Our Work

9to5 Colorado
Paid Sick Days Campaign, 2017
Denver, CO

9to5 Colorado will organize and promote a ballot campaign aimed at passing paid sick days during Colorado’s 2018 elections.

Abolish Slavery Colorado
Abolishing Slavery from the Colorado Constitution, 2018
Denver, CO

A successful campaign to pass Amendment A, an amendment aimed at abolishing slavery from the Colorado state constitution.

Access Now
Global Proxy Cloud Project, 2014
New York, NY

The Global Proxy Cloud Project establishes a global network of computers, whose bandwidth can be used by excluded populations on the other side of the world’s censorship firewalls.

Access Now
Global Proxy Cloud Project, 2012
New York, NY

The Global Proxy Cloud Project establishes a global network of computers, whose bandwidth can be used by excluded populations on the other side of the world’s censorship firewalls.

Access Now
Global Proxy Cloud Project, 2010
New York, NY

The Global Proxy Cloud Project establishes a global network of computers, whose bandwidth can be used by excluded populations on the other side of the world’s censorship firewalls.

Accion Politica PCUNista (PCUN)
Amplifying the Voice of the Latinx Community, 2019
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support allows PCUN to more effectively increase and amplify the voice of the Latinx community.

ACLU of Colorado 
Colorado Legislative Priorities, 2015
Denver, CO

Taking a proactive approach by advancing legislation that promotes civil rights and civil liberties, while also actively working to defeat bills or ballot measures that would infringe on individual rights and liberties.

ACLU of Colorado 
Colorado Legislative Priorities, 2017
Denver, CO

Taking a proactive approach by advancing legislation that promotes civil rights and civil liberties, while also actively working to defeat bills or ballot measures that would infringe on individual rights and liberties.

ACLU of Colorado 
Colorado Legislative Priorities, 2018
Denver, CO

Pursuing a legislative and advocacy agenda focused on criminal justice reform, voting rights, privacy and digital security.

Action for Common Good
Digital Organizing to Raise the Wage, 2015

Action for the Common Good is a sister organization of Center for Popular Democracy that works for decent, livable wages, health benefits and access to full-time work for all!

Air Traffic Control Education Fund, Inc.
Music + Mobile Advocacy Tools, 2010
San Francisco, CA

The combination of music and mobile communications reaches different constituencies of audiences that aren’t otherwise currently reached by social justice and progressive organizations. By working with musicians to engage their immense fan bases in advocacy, progressive change efforts reach a wide and diverse community.

Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Engaging Voters With the Issues, 2018
Minnesota

Alliance for A Better Minnesota helps ensure voters in Minnesota are informed about where the candidates stand on the issues they care about during the 2018 election.

Arab American Institute
Improved Hate Crime Reporting, 2017
Washington, DC

The Arab American Institute represents the policy and community interests of Arab Americans throughout the United States and strives to promote Arab American participation in the U.S. electoral system. Thanks to support from Voqal, the Arab American Institute will train Arab American leaders and organizations in 12 states to interact with U.S. and state Attorney Generals to ensure the reporting of hate crimes against the Arab American community.

Arizona Advocacy Network
Supporting Proposition 403, 2018
Phoenix, AZ

Significantly expanding its field and digital organizing capacity in support of a “dark money” disclosure measure (Proposition 403) in Tempe, Arizona.

Arizona Advocacy Network
Protecting the Citizen's Clean Election Act, 2018
Phoenix, AZ

Unsuccessful attempt to defeat Proposition 206, a ballot measure that negatively affects the Citizens Clean Election Act.  

Arizona Wins
Defending Ballot Measures, 2017
Arizona

Dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working families while advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all Arizonans, Arizona Wins will conduct a legislative defense campaign to defend the ballot measure process and previously passed ballot measures in Arizona.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Pan Asian Voter Empowerment, 2018
Chicago, IL

Convening and mobilizing the Pan Asian Voter Empowerment (PAVE) coalition, which works to include the voices of those most affected by issues to inform policy solutions, partner with broader coalitions to collaboratively address larger root causes of racial inequality and shape the narrative around these issues.

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
Advancing Racial Equity
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support enables APANO to conduct a comprehensive campaign focused on advancing racial equity in politics.

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
BISC Proactive Project, 2015
Washington, DC 

The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center is an advocacy organization working to strengthen democracy by building a national progressive strategy for ballot measures.

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC)
Advancing Progressive Policy Through Ballot Measures, 2018
Washington, D.C. 

Ensuring progressive ballot measure campaigns succeed across the United States.

Black Roots Alliance
Creating a More Equitable and Inclusive Democracy, 2018
Chicago, IL

Creating a more equitable and inclusive democracy and economy in Illinois.

Brave New Films
2015
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2014
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2013
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2012
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2011
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2010
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2009
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2008
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2016
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2017
Chicago, IL

Building Power for Communities of Color
Building Political Power for Communities of Color, 2019
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support assists Building Power for Communities of Color in developing the vision and comprehensive strategy needed to empower communities of color to effectively advocate for a racial equity agenda at the state and local levels and build the racial equity movement that the state needs.

BYP 100
Local and Statewide Advocacy, 2017
Chicago, IL

BYP100 is an activist member-based organization of Black 18-35 year olds, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. In 2017, it will build its local organizing capacity to engage in local and statewide advocacy work focused on ending criminalization, improving police accountability and increasing LGBTQ, gender and economic justice

Center for Community Change Action
Educating and Engaging Colorado Latinos, 2016
Denver, CO

Center for Community Change Action (CCCA) builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change their communities and public policies for the better. CCCA will work with local and national groups in Colorado as part of the c4 Latino Roundtable to help educate and engage Colorado Latinos and mobilize them to vote in the 2016 election.

Center for Independent Documentary/Winikur Productions
J Street, 2013
Boston, MA

“J Street” is a feature-length documentary tracking a progressive, pro-Israel lobby group pushing for a two-state solution. With a quickly growing national base, they take on the establishment, push the Obama administration to take an active role in the peace process and fight in the brass knuckle world of Washington D.C.

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Cell Phone Literacy Toolkit, 2011
Brooklyn, NY

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement. With Voqal's support, it designed and produced a modular toolkit for the consumer using mobile technology and focus on consumer awareness, federal policy, technological issues and media production.

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Cell Phone Literacy Toolkit, 2010
Brooklyn, NY

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement. With Voqal's support, it designed and produced a modular toolkit for the consumer using mobile technology and focus on consumer awareness, federal policy, technological issues and media production.

Chicago Filmmakers
2015 Chicago Digital Media Production Fund, 2015
Chicago, IL

Support independent filmmakers and the production of work that reflects community diversity in 2015.

Chicago Filmmakers
2017 Chicago Digital Media Production Fund, 2017
Chicago, IL

Support independent filmmakers and the production of work that reflects community diversity in 2017.

Chicago Votes 
Developing a New Generation of Leaders, 2016
Chicago, IL

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. It engages and develops a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government and politics to young people from all corners of the city. Thanks to the support from Voqal, Chicago Votes will use training-based fellowship, internship and volunteer programs to break down barriers that keep young people of color from actively participating in the political process. Chicago Votes will actively work to leverage the youth vote during the 2016 election and beyond.

Chicago Votes
Empowering Young Voters, 2018
Chicago, IL

Registering, educating and developing thousands of young voters and leaders across Chicago.

Chicago Youth Voices Network
Chicago Youth Interactive, 2012
Chicago, IL

Chicago Youth Interactive is a public education and civic engagement project to bring media products made by Chicago youth to an expanded audience of students and teachers in the Chicago Public School system.

CIRC Action Fund
Resisting Anti-Immigrant Policies, 2017
Denver, CO

CIRC Action Fund is working to resist national anti-immigrant efforts through local and state support.

Citizen Action of New York
Hudson Valley Fair Elections Campaign, 2018
Ulster County, NY

Building a community-based campaign to win public funding of elections at the county level in Ulster County.

Citizen Engagement Lab 
2015
Oakland, CA

Citizen Engagement Lab is a home for people and projects working to shift culture and transform society.

