The CaPA Connector is an interactive platform that profiles hundreds of community-rooted organizations that are engaging voters and advocating for climate, social, racial and/or economic justice. For donors who seek to deploy funds strategically in targeted geographies, with high-impact yet low-profile community organizations, the CaPA Connector dynamic database offers a powerful tool of discovery. This database is constantly updated and can be filtered by geography, constituencies, engagement actions, and other criteria.
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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.
Blueprint NC is a partnership of over 80 organizations building towards inclusive and anti-racist democracy by working to engage and turnout North Carolina BIPOC voters. Tactics include texting, phonebanking, mailers, door-to-door canvassing, events, and canvassing in high traffic areas, with special focus on high schools to register 16 and 17 year olds.
Blueprint NC is a progressive ecosystem of nearly 60 formal partner organizations and an expanding web of network allies committed to building independent power for an anti-racist, inclusive democracy. We believe that inclusive democracy requires open, reflective, and responsive governing institutions.
Latinx-led Casa Azul de Wilson has gained our community’s trust through direct service programs such as college advising and financial relief for farmworkers. We have done Latinx community voter registration for the past four years and are the experts of our community to do this work.
Casa Azul de Wilson provides a homebase for Wilson’s Latinx families to feel valued so that they may own their power and ascend in their educational, leadership and civic pursuits. We build community through culturally affirming events, programs and campaigns that allow us to celebrate our complex and diverse identities.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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
Democracy North Carolina focuses on relational organizing, primarily serving BIPOC people, the LGBTQUIA community, low-wealth individuals, and students and young adults. We reach people through community convenings, faith-based organizing, multi-platform education tactics, mobile voter registration sites, and collaborations with grassroots organizations, HBCUs, and community colleges.
To strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.
Down Home North Carolina will engage the multiracial working class over an18-county area larger than the state of New Jersey via an integrated voter contact program including more than 500,000 door attempts. Our program is best-in-class and covers the lowest density, highest opportunity rural turf home to 20% of the state’s population.
Down Home North Carolina (DHNC) is a project to build a multiracial statewide organization of rural and small town communities that advocate for economic, gender, and racial justice. We will move North Carolina toward the values of dignity, safety, and inclusion through leadership development, strategic campaigning, multiracial movement building, and civic engagement to advance real reforms for rural communities.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: Local issues first: we run year-round issue campaigns and run down-ballot candidates that can be highly motivating for voters. We also engage folks using testing messaging iterated by our deep canvass team. We are in the iteration process now, but believe that reproductive rights will be central.
Emancipate NC and Emancipate Votes request a Voter Engagement & GOTV grant to support our 2024 Voter Engagement initiatives, which will activate our Justice League–a Fellowship for people directly impacted by incarceration–to lead and support voter education and organizing campaigns in NC-01.
The mission of Emancipate NC (ENC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is to dismantle structural racism and mass incarceration through community education, leadership development, strategic litigation, and mobilization.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
2024 Voter Engagement initiatives will activate our Justice League–a Fellowship for people directly impacted by incarceration–to lead and support voter education and organizing campaigns in NC-01.
The mission of Emancipate Votes, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit social welfare organization, is to support educational and electoral strategies to end mass incarceration and structural racism in North Carolina.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Hispanic Federation will engage 115,000 Latino voters across North Carolina in urban, suburban, and rural areas. We will use culturally competent, Latino “kitchen table” issue area organizing, and tactics that include door knocking, phone banking, texting, and relational outreach. We will also run digital, radio and TV ads.
Hispanic Federation (HF) is the nation’s premier Latino nonprofit membership organization. Founded in 1990, HF seeks to empower and advance the Hispanic community, support Hispanic families, and strengthen Latino institutions through work in the areas of civic engagement, education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, & the environment.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: HF believes in robust, culturally competent, Latino “kitchen table” issue-focused voter registration drives as the ideal way to engage its largely low-income, Hispanic immigrant, and youth voter population. As such, HF prioritizes in its community and voter outreach discussion of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment and environmental justice issues. As HF believes in inclusivity with regard to the Latinx LGBTQIA population, it also promotes LGBTQIA issue areas and fights against LGBTQIA bias. Our goal is that Latinx voters have all the tools to participate in the elections, while also being knowledgeable about issues that they care deeply about.
