide member-led coalition of immigrant and refugee organizations will provide community-based groups with funding, training and technical support to register immigrant and historically disenfranchised women and families.
The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), a state-wide, member-led coalition of immigrant and refugee organizations, works to transform the lives of all New Yorkers by strengthening and building our members' power, organizing and educating our communities and the public, and using our collective voice to advocate for opportunity and justice.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Immigrant, Refugee
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs
Lead Contact: Emily KniesSenior Director of Developmenteknies@nyic.org
Priority Issues: In our voter registration efforts, our primary focus revolves around the needs and concerns of the immigrant community. We address the specific challenges and circumstances faced by immigrants, working to engage them in the voting process. As studies continue to show, there remains an ongoing underrepresentation of women, Black, Indigenous, people of color, and New American/naturalized immigrants in both electoral processes and decision-making institutions. To address this civic engagement and representation gap, the NYIC launched its voter engagement program to reimagine civic engagement through lenses of long term capacity building. The program provides community-based organizations with funding, training, technical support, and strategic partnership to effectively engage, educate, and activate immigrant and historically disenfranchised women and families in civic matters. By leveraging established voter and civic engagement tactics, we adopt a holistic approach to reshape the electorate and political influence. While maintaining an essential role in community engagement, we recognize the importance of addressing specific issues and obstacles inherent in working with our communities. Language Barriers For non-english speaking voters, it is essential to ensure ballot and voter registration materials are translated accurately and reflect the true intended meaning of the text. The NYIC and its partners are committed to delivering in-language livestreams, digital toolkits, and virtual workshops to assist with absentee ballot applications, communicating these crucial changes in at least seven different languages. Aligning with our City and State priorities, we actively support legislation aimed at expanding language access, particularly at the polls. The NYIC sits on the New York City Civic Engagement Commission’s Language Access and Participatory Budgeting Advisory Board and our Executive Director is a Commissioner of the Civic Engagement Commission. Unfamiliarity or Distrust in the Process The voting process can often appear complex and corrupt to immigrant voters due to unfamiliarity or distrust in the systems that have often not supported their interests or needs. It is essential that our efforts focus on empowering communities through education and fostering trust with our partner organizations who are working on the ground with our communities. The NYIC leverages its extensive statewide network to build a foundation of trusted messengers to bring immigrants and communities of color into the electoral process. Our partnerships enable a coordinated effort, amplification of messaging, and opportunities for capacity building within the vital network of immigrant-serving organizations across the state. By partnering closely with our base of members, which include grassroots and nonprofit community organizations, religious and academic institutions, labor unions, and legal and socioeconomic justice organizations, the NYIC integrates extensive people power and diverse grassroots connections into our National Voter Registration Day programs.
OneAmerica Votes builds immigrant voter power in Washington state. We are engaging voters in immigrant-rich southwest and central WA to elect our slate and defeat I-2117 to defend WA’s Climate Commitment Act. Communicating in 4 languages through culturally-appropriate direct voter contact and mail in key districts, we are uniquely situated to contact, inform and persuade voters.
OneAmerica advances the fundamental principles of democracy and justice at the local, state, and national levels by building power within immigrant communities in collaboration with key allies.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Priority Issues: Our canvassing script engages voters about OneAmerica Votes’ Our Thriving Platform and our vision for making WA State a place where all have what they need, regardless of economic and immigration status. We educate and urge voters to vote No on the group of conservative ballot initiatives, including one that would gut WA’s progressive climate laws; these initiatives would take billions of dollars from our state budget, making it harder to win on our platform. We then dig deeper to find which platform issues matter to them: a universal childcare system in WA state which is accessible, affordable, and quality for all families and pays thriving wages to the majority-immigrant women providers; multilingual education; and a state unemployment program for immigrant workers. , , OneAmerica Votes organizes year-round leveraging our BIPOC, immigrant and working-class base of directly-impacted community leaders to elect people like us who share our values, take that power to the legislature where we fight for our issue campaigns, and work with our base to build power in legislative districts to hold accountable elected leaders at the local, state and federal levels to being immigrant rights champions.
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. ,
Citizen Action of New York is a statewide multi-issue organization organized in seven regions. We connect grassroots power to electoral power holding representatives accountable by engaging BIPOC communities through direct voter outreach like door to door, phone, and deep canvassing with the express purpose of addressing economic and racial inequalities.
To achieve our vision, we fight for social, racial, economic and environmental justice. We are battling against the forces of capitalism and racism that show themselves through inequality and bigotry, and work together to oppress most people. Greed, racism, patriarchy and other systems of oppression permeate the fabric of our lives - through economics, education, housing, technological advancements, health care, the environment, and our criminal legal system.