Citizen Engagement Lab 
2014
Oakland, CA

Citizen Engagement Lab is a home for people and projects working to shift culture and transform society.

Citizen Engagement Lab 
2013
Oakland, CA

Citizen Engagement Lab is a home for people and projects working to shift culture and transform society.

Citizen Engagement Lab 
2016
Oakland, CA

Citizen Engagement Lab is a home for people and projects working to shift culture and transform society.

City Bureau
Community-Driven Journalism, 2017
Chicago, IL

Working to create a more democratic and responsive media landscape in Chicago.

City Bureau
Community-Drive Journalism, 2018
Chicago, IL

Making media on the South Side of Chicago more effective, equitable and responsive to the public.

Color of Change
2015
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Color of Change
2014
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Color of Change
2013
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Color of Change
2012
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Color of Change
2011
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Color of Change
2010
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Color of Change
2009
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Color of Change
2016
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Color of Change
2017
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Color of Change
Reinstating Net Neutrality, 2018 
Oakland, CA

Work to reinstate net neutrality rules that ensure the internet is a relatively level playing field.

Color PAC Action
Supporting Candidates of Color, 2019
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support enables Color PAC Action to continue supporting candidates of color throughout the entire process of running for office creating elected bodies that better represent the diversity of Oregon.

Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable
Core Support, 2015
Denver, CO

Provide core support in 2015 for Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable, a non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3)organization that works together with a network of forty-three other charitable organizations dedicated to achieving an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all Coloradans.

Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable
2014
Denver, CO

Build a diverse coalition of organizations that represents all Coloradoans and engage people and organizations in order to make social change through increased civic participation.

Colorado Families for a Fair Wage
Working Together to Help Build a Fair Economy, 2016
Denver, CO

Colorado Families for a Fair Wage is working on a 2016 statewide ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage to $12 by 2020 with the idea that low-wage workers in Colorado are falling behind. Working full time at minimum wage is not enough to support the basic cost of living in most communities in Colorado. Colorado Families for a Fair Wage believes that raising the minimum wage to $12 by 2020 is an important step toward the promise of work as a pathway out of poverty and will spur economic growth in communities across the state.

Colorado Fiscal Institute
Vision 2020, 2018
Denver, CO

Building the public investment majority needed to pass substantial constitutional fiscal reform during the 2020 election.

Colorado Immigrant Funders Collaborative
Supporting Immigrants, 2017
Denver, CO

Assisting immigrant-serving organizations with building capacity to support outreach, education and legal services across Colorado.

Colorado Immigrant Funders Collaborative
Building Capacity for Immigrant-Serving Organizations, 2018 
Denver, CO

Working tirelessly to protect immigrant communities in Colorado.

Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC)
Core Support, 2015
Denver, CO

Provide core support in 2015 for Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC), a statewide, membership-based coalition of immigrant, faith, labor, youth, community, business and ally organizations founded in 2002 to improve the lives of immigrants and refugees by making Colorado a more welcoming, immigrant-friendly state.

Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition Action Fund (CIRC)
Engaging People of Color in the 2018 Election, 2018
Denver, CO

Mobilizing newly registered and infrequent voters who are people of color to participate in the 2018 elections.

Colorado Progressive Action
Inspiring and Mobilizing in 2014 Election, 2014
Denver, CO

Turn out 5,000 Raising American Electorate voters in key legislative districts and in the Secretary of State race, by door-to-door outreach.

Columbia Links
Youth Media Program, 2014
Chicago, IL

Build expertise, relationships, skills and opportunities that connect students, teachers and volunteers through journalism, in the process revitalizing youth media in Chicago.

Committee to Protect Oakland Renters
Working to Protect Renters by Passing Measure JJ
Oakland, CA

Lead campaign to pass the 2016 Renter Protection Act (Measure JJ).

Common Cause
New Mexico Pledge, 2015

Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest and accountable government that works for the public interest, and empowering ordinary people to make their voices heard. With Voqal's support, Common Cause ran a positive, nonpartisan public education campaign engaging New Mexicans on the issues of money in politics.

Common Cause
Local Campaign Finance Reform in New Mexico, 2016
Washington, DC

Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest and accountable government that works for the public interest, and empowering ordinary people to make their voices heard. With Voqal's support Common Cause embarked on a campaign to improve and/or implement public financing, disclosure and coordinate reforms by lobbying review boards and City Councils in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces and the Bernalillo County Commission.

Common Cause
Local Campaign Finance Reform in New Mexico, 2018
Washington, DC

Supporting work to pass a ballot initiative aimed at improving Albuquerque’s successful public campaign financing system by creating a voucher program that would allow Albuquerque residents to designate who receives their campaign finance dollars.

Accion Politica PCUNista (PCUN)
Amplifying the Voice of the Latinx Community, 2019
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support allows PCUN to more effectively increase and amplify the voice of the Latinx community.

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
Advancing Racial Equity
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support enables APANO to conduct a comprehensive campaign focused on advancing racial equity in politics.

Building Power for Communities of Color
Building Political Power for Communities of Color, 2019
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support assists Building Power for Communities of Color in developing the vision and comprehensive strategy needed to empower communities of color to effectively advocate for a racial equity agenda at the state and local levels and build the racial equity movement that the state needs.

Color PAC Action
Supporting Candidates of Color, 2019
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support enables Color PAC Action to continue supporting candidates of color throughout the entire process of running for office creating elected bodies that better represent the diversity of Oregon.

Latino Network Action Fund
Mobilizing Oregon's Latino Community, 2019
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support helps build the organizational infrastructure needed to mobilize Oregon’s Latino community.

Oregon Progressive Fund
Voter Activation Network Access, 2019
Portland, OR

The Oregon Progressive Fund is working in the Portland area to advance progressive change. The funding received from Voqal will be used to renew, upgrade and maintain the Oregon Progressive Fund’s active subscription to the voter file through the Voter Activation Network (VAN).

Unite Oregon Action
Empowering the Low-Income and Marginalized, 2019
Portland, OR

Voqal’s support permits Unite Oregon Action to conduct a statewide small donor campaign during the 2019 legislative session focused on encouraging a greater number of low-income and marginalized Oregonians to participate in elections, evening the playing field for candidates without powerful and monied backers and enabling its community members to run for elected office.

Abolish Slavery Colorado
Abolishing Slavery from the Colorado Constitution, 2018
Denver, CO

A successful campaign to pass Amendment A, an amendment aimed at abolishing slavery from the Colorado state constitution.

ACLU of Colorado 
Colorado Legislative Priorities, 2018
Denver, CO

Pursuing a legislative and advocacy agenda focused on criminal justice reform, voting rights, privacy and digital security.

Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Engaging Voters With the Issues, 2018
Minnesota

Alliance for A Better Minnesota helps ensure voters in Minnesota are informed about where the candidates stand on the issues they care about during the 2018 election.

Arizona Advocacy Network
Supporting Proposition 403, 2018
Phoenix, AZ

Significantly expanding its field and digital organizing capacity in support of a “dark money” disclosure measure (Proposition 403) in Tempe, Arizona.

Arizona Advocacy Network
Protecting the Citizen's Clean Election Act, 2018
Phoenix, AZ

Unsuccessful attempt to defeat Proposition 206, a ballot measure that negatively affects the Citizens Clean Election Act.  

Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Pan Asian Voter Empowerment, 2018
Chicago, IL

Convening and mobilizing the Pan Asian Voter Empowerment (PAVE) coalition, which works to include the voices of those most affected by issues to inform policy solutions, partner with broader coalitions to collaboratively address larger root causes of racial inequality and shape the narrative around these issues.

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC)
Advancing Progressive Policy Through Ballot Measures, 2018
Washington, D.C. 

Ensuring progressive ballot measure campaigns succeed across the United States.

Black Roots Alliance
Creating a More Equitable and Inclusive Democracy, 2018
Chicago, IL

Creating a more equitable and inclusive democracy and economy in Illinois.

Chicago Votes
Empowering Young Voters, 2018
Chicago, IL

Registering, educating and developing thousands of young voters and leaders across Chicago.

