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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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.
Registering Latino voters in Cuyahoga county through relational organizing, volunteer tabling at communty events and festivals, digital outreach and partnering with Latino-owned businesses to serve as voter registration hubs.
The mission of Avanzamos Unidos is to grow Latine political power in the state of Ohio. We are building a multi-class, multi-generational grassroots community organization that harnesses the collective political power of the Latinx/a/o/e community to advance racial, economic, and social justice for a more equitable Ohio.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: OH
Geographic Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Latinx, Puerto Rican, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
We aim to educate Black voters about the threats to our voting rights, health equity, education equity, and living wages and connect those issues to the importance of voting. We will reach voters in their homes, churches, community events, on the radio and on social media feeds and digital platforms.
Partnering with individuals and Black-Led organizations to make voting and civic engagement an ongoing responsibility and tradition to improve the quality of life in black communities.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
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
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)
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
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
Freedom ROC is focused on building Black grassroots community power will train and empower Black leaders to register voters through hotspot canvassing, doors, events, BLOC parties and concerts in Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Warren counties.
To create systemic change that leads to a more equitable society by uplifting the voices of directly impacted Black people that allows us to build Black grassroots community political power.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
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
Priority Issues: GCC has been organizing around voting rights in Cuyahoga County (the second largest county in the state) since 2012. Cuyahoga County has been designated as one of the single most racially segregated regions in the country. This divide exacerbates other deep-rooted problems affecting Cleveland, including historic redlining and systemic voter suppression and repression. Our Battle for Democracy initiative combats these challenges and fights for non-partisan voter engagement by training youth and adults and organizing them to engage their friends, families, and neighbors in our electoral system., , Currently, the U.S. has among the lowest voter turnout rates of all wealthy democracies, with an electoral landscape intentionally structured to discourage full participation of socially vulnerable populations (low-income, communities of color, disabled, youth). This limits their agency and erodes the overall representative viability of our democratic process. This disenfranchisement is exacerbated by voting administrative policies that, intentionally or unintentionally, suppress or depress the participation of vulnerable citizens., , GCC grounds our work by listening deeply to the needs in our community. We learn from the experiences of people living in the neighborhoods where we also live and work, because they are the ones impacted most by the decisions, policies, and systems that we are working together to change. We strategize together about solutions and actions that could actually work in our current context. Then we activate and train everyday people how to unite, organize, and raise their voices for change. Our tested organizing model organizes people, activities, and partners to work toward the goals that we set together. The current priority issues we are focusing our voter engagement work on currently include increasing voter registration and turnout; collecting signatures to end gerrymandering in Ohio; and key local and state races that affect juvenile justice and improve health and wellness through levy renewals., , Our model mobilizes trusted institutions and voices in our communities to build sustained relationships that create hubs of engagement among previously disenfranchised communities. We call these people Neighborhood Captains, and we work together closely to carefully expand our network. Through this work, we have mobilized thousands of new voters every election to effect change locally (e.g., investing in local schools under fierce opposition and to lean into their power as engaged communities)., , Voters are often treated as consumers: presented with a voting menu every two or four years and then ignored between election cycles. Most Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) efforts fail to build lasting engagement in these communities because they focus on easy to mobilize voters already in the system; make little/no connection between local voting administrative policies and low or declining turnout; and do not invest in establishing systems that help communities solve intractable local issues year-round. , , The most sustainable and scalable way to overcome these barriers to healthy democracy is to transform electoral ecosystems in socially vulnerable communities away from transactional systems mired in distrust and barriers, into relational networks that build power and increase local civic engagement and agency. To do this work, we created the Battle for Democracy – a set of strategies that aim to not only minimize voter depression (after decades of neglect) and suppression by creating a network of engaged leaders ready to teach and be taught how we can collectively make an impact in our democracy. , , Battle for Democracy employs a robust strategy, backed by rigorous research conducted by Cal Poly and the Union of Concerned Scientists, to effectively engage hard-to-reach voters and inspire them to become advocates for voter participation. At the heart of our approach is the Neighborhood Captain Program, a proven model where each captain is entrusted with a list of 75 households with low-propensity voters to nurture over a decade. These voters receive a minimum of 5 personalized contacts per election cycle, resulting in a remarkable increase in voter turnout. There is considerable cost to each of these relational contacts, but the return on investment is strong., , In addition to the Neighborhood Captain model, we are also innovating with youth and Latino communities. Our Youth Army initiative, composed of individuals aged 10 to 22, engages voters particularly in subsidized senior buildings. We have seen this work foster intergenerational relationships and dismantle barriers to voting. We are also spearheading efforts to boost voter engagement in predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhoods. Through initiatives like Voting Fiestas, inspired by Puerto Rico's annual elections, we aim to cultivate leadership within the Spanish-speaking community by nurturing individuals to serve as captains., , With a focus on proven methodologies and innovative approaches, Battle for Democracy is driving meaningful change through relationship- and leadership-building that is amplifying the ideas and power of communities that have historically been underrepresented in the democratic process.
