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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Fill out this Card Creation Form to add your organization to the CaPAConnector. If you are already listed on the CaPAConnector and would like to update or remove your information, find your organization’s card below and click the Update This Information button.
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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.
Formed by some of the people who successfully fought off attacks on our health care in 2017, we’re organizing adults with serious medical conditions and health care activists across the country as a force for change. We are uplifting health care messaging to a disability focused audience nationally and in key states and regions through organic and paid content, as well as offering free media trainings to health care activists and storytellers.
Organizing adults with serious medical conditions to make health care more affordable and available for all.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Large city (>100k), Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: Women, People with disabilities, Seniors (aged 65+)
Five days before Veterans Day, and just months after their Independence Day 2024 founding, Independent Veterans of America (IVA) celebrated a historic performance by eleven IVA-endorsed candidates in five states. IVA supported independent veteran candidates at all levels — from local school boards to the US Senate. And we sent shockwaves across the political world by winning an unprecedented 36% of our races.
IVA is the first organization in American history to focus specifically on recruiting, supporting and electing independent and unaffiliated veteran candidates and incumbents. We are a full spectrum education, support, advocacy and election machine with a 501 c4, a 527/PAC and have 501 c3 fiscal sponsorship.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
The Local Progress Impact Lab (the Impact Lab) brings together local leaders, partners, and experts to build the knowledge, skills, and leadership needed to advance racial, economic, and gender justice at the local and state level. Our membership is made up of more than 1500 local elected officials who together form the Local Progress network. The Impact Lab provides leadership development and governance training programming and policy, communications, and organizing support to our members and supports them in utilizing a model of collaborative governance that brings historically marginalized and oppressed communities to the center of policymaking.
Our work is member-driven, and as such, our issue focus areas can shift to respond to dynamic environments that create windows of opportunity for elected officials to drive an equitable agenda forward. In 2025, we will focus on climate change and climate justice, housing, economic justice, public safety, public education, and immigrant rights. Programming includes policy primers, issue deep-dives, webinars to launch and distribute resources the Impact Lab creates in collaboration with our partners, such as reports, policy memos, messaging toolkits, and case studies. We will also hold regionally-tailored leadership and governance trainings for local and state elected officials.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Geographic Focus: Rural and Small cities (<100k), Urban - Large city, or suburb of large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: LGBTQ+, Multi-racial (including white), Other
Organization Leadership: BIPOC-led, Queer-led, Trans; non-binary; and gender nonconforming-led, Women-led, Other
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs
POW is leading the outdoor movement for climate action, through training, advocacy and education powered by the world’s most inspirational athletes, artists, scientists and brands. We advocate for transformative policy solutions to tackle the climate crisis head-on. Leading with our Alliance members, we are committed to building the power of the Outdoor State to protect public lands and drive the clean energy transition at the local, state and national levels. Our vision for a future with clean air, clean water and a healthy planet can only be achieved when all communities speak up for the places and experiences we love.
In 2025, we are launching a new grassroots program that will empower community organizing for climate in key geographies across the U.S., and we are creating new trainings and educational resources to inform and inspire our entire community to engage with our campaigns to protect public lands and accelerate decarbonization in the U.S. We will continue to train, elevate and expand our superpower Alliances whose stories reach broad audiences and inspire more individuals to see themselves as climate champions.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AK, AZ, CO, ME, MT, MV, NH, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY
Core Constituencies: We do not target any specific demographics and/or it is difficult to say who we may reach
Organization Leadership: 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
Founded in 2001, the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) is a public interest nonprofit dedicated to achieving a healthy, equitable, and low carbon future by advancing clean energy, energy efficiency, electrification, and clean transportation solutions in the southwestern United States. In collaboration with state and local governments, utilities, environmental and community groups, businesses, agencies, and others, SWEEP advocates for programs, policies, and funding to mitigate climate change and its impacts, support underserved and disadvantaged communities, and save people money on energy and transportation costs. SWEEP has helped pass more than 150 state laws across the Southwest.
SWEEP will work to advance a clean and equitable energy future in 2025 through three programs: 1) Utilities: Working to get utilities to invest in renewable energy resources, energy efficiency programs, and demand response efforts to reduce energy waste, utility bills, and emissions; 2) Buildings: Ensuring that homes and commercial buildings are constructed or retrofitted to be energy efficient and heated and cooled with clean electricity; and 3) Transportation: electrifying the transportation sector; promoting multimodal alternatives like transit, biking, and walking; and advocating for smart land use and affordable infill housing to reduce travel costs, demand, and emissions.
Budget Size: Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
Vet Voice Foundation’s direct mail program, targeting approximately 7.1 million households in states with high veteran and military family populations, will increase voter turnout among veteran and military family voters. Additionally, we will layer our mail program with veteran-centric targeted digital ads and rural radio ads in key markets.
Since 2009, the mission of Vet Voice Foundation has been to empower veterans and military families to have a voice in our democracy by providing them with the support, training, and tools to shape policy and impact outcomes in their communities.
Budget Size: Large: Previous year budget > $3M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Geographic Focus: Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k)
Core Constituencies: Other
Organization Leadership: Queer-led, Women-led, Other
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Lead Contact: Janessa GoldbeckCEO, Vet Voice Foundationjanessa@vvfnd.org
Priority Issues: America’s 28 million veterans and military family members are often overlooked in voter turnout efforts, despite the fact that they are a key constituency, particularly in non-urban areas around the country. While some may stereotype veterans as white, male, and conservative, the reality is that veterans represent the diversity of America. , , Over the past 30 years, racial and ethnic minorities have entered the military in ever-increasing numbers. Women, Black, AAPI, and Latino veterans are the fastest-growing demographics in the veteran community. Currently minorities make up 27% of living veterans and by 2040, they are projected to make up 35.7%. These changing demographics provide an exciting opportunity to bring new voices to the forefront of our democracy. , , In the 2020 Presidential election, there was a notable division among veterans based on age, race, and gender. Data from the 2020 Cooperative Congressional Election Study has emphasized the growing influence of younger veterans with diverse political views, reflecting broader societal changes in political alignments, demographics, and issues of concern., , Vet Voice Foundation’s proprietary Veteran & Military Family Voter File is the first in the nation to use a combination of commercial data, modeling, digital advertising, direct mail, and volunteer-driven outreach to identify veterans and military families and mobilize them to vote.
We're fighting against Trump's anti public health nominees to run key health departments, for protecting our health care including defending against cuts to the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Medicare including privatization, pushing for more affordable prescription drugs nationally and in the states, fighting against predatory medical debt, for lowering the costs of care including fighting mergers, hospital consolidation, private equity takeovers, outrageous facility fees for patients, for reining in insurance company abuses, and fighting for Medicaid expansion and public options to private insurance.
We're distributing health care and general progressive digital content now to educate and motivate health care voters through our own social media and a network of state-focused Facebook pages. Targeting health care voters in key Presidential battlegrounds, educating and activating on abortion and repro issues including IVF and contraception, access to health care, affordable prescription drugs. Reaching through our email list and organic and paid social media, nationally and in key states.
Organizing adults with serious medical conditions to make health care more affordable and available for all.
Budget Size: Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
CaPA States Covered: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Geographic Focus: Rural / Suburban / Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city or suburb of large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies: Women, People with disabilities, Other
Organization Leadership: Women-led, Disabled-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance: Volunteer boosted - <50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
