The groups we are supporting through the Movement Voter Fund are busy reaching out within their communities.
Tomorrow We Vote
Tomorrow We Vote (501c3) is a Phoenix, Arizona-based nonpartisan nonprofit focused on registering students in high schools using a specialized curriculum developed to allow voting-aged youth to understand their political power.
Poder in Action
An organization that seeks to determine a liberated future for people of color in Arizona. It is organizing neighbors, classmates, and building canvass capacit in preparation for early voting beginning October 11th focusing on youth, first-time voters, and communities of color in West Phoenix. They have knocked on 15,200 doors and plan to reach 30,000 more through a hybrid strategy of direct action and culture/art to energize voters in Maryvale precincts. More financial support is needed for paid canvass, technology expansion, and direct action supplies.
Foundation for Arizona's Students
A student-led, non-partisan organization created to represent the collective interest of the 140,000+ university students and 400,000+ community college students i n Arizona. They advocate at the local, state, and national levels for affordable and accessible higher education. Their organization i s built around three pillars – advocacy, organizing, and
leadership development.
One Arizona
One Arizona was formed as a direct response to the growing disenfranchisement of voters and the attack on the Latino community i n the form of SB1070. The table members represent a broad tapestry of 501c3s focused on voter registration, voter engagement, voter mobilization, election protection, and issue advocacy. They work collaboratively on civic engagement efforts i n statewide and municipal election cycles, which i ncreases the effectiveness, coordination, and evaluation of those effrts. ef
Arizona Center for Empowerment
ACE i s a Center for Popular Democracy affiliate based i n the Phoenix area, started to challenge anti-immigrant policies. They have Latino and immigrant members, and provide empowerment services along with leadership development, organizing, and civic engagement at scale.
Arizona Coalition for Change
Arizona Coalition for Change ( C4C) i s a member-led organization based i n Phoenix and Tucson committed to advocating for lasting progressive public policies that empower and equip our most vulnerable communities. They focus on building civic and political power i n black and brown communities through voter mobilization & turnout, grassroots organizing, leadership development training, voter registration. By putting people first, they develop and lift up the voices of the New American Majority to take on the nations’ most pressing issues.
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Florida’s strongest immigrant rights organization and one of the anchor immigrant-rights groups nationally. FLIC is fighting deportations, educating immigrants on rights, advocating for Sanctuary cities, and a strong civic engagement program.
Dream Defenders
Dream Defenders is a human rights organization founded in the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin. It aims to end police and state brutality towards people of color, stop the school-to-prison pipeline, and shift culture through transformational organizing. They have courageously exposed the impacts of The Geo Group, a corporation that runs for-profit prisons. They have made private prison money a major campaign issue and run major voter engagement programs around voting rights.
Faith in Florida
A multicultural network of congregations across Florida tackling systemic racial and economic injustice. Affiliated with the PICO National Network, FIF won a ‘ Ban the Box’ measure in Broward County and worked on restoring voting rights to 1.5 million people disenfranchised by felony convictions. They are active i n immigrant defense, know your rights and Sanctuary city work.
Organize Florida
Organize Florida i s a strong organization and affiliate of the Center for Popular Democracy, based i n Orlando and Tampa. They combine grassroots base-building with election work to advance racial, economic, climate and reproductive justice.
New Florida Majority Education Fund
An energized multiracial organization with a statewide presence, working to assure a progressive shift in Florida over issues on racial justice, climate, and gender justice. They are increasing the voting power of Florida’s l ow-income black, African-Carribean, Latino, and LGBTQ community by training citizens and mobilizing voters. Served as hub of the Second Chances voter restoration campaign, have registered 31,000 new voters and won a key lawsuit that enabled 108,000 voters to register.
482 Forward
A citywide education organizing network in Detroit made up of neighborhood organizations, parents, and youth building power to win educational justice for all Detroit children. Due to their energized organizing efforts, they’ve succeeded in lowering chronic absenteeism in Brightmoor and Southwest Detroit and stopped unjust school closures. They are embarking on GOTV efforts, water access education, and equitable school funding campaigns.
Action of Greater Lansing
A coalition of 16 congregations that work on 1 to 3 key issues every year. Their Integrated Voter Engagement Taskforce works on voter registration and ensuring that voters get to the polls. Action is an affiliate of Gamaliel of Michigan and the Gamaliel Network.