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.
Core Programs:
Volunteer Community Outreach is our top priority. We volunteer to:
Provide services at Senior Centers (reception, luncheon, meals-on-wheels).
Attend local LGBTQ meetings, support their/our priorities and engage in their/our actions.
Assist our Latinx neighbors with transportation upon release from detention, for medical appointments, for visits to lawyers. We work to provide help for children whose parents are detained, and highlight education on rights and protections.
We engage in local government meetings–County Commissioners, School Boards, Senior Center Boards, Township Trustees, City Council.
We will engage in targeted voter outreach as the 2025 primary and general elections draw nearer.
We are volunteers dedicated to democracy in a deeply red, rural county. Goals: Contact like-minded and persuadable voters–empower them to vote. Reach voters via conversations at events and in public venues, canvass (“standard” and “deep”), promote our Talk Teams, distribute cards/pamphlets, text, engage through social media and billboards.
We are an all-volunteer group that came together in January 2019 with the goal of supporting the democratic principles of freedom, justice, equality, and inclusion. We are dedicated to promoting fairness in elections as well as educating and turning out voters so that all our voices can be heard.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
Through education, we embolden our community to use their voices and empower them to become leaders of change. ISLA’s non-partisan efforts not only build the Latine communities’ civic knowledge, but also encourage their active engagement to make their voices count.
ISLA builds community and leadership through educational Spanish language and cultural immersion programs.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: NC
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Immigrant, Latinx, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Priority Issues: ISLA focuses on addressing barriers to Latine voter participation, and provides useful and relevant information in Spanish about elections, candidates, and issues.
Indivisible Charlotte champions voter engagement in North Carolina by focusing on critical issues such as women's healthcare, school funding and gun safety. Our strategies encompass canvassing, voter registration, educational events, targeted postcards, and billboards, all designed to increase progressive voter turnout and volunteer recruitment in Mecklenburg County.
To strengthen democracy through direct action to educate and engage community members.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: NC
Core Constituencies: We do not target any specific demographics and/or it is difficult to say who we may reach
Organization Leadership: Volunteer-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: All volunteer - there are no paid staff involved in the organizations
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 will continue our Spanish/English leaflet dropping on doorsteps within precincts in Durham County NC as a means of educating voters about the difference between the parties, turning volunteers into articulate messengers, and building precinct organizations. Durham County is one key to winning NC in 2024 and beyond.
We are Democrats in Durham who have started a campaign to leaflet every doorstep in our precinct on a regular basis with simple, short messages about how Democrats differ from Republicans on what they are doing in Raleigh and in Washington on specific issues of concern to our neighbors.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: NC
Core Constituencies: We do not target any specific demographics and/or it is difficult to say who we may reach, Latinx
Organization Leadership: Volunteer-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: All volunteer - there are no paid staff involved in the organizations
Lead Contact: Judy KincaidMember of Durham County Democratic Party Communications Teamjudykincaid48@gmail.com
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
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
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.
Mi Familia Vota 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 Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that unites Latino, immigrant, and allied communities to promote social and economic justice through increased civic participation by promoting leadership development, citizenship, issue organizing, voter registration, and voter participation.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: NC
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Immigrant, Latinx, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Priority Issues: MFVEF North Carolina focuses on the following issues when collecting voter registrations: Immigrant Justice, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
Will work within about 50 Latino religious institutions where org has relationships to register hundreds of Latinos.
North Carolina Latino Power is dedicated to building collective power and improving the social welfare of Latinos in North Carolina by educating Latinos on a variety of issues, developing grassroots leadership, and encouraging electoral participation.
