Bay City News has compiled a list of organizations committed to voter registration, political activism and civic education. Compiled by Paige Ellis, Bay City News Foundation.

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
Website: acceaction.org
Contact: info@calorganize.org,
(213) 863-4548
Director: Simone Newman
How to engage:
- Learn more about us
- Take Action
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 15,000 members across California. ACCE is dedicated to raising the voices of everyday Californians, neighborhood by neighborhood, to fight for the policies and programs we need to improve our communities and create a brighter future.
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Contra Costa
Website: acceaction.org/contra_costa
Contact: contracosta@calorganize.org, (925) 348-9165
Contra Costa Representative and board co-chair: Virginia Ramirez
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Oakland
Website: acceaction.org/oakland
Contact: oakland@calorganize.org

America Amplified
Website: AmericaAmplified.org
Contact: info@americaamplified.org
Executive Director: Alisa Barba
How to engage:
- Learn more about us
- Check out our community engagement playbook
- Subscribe to our newsletter
Mission Statement: [from website] The America Amplified initiative will empower public media journalists with the skills and resources needed to put listening to their communities at the center of the reporting process. We seek to inspire public media news organizations to better reflect America, build trust and uphold principles of democracy.
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
Website: aclunc.org
Contact: (415) 621-2493
Executive Director: Abdi Soltani
How to engage:
- What we do
- Sign up for our newsletter
- Take Action
Mission Statement: [from website] The ACLU of Northern California is an enduring guardian of justice, fairness, equality, and freedom, working to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for all Californians. The ACLU of Northern California, founded in 1934, is an affiliate of the national ACLU, which was founded in 1920, to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Asian Law Caucus
Website: advancingjustice-alc.org
Contact: (415) 896-1701
Executive Director: Aarti Kohli
How to engage:
- Learn more about the issues
- Join a campaign
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] We are committed to the pursuit of justice across society, with a specific focus on serving low-income, immigrant, and underserved Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Our fights for justice and equity are deeply informed by and in solidarity with fights for liberation by and for Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities.

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Website: Apen4ej.org
Contact: info@apen4ej.org
(510) 834-8920
Executive Director: Christine Cordero, Vivian Yi Huang
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] All people have a right to a clean and healthy environment in which their communities can live, work, learn, play and thrive. Towards this vision, APEN brings together a collective voice to develop an alternative agenda for environmental, social and economic justice.
Through building an organized movement, we strive to bring fundamental changes to economic and social institutions that will prioritize public good over profits and promote the right of every person to a decent, safe, affordable quality of life, and the right to participate in decisions affecting our lives. APEN holds this vision of environmental justice for all people. Our work focuses on Asian immigrant and refugee communities.
Bay Area Equity Atlas
Website: BayAreaEquityAtlas.org
Contact: info@bayareaequityatlas.org
Executive Director: Jennifer Tran
How to engage:
- Learn more about the Bay Area Equity Atlas
- Explore the latest data on voting and the diversity of electeds
- Read the 2021 Atlas analysis on the diversity of elected officials in the nine-county region
- Sign up for the Atlas newsletter
Mission Statement: The Bay Area Equity Atlas tracks the state of equity across the region and equips community leaders with data to inform solutions that drive inclusive prosperity. Produced by the San Francisco Foundation, PolicyLink, and the USC Equity Research Institute, the Atlas features more than a dozen indicators that: track change over time, are comparable across geographies, and are disaggregated by race, income, and other demographics.
Bay Rising
Website: BayRising.org
Contact: info@bayrising.org
Executive Director: Kimi Lee
How to engage:
- Sign up for our email list
- Email us to volunteer with us or one of our local Rising alliances
Mission Statement: We are Bay Rising, a growing alliance of over 30 community-led organizations across the Bay Area. We are the only regional civic engagement organization that organizes working-class people and people of color as voters in the Bay Area year-round. We believe that our journey towards racial, economic, and environmental justice is a journey for political power.
Bay Rising Action
Website: BayRisingAction.org
Contact: Irene Rojas-Carroll, irene@bayrising.org, (510) 439-6648
Executive Director: Kimi Lee, Executive Director
How to engage:
- Sign up for our email list on our home page
- Fill out our form on our home page to volunteer with us or one of our local Rising Action Funds.
Mission Statement: Bay Rising Action is a grassroots political network that champions strong leaders representing our racial, economic, and environmental justice movements and builds the political power of working-class, immigrant, Black, Latinx, and Asian communities. We unite these communities to create a community-based political infrastructure capable of electing leaders who will achieve the bold solutions we need and stay accountable to us, not corporate lobbyists.