Black Lives Matter Lansing
An organization that runs an ongoing series of trainings for allies and has trained 1500 people, working on developing a racial equity tool. They engage with mothers whose sons have been killed to help them get their chapter online by November. Their key issues are education, economic justice, and climate.
Detroit Action
A grassroots membership-based organization that fights for economic and social justice for low-income workers in Detroit through issue campaigns and voter engagement. They are affiliates of the Center for Popular Democracy.
Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation
Organization i n Detroit focused on providing key programs to the Latino community. Among its efforts includes advocacy, leadership development, and facilitating experiences for people to become part of the civic process.
Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan
A collaboration of 4 community organizations ( MOSES, ROC-MI, Mothering Justice, and Building Movement Project- Detroit People’s Platform) i s building major power in low- income and working class communities statewide. They led the successful effort to raise the state’s minimum wage and worked on an attempt to get paid sick leave on the ballot. Their Center for Progressive Leadership runs training programs for Local Candidates & Campaign Managers.
Emgage Foundation, Inc.
Emgage seeks to educate, engage and empower Muslim American communities through educational events, voter initiatives, and leadership development for the purpose of creating a community of equitable, knowledgeable, and motivated citizens.
Equality Michigan Education Fund
Advocating for LGBTQ inclusion and protections statewide.
Michigan Faith in Action
A diverse and interdenominational grassroots organizing initiative building a faith-based movement across the state. They address root causes and results of poverty, violence, and division through training faith and community leaders, mobilizing youth around civic engagement, hosting Mayoral debates in Flint, and participating in the Live Free Campaign to dismantle mass criminalization of people of color. A proud PICO national network affiliate.
Michigan Liberation Education Fund
A statewide organization dedicated to the leadership development of community members and the creation of effective campaigns to advance racial, gender, economic and criminal justice reform statewide.
Michigan Muslim Community Council
The Michigan Muslim Community Council promotes unity and cooperation among the diverse Muslim communities, cultures, ethnic backgrounds and races of Michigan by convening and mobilizing the American Muslim community.
Michigan Student Power Alliance
A growing progressive student network, which launched VOTE MOB campaigns campuses, distributed more than 13,000 voter guides, registered more than 1300 people to vote.
Michigan United
A growing People’s Action affiliate, statewide with strength i n Detroit, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. They organize faith, immigrant, and African-American communities on racial, gender, economic and environmental justice with campaigns on child and elder care. Active on Immigrant and Refugee defense. They have 16 staff over 100 institution affiliates, and have integrated conversations with voters into their movement-building strategy. A major hub of the Michigan Resistance.
Michigan Voice
Michigan Voice’s partners with groups organizing traditionally underrepresented and marginalized communities to vote: people of color, single women, youth, and l ow-income individuals, first generation immigrant youth, people formerly incarcerated. A fiscally sponsored project of State Voices, their work i s key to voter turnout i n upcoming elections, census participation, and redistricting.
MOSES
Guided by faith-based principles of social justice and fellowship, MOSES supports Michigan’s historically marginalized communities, and empowers ordinary people to find and exercise their civic power.
Mothering Justice
A well-organized group of mothers advocating for affordable child care, birth justice, earned paid sick time, family medical leave insurance, and raising the minimum wage. They engage voters around issues of income fairness, lead advocacy work that amplifies the voices of mothers of color, provide leadership development that builds the next generation of mother policymakers, and create family-friendly activist spaces.
Muslim ARC
The Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative ( MuslimARC) i s a faith-based human rights education organization. We create spaces, connect people, and cultivate solutions for racial justice.
Restaurant Opportunities Center
ROC-Michigan i s dedicated to winning improved working conditions and opportunities for advancement for Southeast Michigan’s 134,000 restaurant workers, from dishwashers to servers, from fast food to fine dining.
Rising Voices for Asian American Families
Emerging organization with lots of synergy will be running education efforts about voting rights and focus on a key issue from conversations from community members.
Sunrise Movement Education Fund
A youth-led movement to stop the climate crisis and create millions of good jobs i n the process. Organizing to make climate action a priority and elect leaders at every level of government who stand up for the wellbeing and health of their community. The Education Fund supports the education and awareness efforts of the movement’s plan to make climate change and urgent priority and exposes the corruption of fossil executives.