Priority Issues: Our focus with voters will be on building a just economy. We will focus on childcare, healthcare, climate jobs, and housing issues. We will also focus on fair taxation with an emphasis on getting rich people to pay what they owe.
Statewide member-led coalition of immigrant and refugee organizations will provide community-based groups with funding, training and technical support to register immigrant and historically disenfranchised women and families.
The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), a state-wide, member-led coalition of immigrant and refugee organizations, works to transform the lives of all New Yorkers by strengthening and building our members' power, organizing and educating our communities and the public, and using our collective voice to advocate for opportunity and justice.
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Immigrant, Refugee
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs
Lead Contact: Emily KniesSenior Director of Developmenteknies@nyic.org
Priority Issues: In our voter registration efforts, our primary focus revolves around the needs and concerns of the immigrant community. We address the specific challenges and circumstances faced by immigrants, working to engage them in the voting process. As studies continue to show, there remains an ongoing underrepresentation of women, Black, Indigenous, people of color, and New American/naturalized immigrants in both electoral processes and decision-making institutions. To address this civic engagement and representation gap, the NYIC launched its voter engagement program to reimagine civic engagement through lenses of long term capacity building. The program provides community-based organizations with funding, training, technical support, and strategic partnership to effectively engage, educate, and activate immigrant and historically disenfranchised women and families in civic matters. By leveraging established voter and civic engagement tactics, we adopt a holistic approach to reshape the electorate and political influence. While maintaining an essential role in community engagement, we recognize the importance of addressing specific issues and obstacles inherent in working with our communities. Language Barriers For non-english speaking voters, it is essential to ensure ballot and voter registration materials are translated accurately and reflect the true intended meaning of the text. The NYIC and its partners are committed to delivering in-language livestreams, digital toolkits, and virtual workshops to assist with absentee ballot applications, communicating these crucial changes in at least seven different languages. Aligning with our City and State priorities, we actively support legislation aimed at expanding language access, particularly at the polls. The NYIC sits on the New York City Civic Engagement Commission’s Language Access and Participatory Budgeting Advisory Board and our Executive Director is a Commissioner of the Civic Engagement Commission. Unfamiliarity or Distrust in the Process The voting process can often appear complex and corrupt to immigrant voters due to unfamiliarity or distrust in the systems that have often not supported their interests or needs. It is essential that our efforts focus on empowering communities through education and fostering trust with our partner organizations who are working on the ground with our communities. The NYIC leverages its extensive statewide network to build a foundation of trusted messengers to bring immigrants and communities of color into the electoral process. Our partnerships enable a coordinated effort, amplification of messaging, and opportunities for capacity building within the vital network of immigrant-serving organizations across the state. By partnering closely with our base of members, which include grassroots and nonprofit community organizations, religious and academic institutions, labor unions, and legal and socioeconomic justice organizations, the NYIC integrates extensive people power and diverse grassroots connections into our National Voter Registration Day programs.
Through a targeted three-touch persuasion campaign customized for Washington's youth, coupled with an expanded campus footprint spanning ten universities, we aim to ignite peer-to-peer civic activation. Our nonpartisan voter guide and signature "Candidate Survivor" forum will empower young voters with crucial candidate insights.
The Washington Bus is a statewide movement building organization that increases the political and civic engagement of young people, ages 15-35, and develops the next generation of leaders and organizers. In short, we make politics engaging, effective and fun. The Bus puts young Washingtonians in the driver’s seat and gives them the tools to be organizers, legislators, and leaders. We catalyze the energy and enthusiasm of young people to create sustainable, positive change in Washington State through civic education, voter mobilization, legislative advocacy and leadership development. We prioritize the engagement of LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, first generation college students, immigrants, disabled, and working class young people.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Our voter engagement efforts are strategically anchored in the issues that resonate most profoundly with young people and shape their civic identities. Recognizing that young people prioritize substantive policy over party affiliation, we structure our organizing work around pillars of climate justice, equitable revenue streams, education equity, safeguarding democratic access, renters’ rights, and housing affordability., By framing our messaging and programming through these urgently relevant issues, we forge authentic connections that transcend transactional politics. Our grassroots leaders undergo rigorous training to facilitate nuanced dialogue exploring how climate change, economic injustice, barriers to quality education, housing instability, and rental exploitation disproportionately impact racialized communities. This holistic issue-driven approach positions us to engage young voters' deeply held values and policy priorities and bridges those to democratic participation via voting. By equipping our base with nonpartisan resources illuminating how democratic participation leads to better living conditions, we are creating habitual voting patterns for life.
