COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
TOOLS & RESOURCES
CaPA’s toolkit is a clearing house of resources for easy organizing access. Please continue to check back for updates!
Vote.org is a nonpartisan voting registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) technology platform. They offer a suite of digital tools that allow users to register to vote, check registration status, request a mail ballot, pre-register for those under 18, receive election reminders, and pledge to vote.
Cost: Basic tools are free, various pricing options available to acquire data
TurboVote helps voters participate in every election—from school board to President—and streamlines voter engagement. Their tools, which easily integrate with organizations’ websites, allow voters to check their registration status, receive election reminders, learn about what’s on their ballot, and more.
Cost: Basic tools are free, cost varies for customized tools for organization websites
All In To Vote’s Out of State College Student Voting Guide succinctly explains voting registrations rules and options for college students attending school in a different state than their permanent address.
Cost: Free
ActiVote’s easy to use, nonpartisan app educates voters on important issues, when and where they can cast their vote, connects them with their elected officials, and allows them to make their voice heard by quickly answering key polling questions.
Cost: Free
Rock the Vote offers civic tech tools that partner organizations can link to for free on their websites. Tools include an Online Voter Registration platform available in 13 languages, a Pledge to Vote tool with election reminders, a Voter Status Lookup tool, and an Absentee Ballot Request tool.
Cost: Basic Civic Tech tools are free, cost varies for Premium tools
The TargetSmart Voter Registration Dashboard shows voter registration data from the 2020, 2022, and 2024 election cycles, comparing current data with past election cycles. It is updated twice a week and includes a wealth of demographic data including age, gender, race, and partisanship, as well as whether voters live in urban, suburban, or rural areas.
Cost: Free
guides.vote produces nonpartisan voter guides that show where candidates stand on issues, including abortion access, climate change, criminal justice, student financial aid, healthcare and immigration. guides.vote will supply free printed nonpartisan guides (as well as free digital versions) for nonpartisan outreach efforts in certain states.
Cost: Free
VOTE411 from the League of Women Voters Education Fund is a “one-stop-shop” for election information. It provides nonpartisan state-specific information in all 50 states on how and where to vote, including registration deadlines. Voters can enter their address to see a personalized voter guide for their ballot, and get links to detailed voter guides from their local LWV chapters.
Cost: Free
ActionNetwork offers a variety of tools to engage and grow your base of supporters through event registrations, petitions, sending letters to elected officials, grassroots fundraising campaigns, and email outreach. This short video from Andrea Miller, Executive Director of Center for Common Ground, walks you through the platform and some of the tools ActionNetworks offers.
Cost: Basic tools are free, pricing is based on usage defined by monthly email volume
CaPA Grantees: CaPA can connect you with personalized support in signing up and getting on-boarded using ActionNetwork. Email emilia@cleanprosperousamerica.org
Empower Project offers a free relational organizing app and free training, tech, and data support for non-profit organizations. Empower can be your volunteer action hub to stay connected with volunteers, ask volunteers to reach out to friends and family or to take action on their own, send updates quickly with mass texting, and expand your program with canvassing.
Cost: Free
OutreachCircle is a relational organizing platform that makes it easy for volunteers to reach out to friends via email, text, or social media. You can choose to have supporters contact anyone in their network or use real-time mapping to match their friends against a targeted list, voter file, or membership database.
Cost: Free for volunteer organizations, $30-$50 per month for larger organizations
With Impactive, volunteers can reach their personal contacts via text, email, call, and social DM. You can send messaging actions to volunteers based on where they live, what language they speak, or whether or not they have contacts in a certain district or zip code and sync volunteer contact reports directly voter files.
Cost: $50 – $1,000 per month
CallHub Relational Organizing is a free app enables volunteers to reach out to their contacts through texts, calls, and social media, collect survey responses, and do follow ups all from one platform. Volunteers can use the app in English, Spanish and French.
Cost: Free
GetThru is a peer-to-peer texting and calling tool. Their ThruText software enables texters to send over 200 messages per minute and have thousands of simultaneous text message conversations through a centralized, trackable system. ThruTalk software allows users to import lists and survey questions, make calls with branching script tools, and reach speeds of 250 dials/hour per caller.
Cost: 1.5¢ per SMS, 3.5¢ per MMS and video, 3.5¢ per dial
Impactive’s platform includes tools for broadcast and peer-to-peer texting, phone banking, relational organizing, voter registration, custom form building, and more. Impactive’s predictive dialer allows you to host high-impact phone banks on web or mobile with easy-to-use interactive scripts. Their Peer-to-Peer Texting tool allows you to filter contacts, reach thousands of contacts per hour, and manage text conversations on a streamlined inbox.
Cost: $50 – $1,000 per month
Center for Common Ground trains and provides supplies, addresses, and tailored scripts for volunteers to handwrite colorful and informative postcards to voters of color in targeted voter suppression states.
Cost: Postcard cost varies by volume
Markers for Democracy is a group of grassroots activists working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot by writing get-out-the-vote postcards to Democratic voters. Offers postcards, targeted address lists, and Zoom events where volunteers write postcards together, talk politics, and listen to speakers.
Cost: Postcard cost varies by volume, can request financial assistance for stamps
Vote Run Lead’s Campaign Safety resources offer practical guidance on de-escalation, knowing your rights, and keeping yourself and your team and volunteers safe doing voter outreach in person and online.
Staying Safe While Door-Knocking by Vote Run Lead Action in partnership with Oregon Future Labs
Guide to Creating a Safety Plan for Your Campaign Team by Vote Run Lead Action
Know Your Rights in Police Interactions by Vote Run Lead Action in partnership with Oregon Future Labs
Cost: Free
CaPA’s Safe and Effective Protesting Guide has valuable tips and resources to help you be prepared and stay safe if you are organizing or participating in a public protest.
