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While this database contains more than 500 entities, it is not a complete list of the thousands of organizations doing impactful work. Organizations are invited to fill out this Card Creation Form to be added to the CaPA Connector.
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CaPA evaluates where programs are fielded within a State by using congressional district boundaries. An org delivering engagement actions within the boundaries of a congressional district does not necessarily mean that group is engaging in a congressional district race.
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
Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) will register 100,000+ voters via field canvass and layered digital. ACE focuses on registering young people by tabling in high-traffic areas (campuses, concerts, community centers), phone and text-banking, door knocking, and cost-effective digital engagement.
Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) has a mission to educate, inspire, and support young people to lead the fight for their future. We ensure they have everything they need to understand the science and advocate for solutions to the climate emergency. We achieve our mission by reaching tens of millions of young people with our programs each year, training a new generation of leaders, amplifying youth voices to shift the narrative, and increasing diverse youth participation in our democracy.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AZ, CA, GA, KS, LA, MI, MN, MS, MT, NV, NC, OH, OK, PA, TX, VT, VA, WI
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k), Other
Core Constituencies: Black, Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Adults (aged 35-65)
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Lead Contact: Alex WeeksSenior Director of Philanthropyalex@acespace.org
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
Atlanta GLOW's EmpowHer the Vote initiative empowers young, female voters of color through nonpartisan education, outreach, and engagement. We provide training, resources, workshops, and youth-led events to increase voter turnout, while our Voter Engagement Fellowship trains young leaders to mobilize their peers. Looking ahead to key elections like Georgia's 2026 gubernatorial race, we will continue equipping young voters with the knowledge and confidence to engage in the democratic process and shape their communities.
Atlanta GLOW’s EmpowHer the Vote initiative educates, empowers and mobilizes young, female voters of color across metro Atlanta communities to participate in the democratic process by casting their votes. The initiative seeks to increase voter turnout and encourage informed decision-making among this vital demographic.
Atlanta GLOW's mission is to encourage, educate and equip young, low-income women to be thriving, self-sustaining leaders and effective agents of economic growth within their communities.
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
Our goal is to engage 1,250 newly eligible individuals and successfully register 500 voters. Through the It’s Official Campaign, we will provide frequent, accessible, and engaging voter registration clinics in primarily Maricopa County and the surrounding rural areas of Pima and Pinal County.
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective (BPOC/501(c)3) is building a bigger, better, Blacker future in PHX. We practice cultural organizing among inter-generational Black folks that centers queer and trans people, formerly incarcerated, disabled people, and Muslim immigrants and refugees. We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding, and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as abolitionists. We are moving to breaking down harmful systems and building new ones. Over the last year we have also committed ourselves to transformative justice practices even when it’s painful, or uncomfortable in all spaces.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Our goal is to engage 1,250 newly eligible individuals and successfully register 500 voters. Through the It’s Official Campaign, we will provide frequent, accessible, and engaging voter registration clinics in primarily Maricopa County and the surrounding rural areas of Pima and Pinal County.
Black Political Cultivation Arizona (BPCAZ/501(c)4) is a political organization working to transform the quality of life for marginalized people through electoral change. We are flexing Black political power in elections to fight for the outcomes that are best for the community, as well as hold elected officials accountable. Our goal is to elect Black people to leadership in Phoenix and Arizona who are values-aligned and committed to using political power to 1) realize our goals of community change and 2) transform the quality of life for Black People and people of marginalized identities and backgrounds.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CASA in Action will be engaging in:
-State-based advocacy in GA, MD, PA, VA
-Non-partisan voter engagement around state and local elections in VA and PA. This will include GOTV, VBM pushes, and, in all our states, deep canvassing.
-Partisan voter engagement in the same state, especially focused on the Gubernatorial General Election in Virginia.
CASA in Action turns out voters based on democracy-defense organizing, non-partisan voter canvassing, partisan voter canvassing to advocate for our member-endorsed candidates, and community-tailored communications. Our strength lies in community trust, cultural competency, and the leadership provided by our working-class, immigrant membership.