Citizen Action of New York
Hudson Valley Fair Elections Campaign, 2018
Ulster County, NY

Building a community-based campaign to win public funding of elections at the county level in Ulster County.

City Bureau
Community-Drive Journalism, 2018
Chicago, IL

Making media on the South Side of Chicago more effective, equitable and responsive to the public.

Color of Change
Reinstating Net Neutrality, 2018 
Oakland, CA

Work to reinstate net neutrality rules that ensure the internet is a relatively level playing field.

Colorado Fiscal Institute
Vision 2020, 2018
Denver, CO

Building the public investment majority needed to pass substantial constitutional fiscal reform during the 2020 election.

Colorado Immigrant Funders Collaborative
Building Capacity for Immigrant-Serving Organizations, 2018 
Denver, CO

Working tirelessly to protect immigrant communities in Colorado.

Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition Action Fund (CIRC)
Engaging People of Color in the 2018 Election, 2018
Denver, CO

Mobilizing newly registered and infrequent voters who are people of color to participate in the 2018 elections.

Common Cause
Local Campaign Finance Reform in New Mexico, 2018
Washington, DC

Supporting work to pass a ballot initiative aimed at improving Albuquerque’s successful public campaign financing system by creating a voucher program that would allow Albuquerque residents to designate who receives their campaign finance dollars.

Common Cause Connecticut
Defense of Connecticut Citizen's Election Program, 2018 
Hartford, CT

Rapid response program aimed at lessening the ability of Independent Expenditures to undermine the Citizens' Election Program.

Common Cause Illinois
Highlighting the Influence of Big Money, 2018
Chicago, IL

Highlighting the influence of big money on racial and social justice issues. 

Common Cause Maryland
Fair Elections Maryland - Baltimore City Program, 2018
Baltimore, MD

Supported the Fair Elections Baltimore coalition in its successful campaign to establish small-donor-funded elections for Baltimore City offices.

Common Cause Oregon
Advancing Campaign Finance Reform, 2018
Portland, OR

Common Cause is a nonpartisan public interest group that champions democracy reform by empowering people to have an organized voice in the political process. Voqal’s support will enable Common Cause to strengthen underrepresented leadership and support coalition leadership as it continues to advance campaign finance reform in Portland and statewide.

Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Accion Latina (COPAL)
Organizing the Latinx Community, 2018
Minnesota

COPAL is implementing a digital strategy for organizing Latinx community members to participate in the electoral process.

CVH Power
Campaign for Stable Homes, 2018
New York, NY

Grassroots and political organizing work in support of bill to enact Emergency Tenant Protection (ETPA) in Ossining, New York.

Demand Progress
Restoring Net Neutrality, 2018
National Campaign

Campaign aimed at encouraging Congress to pass a CRA to restore net neutrality. 

Engine Advocacy
Startups for Net Neutrality, 2018
San Francisco, CA

Activating startups to advocate for Net Neutrality. 

Fight for the Future
Mobilizing to Restore Net Neutrality, 2018
Barre, MA

Mobilizing citizens to restore net neutrality. 

Free Speech TV
2018
Denver, CO

Grassroots Illinois Action
Increasing Black and Latinx Political Power, 2018
Chicago, IL

Deepening issue-based and electoral organizing in Chicago and Peoria in order to increase low-income Black and Latinx residents’ political power.

Great Education Action Fund
Fighting for Better Education Funding, 2018
Denver, CO

Building the constituent knowledge base, advocacy capacity and organizational relationships necessary for policy success.

Great Education Colorado
Increasing School Funding, 2018
Denver, CO

Working to pass a 2018 school funding initiative aimed at addressing the long-standing underfunding of education in the state.

Great Education Colorado Issue Committee
Initiative 93, Great Schools, Thriving Communities (GSTC), 2018 
Denver, CO

Unsuccessful effort to increase education funding in Colorado.

Hoodoisie
Delivering a Radically Policized Take on News, 2018
Chicago, IL

A bi-weekly live and live-streamed news show that aims to delivers “block-optic” and radically politicized takes on news and current events.

Illinois PIRG
Advocating for Voting and Campaign Finance Reform, 2018
Chicago, IL

Advocating for voting and campaign finance reform and expanding youth mobilization work on college campuses.

Kartemquin Films
Engaging Society Through Film, 2018
Chicago, IL

Supporting emerging and established social justice documentary filmmakers.

Landship Stewardship Project
Advancing Rural Racial Justice, 2018
Minneapolis, MN

The Landship Stewardship Project is dedicated to creating transformational change in rural Minnesota’s food and farming system. With support from Voqal, the Land Stewardship Project will support its rural racial justice work.

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugees Rights (ICIRR)
Passing the Dream Act, 2018
Chicago, IL

Mobilizing Illinois voters to put pressure on Congress to pass a clean DREAM Act.

Maine Citizens for Clean Elections Action
Portland Campaign for Public Funding, 2018
Portland, ME

Building a diverse coalition around the public funding of Portland municipal elections. 

Mijente
Online Hub for Latinx and Chincanx Organizing, 2018
Chicago, IL

Mijente is a new national hub for Latinx and Chincanx organizing. Using a hybrid offline and online platform, it is creating a political home that brings together leadership, advocacy, culture and media to spark culture and policy change.

Minnesota Youth Collective
Expanding the Impact of Young Voices, 2018
Minnesota

Minnesota Youth Collective is effectively using digital organizing to expand the impact of young voices in democracy through civic engagement and voting.

Missouri Jobs with Justice Voter Action
Mobilizing Marginalized Voters, 2018
St. Louis, MO

Mobilizing marginalized voters to vote in 2018. 

National Hispanic Media Coalition
Public Mobilization in Support of Net Neutrality, 2018
National Campaign

Encouraging Congress to promote strong net neutrality rules. 

Ohio Organizing Campaign
Ohio Safe and Healthy Communities, 2018
Ohio

Mobilizing voters in support of the Ohio Safe & Healthy Communities Ballot Initiative (Issue 1). 

One Colorado
Reauthorization of Colorado Civil Rights Divison, 2018
Denver, CO

Advocating at the Colorado state legislature to ensure all protected classes (including the LGBTQ community) are protected during the reauthorization of the Colorado Civil Rights Division.

ONE Northside
Organizing Around Social Justice, 2018
Chicago, IL

Organizing vulnerable and struggling community members around social justice issues.

One People's Campaign
Building Power to Enact Social Justice, 2018
Chicago, IL

Building the power to enact social, racial and economic justice.

Open Democracy Action
Citizens Movement for Campaign Finance Reform, 2018
New Hampshire

A citizen-focused campaign towards creating real campaign finance reform in New Hampshire. 

Oregon Progressive Fund
Voter Activation Network Access, 2018
Portland, OR

The Oregon Progressive Fund is working in the Portland area to advance progressive change. The funding received from Voqal will be used to renew, upgrade and maintain the Oregon Progressive Fund’s active subscription to the voter file through the Voter Activation Network (VAN).

Oregon Student Association
Vote OR Vote, 2018
Portland, OR

The Oregon Student Association is a statewide, student-led advocacy and organizing nonprofit that represents over 130,000 college students. It works to make a quality education more affordable and accessible for all Oregonians. Voqal’s support will enable the Oregon Student Association to engage student voters through a non-partisan voter registration drive called the Vote OR Vote program.

Oregonians United Against Profiling
Preserving Oregon as a Sanctuary State, 2018 
Portland, OR

Mobilizing and educating voters to successfully defeat Measure 105, a measure that would have increased racial profiling in Oregon. 

OUR Walmart
OUR Walmart Mobile Platform Development, 2018
Oakland, CA

With Voqal’s support, OUR Walmart will build out the technological infrastructure needed to allow separate organizations to use Worklt to reach distinct groups of constituents.

People's Action
Electoralizing the Resistance, 2018
Chicago, IL

People's Action is a network of grassroots organizations with a fierce reputation for direct action from across the country that works to advance a national economic and racial justice agenda.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund
Educating Voters About Supreme Court Nominee, 2018
National Campaign

Educating voters about where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stands on issues important to women.  