Oakland Rising
Website: OaklandRising.org
Contact: Info@OaklandRising.org (510) 261-2600
Executive Director: Liz Suk
How to engage:
- Sign up for our email list
- Sign up to volunteer with the Fair Elections Oakland coalition we are a part of
- Donate
Mission Statement: [From website] Oakland Rising educates and mobilizes voters in the flatlands to speak up for and take charge of the issues impacting our lives. We are a multilingual, multiracial collaborative with deep roots in East and West Oakland’s neighborhoods, proving that everyday residents working together have the power to change the way our city is run. With longtime Oakland families and our newest neighbors working shoulder to shoulder, we are building on Oakland’s incredibly rich history to advance smart, community-first solutions for a thriving Town. We build and exercise progressive political power through mass-based electoral organizing and integrated strategies, including base-building and policy advocacy. We align and coordinate citywide and regional progressive forces through our collaborative model to build the power and profile of the social justice movement. We recruit, train, advance and support progressive leaders who lead in a collaborative, accountable and values-based way – that centers social justice.
Oakland Rising Action
Website: OaklandRisingAction.org
Contact: Info@OaklandRisingAction.org
Executive Director: Liz Suk
Ways to engage:
- Sign up for our email list
- Email us to volunteer: info@oaklandrisingaction.org
- Fund our work
Mission Statement: Established in 2010, Oakland Rising Action (ORA) forwards a vision of Oakland that realizes our shared dreams of health, happiness, safety, and opportunity for all. ORA engages in aggressive voter education and GOTV operations that encourage Oakland’s working-class, immigrant, and communities of color to think critically about voting for or against issues, policies and candidates based on our shared vision and values for an Oakland for all. Oakland Rising Action is a community-led political organization focused on supporting candidates and issues that drive a progressive agenda for Oakland’s working-class, immigrant and communities of color living in the flatlands of Oakland. Through a thorough process that includes a written questionnaire and panel and/or individual interviews, Oakland Rising Action endorses those candidates that most align with our values, vision, and emerging progressive strategy for Oakland. To ensure that alignment, our endorsement process engages activists, organizers and leaders of Oakland’s progressive left at all stages.
San Francisco Rising
Website: SFRising.org
Contact: information@sanfranciscorising.org
Executive Director: Emily Lee, Celi Tamayo-Lee
How to engage:
- Sign up to volunteer with us
- Join as an individual member
- Fund our work
Mission Statement: [from website] We are San Francisco Rising, an alliance of base-building organizations rooted in San Francisco’s working-class communities and communities of color. Our multiracial electoral field campaigns amplify existing organizing in our communities and bring that power to the ballot box.
San Francisco Rising Action Fund
Website: SFRisingAction.org
Contact: information@sanfranciscorising.org
Executive Director: Emily Lee
How to engage:
- Sign up to volunteer with us and get updates
- Fund our work
Mission Statement: San Francisco Rising Action Fund is a grassroots political fund fighting for the interests of working-class communities of color, over corporate greed. We are uniting Black, Latinx, Chinese and Filipino communities from across the city to create a community-based political infrastructure capable of electing leaders who will achieve the bold solutions we need and stay accountable to us, not corporate lobbyists. We have a long-term vision for the city and we are in it together, for the long run.