By mobilizing Black and brown voters, CASA in Action, and its 155,000+ members, play a powerful role in electing progressive change leaders who can produce the justice our members seek.
Our 2025 focus is on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race and Virginia statewide and House of Delegate races. In Wisconsin we have sent 94,000 postcards. We will update the Early Voting List and do outreach for 10 swing districts. CFCG will reach out to Black voters while NWPC-VA will reach out to women voters all races. We offer monthly training on How to be an Effective Advocate on Federal and state legislation.
Our campaign aims to engage super voters, registered voters, and especially irregular or low propensity voters
Center for Common Ground works to educate and empower voters of color in voter suppression states. We work in voter suppression states where more than 20% of voters are voters of color – Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. Our work includes community surveys to help communities find their voice, community canvassing, candidate forums, making phone calls and teaching advocacy. Collaborating with local partners, we strive to mobilize ALL voters of color, both those who consistently participate in elections and those who have yet to exercise their right to vote.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AZ, FL, GA, NY, NC, SC, TX, VA, WI
Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), and our sister organization Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund, is building a diverse and powerful movement to put our region on the path to climate stability. CCAN is the largest and oldest grassroots organization dedicated exclusively to fighting for bold and just solutions to climate change in the Chesapeake region of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. We also have a federal team. We envision an economy where energy efficiency and clean sources of power sustain every aspect of our lives and dirty fossil fuels are phased out.
Our work has two parts. During the year, we primarily focus on educating the public about climate action and base buildings to increase our volunteer numbers. For the Maryland team, January through April is our legislative action season. For 2025, our legislative priorities are the RENEW Act- Maryland's Climate Superfund bill, a bill to electrify new construction in Maryland, and the clean energy legislation sponsored by Delegate Lorig Charkoudian.
Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), and our sister organization Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund, is building a diverse and powerful movement to put our region on the path to climate stability. CCAN is the largest and oldest grassroots organization dedicated exclusively to fighting for bold and just solutions to climate change in the Chesapeake region of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. We also have a federal team. We envision an economy where energy efficiency and clean sources of power sustain every aspect of our lives and dirty fossil fuels are phased out.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
CaPA States Covered: DC, MD, VA
Core Constituencies: Black, LGBTQ+, Multi-racial (including white), Latinx, Muslim, Trans; non-binary; and gender-nonconforming, Women, Youth and Students (aged 17-34), Seniors (aged 65+), Adults (aged 35-65), State Legislators"
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
In 2022, CEA engaged 36M+ voters in the top 10 performing organizations nationwide with 57% turnout. In 2024, we will educate and engage 50M voters via field canvass and layered digital.
Climate Emergency Advocates (CEA) was founded in 2021 as the 501(c)(4) affiliate of Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) to mobilize millions of young people to support climate and clean energy leadership, and to accelerate the end of the fossil fuel era and the deployment of renewable energy.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AZ, CA, GA, KS, LA, MI, MN, MS, MT, NV, NC, OH, OK, PA, TX, VT, VA, WI
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k), Other
Core Constituencies: Black, Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Adults (aged 35-65)
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: 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
Down Home North Carolina is working through our network of 10 county-based chapters to bring IRA investment home and in alignment with the goals of our working class communities.
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.
EWISE will deepen its advocacy by providing year-round civic education workshops, expanding storytelling campaigns to amplify lived experiences, and forging broader collaborative partnerships with local businesses and faith-based institutions. Through NGP Van and other analytics tools, we will strengthen data measurement, refine voter turnout tactics, and track policy outcomes to ensure sustainable, community-driven change. Our approach centers on continuous engagement—empowering community members to understand policies affecting their daily lives, fostering empathy and collective action, and
EWI’s primary tactic is a wrap-around digital approach to voter engagement. Based on the shared experiences of our collective, we have found that a multi-pronged communications strategy significantly increases voter turnout.
