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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Disclaimers
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.
ChangeTN focuses on a digital first advertising strategy for Progressive candidates at the local and state level in Tennessee. Primarily focusing on youth (18-35 voters), we found that digital outreach is the most cost effective approach to ending the supermajority and moving Tennessee forward.
Founded in 2020, ChangeTN assists local and state Progressive candidates run competitive races despite the shortcomings in funding and infrastructure of most rural candidates. Our outreach focuses primarily on the 18-30 year old voting block to build energy for the next generation of Tennessee.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Multi-racial (including white), Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Organization Leadership: Volunteer-led, Youth-led (aged 15-35), Other
Staff and Volunteer Balance: All volunteer - there are no paid staff involved in the organizations
Cobalt Advocates is a trusted leader in the Colorado reproductive health movement. We will use a variety of tactics to reach our established supporters throughout Colorado. We will also use a variety of tactics to expand our reach. We have an organizing team based in target communities throughout Colorado.
We envision a world where your health decisions are free from stigma, politics and systemic barriers. We actualize policies, structures and attitudes that secure unassailable reproductive autonomy and abortion access.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
Priority Issues: We work to educate about complex reproductive health issues including abortion access. We also work to reduce stigma about who gets abortions and why. We utilize our medical advisory community made up of abortion providers and others who care for those needing abortion services in our education, outreach and advocacy efforts which have proven to be highly effective. Building unfettered access to a full spectrum of reproductive healthcare; collaborating with partners within and outside of our movement and expanding partnerships with labor, economic justice, and environmental groups. One highlight is the digital partnership with Conservation Colorado for municipal elections in Pueblo in 2023. Cobalt plans to expand this work in the key area of Pueblo and affiliated communities (CD3),
Cobalt is a trusted leader in the Colorado reproductive health movement. We will use a variety of tactics to reach our established supporters throughout Colorado. We will also use a variety of tactics to expand our reach. We have an organizing team based in target communities throughout Colorado.
We envision a world where your health decisions are free from stigma, politics and systemic barriers. We actualize policies, structures and attitudes that secure unassailable reproductive autonomy and abortion access.
Priority Issues: We work to educate about complex reproductive health issues including abortion access. We also work to reduce stigma about who gets abortions and why. We utilize our medical advisory community made up of abortion providers and others who care for those needing abortion services in our education, outreach and advocacy efforts which have proven to be highly effective. Building unfettered access to a full spectrum of reproductive healthcare; collaborating with partners within and outside of our movement and expanding partnerships with labor, economic justice, and environmental groups. One highlight is the digital partnership with Conservation Colorado for municipal elections in Pueblo in 2023. Cobalt plans to expand this work in the key area of Pueblo and affiliated communities (CD3),
Community Civil Activist engages Black voters through a blend of traditional and innovative turnout treatments. We recruit high-propensity Black voters as volunteers to encourage low-frequency Black voters in their own communities to vote. The strategy does not require pre-existing relationships but rather assumes that the common history and current challenges in the Black community will serve as the glue that infuses broad trust in conversations among volunteers and voters.
Community Civil Activist is an BIPOC led group fighting institutional injustice and serving Black people throughout the state of North Carolina. We are working inside and outside of the system to heal the past, reimagine the present, and invest in the future of Black lives through policy change, civic engagement, investment in our communities, and a commitment to ensuring that every North Carolina resident have the equal opportunity to live justly and freely. We are on a mission to eliminate racial discrimination and prejudice through democratic processes and encourage activism in communities across North Carolina to ensure equity, justice, and awareness.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: NC
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Women, BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color)
We are working in Oregon's 5th and 6th to motivate rural young voters. 50% of our people under 26 have never voted, and 25% have voted once. These voters need to know they can make a difference rather than letting their parents and grandparents make decisions for them.
The purposes of the Organization are to:
i. Educate rural voters on issues that matter most to them,
ii. Engage with voters to encourage voting participation,
iii. Hold legislators accountable for their actions,
iv. Embrace rational, civic-minded rural values by modeling inclusion, respect, and fairness in all of our actions
v. Empower forward-thinking candidates to run for and hold elected office in rural Oregon.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Detroit Disability Power has a comprehensive election plan with a program designed to meet short-term objectives focused on achieving long-term, systemic change in voter behavior, electoral processes and growing support for disability issues in/beyond Michigan. DDP’s plan includes GOTV, Election Protection, Poll Access Audits, and an Inclusive Campaigns program.
To leverage and build the organizing power of the disability community to ensure the full inclusion of people with disabilities in Metro Detroit.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
CaPA States Covered: MI
Geographic Focus: Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Multi-racial (including white), People with disabilities
Organization Leadership: Women-led, Other
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Forward Montana builds power with and for young Montanans to create lasting change. To win statewide, candidates must overperform with young voters. We will engage in a robust turnout and persuasion program to ensure young Montanans understand what’s at stake, what candidates share their values, and how to cast their vote.