Silicon Valley Rising
Website: SiliconValleyRising.org
Contact: updates@siliconvalleyrising.org,(408) 809-2120
Spokesperson: Maria Noel Fernandez
How to engage:
Mission Statement: Silicon Valley Rising is a coordinated campaign driven by an unprecedented coalition of labor, faith leaders, community-based organizations and workers. We aspire to a new vision for Silicon Valley where all workers, their families and communities are valued. We have high expectations for this Valley and for our communities. Our campaign is about bringing everyone in this Valley together to solve the biggest challenges of our time.
Black Women Organized for Political Action
Website: bwopatileleads.org
Contact: staff@bwopa.org, (510) 763-9523
President: Dezie Woods-Jones
Executive Director: LaNiece Jones
How to engage:
- Learn More
- Latest News
- Sign up for the newsletter
- Connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
Mission Statement: Black Women Organized for Political Action’s (BWOPA) mission is to mobilize, encourage, uplift, support and educate Black women about the political and public policy process, encourage their involvement, and to affirm our commitment to solving the myriad of problems affecting the Black community. Our core issues focus on Health, Education, Criminal Justice Reform, Economic Security and Civic Engagement. Our worldwide aim is to increase the number of Black women in key federal, state, and local leadership positions.
Black Women Organized for Political Action Hayward/ South County
Website: haywardsouthcounty-bwopa.org
President: Rita Duncan
Black Women Organized for Political Action Oakland
Website: bwopatileleads.org/oakland_berkeley_chapter
Contact: AyAnna Moody@bwopaoaklandberkeley@gmail.comPresident: AyAnna Moody
Black Women Organized for Political Action San Francisco
Website: bwopatileleads.org/san_francisco_chapter
President: Carol Belle-Thomas Moss
Black Women Organized for Political Action Richmond/ Contra Costa
Website: bwopatileleads.org/richmond_contra_costa_chapterPresident: Champagne Brown
California Calls
Website: cacalls.org
Contact: organize@calicalls.org, (323) 735-9515
President: Anthony Thigpenn
How to engage:
- Learn the latest news
- Get involved
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] California Calls is a growing alliance of 31 grassroots, community-based organizations spanning urban, rural and suburban counties across the state. We engage, educate and motivate new and infrequent voters among young people, from communities of color, and from poor and working class neighborhoods to make California’s electorate reflect our state’s diverse population.
California Environmental Voters
Website: envirovoters.org
Contact: (800) 755-3224
President & Chair: Fran Diamond
How to engage:
- Learn more about what we do
- See our latest news
- Ways to give
Mission Statement: [from website] We believe transformational change is necessary. The climate crisis is here. By transforming our political system and electing environmental champions, we will create the opportunity to take the bold action needed to address the climate crisis.

Causa Justa: Just Cause
Website: cjjc.org
Contact: info@cjjc.org (415) 487-9203, (510) 763-5877
President: NTanya Lee
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] Causa Justa :: Just Cause builds grassroots power and leadership to create strong, equitable communities. Born through mergers between Black organizations and Latino organizations, we build bridges of solidarity between working class communities. Through rights-based services, policy campaigns, civic engagement, and direct action, we improve conditions in our neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, and contribute to building the larger multi-racial, multi-generational movement needed for fundamental change.
Chinese Progressive Association
Website: cpasf.org
Contact: media-requests@cpasf.org
Executive Director: Shaw San Liu
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association \’educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.
Coleman Advocates
Website: ColemanAdvocates.org
Contact: info@colemanadvocates.org, (415) 239-0161
Executive Director: Chris Ballard
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] Coleman Advocates believes that all children and families deserve access to high quality education, living wage jobs, family-supporting benefits, affordable housing, and a voice in the decisions that affect us. Since 1975, Coleman Advocates has pioneered programs and policies to expand opportunity for San Francisco’s children, youth and families. Many of these hard-won programs and policies have served as models adopted by communities all over the country.
Common Cause California
Website: CommonCause.org/california
Contact: CauseNet@commoncause.org
Executive Director: Jonathan Mehta Stein
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] California Common Cause (CCC) leads and defines the democracy movement in California, promoting solutions already succeeding in some communities to shift power to the people. CCC uses a powerful combination of grassroots organizing, coalition-building, policy development, research, public education, legislative advocacy, and litigation to build governments at the state and local levels that are accountable to and reflective of California’s communities.
Commonwealth Club
Website: CommonWealthClub.org
Contact: info@commonwealthclub.org, (415) 597-6705
President & CEO: DR. Gloria C. Duffy
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] The mission of The Commonwealth Club of California is to be the leading national forum open to all for the impartial discussion of public issues important to the membership, community and nation.