EcoWomanist Institute Southeast’s (EWISE) mission is to promote the inclusion, ecological awareness, and community leadership of Black women within the Ecospirituality, Ecojustice, and Ethics narratives. Ecowomanism is the relationship between women of African descent and the earth. EWISE provides programs and services to heal minds, bodies, and spirits from the social, economic, and environmental injustices that women of color face daily. EWISE meaningfully contributes to improving women’s mental and physical health by integrating leadership development, collective healing, and advocacy.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: GA
Geographic Focus: Rural
Core Constituencies: Black, Women
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, 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
Org committed to advancing opportunities for LGBTQ communities will hire canvassers in rural GA and partner with Black-led and trans-led organizations to register voters at pride festivals and on college campuses.
Georgia Equality works to advances fairness, safety, and opportunity for Georgia's LGBTQ communities.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
CaPA States Covered: GA
Geographic Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Trans; non-binary; and gender-nonconforming
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, Women-led, Queer-led, Trans; non-binary; and gender nonconforming-led
Lead Contact: Wesley Han-BurgessDirector of Communication and Developmentwes@georgiaequality.org
Equity for All is outside all year, mobilizing the unorganized organizer! Through ‘We Outside, ’ EFA is organizing 100+ canvassers to mobilize over 300,000 young voters in Georgia through voter education pop-ups, signing-day voter engagement initiatives, and Youthocracy events leading into 2024.
Equity for All seeks to mobilize the unorganized organizer! We are committed to creating an active ecosystem of young people passionate about justice-centered policies around environmental, economic, and social injustice who feel they have no voice in the political process.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: GA
Geographic Focus: Rural, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
FTW’s door program highlights community-level public investments and how individuals can access state, local, and federal funds. We also include voter registration and a commit to vote ask. We target urban BIPOC and low-income communities including Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, and La Crosse and layer digital ads over our knocks. We have included relational organizing, paid influencer, site-based vote tripling, and other innovative programs in our work.
FTW’s door program highlights community-level IRA investments and how individuals can access IRA funds and a voter registration and commit to vote ask. We target urban BIPOC and low-income communities including Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, and La Crosse and layer paid digital ads over our knocks.
Our Vision: Public funds invested equitably in communities fighting the climate crisis and strengthening public institutions.
Our Mission: Ensuring that public investments in Wisconsin are effective, efficient, and equitable.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
CaPA States Covered: WI
Geographic Focus: Rural, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k), Other
Our civic engagement program is built to speak to and address the concerns of Black voters, to message the power and effects of voting, as well as the risks of non-participation, and ultimately, to persuade and turn out Black voters in ways no other organization can.
Our 2024 plan involves running a ballot initiative focused on Housing Is A Human Right, initiating community conversations and surveys for our Defining Safety campaign and driving local engagement.
To build Black leadership and infrastructure in Black communities through civic education and engagement, leadership development and economic reinvestment.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
In 2025 and beyond, we see our rights to speak out against injustices, and to advocate for our communities come under attack. In the face of state repression, we will mobilize Black and Southeast Asian folx to move past fear and into the streets to challenge this oppressive administration. We will also politicize our base and enlist their help in strengthening existing mutual aid networks and community funded alternatives to government aid.
Engaging low-income Black and Southeast Asian women and queer folks in Wisconsin by tying voter registration to upcoming Bodily Autonomy campaign via mailers, tabling, house parties and cultural events, door knocking. Including content targeted at non-English speakers and focusing on same day registration and voting.
Freedom, Inc. is a Queer organization working to end violence within and against Black and Southeast Asian communities in Madison, WI and surrounding areas. We accomplish this by coupling direct services with grassroots organizing campaigns aimed at the root causes of interpersonal and state violence.
Elect pro-environmental champions who believe in a 100% Clean Renewable Energy & activate voters to participate in grassroots tactics to elect leaders who want a cleaner future for all. We have made 40 endorsements, and will be activating volunteers to support endorsed candidates, knocking doors, making calls, hosting events, and collecting voter pledges. We will turn out climate voters in both Cobb and Gwinnett counties to secure victories in referendums that would result in $28 billion of investments in enhanced mobility and transit expansions.