Presente Action Fund
Internet Freedom for All, 2018
National Campaign

Leveraging Latinx leadership to protect internet freedom during this critical moment of limited consumer protection.

Progressive Maryland
Establishing Small Donor Funded Elections, 2018
Silver Spring, MD

The immediate focus of the coalition includes winning a small donor program in Prince George’s County, implementing existing programs in Montgomery and Howard County and building momentum to pass a statewide program in 2019.

Proteus Action League
Getting Money out of Politics, 2018
Amherst, MA

General and campaign support for the Piper Fund, a funder collaborative that has developed a grantmaking strategy designed to build a stronger money in politics movement.

ROC Action
Michigan One Fair Wage Campaign, 2018
Michigan

Campaigning to raise the minimum wage in Michigan to $12 an hour by 2022. 

Save Our Neighborhoods
Defeating Amendment 74, 2018
Denver, CO

Successful effort to defeat Amendment 74. 

South Asians American Leading Together
Supporting South Asian Grassroots Organizing, 2018
Takoma Park, MD

South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that elevates the voices and perspectives of South Asian individuals and organizations to build a more just and inclusive society in the United States. With support from Voqal, SAALT will bolster the advocacy, organizing and base building capacity of South Asian grassroots organizations to engage on the issues of immigrant rights policy advocacy, civil rights and liberties, and hate violence.

TakeAction Minnesota
Narrative Focused Solutions, 2018
Minnesota

TakeAction Minnesota is building a strong narrative aimed at encouraging citizen support for bold solutions to the problems Minnesota currently faces.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
#SaveSCOTUS, 2018
National Campaign

Educating the public about Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. 

The New Florida Majority
Restoring the Vote to Reformed Felons, 2018
Florida

Successful effort to pass Amendment 4 in Florida, an amendment that restores the right to vote to felons in Florida. 

The People's Lobby
Addressing the Root Causes of Inequality, 2018 
Chicago, IL

Building a movement in Illinois to address the root causes of inequality and create a state that works for everyone and not just the wealthiest one percent.

Voices for Racial Justice
Developing an Ecosystem of Racial Justice, 2018
Minnesota

Voices for Racial Justice’s is developing and nurturing a healthy ecosystem of racial justice organizing in the lead up to the 2018 elections

Voters Not Politicians Ballot Committee
Ending Partisan Gerrymandering in Michigan, 2018
Michigan

Successful effort to pass Proposal 2, a proposal that ends partisan gerrymandering in Michigan. 

WIN Minnesota
Advancing Progressive Issues, 2018
Minneapolis, MN

WIN Minnesota is an alliance of donors dedicated to moving Minnesota forward by supporting the nation’s most sophisticated and effective state-based progressive infrastructure. With Voqal’s support, WIN Minnesota will educate and mobilize everyday Minnesotans to advance progressive issues.

Win Win Action
Winning Vote Reforms, 2018
Seattle, WA

Winning a bold suite of voting reforms that will decrease systemic disparities in participation among marginalized communities across Washington.

Working Texans for Paid Sick Time
Passing Paid Sick Leave in Texas, 2018
Dallas and San Antonio, TX

Organizing to pass paid sick leave ballot initiatives in Dallas and San Antonio.  

9to5 Colorado
Paid Sick Days Campaign, 2017
Denver, CO

9to5 Colorado will organize and promote a ballot campaign aimed at passing paid sick days during Colorado’s 2018 elections.

ACLU of Colorado 
Colorado Legislative Priorities, 2017
Denver, CO

Taking a proactive approach by advancing legislation that promotes civil rights and civil liberties, while also actively working to defeat bills or ballot measures that would infringe on individual rights and liberties.

Arab American Institute
Improved Hate Crime Reporting, 2017
Washington, DC

The Arab American Institute represents the policy and community interests of Arab Americans throughout the United States and strives to promote Arab American participation in the U.S. electoral system. Thanks to support from Voqal, the Arab American Institute will train Arab American leaders and organizations in 12 states to interact with U.S. and state Attorney Generals to ensure the reporting of hate crimes against the Arab American community.

Arizona Wins
Defending Ballot Measures, 2017
Arizona

Dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working families while advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all Arizonans, Arizona Wins will conduct a legislative defense campaign to defend the ballot measure process and previously passed ballot measures in Arizona.

Brave New Films
2017
Chicago, IL

BYP 100
Local and Statewide Advocacy, 2017
Chicago, IL

BYP100 is an activist member-based organization of Black 18-35 year olds, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. In 2017, it will build its local organizing capacity to engage in local and statewide advocacy work focused on ending criminalization, improving police accountability and increasing LGBTQ, gender and economic justice

Chicago Filmmakers
2017 Chicago Digital Media Production Fund, 2017
Chicago, IL

Support independent filmmakers and the production of work that reflects community diversity in 2017.

CIRC Action Fund
Resisting Anti-Immigrant Policies, 2017
Denver, CO

CIRC Action Fund is working to resist national anti-immigrant efforts through local and state support.

City Bureau
Community-Driven Journalism, 2017
Chicago, IL

Working to create a more democratic and responsive media landscape in Chicago.

Color of Change
2017
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Colorado Immigrant Funders Collaborative
Supporting Immigrants, 2017
Denver, CO

Assisting immigrant-serving organizations with building capacity to support outreach, education and legal services across Colorado.

Common Cause Illinois
Automatic Voter Registration, 2017
Chicago, IL

Common Cause Illinois (CCIL) is a nonpartisan watchdog group whose mission is to promote open, ethical and accountable government at the local, state and national levels by educating and mobilizing the people of Illinois. in 2017, CCIL will work to pass and monitor the implementation of Automatic Voter Registration and work to win Fair Elections in Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois.

Common Cause Oregon
Campaign Finance Reform: Building on Success, 2017
Portland, OR

Work to build on Portland's small donor campaign finance reform victory by organizing to pass a similar initiative statewide in Oregon.  

Coworker.org
2017
Washington, D.C.

Founded in early 2013, Coworker.org is a digital organizing platform for workers’ rights. A combination of online tools, media outreach and research-based strategic support help employees have a voice in the modern workplace.

Democracy Initiative
2017
Washington, DC

The Democracy Initiative, launched in 2013, seeks to restore the core principle of political equality.

Free Press Action Fund
2017
Washinton, D.C.

Free Press Action Fund is the advocacy arm of Free Press, a national, nonprofit media reform organization that promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism and universal access to communications.

Free Speech TV
2017
Denver, CO

Great Education Colorado
Building Towards a Long-Term Movement for Education Funding, 2017
Denver, CO

Establish feedback loops within key communities to ensure the work is informed by the views and concerns of all constituencies. The work will also build toward a broader, long-term movement for fiscal reform.

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Enhancing Youth Civic Engagement, 2017
Chicago, IL

Dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social and political life of a diverse society, ICIRR will enhance youth civic engagement through education and empowerment using social media and technology.

Illinois Humanities
Community Engagement, 2017
Chicago, IL

Partnering with media and community organizations to provide facilitation training and support for events that aim to provide a means for communities to shape and inform the way the issues that matter to them get covered.

Maine Citizens for Clean Elections (MCCE)
Protecting Clean Election Law, 2017
Portland, ME

Maine Citizens for Clean Elections (MCCE) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to ensure that Maine’s campaign finance laws, elections and government serve the public interest, both in principle and in practice. MCCE works to protect Maine’s strengthened Clean Election Law in 2017 and beyond.

Massachusetts Communities Action Network (MCAN)
Advancing Progressive Ballot Initiatives, 2017
Dorchester, MA

MCAN will work to build support for two 2018 ballot initiatives aimed at creating a $15 an hour minimum wage and a more progressive tax infrastructure in Massachusetts.

Melange
Rural Broadband Campaign, 2017
Knoxville, TN

Use public education and research to secure the political will, resources and popular support for publicly-accountable broadband in rural East Tennessee.