Cost: Free
You and the 34%: How to Have Meaningful Conversations with High-Potential Voters is a training video that teaches canvassers how to engage reluctant voters through listening and speaking skills. Based on Motivational Interviewing techniques, You and the 34% teaches canvassers to use openness and curiosity to encourage non-voters to talk about their reasons for staying away from the polls, to imagine what might be better if they did vote, and to reconsider their disengagement.
Cost: Free
Students Learn Students Vote has an extensive, searchable Resources Library with guides and toolkits on topics from student voter engagement to countering disinformation to keeping GOTV messaging nonpartisan and more.
Cost: Free
Call or text 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) (available in multiple languages) to speak with a trained Election Protection volunteer about registration, absentee and early voting, casting a vote at the polls, or overcoming obstacles to participation. The Election Protection coalition is made up of more than 300 local, state and national partners to protect, advance and defend the right to vote.
Cost: Free
The ACLU’s Know Your Voting Rights guide provides information about how to exercise your voting rights, resist voter intimidation efforts, and access disability-related accommodations and language assistance at the polls.
Cost: Free
The Brennan Center’s Guide to Laws Against Intimidation of Voters and Election Workers identifies the kinds of voter intimidation that are most likely to arise and outlines legal tools to deter, mitigate, and respond to such tactics.
Cost: Free
NALEO’s year-round 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (1-888-839-8682) bilingual national hotline provides Latino voters with vital information on every aspect of the electoral process, from registering to vote, to deciding between options to vote early, by mail, or on Election Day. The hotline is staffed by live bilingual operators trained to assist callers with any voting questions or issues.
Cost: Free
Guides to additional tools and resources for voter engagement:
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed in 2022, provides billions of dollars in federal funding for climate and clean energy projects in communities across the country, especially those that have historically been burdened by pollution. The IRA includes tax credits for clean electricity, road transport, hydrogen production, and carbon capture and storage, as well as a fee on methane emissions. The IRA also includes funding for rebates, such as point-of-sale discounts on electric stoves.
The Trump administration opposes the IRA. President Trump’s January 20th executive order paused the disbursement of IRA funds and the major Republican bill passed by the House seeks to roll back IRA funding and tax credits. However, a wide range of corporations, industry groups, non-governmental organizations, and politicians are advocating to defend the IRA. As much of the IRA funding allocated through tax credit benefits Republican districts, some Republican lawmakers have publicly voiced support for the clean energy tax credits.
Below is a curated list of resources for non-governmental organizations engaged in defending IRA funding and/or advocating to preserve the IRA, as well as resources to help individuals to take advantage of cost/energy saving programs funded by the IRA. If you would like more information, or to suggest a resource to add to this toolkit, contact emilia@cleanprosperousamerica.org.
CaPA’s 2025 State Control Post-Election Map
Current political map created by CaPA with filterable views showing information relevant to IRA defense, including current party control of states, politically important states and congressional districts, states that have benefited from IRA funding, and the most IRA benefited Republican districts.
Resources for organizations defending their IRA funding and advocating for the importance of IRA-funded programs
Lawyers for Good Government
L4GG’s Fund Protection Clinic provides legal assistance to organizations whose Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) federal funding is at risk due to executive actions, administrative delays, termination notices, investigations, or compliance challenges. Attorneys can provide free legal advice to qualified federal grantees.
UndauntedK12
Helping schools access IRA energy tax credits through Elective Pay to modernize their facilities and fleets with clean energy technologies. Advocating to defend energy tax credits under the new administration and advising schools implementing IRA-funded projects.
Energy Tax Credits Action Center hub with tools, stories, and examples of school leaders making the case for energy tax credits.
Elective Pay Database national map of school investments with Energy Tax Credits
United Today, Stronger Tomorrow
Helping organizations advocate for and defend existing IRA funding for local projects and message the importance of IRA funding to strategically targeted Members of Congress (Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming).
IRA Senate Defense Toolkit is a short guide to actions people can take to urge Senators to preserve the IRA tax credits
Federal Funding Engagement Fact Book includes data, strategies and talking points for each target state
Environmental Protection Network
Over 600 EPA alumni across the country volunteering their time building and defending the capacity of environmental agencies and the communities they serve.
Offering webinars and “office hours” on federal funding compliance and defense
InfluenceMap’s Policy Tracker on the Inflation Reduction Act
Assesses and tracks company and industry group positions on the current administration’s proposed rollbacks of the IRA’s financial incentives
Inflation Reduction Act Tracker
Records steps taken by federal agencies to implement, or rollback implementation of, the climate change-related provisions of the IRA.
Linked to the IRA Database, which provides more information about the IRA, and its climate-related provisions.
Climate Power
Fact sheet showing the impact of the Trump administration’s actions on climate and clean energy, with examples.
Evergreen Action
Calls to action to rally support from individuals to defend clean energy tax credits
Blue Green Alliance
Website that makes it easy to send an email right to your senators and tell them to defend the good paying jobs created by the IRA.
Resources for individuals to take advantage of cost/energy saving programs funded by the IRA
WorkMoney
Membership organization that connects individuals and households with resources including government programs to save money on basic needs. While these resources help folks save money in many different categories, enrolling in consumer tax benefits created by the IRA are included.
Rewiring America
Make A Plan tool helps homeowners and renters generate a personalized electrification plan based on their particular home, lifestyle, and priorities. Includes a Savings Calculator to determine eligibility for savings programs for energy-efficient appliances and upgrades.
IRA Benefits Fact Sheet by Climate Cabinet Education
Brief, introductory guide to highlighted IRA benefits and savings for individuals.