We the People of Michigan
We the People i s building infrastructure to engage Michiganders on unifying issues l ike paid sick time, redistricting, and water rights, while also creating dialogue on divisions of race, class, gender, urban/rural, and immigration. They’re bringing existing groups i nto collaboration to engage i n grassroots conversations, organizing, and leadership at a new scale. I n the past, We the People worked on a minimum wage and paid sick l eave ballot measure.
Blueprint NC
Blueprint NC is a large, powerful State Voices affiliate that works closely with all the key grassroots groups that do vote work i n NC. They provide grants and technical support to many smaller community-based groups. Together those groups registered over 200,000 voters.
Down Home Carolina
Down Home Carolina unites to build the power and raise the voices of working people in small town and rural North Carolina to take action. By weaving together their different experiences, they strive to shape a democracy that serves working people, where their labor is valued and their food, land, and water are healthy.
Muslim Women For
Muslim Women For is a grassroots organization of diverse women leaders whose mission is to embody and be an effective voice of the Qur’anic i deals of human dignity, egalitarianism, compassion, and social justice. We are dedicated to working together to create transformative change by organizing locally and building power through direct service, community organizing, advocacy, and spiritual resistance. In 2018 they ran their fist civic engagement program with the help and support of MVP focusing i n the southeast neighborhoods of Raleigh, NC that i s primarily a people of color neighborhood. Their focus was voter registration and GOTV events to encourage their community to go out and educate voters on the various issues on the ballot. NC
Asian Americans Together (NCAAT)
NCAAT focuses on voter engagement, specifically on the progress towards closing the gap in registration and turnout. In 2020, NCAAT plans to implement a robust voter registration and get out the vote program. They are committed to registering 2,500 voters in 2020, with a significant amount from younger AAPIs in high schools and colleges, mostly l ed by students. NCAAT will also implement its voter registration program through its Community Partners Network, a program aimed at building an AAPI base throughout North Carolina. Their voter engagement work will be the 8 counties of Wake, Durham, Orange, Guilford, Catawba, Watauga, Cumberland and Mecklenburg.
Southern Vision Alliance
Southern Vision Alliance i s a vibrant and growing youth and campus-oriented network and an umbrella which supports five different youth and student efforts: Ignite NC, Community Alliance for Public Education, Education Justice Alliance, NC Vote Defenders, and Youth Organizing Institute. SVA helps them build capacity to take on social, economic, and environmental justice campaigns as well as to get out and protect the youth vote i n more than a dozen counties.
Make the Road PA
Make the Road PA i s the largest Latinx organization i n the state, building power for justice i n Latinx communities, working communities and Communities of Color. MRPA i s constantly reaching and registering thousands of voters and encouraging them to get involved i n the community. They play a leading role i n campaigns for i mmigration reform and the Abolish I CE movement, a fair budget for education and human services, driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants, rights of the LGBTQ+ community, Puerto Rico Justice, and the Fight for $15. They have roughly 700 monthly participants i n their events and member committee meetings.
CASA Pennsylvania
A powerful Center for Popular Democracy affiliate and Latino immigrant rights organization branching out from CASA de Maryland, with a growing base i n South Central PA ( Dauphin, Lancaster and York Counties). They have registered 10,000 voters and contacted over 45,000 i infrequent Latino voters.
1 Hood
A collective of artists and activists whose mission i s to build liberated communities through art, education and social justice. They've focused their work mobilizing Black youth and community members to vote who normally wouldn't.
Media Mobilizing Project
This organization shines a light on the untold stories of organizing i n the greater Philadelphia region. Using innovative media-based organizing strategies, MMP has an impressive track record of raising awareness around local social justice concerns and connecting communities across issues. This election cycle they will support the media and communications needs of electoral organizers and voting rights advocates.
Keystone Progress Education Fund
A USAction and ProgressNow affiliate, Keystone Progress i s a multi-issue advocacy organization that combines cutting edge online organizing techniques and hard-hitting earned media to advance the state’s progressive agenda. They’re working statewide on issues from the local to national level, and are building up their community organizing and electoral capacity.
MILPA
A network of immigrant families organizing across Pennsylvania. Organizing community members, including young people to become civically engaged year-round.