MHAction
2017
San Francisco, CA

MHAction is a growing national movement of manufactured homeowners who work to protect the affordability and quality of their communities through local and state campaigns. Voqal’s grant will enable MHAction to lend its unique voice to social, racial, climate and economic justice campaigns that promote the well-being of manufactured homeowners and their communities and further develop its online infrastructure to deepen the reach of the progressive movement in exurban and rural locales.

Mijente
Online Hub for Latinx and Chincanx Organizing, 2017
Chicago, IL

Mijente is a new national hub for Latinx and Chincanx organizing. Using a hybrid offline and online platform, it is creating a political home that brings together leadership, advocacy, culture and media to spark culture and policy change.

MPower Change
Building Muslim American Grassroots Organizing, 2017
New York, NY

With a growing base of over 80,000 members, a network of more than 150 local organizers, and partnerships with Muslim and progressive organizations nationwide, MPower Change uses organizing, campaigning and storytelling to build the grassroots power of American Muslims and advance social, spiritual, racial and economic justice for all people.

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado
Advocating for Pro-Choice Policies, 2017
Denver, CO 

NARAL Pro Choice Colorado will advocate for pro-choice public policy.

New Era Colorado Action Fund
Engaging Young Voters, 2017
Denver, CO

New Era Colorado Action Fund will work with young voters to engage them in the 2018 elections.

New Media Ventures
Building Progressive Change, 2017
San Francisco, CA

New Media Ventures is the first national network of early-stage investors who are investing their time and money into new, cutting-edge, start-ups focused on building progressive change.

ONE Northside
Organizing for Social Justice, 2017
Chicago, IL

ONE Northside is a mixed-income, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization that unites diverse communities. It builds collective power to eliminate injustice through bold and innovative community organizing. In 2017, it will work to organize vulnerable and struggling community members around social justice issues.

Oregon Progressive Fund
Oregon Voter File Progressive Collaboration, 2017
Portland, OR

Renew, upgrade and maintain the active subscription to the voter file through the Voter Activation Network (VAN).

PICO National Network
2017
Oakland, CA

PICO is a national network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities.

Presente.org
Presente Action Fund, 2017
Los Angeles, CA

Presente advances Latinx power and creates winning campaigns that amplify Latinx voices; expands political imagination and traditional boundaries; and fosters inspiration for freedom, equity and justice. Thanks in part to support from Voqal, Presente will be able carry out its Sanctuary Restaurants program that will organize a large and diverse base of workers, employers and consumers who will advocate for workplaces committed to being free of hate and discrimination.

ProgressNow Colorado
Advancing Progressive Policies, 2017
Denver, CO 

Progress Now Colorado will extend its reach and more effectively engage with the public on progressive issues and continue its Media Monitoring Project aimed at spotlighting and correcting misinformation in Colorado’s media landscape.

Proteus Action League
Getting Money out of Politics, 2017
Amherst, MA

General and campaign support for the Piper Fund, a funder collaborative that has developed a grantmaking strategy designed to build a stronger money in politics movement.

Proteus Fund
Emergent Fund, 2017
Amherst, MA

A partnership between Women Donors Network, Solidaire Network and Threshold Foundation, the Emergent Fund is focused on grassroots organizations who are facing injustice based on racial, ethnic, religious and other forms of discrimination. It provides resources to defend against what's coming and to
develop innovative strategies to transform the country.

Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
Ensuring Justice for Immigrants, 2017
Denver, CO

Working to ensure justice for men and women in immigration detention and for immigrant children who have suffered from abuse, neglect or violence.

South Asians American Leading Together
Supporting South Asian Grassroots Organizing, 2017
Takoma Park, MD

South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that elevates the voices and perspectives of South Asian individuals and organizations to build a more just and inclusive society in the United States. With support from Voqal, SAALT will bolster the advocacy, organizing and base building capacity of South Asian grassroots organizations to engage on the issues of immigrant rights policy advocacy, civil rights and liberties, and hate violence.

State Innovation Exchange (SiX)
Advancing Progressive Policies, 2017
Chicago, IL

Support and coordinate a group of progressive legislators and state organizations around progressive legislative activity with the goal of positioning Illinois as a leader on progressive policy.

TakeAction Minnesota
Advancing a More Inclusive Minnesota, 2017
St. Paul, MN

Using traditional and social media to amplify a narrative that is inclusive, multiracial and small-d democratic.

The People's Lobby
Organizing Progressive Support, 2017
Chicago, IL

The People’s Lobby is a membership-based organization that trains leaders to build bases in communities, organizes support for progressive legislation and endorses candidates. It takes direct action to pressure elected officials and other powerful people to put the interests of people and the planet first. In 2017,  The People’s Lobby will expand its work to more rural and suburban geographies in Illinois to be a more effective partner to allies throughout the state.

Voices for Racial Justice
Core Support, 2017
Minneapolis, MN

Further its mission of advancing racial, cultural, social, and economic justice in Minnesota through organizer and leadership training, strategic convenings and campaigns, and the creation of research.

WIN Minnesota
Advancing Progressive Policy, 2017
Saint Paul, MN

WIN Minnesota is an alliance of donors dedicated to moving Minnesota forward by supporting the nation’s most sophisticated and effective state-based progressive infrastructure. It builds public support for progressive policies in health care, education, the environment, women’s issues, LGBT rights, human rights and economic justice. WIN Minnesota educates and mobilizes Minnesotans to advance progressive issues and increase the power of Minnesotans in underrepresented communities.

Young Invincibles
Increasing Student Engagement in Midterm Elections, 2017
Chicago, IL

Young Invincibles represents the interests of 18- to 34-year-olds and makes sure their perspective is heard wherever decisions about their collective future are being made. In 2017, Young Invincibles will deepen student engagement through the launch of the Student Power Coalition and student-led advocacy on state higher education policy. It will also work with the NextGen Coalition to put young adults at the forefront of the midterm elections. 

Brave New Films
2016
Chicago, IL

Center for Community Change Action
Educating and Engaging Colorado Latinos, 2016
Denver, CO

Center for Community Change Action (CCCA) builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change their communities and public policies for the better. CCCA will work with local and national groups in Colorado as part of the c4 Latino Roundtable to help educate and engage Colorado Latinos and mobilize them to vote in the 2016 election.

Chicago Votes 
Developing a New Generation of Leaders, 2016
Chicago, IL

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. It engages and develops a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government and politics to young people from all corners of the city. Thanks to the support from Voqal, Chicago Votes will use training-based fellowship, internship and volunteer programs to break down barriers that keep young people of color from actively participating in the political process. Chicago Votes will actively work to leverage the youth vote during the 2016 election and beyond.

Citizen Engagement Lab 
2016
Oakland, CA

Citizen Engagement Lab is a home for people and projects working to shift culture and transform society.

Color of Change
2016
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Colorado Families for a Fair Wage
Working Together to Help Build a Fair Economy, 2016
Denver, CO

Colorado Families for a Fair Wage is working on a 2016 statewide ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage to $12 by 2020 with the idea that low-wage workers in Colorado are falling behind. Working full time at minimum wage is not enough to support the basic cost of living in most communities in Colorado. Colorado Families for a Fair Wage believes that raising the minimum wage to $12 by 2020 is an important step toward the promise of work as a pathway out of poverty and will spur economic growth in communities across the state.

Committee to Protect Oakland Renters
Working to Protect Renters by Passing Measure JJ
Oakland, CA

Lead campaign to pass the 2016 Renter Protection Act (Measure JJ).

Common Cause
Local Campaign Finance Reform in New Mexico, 2016
Washington, DC

Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest and accountable government that works for the public interest, and empowering ordinary people to make their voices heard. With Voqal's support Common Cause embarked on a campaign to improve and/or implement public financing, disclosure and coordinate reforms by lobbying review boards and City Councils in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces and the Bernalillo County Commission.