Communities for a Better Environment
Website: cbecal.org
Contact: (510) 302-0430
President: Jason A. Douglas
How to engage:
- Learn more about how we create change
- Get email updates
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] Founded in 1978, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is one of the preeminent environmental justice organizations in the nation. The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and environments.
CURYJ
Website: curyj.org
Contact: help@curyj.org, (501) 232-7230
Executive Director: George Galvis
How to engage:
- Learn more about us
- Subscribe to our newsletter
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] Since 2011, CURYJ has been building community and mobilizing young leaders in the movement to end youth criminalization and mass incarceration. As individuals who have lived through systemic violence and incarceration, we engage youth most impacted by the injustice, immigration, and foster care systems so that they can be the ones to close youth prisons and heal our communities. We teach ethnic studies, facilitate restorative justice circles, and share culturally rooted healing practices. We provide life coaching, professional development, political education, and hands-on experience working on policy and grassroots campaigns.
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
Website: WorkingEastBay.org
Contact: info@workingeastbay.org
Executive Director: Kate O’Hara
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] EBASE convenes coalitions of community, labor, and faith organizations to fight for economic and racial justice. We collaborate on the Resistance through campaigns that advance Rights, Roof, and Refuge for all. Our work lifts up low-wage workers, people of color, immigrants, formerly incarcerated folks, and grassroots leaders. The best Resistance is a good offense: not only protecting our communities from attacks, but advancing policies that lay the foundation for the world we’d like to live in.

East Bay Asian Youth Center
Website: EBAYC.org
Contact: info@ebayc.org, (510) 533-1092
Managing Director: Rany Ath
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] We believe that if we partner with public and private institutions to provide young people with a continuum of high-quality support and opportunities and if we engage families to actively participate in the public arena to improve the quality of neighborhood life, then our young people will be safe, smart, and socially responsible. Thus, EBAYC builds strategic partnerships with schools, city and county governments, and community organizations, and establishes trusting relationships with families to provide seamless services to support youth. Our diverse menu of services include youth violence prevention, expanded learning, and civic and community engagement.
Faith in Action
Website: FaithInAction.org
Contact: fiaintl@faithinaction.org, (866) 550-7426
Executive Director: Rev. Alvin Herring
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] Faith in Action is a national community organizing network that gives people of faith the tools that they need to fight for justice and work towards a more equitable society.In our congregation-community model, congregations of all denominations and faiths serve as the institutional base for community organizations. Rather than bring people together simply based on common issues like housing or education, the faith-based or broad-based organizing model makes values and relationships the glue that holds organizations together.
Filipino Advocates 4 Justice
Website: Filipinos4Justice.org
Contact: (510) 465-9876
Executive Director: Geraldine Alcid
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] FAJ’s mission is to build a strong and empowered Filipino community by organizing constituents, developing leaders, providing services, and advocating for policies that promote social and economic justice and equity.
Indivisible
Website: Indivisible.org
Contact: contact@indivisible.org
Executive Director: Leah Greenberg, Ezra Levin
How to engage:
- Learn more about us
- Learn more about our campaigns
- Find your local group
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] Action by action, day by day, group by group, Indivisibles are remaking our democracy. Brought together by a practical guide to resist the Trump agenda, Indivisible is a movement of thousands of group leaders and more than a million members taking regular, iterative, and increasingly complex actions to resist the GOPs agenda, elect local champions, and fight for progressive policies.
Latino Community Foundation
Website: LatinoCF.org
Contact: info@latinocf.org, (415) 236-4020
CEO: Jacqueline Martinez Garcel
How to engage:
- Learn more about what we do
- Our Blog
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] LCF exists to unleash the power of Latinos in California. We fulfill our mission by building a movement of civically engaged philanthropic leaders, investing in Latino-led organizations, and increasing political participation of Latinos in California.

