Our Grantees
We are proud to support grassroots leaders building power, shifting systems, and reimagining what’s possible.
Down Home North Carolina envisions a democracy that serves everyone, where every working person is safe, secure, and treated with respect and dignity. Our goal is to create a society that values labor, cares for our water and land, and provides equal opportunities for all to thrive. At the heart of our mission is the belief that by building multiracial and working-class power in small towns and rural communities across North Carolina, we can win improvements now and move towards a future that reflects our values.
We Must Vote Action Fund is committed to building political power for marginalized communities by advancing policies and electing leaders who champion racial justice, voting rights, and criminal legal reform. We mobilize Black voters, rural LGBTQ+ college students, and justice-impacted individuals through strategic voter education, advocacy, and electoral action—ensuring they have the tools to shape policies that impact their lives. We don’t just register voters—we build lasting civic power for real change.
AAPN is a network of state-based Asian American grassroots organizations (Anchors) focused on empowering & building up civic engagement capabilities of the AAPI community. AAPN convenes Anchors, shares resources & tools, incubates new orgs through coaching and capacity building, and hones best practices for culturally competent community engagement. AAPN is a unique space designed to cultivate cross-state information sharing. As trusted messengers into and for the community, the Anchors work with AAPN to develop national and state-specific community-building and civic engagement strategies.
BAJI fights for the rights of Black migrants and African Americans through organizing, legal advocacy, research, policy advocacy, and narrative building to improve the conditions of Black communities by advancing racial justice and immigrant rights.
The Carolina Federation unites people across race to build a new political majority in North Carolina—rooted in belonging and strong enough to win elections and govern. We draw from the best of Southern freedom traditions: deep base-building, transformative cultural work, power-building issue campaigns, and large-scale voter organizing. In just six years, we've become one of the state’s largest voter engagement operations while prioritizing leadership development, democratic endorsements, and governance by elected member leaders.
Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots organization taking on the big issues at the center of transforming society—like ending mass incarceration, ensuring quality public education and affordable housing, and fighting for racial, economic, and environmental justice. We organize in low-income communities and communities of color to win bold reforms and elect progressive leaders committed to justice. Our power comes from the grassroots: people coming together to push the edge of the possible.
The Cultural Engagement Lab (CEL) ignites change by collaborating with artists to create inspiring content that powers campaigns and creates a more just and equitable world. We support a wide-scale integration of cultural strategy as a core component of any effective advocacy or electoral efforts.
Our mission is to hold concentrated power centers to account and bring them under democratic control. We work to secure progressive policy changes for everyday people by organizing broad grassroots campaigns focused on policymakers, leading smart lobbying initiatives, leveraging our staff’s policy expertise, and supporting allies. We bring together large and diverse coalitions that transcend political lines and embrace shared values — which we leverage to work effectively in Washington, serving as an advocate for the public in the decisions that affect our lives.
Equis (pronounced eh-keys) is committed to building power in Latinx communities. We do that by creating a better understanding of Latino voters, innovating new approaches to reach and engage them, and investing in our community’s leadership and infrastructure for real, lasting change.
Fight for the Future is a queer woman-led team of activists, strategists, and technologists that has organized some of the largest, most effective online campaigns in history. Our cross-movement work, bold actions, and broad coalitions build power to support an accessible, just, and censorship-free Internet, and tech regulations that do not come at the expense of the vulnerable. From combating monopoly power to winning widespread adoption of end-to-end encryption, or getting net neutrality passed twice, our mission is to ensure that technology is a force for liberation, not oppression.
Free Press Action was founded in 2003 to give people a say in the crucial policy decisions that shape media and technology, out of the belief that an equitable media system is essential to transforming democracy and realizing a just society. Free Press serves as a watchdog and public-interest advocate for media and technology policy; conducts rigorous research and legal analysis; educates policymakers, the press, and the public; organizes winning coalitions and grassroots constituencies to pressure corporations and hold decision-makers accountable
Local Progress is a movement of more than 1,500 local electeds advancing a racial, economic, and gender justice agenda through all levels of local government. In communities across the country, local governments are advancing the most innovative policy solutions to our largest problems and creating new models of governance that work for the many, not just the wealthy and well-connected few. LP supports and connects these efforts by accelerating change at the local level, in order to build the power needed to remake the very institutions and structures of our democracy.