GCV’s mission is to advocate for public policies that advance a more just and sustainable future, mobilize voters who prioritize climate and environmental justice, and hold elected officials accountable for their actions and votes.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: GA
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Women, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
We are working hard to mobilize climate justice-informed voters, specifically younger voters and voters of color, by creating, promoting, and distributing "RENEW the Vote" ads that resonate with target demographics and integrate climate justice messaging via Billboards, Radio, and Digital ads. These ads share key electoral dates, early voter information, and other important voter deadlines.
GCV Education Fund’s mission is to organize and mobilize Georgians to advance climate and environmental justice through education, advocacy, and other forms of civic engagement.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
CaPA States Covered: GA
Geographic Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Multi-racial (including white), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
GCC is building power to create social change in Ohio. We are training and organizing youth and adults to engage or re-engage residents in low-propensity voting neighborhoods from targeted neighborhoods in the City of Cleveland and its inner-ring suburbs to get in the habit of voting every election cycle.
Greater Cleveland Congregation’s (GCC) mission is to be a powerful force for change, creating justice and opportunity in Northeast Ohio. We unite people across lines of race, class, religion, and geography to take action to strengthen and improve the quality of life of our neighborhoods. As a non-partisan organization of 39 faith communities and partner organizations, we work together to build power for social justice.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
All Hands Brigade, a volunteer cohort of seasoned labor retirees, is working in partnership with the NC AFL-CIO and key member unions to augment the skills and capacity of local union leadership, staff and volunteers, and identify, engage and support NC unions and their retirees to advance the concerns of working families on key issues–and to vote those priorities in November.
C4C is a multi-racial student centered coalition focusing on increasing access to higher education. This year, C4C is planning to engage 5,000 potential voters through non-partisan voter engagement, canvassing, text messaging, and phone banking. Our goal is to educate voters on the importance of keeping the Climate Commitment Act.
Just Strategy builds powerful issue campaigns that win. We educate organizers and movement leaders. We help develop effective strategies for racial and economic justice movements. We create innovative organizing projects where we see a need. We also partner with established organizations to build people’s power.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Outreach to targeted constituencies will include tabled events, digital and direct mailings; social media, posters, flyers, and cards. Volunteers will have support materials and branded t-shirts. Partnerships will include area colleges, school districts, and local non-profits such as the Urban League and El Centro.
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan, grassroots nonprofit dedicated to empowering everyone to fully participate in our democracy. We engage in advocacy, education, litigation, and organizing to protect every American’s freedom to vote.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: OH
Core Constituencies: Black, Puerto Rican, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Organization Leadership: Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: All volunteer - there are no paid staff involved in the organizations
Lead Contact: Maureen SimenVoter Registration Activities Coodinatorlwvloco@gmail.com
MEJC will continue to engage parents and caregivers of school-aged children around the importance of school board elections and school bonds and millages. Together with our coalition partners, we hope to reach voters in key Black and brown school communities through relational organizing, phone banking, and door to door canvassing.
MEJC aims to organize parents, caregivers, community organizations, and educators in a statewide coalition for education equity and justice.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs, Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
We will be providing trainings and events that showcase the role of a school board member. We will work with school board candidates to provide training on critical issues related to school boards such as budgeting, developing strong district level policy and co-governance. We hope to hold at least 20 school board candidate forums.
MEJC aims to organize parents, caregivers, community organizations, and educators in a statewide coalition for education equity and justice.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs, Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
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
NDWA is dedicated to advancing domestic and care workers' rights nationwide. In 2025, we’ll prioritize Medicaid funding, defend gained worker wages, and counter anti-immigration policies. At state and local levels, we’ll advance the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, data collection for HCBS policy advocacy, and initiatives to deliver the most impactful resources in this shifting political landscape. Additionally, NDWA will bolster worker protections, expand digital organizing, and enhance our rapid response networks.