Common Cause Illinois
Increasing Voter Engagement, 2016
Chicago, IL

Common Cause Illinois (CCIL) is a nonpartisan watchdog group whose mission is to promote open, ethical and accountable government at the local, state and national levels by educating and mobilizing the people of Illinois. With support from Voqal, CCIL looks to increase voter engagement in Illinois by working for a fairer election system that gets the money out of politics, increasing voter participation through the passage and implementation of automatic voter registration, and reforming the redistricting process to ensure legislative districts accurately represent their populations.

Common Cause Oregon
Campaign Finance Reform, 2016
Portland, OR

Common Cause will build out the coalition and campaigns needed to pass two parallel reforms for small donor public financing programs — one in the city of Portland and one at the Oregon state legislature. In the process, it plans to build a stronger democracy movement by building on anticipated campaign finance reform victories across the country to inspire, motivate and empower.

Communities United
Advancing Civic Engagement Among Millennials of Color, 2016
Chicago, IL

Communities United is a grassroots community organization that addresses the root causes of social, racial and economic injustice at a neighborhood, citywide, statewide and national level. Thanks to support from Voqal, Communities United will work to advance civic engagement efforts among millennials of color and engage in progressive policy agenda setting to address issues of school arrests and the ongoing criminalization of youth of color, shift the public narrative to a youth-led perspective, and move investment away from policing and incarceration to school and community support through a racial equity lens.

Community Organizations in Action
Advancing a People & Planet First Agenda: A Digital Organizing Program, 2016
Seattle, WA

Community Organizations in Action promotes economic, racial and social equity through national, regional and local advocacy campaigns. It is developing an expanded national digital organizing program that can advance its People & Planet First Campaign, which aims to address the triple crisis of expanding inequality, a broken democracy and a planet in peril. Through this digital program, it plans to animate and mobilize a multiracial coalition in cities from across the country that can advance an agenda that prioritizes the well-being of people and the planet.

Coworker.org
2016
Washington, D.C.

Founded in early 2013, Coworker.org is a digital organizing platform for workers’ rights. A combination of online tools, media outreach and research-based strategic support help employees have a voice in the modern workplace.

FairVote Minnesota
Expanding Ranked Choice Voting in Minnesota, 2016
Minneapolis, MN

Working for better democracy through public education and advocacy. FairVote Minnesota focuses on progressive voting systems that lead to greater competitiveness, better representation and more participation in elections. Building on its success in Minneapolis and St. Paul, it is working to pass a local options bill and expand Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in other Minnesota communities.

Fight for the Future
Mobile Tech Campaign Tools, The Future of Bottom-Up, 2016
Boston, MA

Fight for the Future’s (FTFF) mission is to ensure the web continues to hold freedom of expression and creativity at its core. It envisions a world where everyone can access the internet affordably, free of interference or censorship and with full privacy. With Voqal’s support, FFTF seeks to build a messaging tool that turns mobile phone users into social justice and GOTV campaigners, hooking people through hot issues they care about—rather than candidates they often don’t.

Free Press Action Fund
2016
Washinton, D.C.

Free Press Action Fund is the advocacy arm of Free Press, a national, nonprofit media reform organization that promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism and universal access to communications.

Free Speech TV
2016
Denver, CO

Free Spirit Media
Journalism Program Portfolio and Community Engagement, 2016
Chicago, IL

Free Spirit Media (FSM) provides education, access and opportunity in media production to over 500 underserved urban youth every year. FSM is passionately committed to cultivating diverse youth voices on Chicago’s south and west sides through high-quality media-making programs. With Voqal’s support, Free Spirit Media will strengthen its solutions-journalism practices and participatory distribution ventures to activate critical social dialogue and civic engagement in 2016 and 2017.

Kartemquin Films
Filmmaker Development Programs, 2016
Chicago, IL

Kartemquin (KTQ) is a collaborative center for documentary media makers who seek to foster a more engaged and empowered society. KTQ’s filmmaker development work centers on three flagship programs: Diverse Voices in Docs, the KTQ Internship program and KTQ Labs Feedback Screening program. With Voqal’s support, KTQ will educate and engage diverse filmmakers in the changes in the documentary making field to ensure they are competitive practitioners of their profession

Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA)
Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families Campaign
Arizona

Lead campaign to raise the Arizona minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020.

Melange
Rural Broadband Campaign, 2016
Knoxville, TN

Utilize lobbying, public education and research to secure the development and implementation of affordable publicly-owned broadband for rural Tennesseans.

Mijente
Online Hub for Latinx and Chincanx Organizing, 2016
Chicago, IL

Mijente is a new national hub for Latinx and Chincanx organizing. Using a hybrid offline and online platform, it is creating a political home that brings together leadership, advocacy, culture and media to spark culture and policy change.

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado
Engaging Colorado Citizens, 2016 
Denver, CO

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Inc. is a statewide political organization and a key partner in the pro-choice movement. The organization works to build and expand a community of voters that engages in the political process to ensure every woman the right to access a full range of reproductive health choices, including preventing unintended pregnancies, bearing healthy children and choosing safe and legal abortion. NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado will conduct a robust GOTV campaign in 2016 aimed at engaging over 18,000 Colorado citizens in the upcoming election.

New Media Ventures
Building Progressive Change, 2016
San Francisco, CA

New Media Ventures is the first national network of early-stage investors who are investing their time and money into new, cutting-edge, start-ups focused on building progressive change.

Our Oregon
Engaging Communities of Color in Tax Reforms, 2016
Portland, OR

Our Oregon hired an organizer to better engage communities of color in its efforts to pass a ballot measure to increase the Oregon state corporate minimum tax for corporations that have over $25 million in sales in Oregon. The revenue generated from this measure will be directed to spending on K-12 public schools, health care and senior services.

OUR Walmart
OUR Walmart Mobile Platform Development, 2016
Oakland, CA

With Voqal’s support, OUR Walmart developed a mobile platform that will build on its innovative use of online organizing to connect workers, build community and mobilize collective action. OUR Walmart works to ensure that every Associate, regardless of his or her title, age, race or sex, is respected at Walmart. The platform will allow workers to instantly connect for workplace support, self-organize into communities of shared issues/identities and take distributive action.

Progress Now Colorado
Spotlighting and Correcting Media Misinformation, 2016
Denver, CO

As the state’s largest online multi-issue education and advocacy organization, Progress Now Colorado acts as a public relations shop promoting progressive ideals. Progress Now is spotlighting and correcting media misinformation (omissions, misrepresentation, factual errors) in Colorado.

Progress Now Colorado
Empowering Colorado's Latino Millennials, 2016
Denver, CO

As the state’s largest online multi-issue education and advocacy organization, Progress Now Colorado acts as a public relations shop promoting progressive ideals. Through its Generation Latino project, Progress Now aims to empower and ignite the collective energy, imagination and creativity of Colorado's Latino millennial community to motivate them towards higher rates of civic engagement.

Proteus Action League
Getting Money out of Politics, 2016
Amherst, MA

General and campaign support for the Piper Fund, a funder collaborative that has developed a grantmaking strategy designed to build a stronger money in politics movement.

Proteus Fund
Themis Fund, 2016
Amherst, MA

General support for the Themis Fund, a funder collaborative that is working to repeal the death penalty.

Race Forward
Anti-criminalization Project, 2016
Oakland, CA

Race Forward builds awareness, solutions and leadership for racial justice by generating transformative ideas, information and experiences. Its anti-criminalization project is a visionary movement-building endeavor to bridge movements working towards ending mass incarceration and mass deportation.

Roosevelt Forward
NextGen Illinois Coalition, 2016
Chicago, IL

Roosevelt Forward brings together thousands of thinkers and doers working to redefine the rules that guide our social and economic realities. It rethinks and reshapes everything from local policy to federal legislation, orienting toward a new economic and political system: one built by many for the good of all. Thanks to support from Voqal, Roosevelt will lead the NextGen Illinois Coalition in implementing a coordinated plan to strengthen youth civic infrastructure in Chicago and statewide.

Silicon Valley Rising
Opportunity to Work Campaign for Part-Time Workers
San Jose, CA

Work to pass Opportunity to Work in San Jose, a measure that will help ensure part-time workers who need more hours receive them.