Collaborating with our network of congregations, MOSES/MOSES Action will mobilize thousands of voters across Michigan’s communities of color by organizing congregation-based Voter Hubs, training teams to lead voter engagement activities in their neighborhoods. We will also deploy a paid team of canvassers to strategic areas of the state.
The Mission of MOSES is to organize communities, develop faith-based leaders and build relationships to advocate for social justice through a group of diverse congregations. MOSES accomplishes this through training leaders in churches, synagogues and mosques, teaching participants how to articulate their shared values and work with their constituents to take collective action in the public arena.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Mi Familia North Carolina’s 2024 programs include year-round voter engagement: Turnout voters by knocking on doors; Engage and educate eligible voters through our civic engagement workshops and environmental program; Turnout college students by attending events; Engage Latinos through our social media accountability campaign #MerecemosMejor.
Mi Familia en Acción’s mission is to build Latino power, through activation of the community and year-round investment in local infrastructure, to advance our priorities.
MEJC will continue to engage parents and caregivers of school-aged children around the importance of school board elections and school bonds and millages. Together with our coalition partners, we hope to reach voters in key Black and brown school communities through relational organizing, phone banking, and door to door canvassing.
MEJC aims to organize parents, caregivers, community organizations, and educators in a statewide coalition for education equity and justice.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs, Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Priority Issues: MEJC engages voters on the importance of school board elections and contextualizing statewide elections on school funding and our Healthy and Healing Schools platform. ,
We will be providing trainings and events that showcase the role of a school board member. We will work with school board candidates to provide training on critical issues related to school boards such as budgeting, developing strong district level policy and co-governance. We hope to hold at least 20 school board candidate forums.
MEJC aims to organize parents, caregivers, community organizations, and educators in a statewide coalition for education equity and justice.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs, Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Priority Issues: MEJC engages voters on the importance of school board elections and contextualizing statewide elections on school funding and our Healthy and Healing Schools platform. ,
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
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
Organization focused on enhancing the quality of life for economically disadvantaged families will register voters through face-to-face engagement, tabling, and events.
NCLCVF programs, PowerUp, Power the Vote, and Power Boards & Commissions, operate at the intersection of environment, economics, racial and economic justice. We make it a priority to build civic participation programs that emphasize year-round engagement, leadership development, and a goal of shifting the balance of power to historically disenfranchised communities of color, often the first and worst impacted by environmental injustices, to enact equitable policies that protect the environment and our communities.
NCLCVF believes that voting is the most important thing you can do for the environment, and has registered 120,000 voters since 2014. Our Power the Vote program prioritizes year-round civic engagement, registering and turning out voters in BIPOC communities/schools, engaging through relational organizing, and promoting our Forever Vote pledge.
NCLCV Foundation connects and engages people to protect our natural environment and promote the well-being of our communities. We turn environmental values into NC priorities by engaging people in the democratic process, organizing in communities to connect environmental policies to people’s daily lives, cultivating environmental leaders, and advocating for policies at the state and local level that protect the health and quality of life for all North Carolinians, with an intentional focus on systematically excluded communities of color.
NCAAT in Action is scaling and leading the largest field program targeting Asian Americans in North Carolina. 8 years of working as a trusted messenger with culturally-competent multilingual outreach will allow us to educate, engage, and mobilize with deep canvassing and our new Empower U BIPOC Youth project.
NCAAT in Action is committed to supporting equity and justice for all by building political power among Asian Americans and allies in North Carolina through voter education, progressive advocacy and leadership development.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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.
Org focused on enhancing the quality of life for economically disadvantaged families will register voters through face-to-face engagement, tabling, and events.
Led by women, staff will register voters at faith gatherings. They’ll also provide resources on pro-democracy issues and candidate vetting to empower informed voting.
We enable denominations, congregations, and people of faith to impact our state on issues such as economic justice and development, human well-being, equality, and compassion and peace, following the example and mission of Jesus Christ.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Megaphone is building a progressive digital media and messaging amplification network and online community of content creators and sharers. Since people already get their news and information on social media from friends and influencers, Megaphone ensures those trusted messengers have access to content that represents progressive values and engages voters.
Our mission is to provide a strong credible voice that holds public officials and government accountable, assists in the promotion of progressive ideas and uses state-of-the-art web based new media to creatively build grassroots support for progressive ideas. Progress Michigan works as a communications team and media hub for the entire progressive community. We’re a marketing department for progressive ideas – a campaign that never stops. We work year round to challenge conservative propaganda in the media and make sure that progressive perspectives are heard.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
At the TFBU Foundation, we emphasize the importance of every citizen's voice being heard through exercising their constitutional right to cast a ballot. The TFBU Foundation will host daily events at the polls during early voting and election day, offering music, activities, light refreshments, and encouragement to exercise your right to vote.