Our civic engagement program is focused on educating voters about care and turning out women of color voters in Sunbelt states, where care and domestic workers have traditionally been left behind, and which is often home to areas with the worst care crisis in the nation.
The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) works for respect, recognition, and rights for the more than 2.2 million nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers who do the essential work of caring for our loved ones and our homes. Driven by domestic workers’ priorities, NDWA is working to catalyze a paradigm shift in the way domestic work is understood, valued, and compensated to ensure that these much-needed jobs are good jobs with dignity, economic security, and labor protections. NDWA is a non-partisan charitable organization and does not endorse, support, or oppose any candidate for public office.
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.
In 2025 we are working to keep momentum from the 2024 General, engaging voters in the Lincoln and Omaha municipal elections, funding and supporting off-cycle relationship building in other communities. We are also anticipating fights against Winner-Take-All electoral voting and rights for transgender youth participating in sports and other activities. We will leverage the data we obtained about our universe through the 2024 ballot initiatives to re-engage voters who still care deeply about these issues.
We work collaboratively with members to conduct year-round civic engagement efforts. In 2024 we are supporting a collaborative VR/GOTV initiative of five Member orgs knocking doors to mobilize voters in low turnout neighborhoods in North and South Omaha (CD2), increasing voter participation through increased voter registration and education.
The Nebraska Civic Engagement Table builds transformative community power across Nebraska in partnership with its member organizations.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
NHYM is pledging to vote 10,000 and mobilizing 20,000 young people to vote in New hampshire, focused on college campuses. We will also distribute voter guides, help young people register to vote, and coordinate rides to the polls, and build and grow lasting chapters of young organizers.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
NHYM is pledging to vote 10,000 and mobilizing 20,000 young people to vote in New hampshire, focused on college campuses. We will also distribute voter guides, help young people register to vote, and coordinate rides to the polls, and build and grow lasting chapters of young organizers.
Our mission is to build a movement of young people to transform our political system so it serves and is led by the people it has left behind.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
In 2025, 2026, and beyond, Next in Line Community Outreach Center will strengthen voter engagement through education, registration drives, and mobilization efforts. We will advocate for fair voting policies, and equip individuals with resources to make informed choices. Through events, policy forums, and leadership development programs, we will amplify community voices and influence policies that impact underrepresented populations. Our commitment ensures sustained civic participation and meaningful social change.
Next In Line Community Outreach informs and educates the youth and adults in our community the importance of voting to better understand how voting affects the community as a whole.
Next in Line Community Outreach Center is dedicated to empowering youth
through afterschool programs that provide academic support, leadership training,
and career readiness resources. We foster civic engagement by integrating voter
education into our youth initiatives, ensuring they understand the importance of
their voices in shaping the future. Through community involvement efforts, we
create spaces where young people can contribute to local initiatives, engage in
service projects, and develop a lifelong commitment to advocacy and social
change.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: NC
Geographic Focus: Rural, Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Multi-racial (including white), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
The program focused on empowering young people to be involved in politics, candidate identification in low-income communities and communities of color, and built a network for future voter engagement programming. This funding supported a small board of community organizers to begin making steps towards an established and recognized organization. NORC will continue to advocate for just and equitable policies, be involved in voter engagement, and be a beacon for bringing the community to the table.
Our mission is to dismantle and raise awareness of the effects of redlining through education, policy making, community engagement and restorative justice.
VISION – We envision a community with access to safe housing, resources and a thriving economic infrastructure that restores generational wealth.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
In 2024, OFUAPB ran a large canvassing program in Dayton, Ohio who are directly impacted by police brutality. The canvassers knocked 52,614 doors and connected with 13,203 voters. We also called over 6,400 voters and texted an additional 4,800+ voters in Dayton to remind them to bring their ID to vote and help locate their polling place. In 2025 we are organizing year-round with direct voter engagement and state and local advocacy on police reform.
Our layered approach includes canvassing, phonebanking, text banking, pollstanding on Election Day, digital and mail. We ensure investment into existing infrastructure in these communities, preserve the authenticity of the trusted messenger’s voice, and support longer term organizing and mobilization for the progressive movement in these spaces.