TakeAction Minnesota
Mobilizing Marginalized Constituencies, 2016
St. Paul, MN

Using digital communication strategies to identify, recruit and mobilize constituencies that have been marginalized in Minnesota's political arena. TakeAction MN will deploy this grassroots base to advance policy changes in the state legislature that restore the vote to people with criminal records and guarantee earned sick time for all Minnesota workers.

The New Era Colorado Action Fund
Mobilizing Young People in Support of Progressive Issues, 2016
Denver, CO

The New Era Colorado Action fund works to reinvent politics, mobilizing and empowering young people to advance progressive change through elections and advocacy. In 2016, New Era Colorado plans on registering up to 50,000 young people to vote in Colorado, mobilizing them in support of progressive issues and equipping them with the information they need to know where candidates stand on those issues.
 

Young Invincibles
Student Impact Project, 2016
Chicago, IL

Young Invincibles represents the interests of 18 to 34 year-olds and makes sure their perspective is heard wherever decisions about their collective future are being made. It conducts cutting-edge policy research and analysis, shares the stories of young adults, designs campaigns to educate them on important issue areas, informs and mobilizes millennials and advocates to change the status quo. Thanks to support from Voqal, its Student Impact Project will strengthen the voice of young adults on higher education policies in Illinois by providing advocacy tools for them to make their voices heard.

ACLU of Colorado 
Colorado Legislative Priorities, 2015
Denver, CO

Taking a proactive approach by advancing legislation that promotes civil rights and civil liberties, while also actively working to defeat bills or ballot measures that would infringe on individual rights and liberties.

Action for Common Good
Digital Organizing to Raise the Wage, 2015

Action for the Common Good is a sister organization of Center for Popular Democracy that works for decent, livable wages, health benefits and access to full-time work for all!

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
BISC Proactive Project, 2015
Washington, DC 

The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center is an advocacy organization working to strengthen democracy by building a national progressive strategy for ballot measures.

Brave New Films
2015
Chicago, IL

Chicago Filmmakers
2015 Chicago Digital Media Production Fund, 2015
Chicago, IL

Support independent filmmakers and the production of work that reflects community diversity in 2015.

Citizen Engagement Lab 
2015
Oakland, CA

Citizen Engagement Lab is a home for people and projects working to shift culture and transform society.

Color of Change
2015
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable
Core Support, 2015
Denver, CO

Provide core support in 2015 for Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable, a non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3)organization that works together with a network of forty-three other charitable organizations dedicated to achieving an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all Coloradans.

Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC)
Core Support, 2015
Denver, CO

Provide core support in 2015 for Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC), a statewide, membership-based coalition of immigrant, faith, labor, youth, community, business and ally organizations founded in 2002 to improve the lives of immigrants and refugees by making Colorado a more welcoming, immigrant-friendly state.

Common Cause
New Mexico Pledge, 2015

Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest and accountable government that works for the public interest, and empowering ordinary people to make their voices heard. With Voqal's support, Common Cause ran a positive, nonpartisan public education campaign engaging New Mexicans on the issues of money in politics.

Coworker.org
2015
Washington, D.C.

Founded in early 2013, Coworker.org is a digital organizing platform for workers’ rights. A combination of online tools, media outreach and research-based strategic support help employees have a voice in the modern workplace.

Democracy Initiative
2015
Washington, DC

The Democracy Initiative, launched in 2013, seeks to restore the core principle of political equality.

Domestic Workers Legacy Fund
Social Insurance for Long-Term Care in Hawaii, 2015
Honolulu, HI

Support advocacy efforts to advance progressive legislation in Hawaii that would create the nation’s first publicly-funded, mandatory long-term care insurance program.

Free Press Action Fund
2015
Washinton, D.C.

Free Press Action Fund is the advocacy arm of Free Press, a national, nonprofit media reform organization that promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism and universal access to communications.

Free Speech TV
2015
Denver, CO

Gamaliel Faith and Democracy Campaign
Digital Organizing for Prophetic Voices, 2015
Chicago, IL

Gamaliel was founded in 1986 to train community and faith leaders to build political power and create organizations that unite people of diverse faiths and races.

Great Education Action Fund
Building Blocks for a 2016 TABOR Reprieve, 2015
Denver, CO

Create the infrastructure for a powerful grassroots effort to ensure passage of a ballot initiative in 2016 that, at least, allows the state to retain and spend all revenues, irrespective of TABOR limits.

Hollback!
2015
New York, NY

Hollaback is a movement to end street harassment powered by a network of local activists around the world. Hollaback! creates Smartphone applications and provides technology for SMS text messaging, and online reporting of street harassment.

Latino Community Foundation of Colorado
Colorado Immigrant Funders Collaborative, 2015
Denver, CO

Engage state and local funders across the country to support immigration administrative relief implementation; maximize knowledge and shared learning among grantmakers and other stakeholders; and leverage new resources for local communities.

MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change
Voting Rights Expansion in Minnesota, 2015
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Working in strong coalition, MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change will expand enfranchisement laws in MN, and in the process, will train and support hundreds of new civic engagement leaders for MN communities.

NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado
Core Support, 2015
Denver, CO

Provide core support in 2015 for NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, which works to develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive health choices, including preventing unintended pregnancies, bearing healthy children and choosing legal abortion.

Nation Inside
Changing the U.S. Criminal System, 2015
Wilmington, NC

Nation Inside is a community of people dedicated to changing the U.S. criminal justice system.

National People's Action
Advancing a National Economic and Racial Justice Agenda, 2015
Chicago, IL

National People’s Action (NPA) is a network of grassroots organizations with a fierce reputation for direct action from across the country that work to advance a national economic and racial justice agenda.

New Era Colorado
Core Support, 2015
Denver, CO

Provide core support in 2015 for New Era Colorado, a multi-issue organization committed to engaging, educating and training a new generation of active citizens and young leaders in Colorado.

New Media Ventures
Building Progressive Change, 2015
San Francisco, CA

New Media Ventures is the first national network of early-stage investors who are investing their time and money into new, cutting-edge, start-ups focused on building progressive change.

New Mexico Foundation for Open Government
New Mexico Lobbying Transparency Project, 2015
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Lobby for legislation to improve disclosure of campaign finance contributions and lobbyist spending in New Mexico.

New Venture Fund
Better Schools Better Jobs, 2015
Washington D.C.

Better Schools Better Jobs (BSBJ), through New Venture Fund, worked towards achieving adequate funding of education in Mississippi.

Not An Alternative
2015
Brooklyn, NY

Not An Alternative is a ten-year-old Brooklyn-based arts collective and nonprofit organization with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, institutions and history.

PICO National Network
2015
Oakland, CA

PICO is a national network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities.

ProgressNow Colorado
Core Support, 2015
Denver, CO

Provide core support in 2015 for ProgressNow, which works with states to promote progressive ideas and causes through earned media strategies and cutting-edge new media.

Proteus Action League
Getting Money out of Politics, 2015
Amherst, MA

General and campaign support for the Piper Fund, a funder collaborative that has developed a grantmaking strategy designed to build a stronger money in politics movement.

Proteus Fund
Themis Fund, 2015
Amherst, MA

General support for the Themis Fund, a funder collaborative that is working to repeal the death penalty.

Rights for All People / Colorado People's Alliance
Merger Support, 2015
Denver, CO

Rights for All People has become Colorado People's Alliance (COPA). COPA is a multi-racial, member-driven organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change.

SumOfUs
2015
San Francisco, CA/New York, NY

SumOfUs.org is a global, grassroots consumer movement for corporate accountability.

The School Project
Outreach Program, 2015
Chicago, IL

The School Project is a six-part documentary web series exploring the urgent issues currently facing the Chicago Public Schools.

Together Colorado Action
2016 Minimum Wage Initiative, 2015
Denver, CO

Work to win passage of a minimum wage ballot measure in 2016 in Colorado.

University of Chicago 
Black Youth Project, 2015
Chicago, IL

Guided by the belief that young people have the ability to lead cultural and political movements in their own communities and beyond, the Black Youth Project works with black youth to provide them with opportunities to define their experience and the politics and policies needed to improve their living conditions.