Forward Montana builds political power with and for young Montanans. That means empowering everyday folks to get involved and make their voices heard — from registering to vote to running for office, and everything in between.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: The issues that regularly rise to the top in conversations between young Montanans and our organizing team are abortion access, climate justice, and housing affordability. In addition to these issues, we regularly prioritize LGBTQ+ equality and voting rights. , , In addition to our field outreach to young Montanans, we’re partnering with Change Research on a series of polls to more deeply understand the attitudes and perceptions of young Montanans on key issues, messages, and candidates running for office. ,
Our Megaphone program (Heartland Hype) engages and expands progressive voices online. 11 organizers will recruit volunteers to download the Megaphone app and organically share tested social media content to their own followers. We will also host trainings and other traditional relational organizing events to engage volunteers and voters.
Innovation Ohio is a catalyst for progressive policy and grassroots activity that improves the lives of Ohio’s working families.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Our Megaphone program (Heartland Hype) engages and expands progressive voices online. 11 organizers will recruit volunteers to download the Megaphone app and organically share tested social media content to their own followers. We will also host trainings and other traditional relational organizing events to engage volunteers and voters.
Innovation Ohio is a catalyst for progressive policy and grassroots activity that improves the lives of Ohio’s working families.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
We are rallying voters, amplifying issues impacting Black communities, and emphasizing the power of every vote as a tool for change. What we know to be true is that coming together and honing in on our collective power to bring about transformative change is what we need to win democracy for all people.
Locked Out Love, Inc. mission is committed to being a voice for the voiceless and giving hope to the many hopeless men, women, and children affected by the criminal justice system.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: NC
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Latinx
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.
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
The PCDP works to engage all voters in the county. Through canvassing, phone-banking, texting and mailings we strive to explain our values and priorities to voters. We work to incrementally increase the number of Democratic votes in the county through each election cycle. We strive to reach young voters as the future protectors of democracy.
Our mission is to work together to elect democracy-supporting, civic-minded individuals to local, state, and national offices.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: OH
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Women, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Organization Leadership: Volunteer-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: All volunteer - there are no paid staff involved in the organizations
As the communications hub for the progressive movement in NM, we are expanding our role to deepen relationships and digital outreach through offline to online organizing. We will be working with community members and partners to combat disinformation specifically related to voter registration and voting in our Latinx and Spanish speaking communities in NM CD2.
As New Mexico’s progressive communications hub, ProgressNow New Mexico Education Fund centers justice for systemically excluded communities through partnerships, trusted digital communications, and issue-based and civic engagement campaigns.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Priority Issues: Environmental Justice: As one of the largest oil and gas states in the nation, we engage voters on the need for a just transition away from the oil and gas industry and focus specifically on the harms to communities of colors. , , Reproductive Justice: This encompasses abortion access, access to gender affirming care, and policies related to LGBTQ+ community. , , Democracy: We educate on the safety and security of our elections and inform voters on the multitude of ways they can register to vote and cast a ballot.
PHB supports an 11/5/2024 ballot measure to repeal the City of Huntington Beach Public Library Parent/Guardian Review Committee for its children's library books for offensive content. Two campaigns will occur: 1. Gather a minimum of 13,000 qualified signatures. 2. Run a campaign to educate voters about this ballot measure.
The Protect HB (PHB) campaign was formed to turn out HB voters in the March 5, 2024 Presidential Primary election to vote NO on three ballot measures A-B-C. PHB is formed to educate Huntingotn Beach voters about local issues that impact their every day lives.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
We focus on registering first-time voters by using Arizona's unique QRCode program on stylish shirts given out to young voters. They are able to easily register friends. We also support non-partisan candidates to run for local office thereby increasing diversity and choice on the local level and encouraging civic participation.
To work with citizens at the county and local level, to engage new voters and increase voter turn-out and increase participation civic participation. To work closely with local groups to engage members in exercising their civic rights.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
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.
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.
WFP is a grassroots political party building the intersectional working-class movement. OH WFP’s 2024 program (mail, digital, phones, texting, forums) for Supreme Court, Prosecutor & Judicial races will mobilize marginalized voters around criminal justice races & increase turnout for the top of the ticket, an effective tactic in a battleground state like Ohio.
The Ohio Working Families Party aims to capitalize on the momentum of the massive turnout in 2023 to build a sustainable, strategic progressive electoral force by focusing on education, voter registration and direct voter contact methods. Organizing and mobilizing the small pockets of movements growing across the state will empower a new generation of leaders to meet the challenges of the moment in cities that are predominantly working class, communities of color and women.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
WFP is a grassroots political party building the intersectional working-class movement. OH WFP’s 2024 program (mail, digital, phones, texting, forums) for Supreme Court, Prosecutor & Judicial races will mobilize marginalized voters around criminal justice races & increase turnout for the top of the ticket, an effective tactic in a battleground state like Ohio.
The Ohio Working Families Party aims to capitalize on the momentum of the massive turnout in 2023 to build a sustainable, strategic progressive electoral force by focusing on education, voter registration and direct voter contact methods. Organizing and mobilizing the small pockets of movements growing across the state will empower a new generation of leaders to meet the challenges of the moment in cities that are predominantly working class, communities of color and women.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