Our activities include:
1. Civic and political engagement of Latinos
2. Research on Latino issues
3. Leadership development
4. Education on Latino issues
5. Capacity-building and problem-solving
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: BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Faith-based, Latinx
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led
Lead Contact: Ivan Parra; Maria CalvopinaExecutive Director; Deputy Directorkmparra@aol.com
With newly elected Gov. Josh Stein and a one vote veto-sustaining margin in the House, we will be working to support Governor's Stein's pro-climate, pro-environment efforts, and defend against legislative attacks on our environment, our democracy, and our communities. We will also engage strategically on IRA defense and implementation, the Carbon Planning process, and continue our efforts to hold Duke Energy and the NC Utilities Commission accountable for meeting our clean energy goals.
Working to elect climate champion Josh Stein over climate denier Mark Robinson. We will run a canvass with a relational text overlay in vote-dense Mecklenburg County targeting persuadable swing voters. We will also work to gain a veto-proof minority in the state House by winning four of ten competitive House seats with paid media/mail.
The North Carolina League of Conservation Voters (NCLCV) is a pragmatic, results-oriented, non-partisan organization whose mission is to protect the health and quality of life for all North Carolinians, with an intentional focus on systematically excluded communities of color. We elect environmental champions, advocate for environmental policies that protect our communities, and hold elected leaders accountable for their decisions. We create a political environment that will protect our natural environment.
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
NNCP is a social impact organization that is a service-based, nonpartisan 501c3 organization that spent months analyzing our data, staying in communities, deepening existing relationships, and creating new ones to provide a road map of service for the future. We work to engage in historically and continually marginalized communities to bridge the gaps between politics, politicians and people. In doing this most critical work, we help lift Black and Brown people to claim their power.
New North Carolina Project is knocking doors in targeted BIPOC communities in Mecklenburg and Gaston Counties, running a social media campaign and continuing work on local HBCU campuses to register young Black men.
NNCP works to help underserved communities claim their power through economic mobility, housing security, public safety and civic engagement. We speak for the #TrueMajority.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: NC
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Latinx, Multi-racial (including white)
Priority Issues: Environmental Justice, Environmental hazards in homes with energy inefficiencies, College/Career/Workforce Education needs & requirements, Health & Well-being, Criminal Justice Reform & Re-Entry
The New North Carolina Project Action Fund (NNCPAF) implemented a comprehensive electoral program in 2023-2024, leveraging strategic field operations, community engagement, and relational organizing to mobilize voters in underrepresented communities. Our approach combined door-to-door canvassing, digital engagement, and a multitouch strategy rooted in decision science to ensure meaningful voter contact and activation.
Engages communities of color year round in education, direct aid, and collective action in 4 Pillars: Economic Mobility, Public Safety, Housing Security, and Civic Engagement. We directly canvass voters about our Buildings Upgrade Program, energy audits, and the connection to their vote in the upcoming election.
We make North Carolina politics reflect the true majority by centering & investing in communities, expanding the engaged electorate, and creating #lifelongvoters.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: NC
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: Black, AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander), Latinx
Register rural voters of color through events with community leaders, relational organizing, doors, and voter registration drives in underserved communities and schools.
New Rural Project (NRP) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that engages young and marginalized residents in rural communities to amplify their voices through increased civic and electoral engagement. NRP works to eliminate barriers to engagement by listening to rural stakeholders and working together to develop community-driven solutions.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: NC
Geographic Focus: Rural
Core Constituencies: BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color), Latinx, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
Priority Issues: New Rural Project’s work begins and ends with listening. We’ve used focus groups, polling, canvassing, phonebanking and community engagement to understand the issues most important to our core constituencies which are rural folks of color. Based on our listening, NRP focuses on education, healthcare, public safety, and voting rights as an organization.
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
Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation is partnering with community leaders, organizations and churches to register Black voters at block parties, festivals and house parties, and through door-to-door canvassing.
The Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation, (Ohio Unity Coalition) is a state affiliate of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in Washington DC. OUC and is incorporated as a is a 501c-3 organization in Ohio. Our primary purpose is to increase political literacy and civic engagement in black communities across Ohio, while building capacity in our member organizations and the communities in which we serve. The variety of voter contact /voter service mechanisms we utilize range from voter registration, education, voter/election protection, get-out-the-vote and issue advocacy around priorities specific to black communities.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
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
We will carry out a voter education program utilizing canvasing, digital ads, billboards, as well as activation of our volunteer physician and healthcare provider speakers bureau. The unifying message will be physicians and healthcare providers connecting the dots between the critical importance of voting and protecting our hard-earned Constitutional right to reproductive freedom.
Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights is dedicated to reproductive healthcare advocacy. Our guiding principle is to uphold and expand access to safe, legal, equitable, and comprehensive reproductive medical care for all Ohioans, while fiercely protecting patients’ right to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions, free from government interference.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
As a Black-led, Reproductive Justice organization in Ohio, Ohio Women’s Alliance is a trusted messenger within Black and brown communities across the state. Ensuring there are pro-choice justices on the Ohio Supreme Court in 24 will be crucial to protecting our constitutional rights and advancing true access in Ohio.
Ohio Women’s Alliance is a power-building Reproductive Justice organization providing programming, resources, and education for women, femmes, gender-expansive folks, and youth throughout Ohio. Rooted in the foundations of Reproductive Justice, our mission is to transform Ohio into a state where all people can truly thrive through access to safe communities, equitable education, holistic health care and wellness, inclusive and representative democracy, and economic prosperity.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
CaPA States Covered: OH
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Women, BIPOC (Black; Indigenous and/or People Of Color)
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
Priority Issues: PA members organize action teams focused on specific issues that affect the Durham community. The focus of these teams vary depending on the current prominence of issues and on volunteer leadership. We encourage members to lead organizing efforts directed at new issues. Issues in the last year are public education, child & family, climate justice, housing and transit and voter engagement. PA members have a comprehensive approach to registering and engaging voters by gaining understanding about what issue motivates the voter. PA can also provide an avenue for advocacy beyond the act of voting in an election.
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
Civics education for voters to learn about local and state races, target new residents (our area is growing) to register to vote, materials explaining candidate policy positions by canvassing and tabling at farmer’s market
Progressive volunteers in a red corner of our blue county, focused on voter turnout and education
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: OH
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Multi-racial (including white), Women
Organization Leadership: Volunteer-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: All volunteer - there are no paid staff involved in the organizations
Our GOTV efforts reach Dem/left leaning, Independent, and underserved communities, with voter registration & engagement; postcard events; co-hosting public candidate forums and fundraisers; phone/text banks; canvassing. Along with GOTV for Biden-Harris, Ohio has several, pivotal races- Sherrod Brown for US Senate; 3 Supreme Court Justices (Forbes, Stewart, Donnelly); and a ballot amendment for Fair Districts.
To promote a civic and political agenda that supports civil rights, economic justice, access to healthcare and well-being of our nation.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: OH
Core Constituencies: We do not target any specific demographics and/or it is difficult to say who we may reach
Organization Leadership: Volunteer-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: All volunteer - there are no paid staff involved in the organizations
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
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 knocking on doors talking to voters, organizing a Young Democrats of Warren County, will be calling voters, sending postcards and doing ALL we can to elect Democrats from the top of the ballot to the bottom. We are having a countywide social to meet voters and inviting statewide candidates to meet our voters!
We are a county Democratic Party in a small, poor, rural county of NC.
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.
This election cycle, I want to target residents in two low turnout Canton (OH-13) precincts by registering voters, hopefully knocking on doors during GOTV and mailing letters similar to Vote Forward's encouraging infrequent voters to vote. We'll try to get voters to commit to a voting day and send reminders to them as their voting day approaches.
We Make Ohio is an organization that will highlight how everyday Ohioans are the heroes of our state and federal government, not politicians or the corporations that fund them. Everyday Ohioans are going to demand the funding we need to make our state and our communities whole and deliver on the policies we want to see in our government.
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
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
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.
Registering Latino voters in Cuyahoga county through relational organizing, volunteer tabling at communty events and festivals, digital outreach and partnering with Latino-owned businesses to serve as voter registration hubs
The mission of the Young Latino Network is to coalesce the power of Latinx/a/o/e communities in order to liberate and transform our people. We amplify our ability to enact change through community-building, civic engagement and advocacy in Ohio.
Budget Size: Micro: Previous year budget < $20,000
CaPA States Covered: OH
Geographic Focus: Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Latinx, Puerto Rican, Youth and Students (aged 17-35)