Voices for Racial Justice
Core Support, 2015
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Further its mission of advancing racial, cultural, social, and economic justice in Minnesota through organizer and leadership training, strategic convenings and campaigns, and the creation of research and policy tools.

Access Now
Global Proxy Cloud Project, 2014
New York, NY

The Global Proxy Cloud Project establishes a global network of computers, whose bandwidth can be used by excluded populations on the other side of the world’s censorship firewalls.

Brave New Films
2014
Chicago, IL

Citizen Engagement Lab 
2014
Oakland, CA

Citizen Engagement Lab is a home for people and projects working to shift culture and transform society.

Color of Change
2014
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable
2014
Denver, CO

Build a diverse coalition of organizations that represents all Coloradoans and engage people and organizations in order to make social change through increased civic participation.

Colorado Progressive Action
Inspiring and Mobilizing in 2014 Election, 2014
Denver, CO

Turn out 5,000 Raising American Electorate voters in key legislative districts and in the Secretary of State race, by door-to-door outreach.

Columbia Links
Youth Media Program, 2014
Chicago, IL

Build expertise, relationships, skills and opportunities that connect students, teachers and volunteers through journalism, in the process revitalizing youth media in Chicago.

Coworker.org
2014
Washington, D.C.

Founded in early 2013, Coworker.org is a digital organizing platform for workers’ rights. A combination of online tools, media outreach and research-based strategic support help employees have a voice in the modern workplace.

Free Press Action Fund
2014
Washinton, D.C.

Free Press Action Fund is the advocacy arm of Free Press, a national, nonprofit media reform organization that promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism and universal access to communications.

Free Speech TV
2014
Denver, CO

Hollback!
2014
New York, NY

Hollaback is a movement to end street harassment powered by a network of local activists around the world. Hollaback! creates Smartphone applications and provides technology for SMS text messaging, and online reporting of street harassment.

New Media Ventures
Building Progressive Change, 2014
San Francisco, CA

New Media Ventures is the first national network of early-stage investors who are investing their time and money into new, cutting-edge, start-ups focused on building progressive change.

New Organizing Institute
Digital Campaigning Bootcamp for Campaign Finance Organizers, 2014
Washington, DC

A 3-day new media and digital strategy training for partner organizations working to reform the campaign finance system that introduces core concepts of online and digital organizing from developing an email program and social networking, to developing a ladder of engagement and cross-departmental integration. Participants also learn advanced techniques, such as mobile marketing, online advertising and advanced email management.

Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Visions for Racial Equity, 2014
Minneapolis, MN

Engage community of color leaders in regions across Minnesota in creating and communicating an agenda for racial equity. Develop and share aligned print and video narratives that tell Minnesota’s racial justice story from the perspective of Minnesota’s diverse communities.

Proteus Action League
Getting Money out of Politics, 2014
Amherst, MA

General and campaign support for the Piper Fund, a funder collaborative that has developed a grantmaking strategy designed to build a stronger money in politics movement.

Rights for All People
Social Media and Website Effectiveness, 2014
Aurora, CO

Work to bring immigrant participation and leadership to the collaborative work of building the power necessary for progressive change in Colorado.

Roosevelt Institute
The Tools for Change: A Millennial Movement To Reclaim Democracy, 2014
New York, NY

The Roosevelt Campus Network is building a movement among this generation’s future leaders to fix a broken political system. It aims to create an online space to reach young people and motivate them effectively – emboldening a generation to act on the corrupting influence of money.

SumOfUs
2014
San Francisco, CA/New York, NY

SumOfUs.org is a global, grassroots consumer movement for corporate accountability.

Brave New Films
2013
Chicago, IL

Center for Independent Documentary/Winikur Productions
J Street, 2013
Boston, MA

“J Street” is a feature-length documentary tracking a progressive, pro-Israel lobby group pushing for a two-state solution. With a quickly growing national base, they take on the establishment, push the Obama administration to take an active role in the peace process and fight in the brass knuckle world of Washington D.C.

Citizen Engagement Lab 
2013
Oakland, CA

Citizen Engagement Lab is a home for people and projects working to shift culture and transform society.

Color of Change
2013
Oakland, CA

Color of Change exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice, make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

Communikey
Communikey Festival 2013 Sponsorship, 2013
Boulder, CO

Facilitate forward thinking cultural experiences that emphasize the intersection of sound, design and technology in artistic forms.

Democratic Socialists of America
DSA's Social Media Strategy Launch, 2013
New York, NY

A political and activist organization that uses a variety of tactics, from legislative to direct action, to fight for reforms that empower working people.

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
2013
New York, NY

FAIR’s unique blend of journalism, research and advocacy provides timely fact-checking of corporate media and gives activists opportunities to demand accountability from powerful institutions. FAIR reaches hundreds of thousands of people every month, and the weekly radio show CounterSpin is a platform for other advocates and critics to reach a national audience.

Foundation for National Progress/Mother Jones
Dark Money and the Courts, 2013
San Francisco, CA

Dark Money and the Courts investigates the influence of political money, often hidden from public scrutiny, on judicial elections and decision-making. With a first-of-its-kind dataset on contributions and spending at the district court level, combined with deep-dive investigative reporting and smart use of digital tools and design, the project shows the impact of private, often dark, money on the American judicial system into the larger public debate about money and politics.

Free Press Action Fund
2013
Washinton, D.C.

Free Press Action Fund is the advocacy arm of Free Press, a national, nonprofit media reform organization that promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism and universal access to communications.

Free Speech TV
2013
Denver, CO

International Media Project / Making Contact
What the Fork? How Corporations are Controlling our Food and our Democracy, 2013
Oakland, CA

Making Contact, an independent media outlet, together with ALEC-Exposed & Food Democracy Now, holds “Big Agriculture and Bio-tech” accountable for how they sully both our dinner plates and our democracy.

National People's Action
Advancing a National Economic and Racial Justice Agenda, 2013
Chicago, IL

National People’s Action (NPA) is a network of grassroots organizations with a fierce reputation for direct action from across the country that work to advance a national economic and racial justice agenda.

New Media Ventures
Building Progressive Change, 2013
San Francisco, CA

New Media Ventures is the first national network of early-stage investors who are investing their time and money into new, cutting-edge, start-ups focused on building progressive change.

New Organizing Institute
Digital Campaigning Bootcamp for Campaign Finance Organizers, 2013
Washington, DC

A 3-day new media and digital strategy training for partner organizations working to reform the campaign finance system that introduces core concepts of online and digital organizing from developing an email program and social networking, to developing a ladder of engagement and cross-departmental integration. Participants also learn advanced techniques, such as mobile marketing, online advertising and advanced email management.

Proteus Action League
Getting Money out of Politics, 2013
Amherst, MA

General and campaign support for the Piper Fund, a funder collaborative that has developed a grantmaking strategy designed to build a stronger money in politics movement.

Public Knowledge
Preserving the Open Internet, 2013
Washington, D.C.

Public Knowledge preserves the openness of the Internet and the public’s access to knowledge, promotes creativity through balanced copyright and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully.

The Media Consortium
2013
San Francisco, CA

Access Now
Global Proxy Cloud Project, 2012
New York, NY

The Global Proxy Cloud Project establishes a global network of computers, whose bandwidth can be used by excluded populations on the other side of the world’s censorship firewalls.

Access Now
Global Proxy Cloud Project, 2010
New York, NY

The Global Proxy Cloud Project establishes a global network of computers, whose bandwidth can be used by excluded populations on the other side of the world’s censorship firewalls.

Air Traffic Control Education Fund, Inc.
Music + Mobile Advocacy Tools, 2010
San Francisco, CA

The combination of music and mobile communications reaches different constituencies of audiences that aren’t otherwise currently reached by social justice and progressive organizations. By working with musicians to engage their immense fan bases in advocacy, progressive change efforts reach a wide and diverse community.

Brave New Films
2012
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2011
Chicago, IL

Brave New Films
2010
Chicago, IL