CREATE YOUR PUBLIC CAPA CONNECTOR CARD

To help raise money for community-based organizations that are engaging voters and advocating for climate, social, racial and/or economic justice, CaPA has created the CaPA Connector platform to increase the visibility of your great work among donors both inside and outside our network. CaPA will also be using the information collected via this form to inform our grant program in 2025 and beyond.

If your organization does not yet have a card, please use the fields below to share your information. You are welcome to leave fields blank if there is any information you’d prefer not to share, though we strongly recommend providing as much information as possible so your profile is complete. 

Each legal entity (c3, c4, PAC, etc.) should have a separate card. Please complete this form separately for any affiliated entities that you would also like to be considered for funding. 

There are three sections on this form: 1) basic questions about your organization and contact info; 2) more detailed questions about your organization’s leadership and programs; and 3) a budget worksheet that will only be shared with trusted funding partners who are interested in learning about the finer details of your work. The budget worksheet will be emailed to you after completing sections 1 and 2 of the form.

To aid your work on this submission: Here is a Google document with all the questions in the CaPA Connector Card Creation form. We recommend you make a copy of this form for group editing with your team. Your Budget Worksheet, which again will be emailed to you, in particular may have different team members working on it and is set up for group editing. You can also print and save this form as a PDF to have an offline copy of the questions.

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BASIC INFORMATION

Please fill in your Organization’s legal name here. Note: Each entity (c3, c4, PAC etc) should have its own card, so please submit this form for each entity you would like listed in the CaPA Connector. 
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Entity Type
Check which entity applies for this card. Please submit a new card for every unique entity you would like highlighted in the CaPA Connector even if they have nearly identical programming plans. You can start a new org card as needed by completing a blank version of this form.
If your entity does not have an EIN# please enter N/A
Other Affiliated Entities Type, Name, EIN

Check which other entity types, if any, are affiliated with your organization. Please list the full legal name and Employer Identification Number (EIN) for each other entity type that is seeking funding.

Please do not display any contact information for this organization on CaPA’s website. We advise keeping contact information (email only displayed on public CaPA Connector) for donors looking to reach you.

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Please note phone numbers are retained for non-public purposes and will not be displayed publicly.

ORGANIZATION & PROGRAM INFORMATION

In 100 words or less, describe in a timeless fashion what your organization does and stands for.

In 100 words or less, describe your core 2025 programming plans.

Is your organization’s previous year budget size correct on CaPA’s website? If yes, leave this field blank. If not, fill in your Organization Size here.

Please share how many Full Time Equivalent (FTE) employees or contractors your organization currently has (e.g. 1 person working 40 hrs/week = 1 FTE; 3 people working 20 hrs/week = 1.5 FTE).

Organization Leadership Diversity

Please select the demographics, where applicable, for your organization’s leaders.

Please provide a short narrative about the leadership roles filled by the individuals representing the demographics selected above.

Target Constituencies

What constituencies does your organization engage? Check all boxes that apply.

Core Constituencies

Please select no more than three core constituencies which you view as your primary target.

Target Issues

What issues does your organization seek to educate or persuade people about? Check all boxes that apply. And use “Other” field to list additional issue focuses separated by commas.

Core Issues

Please select no more than three core issues which you view as the primary issue your organization engages.

Geographic density focus

Select your geographic density focus

Program States

Please select the states your organization is working in.

Many donors are interested in work that is occurring at a sub-state level. CaPA tracks sub-state geographies using U.S. congressional districts. Please share with us all of the Congressional Districts where your organization fields outreach and engagement efforts.  This does not mean or require that your organization engages the congressional district race(s), just the geography contained by those district boundaries. Follow this format (State Acronym - District # separated by commas) [e.g. CA-27, AZ-01, AZ-06, CO-03]. To help identify your sub-state geographies you can review CD’s, counties, and zip-codes on this nation-wide GIS map and here is a list of all CDs by State.

Community Engagement Actions

Based on feedback from grantees CaPA has expanded the list of community engagement actions you can report. Please add or correct to this list any programs you fielded in 2024.

  • Direct Voter Registration = targeting a list of unregistered voters
  • Indirect Voter Registration = tabling or other outreach without using a list of unregistered voters
  • Cold List Phone Calling or Texting = calling or texting people not connected to you or your organization
  • Warm List Phone Calling or Texting = calling or texting people who have given your organization their contact information
  • Relational Phone Calling or Texting = calling or texting friends, family, or other personal connections
 
Staff and Volunteer Balance

Select your Staff and Volunteer Balance.

If there is an existing annual report or summary that you’d like to share, please attach it here.
Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

BUDGET WORKSHEET

CaPA has developed a budget worksheet template to help institutional donors evaluate your organization’s activities and associated costs over a two year period, including the current calendar year’s projected budget and last year’s actual budget.  While this worksheet is not required, we encourage all groups to complete it since we will share this information with interested donors and we have found this data greatly strengthens your overall profile on our private CaPA Connector platform. The budget worksheet information will not be displayed on the public CaPA Connector website and only shared with trusted funding partners.  Once this form is submitted, you will receive an automated email with a unique URL linked to your organization’s budget worksheet workbook.