New Voices for Reproductive Justice
The statewide branch of New Voices for Reproductive Justice, based i n Pittsburgh with recent expansions into Philadelphia (and Ohio). They engage i n leadership development and organizing to advance the health and well-being of Black women and girls, and the Human Rights of LGBTQ and marginalized communities, with services provided to over 50,000 people. Their Voice Your Vote! Project™, will reach a universe of 125,000 in and beyond Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania Voice
A statewide network of more than 35 organizations that share a vision of full participation and representation of the New American Majority – people of color, young, and single women – i n the state. Building power to break barriers to civic participation and centering issues affecting marginalized communities.
PA Immigration & Citizenship Coalition
A statewide network of more than 35 organizations that share a vision of full participation and representation of the New American Majority – people of color, young, and single women – i n the state. Building power to break barriers to civic participation and centering issues affecting marginalized communities.
POWER
A faith-based PICO affiliate expanding statewide. POWER played a key role i n winning a living wage ordinance for city agencies and contractors, and l ed a statewide faith coalition that successfully changed the state’s public education funding formula to correct long-standing racial bias and inadequacies.
Put People First! PA
Put People First! PA gives voice to everyday people who are struggling to meet our basic needs. They define our basic needs as things they need to live healthy and fulfilling l ives — things like education, housing, health care, jobs at living wages, food, and a healthy environment. They are a membership organization made up mostly of people who know from life experience that poor and working people need to unite and have a voice.
She Can Win
She Can Win i s a nonpartisan training program that provides support, mentorship and education to women–particularly Black women–who have a passion for civic leadership. Whether you are interested i n running for Public Office, working on campaigns or becoming an advocate for a cause your passion about She Can Win can assist you with achieving your goals.
Wisconsin Voices
A strong State Voices table lifting up grassroots groups doing nonpartisan voter engagement. They are the key group supporting youth and student organizing in Milwaukee and statewide. Leaders Igniting Transformation
Leaders Igniting Transformation
( LIT) i s a new organization l ed by youth of color. They engage i n values-based issue organizing, direct action, advocacy for public policy, and leadership development. On campuses and communities i n Milwaukee’s key geographies, they organize young people to build independent political power for social, racial and economic justice.
Black Leaders Organizing Communities
Working to uplift Black citizens, leaders, and businesses i n the community by investing in building long-term power, taking political action, and empowering Black leaders with tools so that their issues are represented at all levels of government. Building transformational relationships with communities of color through organizing, silent canvasses, and conversations. They have knocked 100,000 doors and continue engaging Wisconsinites year-round.
Voces de La Frontera
One of the strongest state-based immigrant rights organizations i n the country. They held mass meeting across the state and then helped organize Wisconsin’s “Day without Latinos” which brought 40,000 people into the streets of Milwaukee. I t has chapters i n Milwaukee, Racine, Madison, Green Bay, Waukesha, and Walworth County, and a strong history of organizing the Latino vote.
NAOMI (Northcentral Area Congregations Organized to Make an Impact)
An awesome WISDOM ( Gamaliel) affiliate who i s very active i n the Hmong community in the central part of the state.
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund
A strong affiliate of People’s Action that runs top-notch civic engagement programs statewide. Citizen Action of Wisconsin has over 42,000 individual members and 123,000 supporters and is engaged i n organizing campaigns on health care and economic justice.
Freedom, Inc.
A visionary non-profit engaging low to no-income communities of color in Dane County to achieve social justice through coupling direct service, leadership development, and community organizing. It seeks to end violence against women, children, gender-non-conforming, and transgender folks within communities of color by challenging root causes of violence, poverty, and racism. They are currently leading immigration justice efforts and organizing voter engagement.
Menikanaehkem Inc. - Community Rebuilders (Menominee Tribe)
A grassroots organization based on the Menominee Reservation working to revitalize their communities. It provides a platform for health and wellness by leading by example, celebrating the sacredness of life, and embracing their strengths as a First Nations People. It’s leading powerful multigenerational initiatives including the Women’s Retreats, Community Art, Energy Sovereignty, and the Protectors of the Menominee River.
Georgia Shift
Georgia Shift gives marginalized young people a seat at the table of democracy through civic media, hands-on education, and action opportunities. They envision a Georgia where marginalized young people are the fundamental driver of political impact and public policy at every level of government in an unbridled democracy.