MediaJustice fights for community control of media and technology. We build and set strategy for a field of grassroots organizations, national racial justice groups, and policy advocates to win structural changes in corporate media and tech power. Through research, narrative interventions, and organizing, MediaJustice empowers community organizers to exploit weak points in corporate-state collusion and to develop liberatory frameworks and community alternatives to the status quo.
We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination. Our mission is to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) is a woman-led non-profit civil and human rights organization founded to eliminate hate, discrimination, and racism toward Latino communities. We educate and increase Latinx visibility from our policy work in Washington, D.C., to our media advocacy work in Hollywood, where we connect, collaborate, and create with Latinx talent within the entertainment industry. We remain a leading voice in hate speech and information fraud issues against Latinos and other historically and intentionally marginalized communities.
NCAAT in Action is committed to supporting equity and justice for all by building political power among Asian Americans and allies in North Carolina through voter education, progressive advocacy, and leadership development. We believe that for the Asian American community to build power, they must be educated on their rights as voters, mobilized in votes and voices, and unified as a powerful force in civic and electoral affairs. For the Asian American community to become politically empowered, more Asian Americans championing progressive policies must hold political office.
New Media Ventures (NMV) is the nation’s leading investor in progressive startups that advance a multiracial democracy and build power for systems-impacted communities. We leverage philanthropic funding as risk capital to surface and support early-stage startups that are critical to movement infrastructure and essential for ecosystem-wide impact.
New Virginia Majority serves to center the needs of working-class communities of color in Northern Virginia, Central Virginia, and Hampton Roads and build political power through community organizing, issue advocacy, and civic engagement.
Free Speech TV is the only national, independent broadcast news and commentary network committed to advancing progressive social change. As an alternative to corporate-run media, FSTV amplifies underrepresented voices and those working on the front lines of social, economic and environmental justice.
re:power exists to build a mass of social justice movements & their leaders who embody the ideology & practice of liberatory organizing, a practice that is pro-Black and grounded in community, collective action & abundance. We work towards our vision by offering training & strategic support to leaders and organizations across the progressive ecosystem with base building as the cornerstone of organizing & power building. Our work helps individuals and organizations strengthen strategy, develop skills in a community of practice, and foster the resilience required towards a long-arc of progress.
Siembra NC is a grassroots organization focused on organizing Latines in North Carolina to achieve el buen vivir and dignity for our communities. We build our gente’s power by recruiting thousands of Latines across the state who are “on the sidelines” to become active members of our multiracial social justice movements. Together, we build campaigns to defend our communities from ICE, abusive employers and landlords, and hold people in power accountable to our gente.
Straight Ahead Organization is a (c)(4) lobbying, electoral, and community organizing entity that conducts democracy work, including voter registration, GOTV campaigns, voter referendums, candidate endorsements, and canvassing, with particular focus on voting access for currently and formerly incarcerated people. SAO injects abolitionist framing and policy demands into the discourse and output of legislators, policy makers, judges, DAs, and electeds, and works to pass legislation to give parole eligibility to geriatric and seriously ill incarcerated people, and end life without parole in PA.
New Disabled South Rising (NDSR) is the political 501(c)(4) arm of New Disabled South, the first and only regional disability organization. NDSR fights for political power and liberatory policy for disabled people in the U.S. South. NDSR exists to build and expand the power of disabled voters in the U.S. South through research, polling, organizing, and education. In the fight for accessible policy, elections, and politics for all disabled people, New Disabled South Rising envisions a U.S. South where disabled people live joyful and liberated lives with full political freedom and representation
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology. Without focused attention, technology can reinforce the many systemic injustices across our society — in policing, housing, labor, credit, public benefits, and other areas that shape people’s material conditions. Particularly in this political moment, it’s imperative that we collaborate across the movement ecosystem to build the necessary social and political power to challenge the harmful impacts of technology.
Working Families Party builds governing power by, for, and with working-class people of all races. Since launching in New York in 2006, we’ve grown into one of the nation’s most respected and effective progressive forces—addressing critical gaps in movement infrastructure through political education, leadership development, strategic campaigns, voter mobilization, and policymaking that delivers real, material wins. We’re advancing a bold, long-term strategy to transform our democracy and economy and make working people the most powerful force in America.