General Program Participants
While the intensive sites focus on large-scale, closely managed projects in ten states, a series of general program sites aimed to achieve modest voter registration and mobilization goals in 24 organizations in 19 states. The Center for Community Change is providing mini-grants, limited training and technical assistance to a set of grassroots organizations that are largely new to voter work.
9 to 5, the National
Association of Working Women:
Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was founded in 1995 by a group of Milwaukee-area
women on welfare. They have been registering, educating, and mobilizing low-wage
voters since 1996.
The
California Partnership:
Based in San Francisco and Downey California, is a statewide coalition formed
to fight against poverty in California by building local, grassroots bases of
low-income community organizations that work together to advocate for policies
and programs to help people climb out of poverty. Through the California Partnership,
the Community Voting Project is supporting an additional 13 electoral projects
in California (see below).
CASA de Maryland,
Inc.:
A community organization in Takoma Park, Maryland that serves Latino and other
immigrant communities by providing direct services and widening civic participation
and activism in the low-income Latino community.
Community Voices
Heard:
An organization of low-income individuals, mostly women with experience
on public assistance, working together to improve their communities in New York
City. Its multi-pronged strategy includes community organizing, public education,
public-policy work, coalition building, and leadership development.
Indian People’s
Action:
A socially and racially diverse organization of low- and moderate-income people
based in Missoula, Montana working to empower local residents to achieve lasting
change for social and economic justice using direct action.
Iowa Citizens for Community
Improvement (Iowa CCI):
A nonpartisan, community-based membership organization in Des Moines, Iowa that
empowers low- and moderate-income residents working on social, economic, and
environmental justice issues, as well as voter education in urban and rural
areas.
Maine
People’s Resource Center (MPRC):
W ith offices in Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor, Maine, was created by the Maine
People’s Alliance in 1984 to build a citizen movement for a stronger democracy.
Over the past 20 years, their work has resulted in nationally heralded campaign
finance reform, increased voter registration, expanded health care access, toxic
waste reduction and cleanup, strengthened consumer protection, and preservation
of citizens' rights.
Michigan
Organizing Project:
is a faith-based organization in Western Michigan working for social and economic
change in Muskegon, Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. Their membership is primarily
comprised of Latino migrant workers and African-American factory workers.
Massachusetts
Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA):
A membership organization based in Boston, Massachusetts that actively
involves hundreds of grassroots immigrant organizations, human services agencies,
legal service providers, religious groups, and human rights groups in cooperative
efforts to improve the lives of immigrants and refugees.
My Mississippi Eyes:
A a program at Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi that teaches primarily
African-American high school students how to organize around issues that affect
them as individuals and their communities, in part through public empowerment
seminars, community workshops and voter registration and education projects.
National Korean American
Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC):
A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization in Los Angeles, California that promotes
political and civic participation among Korean Americans. Together with their
affiliates, they have been coordinating a multi-faceted voter empowerment project
for a number of years.
Northwest
Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC):
Based in New York City is a consortium of neighborhood associations and churches
that works with low- and moderate-income residents of the Bronx to develop local
leadership and address affordable housing, education and environmental concerns.
Ohio
Empowerment Coalition:
A statewide welfare rights coalition of recipients, former recipients and advocates
based in Cincinnati, Ohio working to change Ohio’s punitive welfare policies
for the better.
Oregon Action,
an affiliate of the Northwest Federation of Community Organizations (NWFCO):
A statewide community organization based in Portland, Oregon working to create
economic and social justice for all through leadership development, voter engagement
and community organizing.
People Acting for
Community Together (PACT):
A faith-based membership organization in Miami, Florida composed of schools,
community groups, churches and other religious institutions combating poverty
and building justice for low-income people, working in part with Latino and
African-American communities.
Philadelphia Unemployment
Project:
A membership organization of low-wage workers and the unemployed in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania fighting for jobs, healthcare and economic justice in Latino, African-American
and low-income communities.
Project H.O.M.E.:
A community-based organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania working to empower
persons to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty through neighborhood
revitalization programs, social advocacy, and voter engagement.
Sunflower
Community Action:
A nonprofit grassroots organization in Wichita, Kansas developing individual
and collective power to create social and economic change in Latino, African
American and Caucasian communities.
Tenants’ and Workers’
Support Committee (TWSC):
A progressive grassroots organization based in Alexandria, Virginia committed
to winning social and economic justice and power for Latinos, African-Americans,
immigrants and low-income people.
Tennessee Immigrant
and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC):
A statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration based in Nashville, Tennessee
whose mission is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to
develop a unified voice, defend their rights, and create an atmosphere in which
immigrants and refugees are viewed as positive contributors to the state.
United Congregations
of Metro East (Madison, Illinois):
A member of the
Gamaliel Foundation organizing network, is a faith-based membership organization
in Madison, Illinois working to transcend and transform differences of race,
faith, economic status, culture and education, in part through voter registration
and education.
Virginia
Organizing Project:
A nonpartisan, statewide grassroots organization in Charlottesville, Virginia
dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities
to address issues that affect the quality of their lives, in part through participation
in voter education and registration projects.
VOICE - Buffalo (New
York):
A member of the Gamaliel Foundation organizing network, is a network of
Buffalo, New York congregations working to: create the political will to aggressively
pursue long-term, substantive solutions to the problems plaguing low-income
neighborhoods in the Buffalo region; strengthen congregations; and bring about
economic, social and environmental justice.
Washington
Citizen Action Education and Research Fund (NCAERF):
An affiliate of the Northwest Federation of Community Organizations (NWFCO),
is a statewide grassroots organization based in Seattle, Washington working
on a range of issues, including civic engagement through voter registration,
education and GOTV campaigns, with the broad aim of bringing about greater economic
justice in Washington State and the country.
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