Our mission is to fight against police brutality and to support our extended families. Who, while not related by blood, are bonded to us through the needless bloodshed of our loved ones.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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.
In 2025 and beyond, we will mobilize communities to oppose anti-trans ballot measures and bolster LGBTQ+ rights by launching public education campaigns that highlight the human cost of transphobia and shift public opinion through real stories from transgender Coloradans. We will organize local training sessions, events, and advocacy toolkit distributions for local elections, build sustained support through statewide advocacy power-building, cross-movement solidarity, and targeted media outreach, to resist harmful policies.
One Colorado exists to secure protections and opportunities for LGBTQ+ Coloradans through grassroots, local, and statewide organizing and lobbying efforts.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
We will conduct voter registration and peer-to-peer voter programs with at least 300,000 young, low-wage unlikely voters of color in MI, OH and AZ using the issue that young voters and voters of color have named as their top priority: living wages.
One Fair Wage is a national organization led by women of color that is engaging workers, employers and consumers to raise wages and working conditions in the service sector and end all subminimum wages in the United States.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, ID, IL, MD, MA, MI, MS, NY, OH, PA, WA
Organized Power In Numbers works at the intersection of worker power and modern digital and data-driven organizing to help our movements reach millions of people, invite them into movement, and level up campaigns that win for workers, their families, and their communities. We utilize online and offline base building and organizing strategies, comprehensive campaigns, strategic litigation and communications, and policy advocacy to win concrete demands that improve the conditions of workers’ lives and promote civic engagement at the local, state, and national levels.
Growing Our Power:
Immigrant Worker Defense: OPIN is working to ensure that labor is positioned to defend their current and potential future immigrant members, and to strengthen the overall infrastructure in our region to protect and defend all immigrants.
Take Back Our Homes: We push for housing justice in Phoenix and across the state of Arizona through base building, policy advocacy, and building an eviction defense network.
Mass Engagement and Absorption: We help seed and grow key organizing efforts led by labor and community partners through list building and 1:1 digital outreach.
Relational organizing and trusted messengers are the keys to meeting the moment and building a larger, better-informed, and more engaged universe of voters.
In 2025, we will use our unique ability to communicate with challenging communities of voters and our existing network of 3 million people, launching a year-round relational organizing program to maintain engagement, build trust, and drive action leading up to the next election.
Organizing Empower Project has launched a multi-state paid relational program to build the largest incentivized relational organizing program in history in 10 high-profile states to reach voters not typically reachable by other means and leverage the power of relational organizing to maximize impact.
Empower Project is a communications, organizing, and technology non-profit that is a leader in relational organizing - leveraging the power of trusted messengers by having community members build lists of friends and family to communicate and influence behavior, promote informed decision-making, and increase meaningful civic engagement.
We recruit and manage the trusted messengers, build the technology, coordinate with partner organizations, organize trainings, and direct the strategy that allows this sophisticated approach to communications to happen.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AZ, NV, MT, WI, MI, MN, OH, PA, NC, GA, NY
Relational organizing and trusted messengers are the keys to meeting the moment and building a larger, better-informed, and more engaged universe of voters.
In 2025, we will use our unique ability to communicate with challenging communities of voters and our existing network of 3 million people, launching a year-round relational organizing program to maintain engagement, build trust, and drive action leading up to the next election.
Organizing Empowerment Fund is offering training and technology support for organizations that are using relational organizing, especially in underrepresented communities like communities of color, youth, immigrants, and rural areas.
Empower Project is a communications, organizing, and technology non-profit that is a leader in relational organizing - leveraging the power of trusted messengers by having community members build lists of friends and family to communicate and influence behavior, promote informed decision-making, and increase meaningful civic engagement.
