October Closers, in collaboration with the Movement Voter Fund, has curated a list of 501(c)3 organizations focused on turning out voters of color, young people,
and working-class people—plus democracy defense programs to ensure everyone can cast a ballot, ballots are counted, and elections are certified.
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Alaska
Alaska Center Education Fund
The Alaska Center Education Fund is the state affiliate of the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. They run a youth fellows program at the University of Alaska at Anchorage and at Fairbanks. Their fellows will run a nonpartisan get out the vote program targeting college students for the midterm elections, after successfully turning out students earlier this year in municipal elections.
Georgia
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta (AAAJ-Atlanta) is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities in Georgia and the Southeast. AAAJ-Atlanta provides voter engagement materials in over 15 languages to increase voter accessibility in the AAPI community to turnout voters, both through in-language mailings and social media campaigns. Their voter protection work focuses on AAPI communities.
Black Male Initiative Georgia Inc.
Black Male Initiative is recapturing and reshifting the narrative about Black men. BMI creates spaces for Black men to build relationships, discuss shared struggles, and envision the solutions they want to see. They are running the largest door knocking program in the state, covering urban, suburban, and rural Black communities.
Iowa
Alliance for a Better Iowa Education Fund
Alliance for a Better Iowa Education Fund is the nonpartisan wing of the state’s donor table. Iowa’s restrictions on mail-in voting fall hardest on voters who move often, work shifts, vote for the first time, or need language assistance. Their voter protection initiative is set up to fix errors on ballots within strict deadlines. Their voter protection program is building a relationship with the election office in all 99 counties, a daily ballot-completion program through the early vote window and the provisional cure period, 700 trained volunteers, legal capacity retained before the canvass rather than scrambled for after it, and materials in seven languages.
Kansas
The Voter Network Foundation
The Voter Network is nonpartisan, nonprofit focused on creating stronger communities in Kansas through voter education and engagement. Their Voter to Voter program recruits ambassadors to reach out to their networks about voting in the upcoming midterms. The Voter Network also registers high school students to vote.
Maine
Food AND Medicine Jobs with Justice Education Fund
Food AND Medicine works together with unions, farmers, community groups, small businesses, and faith-based organizations in Eastern Maine. FAM organizes, educates, and empowers workers and their communities around the fight for economic and social justice, through mutual aid, self-help organizing, issue advocacy, and elections. Food AND Medicine is mobilizing working-class voters ahead of the midterm elections.
Mississippi
Mississippi Engaged Civic Engagement Roundtable
Mississippi Engaged supports the growth and power building of the ecosystem of nonprofit, non-partisan, and community-based organizations doing year-round civic engagement. As the nonpartisan wing of the donor table, they are regranting to hyperlocal organizations, primarily in Black communities.
Ohio
Ohio Organizing Collaborative
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative is the strongest and largest organizing operation in Ohio. OOC ran the largest voter registration program in the country in 2024, and their GOTV program focuses on ensuring that the people who they register go onto cast a ballot during the election. They also house the Ohio Student Association, which runs large-scale voter registration and mobilization programs.
Ohio Voice
Ohio Voice coordinates community organizations’ nonpartisan voter registration, voter mobilization, and election protection. They provide data and tools to make organizations’ field programs more effective while coordinating which turf organizations cover to maximize coverage and avoid duplication.
North Carolina
NC A. Philip Randolph Institute
NC A. Philip Randolph Institute runs the largest-scale voter registration program in the state and one of the largest in the country. They have built the ...