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Website: lawyerscommittee.org
Contact: (202) 662-8600
Executive Director: Damon Hewitt
How to engage:
- Volunteer with election protection
- Connect with us
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities. The Lawyers’ Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar’s leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity – work that continues to be vital today.
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights San Francisco
Website: lccrsf.org
Contact: info@lccrsf.org, (415) 543-9444
Chair: Khari J. Tillery
League of Women Voters
Website: LWV.org
Contact: (202) 429-1965
President: Deborah Turner
How to engage:
- Learn more about voting rights
- Learn more about elections
- Learn more about other issues
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to protect and expand voting rights and ensure everyone is represented in our democracy. We empower voters and defend democracy through advocacy, education, and litigation, at the local, state, and national levels.
League of Women Voters of Alameda
Website: lwvalameda.org
Contact: (510) 865-2439
President: Susan Hauser
League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville
Website: lwvbae.org
Contact: (510) 843-8824
President: Kandea Mosley
League of Women Voters of Diablo Valley
Website: my.lwv.org/california/diablo-valley
Contact: (925) 283-2235
President: Suzan Requa
League of Women Voters of Fremont/Newark/Union
Website: my.lwv.org/california/fremont-newark-union-city
Contact: (510) 794-5783
President: Angelina Reyes
League of Women Voters of Los Altos-Mt. View
Website: lwvlamv.org
Contact: (650) 429-8382
President: Susan Graham
League of Women Voters of North & Central San Mateo
Website: my.lwv.org/california/north-central-san-mateo-county
Contact: (650) 342-5853
President: Margaret Lukens

League of Women Voters of Oakland
Website: lwvoakland.org
Contact: (510) 834-7640
President: Viola Gonzales
League of Women Voters of Palo Alto
Website: lwvpaloalto.org
Contact: (650) 903-0600
President: Liz Kniss
League of Women Voters of Piedmont
Website: lwvpiedmont.org
Contact: (510) 575-9207
President: John McClain
League of Women Voters of San Francisco
Website: lwvsf.org
Contact: (415) 989-8683
President: Alison Goh
League of Women Voters of San Joaquin County
Website: my.lwv.org/california/san-joaquin-county
Contact: (209) 931-3699
President: Christeen Ferree
League of Women Voters of San Jose/Santa Clara
Website: lwvsjsc.org
Contact: (408) 271-7163
President: Carol Watts
League of Women Voters of South San Mateo
Website: my.lwv.org/california/south-san-mateo-county
Contact: (650) 325-5780
President: Shirley DesMarais, Tracy Clark
League of Women Voters of West Contra Costa County
Website: Facebook.com/LeagueOfWomenVotersOfWestContraCostaCounty
Contact: (510) 322-1910
President: Cheryl Collier

NAACP
Mission Statement: [from website] 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.
NAACP Berkeley
Contact: (501) 845-7416
NAACP Berkeley Youth Council
Contact: (510) 435-3101
NAACP East Contra Costa County
Contact: (925) 439-5099
NAACP El Cerrito
Contact: (510) 526-2958, (510) 559-3517
NAACP Hayward
Contact: (510) 581-4111
NAACP Modesto
Contact: 209-896-9196
NAACP Oakland
Contact: (510) 465-4747
NAACP Richmond
Contact: (510) 236-1166
NAACP San Francisco
Contact: (415) 922-0650
NAACP San Jose
Contact: (408) 295-3394
NAACP San Mateo
Contact: (650) 558-1971
NAACP Vallejo
Contact: (707) 554-4993
Parent Voices Oakland
Website: PVOakland.org
Contact: info@pvoakland.org, (510) 338-3049
Executive Director: Clarissa Doutherd
How to engage:
- Learn more about our impact
- Volunteer with us
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] Parent Voices Oakland (PVO), is a parent-led grassroots organization that advocates for affordable, accessible, quality child-care. PVO organizes and empowers families with the highest need to build effective campaigns toward economic and educational justice.
People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Justice
Website: podersf.org
Contact: info@podersf.org, (415) 431-4210
Executive Director: Antonio Diaz
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] PODER’s mission is to organize with Latino immigrant families and youth to put into practice people-powered solutions that are locally based, community led and environmentally just. We nurture everyday people’s leadership, regenerate culture, and build community power.