Issue Areas: Economic Justice, End Mass Criminalization, Racial Justice
Constituencies: African American, Youth and Students
Group Type: 501c3, 501c4
Georgia Stand Up
Georgia STAND-UP is an affiliate of the Strategic Alliance for New Directions and Unified Policies (STAND-UP). Made up of leaders representing faith, community, academic, labor, and business organizations, Georgia STAND-UP organizes and educates communities throughout the southwest to impact progressive public policy.
Issue Areas: Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Voting Rights
Constituencies: African American, Faith-Based, Women, Youth and Students
Group Type: 501c3
New Georgia Project and Action Fund
Ambitious effort working to transform the state’s political landscape. NGP has registered thousands and is conducting citizen academies to get more people educated on how elections and public policy processes work. In addition to more traditional outreach, they’ve also worked to improve election administration and protection and tested the impact of “parties at the polls” on turnout.
Issue Areas: Economic Justice, End Mass Criminalization, Racial Justice, Voting Rights
Constituencies: African American, Faith-Based, Latinx, Women, Youth and Students
Group Type: 501c3, 501c4
ProGeorgia
A non-profit civic engagement table working to improve Georgia to be a state that cares for its citizens and natural resources. It unites more than 30 diverse nonprofit groups to work strategically with new tools and tech to organize around issues, change policies in the state and increase voter turnout of underrepresented and socially responsible voters. Its supporting connecting and coordinating civic participation efforts of member groups.
Issue Areas: Voting Rights
Constituencies: African American, Asian / Pacific Islander, Latinx, Women, Youth and Students
Group Type: 501c3, 501c4
Spark Reproductive Justice Now
Spark RJ Now organizes for reproductive rights and gender justice through a racial and economic justice lens. They have a strong youth leadership development program with an emphasis on empowering LGBTQ youth of color to develop their own media resources, and conduct civic engagement activities.
Issue Areas: LGBTQ, Racial Justice, Reproductive Justice
Constituencies: African American, Women
Group Type: 501c3
Women Engaged
WOMEN ENGAGED is a social justice nonprofit that takes an innovative, hands-on learning approach to advancing women’s human rights, youth empowerment and civic engagement efforts in Georgia. Using a human rights framework, Women Engaged develops policy recommendations, conducts research and organizing initiatives paired with, leadership development, savvy communications outreach strategies and civic engagement opportunities for women and youth of color.
Issue Areas: Healthcare, LGBTQ, Racial Justice, Religious Freedom, Reproductive Justice, Voting Rights
Constituencies: African American, Women, Youth and Students
Group Type: 501c3
Access Reproductive Care- SouthEast (ARC-Southeast)
ARC-Southeast supports southerners and their families access safe, compassionate, and affordable reproductive care by providing financial and logistical support and building power with communities though advocacy, education, and leadership development. In Georgia, ARC-Southeast conducts volunteer trainings to support communities on the ground gain access to abortion and creates spaces to protect reproductive justice for communities of color, trans people, and directly impacted individuals.
Issue Areas: Healthcare, Reproductive Justice
Constituencies: African American, Arab / Middle Eastern, Asian / Pacific Islander, Latinx, White Working Class
Group Type: 501c3
Black Voters Matter - Georgia
Black Voters Matter and Black Voters Matter Fund were founded in Georgia’s black belt where they helped flip a local state legislature race, breaking Georgia’s GOP supermajority. In a recent election, they supported dozens of local partners in 25 counties of Georgia’s rural black belt – filling a unique gap – with a historic black woman candidate at the top of the ticket.
Issue Areas: Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Voting Rights
Constituencies: African American, Women, Youth and Students
Group Type: 501c3, 501c4
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR)
It is a community-based organization that educates, organizes, and empowers Latinos in Georgia to defend and advance their civil and human rights. It develops statewide grassroots leadership in Latino immigrant communities and, over the past 10 years, has established a powerful network of informed and engaged community members through base-building strategies. It is leading an energized statewide voter education.
Georgia Muslim Voter Project (GA MVP)
Founded in response to the growing anti-Muslim rhetoric that was prevalent in mainstream politics and the low rates of civic engagement in the Muslim community. It is a nonpartisan voter education and engagement organization that seeks to activate Muslim voters in order to elevate their voices. It’s defending voters from suppression and it asked the court to allow absentee ballot voters due process if their absentee ballots have been rejected by election officials.