We recruit and manage the trusted messengers, build the technology, coordinate with partner organizations, organize trainings, and direct the strategy that allows this sophisticated approach to communications to happen.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AZ, GA, MI, MN, MT, NE, NV, NC, PA, WI
Established in 2018, Peach Concerned Citizens, Inc. (PCCI) is a nonprofit in Central Rural GA, excelling in voter registration and GOTV, focusing on BPOC via diverse methods including phone banking, texting, and door knocking, and relational contact. Collaborations include local residents, organizations, and Fort Valley State University for civic engagement.
Our mission is to reach all ethnic groups to discuss issues, inform and create a climate so everyone understands the importance of voting. And continue the increase voter turnout by 15% over each previous election starting in 2018. We are striving to achieve a 90% Census response. Improve overall civic engagement and quality of life of ALL citizens Crawford, Macon, Peach, and Taylor counties.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: GA
Geographic Focus: Rural, Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
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
PA direct voter contact program will recruit a high volume of volunteers to mobilize voters who will additionally have the opportunity to go deep in their neighborhoods with people who are often ignored in engagement programs, creating intentional relationships that will sustain and build towards high voter turnout in Durham.
The People’s Alliance advances progressive issues and policies through research, organizing, advocacy, and democratic engagement.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: NC
Geographic Focus: Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, Women, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Organization Leadership: Volunteer-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer powered - >50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Power to the polls knocked on over
675,000 doors, engaging in nearly 94,000 conversations with voters. We deployed over 300 community organizers, and our digital, radio, and streaming advertisements were
seen over 59,000,000 times.
Thanks in part to these efforts, turnout in Milwaukee actually increased in 2024 vs 2020,
and Milwaukee was the #1 city in the United States for voter turnout percentage.
Power to the Polls was created to fundamentally change the way we approach organizing in BIPOC communities. We are doing that in 3 key ways:
1. Year Round Organizing & Communication Infrastructure
2. Recruiting Organizers With Deep Roots in the Community
3. Using The Latest Tools, Technology, & Targeting - including digital, social media, influencers, radio, and relational organizing.
Power to the Polls is a Black-led 501c4 and 527 organization created by civil rights leaders, faith leaders, labor unions, and activists across Wisconsin. Our goal is to fundamentally change the way we organize and mobilize Black, Brown, and working-class communities in Wisconsin, remove barriers to the ballot box, and give
power back to people who are all too often left behind.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: WI
Sub-State CaPA Priority Geographies Engaged: Milwaukee, Green Bay, Racine, Kenosha, Sheboygan, Appleton.
Geographic Focus: Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
PV works with online content creators on Twitch and YouTube to get their dedicated audiences into the PV Discord and action hub. There, we’re bringing new people into the political process by giving them the tactics, resources, and support to make their voices heard and turn out other young voters.
Progressive Victory is an online community of volunteers, activists, and organizers. Using the power of the internet, we’re winning elections, protecting democracy, and building the next generation of organizers.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: AZ, MT, NC, OH, PA, WI, NV
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Trans; non-binary; and gender-nonconforming, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Organization Leadership: Youth-led (aged 15-35)
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Reclaim Education Fund will increase voter participation and build community power in neighborhoods across Philadelphia. Reclaim will do this through face-to-face, issue-based organizing with neighbors, driving city-wide campaigns around housing rights, training, and empowering community leaders. We will empower community members to dive beneath the surface of "get out the vote" and launch into civic conversations about the actual reasons why our community is disengaged from voting and how inaction links to systemic issues.
Reclaim Education Fund will support neighborhood leaders in providing civic engagement, facilitating story circles to help people share their experiences related to the election and learn about neighbors’ diverse experiences, and provide deep canvass support for 5 neighborhood teams to related to the issues at stake in the general election.
Reclaim Education Fund organizes people, provides education, and advocates for policy to win a more just and equitable city.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,001
We will focus our GOTV efforts on Cobb and Gwinnett counties - both are holding referendums on transportation expansion. Our goal is to ensure that BIPOC youth voters who are turning out in key state house districts also vote YES on each ballot question.