Power Pac
Website: PowerPac.org
Contact: info@powerpac.org, (415) 442-0940
President: Andrew Wong
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] PowerPAC believes every person should have economic dignity and security. We believe every family should have quality health care, education and housing. We envision a future for this state and this nation in which the electorate is energized and empowered, and reflective of America’s growing diversity.
Public Advocates
Website: PublicAdvocates.org
Contact: (415) 431-1048
President & CEO: Guillermo Mayer
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing, transportation equity, and climate justice.
Roots Action
Website: RootsAction.org
Contact: news@rootsaction.org
Executive Director: NORMAN SOLOMON
How to engage:
- Checkout our Progressive Hub
- Sign up for alerts and updates
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] RootsAction is dedicated to galvanizing people who are committed to economic fairness, equal rights for all, civil liberties, environmental protection — and defunding endless wars. We mobilize on these issues no matter whether Democrats or Republicans control Washington D.C.
San Francisco Peninsula People Power
Website: SFPPP.org
Contact: sfpeninsulapp@gmail.com
How to engage:
- Learn more about voter outreach
- Find useful voting information
Mission Statement: [from website] San Francisco Peninsula People Power (SFPPP), a non-partisan, grassroots civil rights organization, was organized as a result of a nationwide event by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in March 2017 to encourage volunteers to help build and strengthen local communities in affirming our American values of respect, equality, and solidarity. Our membership is located in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
Our two primary interests are in immigrant rights, and voting rights and outreach. We also have members working on civil rights issues like criminal justice reform, and law enforcement surveillance.
Tenants Together
Website: TenantsTogether.org
Contact: info@tenantstogether.org, (415) 495-8100
Executive Director: María Guadalupe Arreola
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] Tenants Together is a statewide coalition of local tenant organizations dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of California tenants to safe, decent, and affordable housing. As California’s only statewide renters’ rights organization, Tenants Together works to improve the lives of California’s tenants through capacity-building, movement-building, and statewide advocacy. Tenants Together seeks to support and strengthen the statewide movement for renters’ rights.

Urban Habitat
Website: UrbanHabitat.Org
Contact: info@urbanhabitat.org, (510) 839-9510
Executive Director: Ellen Wu ewu@urbanhabitat.org
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] Urban Habitat works to democratize power and advance equitable policies to create a just and connected Bay Area for low-income communities of color. We confront structural inequities impacting historically disenfranchised communities. Through strategic partnerships, we support increasing the power and capacity in low-income communities of color.
Vote.org
Mission Statement: [from website] Vote.org uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy. We work to ensure that the electorate matches the population.Through corporate and nonprofit partnerships, a large-scale community of grassroots donors, diverse coalition building, and influencer-driven outreach, Vote.org leverages innovative solutions that meet underserved voters where they engage and get their information, and has established its brand as the most trusted and accessible online resource for registering to vote and understanding how to cast your ballot.
Voting Rights Lab
Website: VotingRightsLab.org
Contact: hello@votingrightslab.org
Executive Director: Megan Lewis
How to engage:
Mission Statement: [from website] The Voting Rights Lab is a nonpartisan organization accelerating the movement for free and fair elections through expert analysis, research, and innovations. We track election-related legislation and current law in all 50 states and D.C. in our State Voting Rights Tracker.
We Vote Education Fund
Website: wevoteeducation.org
Contact: info@wevoteeducation.org
Executive Director: Alicia Kolar Prevost, PhD
How to engage:
- Learn more about what we do
- Check out WeVote.us
Mission Statement: [from website] We Vote Education Fund is a nonprofit dedicated to educating citizens and bringing social collaboration to the process of voting. We are volunteer designers, engineers, thought leaders, political junkies, and good citizens. We partner with We Vote USA.
Working Partnerships USA
Website: wpusa.org
Contact: (408) 809-2120
Executive Director: Derecka Mehrens
How to engage:
- Learn more about us
- Sign up for our email list
- Donate
Mission Statement: [from website] Working Partnerships USA is a community organization bringing together the power of grassroots organizing and public policy innovation to drive the movement for a just economy. Based in Silicon Valley, we tackle the root causes of inequality and poverty by leading collaborative campaigns for quality jobs, healthy communities, equitable growth and vibrant democracy. We build the capacity of workers, low-income neighborhoods and communities of color to lead and govern.