Our mission is to inspire the community through charitable endeavors, culture empowerment and unity among our communities. TFBU Foundation's priority is to enhance educational opportunities, and to promote the growth of our communities through resources, counseling, and volunteering.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Priority Issues: The TFBU Foundation prioritizes increasing voter participation through registration drives and facilitating transportation to polling stations.
We are 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
Down Home is all about building power for working-class communities in North Carolina. We focus on deep organizing, real conversations, and grassroots action to create lasting change. By centering rural and small-town voices, we fight for economic justice, racial equity, and policies that actually support everyday people. Whether it's elections, policy advocacy, or movement-building, our goal is to make sure all North Carolinians - no matter their background - have a real say in shaping their future.
In 2025, we're focused on deepening our base, expanding our reach, and strengthening our foundation. Through the Year of the Member Project, we're investing in our people - developing leaders, building ownership, and making sure members drive our work. The Beyond the Choir Project will bring in new voices, connecting with those who share our values but haven't engaged yet. And to sustain it all, we're strengthening our internal systems - ensuring financial stability, better development tracking, and real accountability. With clear goals, strong support, and the right systems in place, we're building lasting power for working-class communities across North Carolina.
Down Home will engage the multiracial working class over an18-county area larger than the state of New Jersey via an integrated voter contact program including more than 500,000 door attempts. Our program is best-in-class and covers the lowest density, highest opportunity rural turf home to 20% of the state’s population.
Down Home North Carolina (DHNC) is a project to build a multiracial statewide organization of rural and small town communities that advocate for economic, gender, and racial justice. We will move North Carolina toward the values of dignity, safety, and inclusion through leadership development, strategic campaigning, multiracial movement building, and civic engagement to advance real reforms for rural communities.
The Working Families Party seeks to empower the multi-racial working class by utilizing relationships to engage voters. We will engage voters throughout the state, and run a deeper relational organizing, phone and postcard program in the city of Detroit to ensure that voters show up and complete their entire ballot.
The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all. We’re a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses and people over the powerful. We want an America which realizes the promise – unrealized in our history – of freedom and equality for all.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Priority Issues: Criminal Justice Reform with a lens on abolitionist solutions, Access to healthcare including and especially reproductive justice , Strengthening the power of unions and working class people, Improving and fully funding public education
The Working Families Party seeks to empower the multi-racial working class by utilizing relationships to engage voters. We will engage voters throughout the state, and run a deeper relational organizing, phone and postcard program in the city of Detroit to ensure that voters show up and complete their entire ballot.
The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all. We’re a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses and people over the powerful. We want an America which realizes the promise – unrealized in our history – of freedom and equality for all.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Priority Issues: Criminal Justice Reform with a lens on abolitionist solutions, Access to healthcare including and especially reproductive justice , Strengthening the power of unions and working class people, Improving and fully funding public education
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
YCV staff and volunteers reach voters in the communities where they live and work across the state of NC through high traffic canvassing, clipboarding, tabling at events, group and classroom presentations in high schools and on college campuses, relational organizing, GOTV calls and text messaging, and 1-1 conversations with voters.
You Can Vote (YCV) was founded following Shelby County v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 2612, the Supreme Court decision rolling back key protections of the Voting Rights Act. Our mission is to train and mobilize volunteers to educate, register, and empower all North Carolina citizens to successfully cast their ballot. Our programs combat discriminatory election laws by building a broader and more engaged electorate across the state of NC. YCV serves populations whose votes have been historically suppressed including people of color, low-income people, people who are currently and formerly incarcerated, people with disabilities, and young people.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: YCV occupies a unique position in the NC voting rights landscape as a strictly nonpartisan organization that focuses exclusively on voters. We are a campaign without a candidate and we do not take stances or advocate for specific issues aside from voting rights. YCV’s nonpartisan approach combined with the quality and consistency of voter services allows us to partner with and gain access to spaces that are not available to partisan organizations, such as schools and detention facilities. Our programs focus on voting mechanics & civic education: what's on the ballot, when to vote, where to vote, levels of government and connecting issues that matter to voters with the offices that influence them.