Through a targeted three-touch persuasion campaign customized for Washington's youth, coupled with an expanded campus footprint spanning ten universities, we aim to ignite peer-to-peer civic activation. Our nonpartisan voter guide and signature "Candidate Survivor" forum will empower young voters with crucial candidate insights.
The Washington Bus is a statewide movement building organization that increases the political and civic engagement of young people, ages 15-35, and develops the next generation of leaders and organizers. In short, we make politics engaging, effective and fun. The Bus puts young Washingtonians in the driver’s seat and gives them the tools to be organizers, legislators, and leaders. We catalyze the energy and enthusiasm of young people to create sustainable, positive change in Washington State through civic education, voter mobilization, legislative advocacy and leadership development. We prioritize the engagement of LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, first generation college students, immigrants, disabled, and working class young people.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: As we passionately engage with young individuals throughout Washington in our voter registration efforts, we are also collecting Voter Comment Cards and igniting conversations that bridge the gap between issues and voting. We know that young people are issue-voters first, which is why our approach begins by asking them a simple yet profound question: "What issues matter most to you?" In just 30 seconds, they have the opportunity to make their voices heard on these comment cards and subsequently we are able to either update or register them to vote. The issues we uncover during these conversations encompass a wide spectrum of critical topics, including: Democracy Access: Ensuring equitable access to our democratic processes. Progressive Revenue: Our tax code is the most regressive in the United States and it lets the people with the most money get away with paying the least. This is not sustainable or fair. By fixing our upside tax code and putting money into the hands of everyday people, we are building an economy that allows all of us to achieve our goals and dreams. Climate Action, Gun Control, Tenants Rights, and Housing Affordability: Our young people deserve a world that has clean air and water, housing for all, and workers rights. We are building a world where youth are able to thrive. Democracy Protection: Our democracy works best when everyone regardless of their age, income level, or race has their voice heard and their vote counted. However, there are still barriers for young people to realize their full political power. We are building voting systems that work for all of us. Education Equity and Cost-Free College: Every person, regardless of race, income, or immigration status deserves a high quality education. However, right now most students’ basic needs are not being met and higher education is inaccessible. By investing in our education systems we are investing in all students by ensuring needed housing, food, materials, counseling services to achieve their educational aspirations. By actively listening to the concerns and passions of young voters, we're not only building a stronger, more inclusive democracy but also fostering a sense of agency and leadership within our youth constituents. Together, we're shaping a future that reflects the issues that matter most to those who will inherit it and it all begins with registering our peers to vote.
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
Washington Conservation Action is leading strategic digital campaigns, building power in local communities through place-based organizers, and fostering coalitions with partner organizations to reach 500,000 people across the state with election information. These efforts strive to reduce barriers and grow participation among Native and Latino voters in Central and Southwest Washington.
Washington Conservation Action’s mission is to advocate for environmental progress and justice through actions that mobilize the public, elect champions for the environment, and hold our leaders accountable.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Our organizing and voter engagement is both nonpartisan and issue specific, depending, on the campaign and the geography. When we do engage in issue-specific organizing,, our priority issues include environmental justice, climate change, and access to, democracy.
Washington Conservation Action is leading strategic digital campaigns, building power in
local communities through place-based organizers, and fostering coalitions with partner
organizations to reach 500,000 people across the state with election information. These
efforts strive to reduce barriers and grow participation among Native and Latino voters
in Central and Southwest Washington.
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund’s mission is to develop, advocate, and defend policies that ensure environmental progress and justice by centering and amplifying the voices of the most impacted communities.
Priority Issues: Our organizing and voter engagement is both nonpartisan and issue specific, depending, on the campaign and the geography. When we do engage in issue-specific organizing,, our priority issues include environmental justice, climate change, and access to, democracy.
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
The WFP, with its own ballot line in the state of New York, offers an alternative that lets progressives vote their values even when feeling unaligned and unenthusiastic about the candidates, and the ability to do significant coordinated campaigning, collaborating on strategy, sharing data, and working efficiently to GOTV.
With 17 chapters across six regions, representing over 20 organizations and labor unions, the New York Working Families Party is a political home to over 200,000 tenants, teachers, students, and working people who help recruit, train, and elect transformational leaders throughout the state to advance the people’s agenda.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
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
Young Democrats of Washington creates a space for young people to invigorate the Democratic party, grow lifelong friendships, empower young people to run for office, and campaign for candidates we can count on to make positive change.
YDWA has above all one goal: to get people under 36 involved in the Democratic Party. We accomplish this through voter registration, encouraging voting, organizing and bringing young people to the Democratic Party. We hope to provide a strong basis for the party’s future.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