To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; And to use all lawful means to carry out those objectives.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: GA
Geographic Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander), Black, Latinx
Focused on advancing Black communities and prioritizing community-based programming dedicated to advancing Black liberation. We know that the keys to ensuring voter engagement includes building trust, understanding concerns and pain-points, ensuring that college students have the resources and tools needs to be successful, and stressing power through collective action.
To improve the social disposition of underrepresented populations through community service, education, and other social services in our respective communities.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Southern Vision Alliance (SVA) is a justice centered values-based “grassroots intermediary” organized to provide incubation, infrastructure, capacity building, coaching, and technical assistance to frontline organizing projects, leadership programs, and collaborations led by directly-impacted communities in the US South. We are an anchor for frontline groups and leaders to disrupt and transform power for collective liberation.
SVA supports groups, projects and campaigns working for environmental justice, anti-racism, women’s rights, youth empowerment, LGBTQ rights, worker’s rights, civil rights and disability rights that address social change through community organizing.
Southern Vision Alliance provides fiscal-sponsorship to groups, projects, and campaigns that have a long-term vision for equity social justice and have alignment around core values and principles.
Movements Labs is fiscally sponsored by Southern Vision Alliance. Movement Labs uses technology and experimentation to stop fascism and build power for underserved communities and people.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, GA, IL, IN, IA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, SC, VA, WI
Geographic Focus: Rural / Suburban / Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city or suburb of large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, LGBTQ+, People with disabilities
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, Queer-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Focus on registering young people, underserved communities, GOTV of registered Democrats and Unaffiliated leaning left. We campaign in support of quality public education and pay for teachers, restoring and safe-guarding our rights, fair voting, and transparency in government.
We are the Democratic Party for a small rural, agricultural NC county. We stand for quality public education, quality employment with a living wage, equality and justice for all. We are focusing on driving voter registration, showing up as a choice in the county, informing Democrats and Unafilliated voters on candidates, voter ID, voting schedules, and support them in getting to the polls. We are starting with growing our volunteers.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: NC
Core Constituencies: Black, Women, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Organization Leadership: Volunteer-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: All volunteer - there are no paid staff involved in the organizations
UFR will expand our organizing power to push back against harmful policies impacting workers. Our Georgia worker organizing and civic participation program has had wins to improve workplace conditions, including securing clean water, working restrooms, and wage increases. This will serve as a model we’ll scale nationally and across targeted geographies (Michigan, California) to build a multiracial base of working class voters who are shifting the narrative around their grueling working conditions, and impacting elections.
UFR's civic engagement program integrates online/offline organizing to boost voter turnout from a low-wage, majority women and BIPOC voting bloc of 2 million people across urban, rural, and suburban geographies. We move our base through deep relationship building into action, and leverage persuasion messaging to turn out low-propensity voters.
United for Respect envisions a world where all workers have the power, the time, and the money to lead full, free, empowered lives, and where they power a multiracial economic and political democracy that benefits all. It’s our mission to build an economy where corporations respect working people and support a democracy that allows americans to live and work in dignity.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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
The defense of democracy is both urgent and permanent. As an organization with a long-term view of building a more representative and equitable electorate, VoteRiders' work remains essential. We will: Empower voters by providing uniquely and increasingly effective ID help, Engage a diverse range of partner organizations to expand our reach, and Elevate the issue of voter ID laws and their harmful impact on our democracy.
During the important 2024 election cycle, VoteRiders will empower at least 850,000 Arizona voters by providing free, comprehensive voter ID assistance, education, and outreach. These targeted efforts will ensure all eligible voters, especially those facing ID-related barriers, understand voter ID requirements and have the necessary identification to successfully register and cast a ballot that counts.
VoteRiders’ mission is to ensure that no eligible voter is prevented from casting a ballot that counts due to voter ID laws, either directly from lack of acceptable ID or indirectly because of voter confusion.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AZ, CA, FL, GA, LA, MI, MS, NC, NV, OH, PA, TX, VA, WI
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Multi-racial (including white), Trans; non-binary; and gender-nonconforming, Women
Organization Leadership: Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
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.
